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Jurassic Park

'Jurassic Park' inspired South Korea to subsidize its entertainment industry. CRACKED COM The South Korean govern- ment subsidized its enter- tainment industry by 1%+ of its GDP after realizing one Jurassic Park film made as much as the com- bined sales of 1.5 million Hyundai cars. — Source

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Rocky Balboa

ROCKY BALBOA'S JACKET AND BOXING SHORTS. CRACKED.COM At an auction in 2015, the jacket Sylvester Stallone wore in Rocky sold for $149,000, while a pair of boxing shorts he wore in Rocky IV sold for $57,500. We just hope somebody cleaned those shorts since 1985. — Source

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Bill Nye

Bill Nye got his break into the entertainment industry by winning a Steve Martin look-alike contest in 1978. This was after being reject- ed to join NASA's astro- naut training program in the late 1970s four times, where he stumbled into a new career path that launched his career into stardom. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Seattle Met / Wikimedia

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The Usual Suspects

Crime Movies That Want To Be Pulp Fiction The Usual Suspects Cool gangsters, non-linear storytelling, the whole Tarantino-inspired deal. But this Oscar-winning movie quickly (and justly) became a classic of its own. Yeah, Singer and Spacey are creeps, but it's hard to deny the genius of this magnificent crime thriller, or its just stunning plot, pacing, and performances. A perfect movie all around. 1995 CRACKED.COM — thecultbox/YouTube

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Key & Peele

KEY& PEELE THE TWO HAD A COMEDY MEET CUTE AT SECOND CITY IN CHICAGO. Back in 2003, Jordan Peele first saw Keegan-Michael Key's Coach Hines character on stage. Later that night, Key then saw Peele play a female Eurovision presenter. It was love at first laugh. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertain This! (via archive.org)

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Sound of Metal

SOUND EINSTURZENDE OF METAL Riz Ahmed's character Ruben wears an Einstrürzende Neubauten T-shirt. The German experimental band is known for using scrap metal materials to create their soundscapes - Ilterally the sound of metal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spirited Away

Spirited Away Spirited Away is being turned into a stage play. Set to premiere in Tokyo in 2022, the play is being produced by Toho and directed by award-winning British director John Caird, who was also involved in Les Misérables. — Sources: Deadline, Anime News Network

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Revenge of the Sith

Revenge of the Sith featured mountains near Guilin in China. In 1996, more than 50 years after World War II, farmers found a wrecked plane on one of the 7,000-foot mountains while searching for herbs. It took another decade for the U.S. military to retrieve and identify the body. Then the dead airman's family finally got to bury him. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Famous Movie Locations With Killer Back Stories

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Doctor Sleep

DOCTOR SLEEP Director Mike Flanagan paid homage to Stephen King's other big film adaptation, The Green Mile, by modeling the long corridors in the hospice to the death-row section. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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King of the Hill

The writers all had to read a law professor's book on government overreach. CRACKED cO Writers were required to read The Death of Common Sense, a book by Georgetown Law professor Philip K. Howard. The book explains a very Hill-ian philosophy that bureaucracy causes common sense to atrophy. — Source: LA Times

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Stewart Copeland

Stewart Copeland's dad helped found the CIA. POLICE Miles Copeland was an intelligence officer who, along with other notable spooks, assisted in setti

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Nick Drake

Nick Drake was mostly ignored. Drake recorded only three albums, none of which sold more than 5,000 copies during his lifetime. His popularity has gro

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg was freaked the hell out after learning that a creepy stalker was arrested near his home, armed with razors, a knife, masking tape, a

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Groundhog Day

GROUNDHOG DAY TOP TIP Dieg CRACKED.COM The Tip Top Cafe where plenty of the action took place in Groundhog Day was just a set, unsurprisingly. Post-filming, though, it had enough customers to operate for real for 20 years.

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Sandman

In his first appearance, the Spider-Man villain Sandman was defeated by a vacuum cleaner. CRACKED.COM Spider-Man sucks up the sili- cate sidewinder using the tools he had handy in the jan- itor supply closet they had been duking it out in. Then, Spidey takes a picture of himself fighting the leftover bits of sand. — Source

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Dead End

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES DEAD END LIN SHAYE WON AN AWARD FOR THIS MOVIE. This French cult film about time travel and bat poop madness won the scream queen a Best Actress award at the Peñíscula Comedy Film Festival. She was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2005 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Home Alone

Home Alone's movie-within-a-movie was shot in one day, in an abandoned high school gym. They filmed Angels with Filthy Souls on a sound stage in the New Trier West High School gymnasium (which was used for a lot of Home Alone's interior shots, too). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pac-Man

The brown-on-blue color scheme in the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was a result of the company having a rule against black backgrounds for non-space games. 396 SHARP KAD-BY - Programmer Tod Frye later said if CRACKED.COM he had known how important a blue maze on a black background was to Pac-Man's iconicity, he would have broken that rule. — Source

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Jack Dorsey

Personal Habits of Billionaires Jack Dorsey's wizard beard Dorsey's wild beard at the Senate hearing on Section 230 was the focus of memes, with people joking about his wizard-like appearance. Republicans have long claimed anti-conservative bias among tech platforms, which was discussed during the hearing, but Dorsey's beard got more attention. CRACKED — Source

