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40

Legion

Shows about mental illness LEGION SCHIZOPHRENIA There's also a parasitical mental energy being, though, so the line gets fuzzy. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wired

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Sabrina Jalees

COMEDY NERD Sabrina Jalees used embarrassing material about race as a teenager. She'd make jokes like I'm like a coconut: Brown on the outside, white on the inside! Now, she finds that sad and weird and self-hating. CRACKED.COM — Source

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American Psycho II

WORST SEQUELS EVER AMERICAN PSYCHO II: ALL AMERICAN GIRL Mila Kunis feared this would ruin her career. About a possible third film, she said, Please- somebody stop this. Write a petition. When I did the second one, I didn't know it would be American Psycho II. It was supposed to be a different project, and it was re-edited, but, ooh ... I don't know. Bad. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chess

AN INCREDIBLY RARE CHESS PIECE WAS FOUND IN A DRAWER IN SCOTLAND. CRACKED.COM The medieval chess piece, one of the long-lost Lewis Chessmen, had been gathering dust in a drawer for 55 years before the family thought to have it assessed. Apparently their grandfather had purchased it in 1964 for £5, and had no idea of its cultural importance. Or its million-dollar value. — Source

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Batman v. Superman

Everybody hates on Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. But it made $873 million, and its $166 million Easter Weekend opening was the highest ever. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mila Kunis and Macaulay Culkin

Mila Kunis & Macaulay Culkin R Before Kunis went on to marry former That 70s Show costar Ashton Kutcher, she had an eight-year, extremely private relationship with Home Alone child star Macaulay Culkin. She takes the blame for the terrible break-up, but Culkin and Brenda Song have a child together so it seems like everything worked out alright. CRACKED.COM — Source: People

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Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga's early tweets read like beat poetry. Lady Gaga @ladygaga me hello, my little fishy in his accent.. could cry disco mirrors. Yes and I am a

33

The Matrix

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That May One Day Be the Rosetta Stone That Future Generations Will Use to Decipher Our Language and Culture

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Serenity

Awful Plot Twists Serenity (2019) A boat captain is asked by his ex-wife to save her and their son by killing her abusive partner. You could make a decent thriller with that plot. But director Steven Knight tried to outsmart everyone by having it all be a dream video game. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pulp Fiction

Samuel L. Jackson scared the shit out of Pulp Fiction's producer while eating a tasty burger. When Jackson got word that another actor was heavily fav

30

Jimmy Stewart

CRACKED.COM Alfred Hitchcock Не ghosted Jimmy Stewart. After Vertigo's failure, Hitchcock deemed Stewart too old, so for North by Northwest he went with the younger-looking Cary Grant- without bothering to tell Stewart he was dropping him. They remained friends, though. — Source: Mental Floss

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Scientology

The Church of Scientology officially claimed that L. Ron Hubbard is doing research on another planet. CRACKED.COM After his death in 1986, the Church claimed that he voluntarily abandoned his physical body after it be- came an impediment to his work and that he learned how to do it without a body. — Source

28

Taylor Tomlinson

COMEDY NERD Taylor Tomlinson says that her favorite comedian, period, is Maria Bamford. But, she says, there are so many comedians pivoting during this time in ways that inspire me. (She said that in 2020, so during this time probably means in the pandemic.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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12 Monkeys

CRACKED.COM 12 Monkeys (the series) wasn't connected to 12 Monkeys (the movie). Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett never set out to make a show based on Terry Gilliams' film. Their idea for a time travel story was called Splinter. Their script was eventually retrofitted as a 12 Monkeys pilot. — Source

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Brandon Boyd

Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd's father was once the Marlboro Man. Flavoris. Marlian Marbora Chuck Boyd was one of many actors to portray the iconic tobacco figure of the 20th century. Не later went on to star in films such as Predator 2 and Starsky & Hutch. His son's band started off in his garage, with Chuck being one of their biggest supporters. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Farm

TV shows we never got to see 2013 The Farm The Dwight-centric spin-off to The Office ended up being nothing but a bad episode of its parent show. CRACKED.COM

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Mike Tyson

MIKE TYSON bought Bengal tigers. At one time Mike Tyson owned Bengal tigers, which require five acres of fenced roaming space, lots of fresh meat, and special veterinary care. CRACKED.COM — Source

23

Casanova

PRISON ESCAPES CASANOVA: MASTER SEDUCER AND PRISON BREAKER. While in a Venetian prison in 1755, Casanova sent an iron spike to another cellmate, who used it to escape through his roof and dig a hole on Casanova's. Then they climbed out to the building's roof, entered again, slept, changed into fancy clothes, and walked out through the front door. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Silly Putty

