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The World Series

The first televised World Series 1947 CRACKED.COM The New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers - featuring a rookie Jackie Robinson. — Source

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Method Man

CRACKED TEXAS AND THE WU-TANG CLAN Not the state, the Scottish soft rock band said We were massive fans of the Wu. The RZA said Sharleen Spiteri's vocals were like a sample that worked well with my dark, grainy production. Method Man and Texas recorded the song Say What You Want. — The Guardian

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E.T.

Elliott (Samuel Ludlow) and the world fell in love with 3 different actors and 3 mechanical puppets. E.T. SFX artist Carlo Rambaldi took 6 months and $1.5 million to create the puppets and a costume for a 12-year-old without legs, and a mime (voiced by 3 separate actors). CRACKED.COM — Vintage News / Today

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Bob Hoskins

BOB HOSKINS, ROCKY MORTON & ANNABEL JANKEL CRACKED.COM The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a fuckin' nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. Fuckin' idiots. - Bob Hoskins. — Source: 15 Actors And Directors Who Hated Working With Each Other

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Bryan Cranston

CRACKED.COM Power Rangers Bryan Cranston was in the show. In addition to playing Zordon in the recent reboot, Cranston was two different villains in series. — Source: RangerWiki

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Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland was banned in China because of talking animals. CRACKED.COM Bears, lions, and other beasts cannot use human language, said the Governor of the Hunan Province in 1931. — Source: The Guardian

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Lewis Black

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM LEWIS BLACK IS ACTUALLY REALLY INTO WINE, ITTURNS OUT. Apparently, his journey towards becoming an amateur wine connoisseur started way back in college. — Source

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The Biggest Loser

THE BIGGEST 28 27 LOVE 30 37 32 23 25 26 م LOSER We've picked out your fat person coffin. The Biggest Loser might seem like an BIGGEST LUSER extra-tough workout, but the show has pushed contestants until their feet bled, Alas and sometimes even to the point of hospitalization. Meanwhile trainers inspire them using phrases like, You're going to die, just like your mother, or the classic, We've picked out your fat person coffin. Some contestants have tried to get an edge by dehydrating themselves. One did it for so long he started urinating blood. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Dark (Concealed) Realities Of Reality TV Shows

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Fortunate Son

Fortunate Son is in way fewer Vietnam movies than you think. Movies about 'Nam are so unoriginal - they all play Creedence Clearwater Revival's Fortunate Son, right fellas? Except that no, they don't. The only major movie to use the song in a Vietnam setting is Forrest Gump, which came long after Apocalypse Now, Platoon, or Full Metal Jacket. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Tasty Random Facts to Spice Up Your Online Scrolling

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Sharon Stone

While filming a kissing scene for the Italian film Un ragazzo d'oro (А Golden Boy), Sharon Stone left the set, locked herself in a car, and phoned her manager in the States. Director Pupi Avati's brother then received a call requesting that all paparazzi and TV cameramen leave the set before Stone would continue shooting. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Extremely Specific Celebrity Demands

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Star Wars

Star Wars 1987 CRACKED.COM This Japan-only release takes visual cues from the Star Wars universe, but little else. As Luke Skywalker, in his karate pajamas, you travel the starways fighting the animal-transforming Darth Vader, and get instantly killed with every hit. — Source: Screen Rant

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Avengers: Infinity War

In Avengers: Infinity War, Red Skull could have looked way different. One initial design made him look like a scavenger wanderer who had been meeting with different people and aliens, and had started taking their clothes. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBR

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Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper CRACKED.COM Cooper's mother was Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress to the Vanderbilt railway fortune. — Source: Los Angeles Times

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James Bond

When lan Fleming introduced James Bond for the first time, Bond carried a Beretta 418. When a fan complained the Beretta was a lady's gun with no re

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Mr. Blue Sky

CRACKEDCO Jeff Lynne of the Electric Light Orchestra wrote Mr. Blue Sky after holing himself up in a swiss cabin to write music. After two weeks of fa

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Alien

Early on, in Alien, Kane says Oh, I feel dead. Parker replies: Anybody ever tell you you look dead, man? Kane is the first crew member to die, in

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Pixar

Pixar Rules of Storytelling 16 What are the stakes? Give us reason to root for the character. What happens if they don't succeed? Stack the odds against them. In Soul, if Joe doesn't get back to life, he'll never achieve his lifelongdream of being a professional jazz musician, making his life a waste! OK, cool, he made it- Oh, no, he's in the body of his cat! Aw, man, what next? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Frozen

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WALL-E

If WALL-E worked around the clock, without ever stopping to recharge, make repairs, or 95 mess around, YEARS it would him roughly take to build one trash U'AL skyscraper. E Enough to watch Hello, Dolly! over 300,000 times. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stephen King