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Star Trek

Star Trek 20th-century sci-fi predicts 21st- century agriculture. In The Trouble with Tribbles, Quadrotriticale is a genetically- engineered hybrid grain, predicting GMO, and used in 2268 to attempt to develop Sherman's Planet as an agrarian colony. CRACKED — Source

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Puff Daddy

Directed by Marcus Nispel, this $2.7 million video set in the year 3002 has explosions aplenty, cameos from Danny DeVito and Dennis Hopper, and a bit where Puff Daddy releases two doves from each hand in slow motion. Incredible. CRACKED — Source

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Steven Crowder

YouTube ended their partnership with Steven Crowder. CRACKED.COM After having his YouTube account suspended several times, a damning video surfaced of him verbally assaulting his pregnant wife. Claims that he exposed himself at work didn't help, and YouTube has removed him as a partner. — The Verge / Youtube

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Will & Grace

CRACKED KAREN WAS A TAD UPSET ABOUT HER BIRTHDAY INVITATIONS. WILL & GRACE I think the real mistake was when your father spotted your mother across a crowded swamp, dragged her back to his hut, and made you. — TV Insider

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Seinfeld

Stupid plots that became reality On Seinfeld The puffy pirate shirts that Jerry models are donated to the unhoused because no one wants them. In reality Kanye donated his White Lives Matter t-shirts to WHITE the unhoused because WHITE LIVES LIVES MATTER no one wanted them. MATTER CRACKED.COM — NBC, Candace Owens/Twitter
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Wanda Sykes

Wanda Sykes CRACKED.COM I hate when women compare men to dogs. Men are not dogs. Dogs are loyal. I've never found any strange pant- ies in my dog's house. Good boy. — Source: 15 More Jokes That Belong In The Comedy Hall Of Fame

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James Cameron

James Cameron sold 'The Terminator' rights for $1. When he was still just an unknown filmmaker, Cam- eron handed over the rights to the film for a buck on the terms that he would be allowed to direct the movie - something he regrets today. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Business Insider

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Airwolf

TELL US NOW. ... Sohail S. says Airwolf has not aged well. AIRWOLF As a kid this super copter was the best thing in the world. But now, seeing it made me realize how much recycled footage and stereotypical villians it used. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tell Us Now: Once-Favorite Movies & Shows That Make You Cringe Now

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The Brady Kids

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE BRADY BUNCH HAD AN ANIMATED SPINOFF CALLED THE BRADY KIDS. the Brady Kids It didn't run for very long, and it got pretty surreal - one episode involved a wizard, and another involved the Brady kids meeting Superman and Wonder Woman. — Source

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James Bond

Canadian spy Sir William Stephenson inspired James Bond. Bond creator lan Fleming met Stephenson at Camp X, an Ontario espionage school -- they became friends, and eventually even bought real estate in Jamaica together. CRACKED.COM — GlobalNews

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Sylvester Stallone

In 1974 Sylvester Stallone elbowed Richard Gere in the face over a greasy piece of chicken. M While filming The Lords of Flatbush, Gere annoyed Stallone by staying in-character. Their feud escalated when Gere bit into some chicken and splattered Stallone with mustard, leading to Stallone's elbow shot and Gere's dismissal from the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: 34 Celebs You Had No Idea Were In Bitter Feuds

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X-Men: The Last Stand

X-MEN: THE LAST STAND CRACKED.COM The first 2 X-Men films were critical and financial successes, and gave us Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. The 3rd was rushed, and scheduling conflicts lead to strange character rewrites, tanking what could have been a solid trilogy. X-Men: First Class got X-Men back on track 5 years later. — Source: Looper

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Teen Titans Go!

CeeLo Green TEEN TITANS GO! CRACKED.COM Before Green made his horrific definition of sexual battery clear via Twitter, he sang a magical song to open a door to an alternate dimension. Now does that sound like a guy who would later plead no contest to a felony count of furnishing ecstacy 3 years later?? — Source: 15 (Once-Cute) Cameos From Awful People

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Goodfellas

The producer didn't want Ray Liotta. GoodFellas Behind the Scenes Scorsese was dead set on Liotta, but produce Irwin Winkler kept pushing him towards hiring someone with more star power. Liotta was able to pitch himself to Winkler during a chance meeting in a restaurant, winning him over. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'Goodfellas'

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Ben & Jerry’s

Ben & Jerry's was originally supposed to make bagels and not ice cream. Partly to kind of commemorate that, Ben&Jerry's launched limited-editic ice cream bagel sandwiches decades later (called Ice ice Bagels). CRACKED.COM — Source: Today.com

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Anthony Michael Hall

ANTHONY MICHAEL BIKE HALL Johnny Be Good was likely intended to be a career game changer for Hall, casting the actor as a can't-miss quarterback. Unfortunately, there's nothing about his athletic performance that helps us forget this is Brian from the Breakfast Club. CRACKED.COM — Chicago Tribune

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Jessica Jones

Jessica Jones Kilgrave's fondness for the color purple is no accident. In the comics, the character is known as Purple Man, and his skin is literall — Source: Screen Rant

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Frankie Muniz

MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE Frankie Muniz TOY ESTONE TOYOT mestune CRAGKED CO The perpetually youthful child actor dabbled in everything from film productio

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Pinocchio Syndrome

A PATIENT GETS SICK WHEN HE TELLS A LIE. The man, 51, experiences a loss of consciousness, convulsions, hallucinations, and anxiety for more than a th

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Rick Dalton

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