It wasn't Mark David Chapman who killed John Lennon ally creating HINIUMA a nuclear THE explosion simply VIV V As th Chapman Lennon Chapman getting Lennon's autograph, as - YMCA volunteer; Nabody in Hawaii is ON the - by the force of her will. 1970s E going de believe mr Charlie's napalm-to-nuclear capabil- thing of It was Stephen King! Stephen King One great big Zippo lighter. ity is the result of a Government-spon- sored experiment in which her_mother and father both college students at the John Lennon, signing bis life away. stops te give an autograph to Accused Killer Mark David — Source: 30 Conspiracy Theories That Are Just Plain Wild

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Bride of Frankenstein

Sequels Better Than The Original 1935 Bride of Frankenstein Having done the wonderful 1931 Frankenstein, James Whale made history with a bigger but also campier sequel. The lighter tone makes it a more confident movie than the original, but then there's also the dark ending, which rounds it up as a masterpiece. CRACKED.COM

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Matt LeBlanc

Matt LeBlanc dislocated his shoulder filming an episode of 'Friends' to an audience of contest winners. The set was shut down meaning War- ner Brothers had to fly the Pepsi contest win- ners home and then back out for another episode. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Jimmy Kimmel

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Bella Thorne

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Toy Story 4

... TELL US NOW. THE LOST CHILD TOY STORY 4 Nathan S. says, When Woody helps Gabby Gabby comfort the lost child at the fair. I was in the theater with my own then 5-year-old daughter, and I imagined her in that situation and it got me, man. CRACKED.COM

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Yakkity Yak

YAKKITY YAK was best friends with an anthropomorphic pineapple GRACKED.COM To be clear, Keo was actually a human with a pineapple for a head. His dad was a straight-up pineapple, so do the math if you want to figure out where Keo came from. — Source: 14 Nick Cartoons You Forgot Were Super Weird

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Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road started out as 3,500 drawings. George Miller and comic book artist Brendan McCarthy worked out the whole movie as a series of 3,500 images. Miller says that that's a fantastic document with which to produce a film that has very little dialogue, where everything is spatial. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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Plus One

Plus One CRACKED COM Two friends serve as each other's wingmen for weddings. The not-so-shocking twist? They fall for each other. Starring the very likeable Maya Erskine from Pen15.

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MCU

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM WONG You wanted more? Kamar-Taj needed a balance between Mordo's self seriousness, and The Ancient One's mysteriousness.

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Stephen Colbert

Rick Mary CRACKED COM AND Zeep, the genius scientist of the microverse that powers Rick's car, is voiced by Stephen Colbert. — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Nicole Richie

Nicole Richie keeps a total of eight chickens as pets (plus a lizard). The chickens (named Ivy, Sibby, Dixie Chick, Tallulah, Philomena, Mama Cass, Sunny, and Daisy) were introduced in a glamorous photo shoot. CRACKED.COM — Source: People.com

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The Dana Carvey Show

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS Mainstream met 'nerd pirates' on the DANA CARVEY SHOW CRACKED.COM ABC wanted Carvey to play his famous characters, while his writers wanted to bring bleeding-edge comedy to prime time. The tension shows up in the first sketch where Carvey plays Bill Clinton (good!), opening his shirt to breast-feed baby animals (cue ABC execs passing out). — The New Yorker

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Watchmen

We almost got a Watchmen movie in the 90s. Terry Gilliam was supposed to direct, and they wanted Schwarzenegger for Doctor Manhattan, while David Bowie wanted to play Rorschach. But it turned out to be too expensive, and anyway, Gilliam later decided Watchmen was too big for one movie. NOW — Source: CBR

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Step Brothers

Thanks to Step Brothers, the Catalina Wine Mixer is a real thing. CATALINA WINEMIXER It's a party that was made up for the 2008 movie, but people have started holding an annual Catalina Wine Mixer since then- and it includes a screening of the movie and a costume contest inspired — Source: LA Mag

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The Shawshank Redemption

The river of s*t' Andy Dufresne had to crawl through in The Shawshank Redemption was sawdust and chocolate syrup. — Source: 7 Special FX That Were Made Out Of Food (And Super Gross)

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Quentin Tarantino

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Fight Club

Surprising Sources Of Inspiration For Your Fav Characters - Helena Bonham Carter's Marla in Fight Club was inspired by David Fincher. — Source: Film School Rejects

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The Blair Witch Project

The creepy ambiguous ending of The Blair Witch Project was almost way gorier. The ending shows MIKE standing in the corner of the room, mirroring the

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Austin Powers

Random Task from Austin Powers turned out to be a f*ing monster. Joe Son was linked to a 1990 kidnapping and gang rape, and later killed his cellmate

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Lyndsey Scott

Lyndsey Scott is a Victoria's Secret model and a coder. selt. noerprints self. loodupes Tro debu self.debug self. .logger toosios if path: self.file s

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Princess Leia

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