SILLY PUTTY silly 4+ WAS A FAILED PUTTY The ORiGiNa ATTEMPT AT MAKING CAR TIRES. WARNING In the '40s, the U.S. government asked private companies to create a synthetic rubber substitute to make up for shortages caused by the war. General Electric created a particular mixture of chemicals that was just too squishy to make car tires, but proved very popular as a toy. CRACKED.COM — Everyday Objects That Started Out As Something Else Entirely

21

Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt got injured for real. While filming a chase scene, Pitt put his arm through a windshield and severed a tendon. Не returned a few days later with stitches and a cast, the injury was written into the movie, and the scenes set prior to the chase were shot with his injured arm away from the camera. РОД SEVEN CRACKED.COM — Cinemablend, Screen Rant

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Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton travels for business over 250 days a year. She writes and produces music, does DJ gigs (she's the world's highest-paid female DJ), and manages or promotes 18 product lines. CRACKED.COM — 21 Celebs That Work Harder Than People Know

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Kill Bill

The Bride's fightin' clothes are a tribute to BRUCE LEE KILL BILL GRACKED COM The Bride's yellow jumpsuit is a salute to Bruce Lee's outfit in Game of Death. Another nod to Bruce in Once Upon A TimE in Hollywood wasn't as well received by fans. — MTV

18

Claire Foy

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17

Hey Arnold!

HEY ARNOLD sounded funny for a reason 33 CRACKEDCO The problem with kid actors is puberty. Once the voice changes, Arnold starts sounding like a grown-ass man. In all, five different actors voiced Arnold -. six if you count Arnold as a baby. — ScreenRant

16

Hamlet

CRACKED.COM Hamlet productions often use real skulls The 2008 production of Hamlet starring David Tennant uses composer André Tchaikowsky's skull, which he willed for that specific purpose. While not every Hamlet skull is a celebrity, stagings of the play have been using real human heads since at least 1755. — Source: 15 Creepy Random Facts for Spooky Season

15

Fast Food

Tie-In Foods GRACKED.COM The height of commercialism brought with it the height of pop culture or celebrity tie-in prod- ucts. You could eat your Pac-Man cereal with some Star Wars cook- ies on the side and an Ecto Cooler and never worry that someone wasn't trying to sell you some- thing every second of the day. — Source

14

Pamela Anderson

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13

Roseanne

ROSEANNE SEANNE 1988-1997 FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE Bossy wife Grieving wife struggles reveals goofball to husband actually manage her died a year ag

12

Salem Witch Trials

BELIEF: Women were burned at the stake during the Salem Witch Trials. TRUTH: The accused died in prison, were hanged, or, in one case, were pressed to — Source: History

11

Spectre

Mexico never held a Day of the Dead parade before Spectre came out. The Day of the Dead is traditionally observed in a private, guarded manner but after Watching the 2015 Bond movie, tourism officials said, Hey, throwing a parade is a great idea. (Not everyone liked it, though.) — Source: The Guardian

10

Michael Myers

Halloween Then vs. Now Michael Myers' backstory 1981's Halloween II made Myers Laurie's brother, and the family obsession continued from Return to Curse. The latter's backstory went full druid-curse, but this was already hinted at in the original's 1979 novelization. Rob Zombie focused on Myers' history of abuse and murderous tendencies. In the new ones, the family link is gone, but the supernatural element seems to be returning. CRACKED.COM — CBR

9

Futurama

THE DUPLA-SHRINKER NAMEDROPS A MATHEMATICAL PARADOX. Benderama The Banach-Tarski paradox states that you can break up a ball into several pieces, and then rearrange the pieces into two identical copies of the original ball (in theory). — Sources: Gizmodo, The Infosphere

8

Men in Black

CRACKED.COM MIB MEN IN BLACK It wasn't originally set in New York City but director Barry Sonnenfeld changed it. Не decided that aliens would most likely go to New York because nobody would notice their weirdness. — Source

7

Jim Gordon

Batman FIRST APPEARANCE Detective Comics #27 (1939) AMBERT, THE KING- STABBED ? HIS SON'S RINTS ON THE I'LL BE RIGHT R/ LATEST APPEARANCE The Batman (2022) JIM GORDON Only appearance has changed with Gotham's best cop. CRACKED.COM

6

Uncut Gems

Released in 2019 The Safdie brothers wrote the first draft of UNCUT GEMS in 2009, but needed to make a bigger name for themselves to be able to tackle the project. Eventually, Adam Sandler took the lead part (which he had initially turned down), and the movie came out after 10 years. — Source: Screen Daily

5

Tomorrow Never Dies

CRACKED YOUR VILLAIN'S PLOT CAN'T BE EASILY THWARTED BY GOOGLE. TOMORROW NEVER DIES V ILL BACK ST This Bond villain is a media mogul who plans to manipulate the news to incite war between China and the UK. Today, social media and a quick googling of countless news sources would label this fake news within a few minutes. — Pocket Lint

4

Elton John

Gnomeo & Juliet This was Elton John's passion project. Не spent 11 years of his life trying to get the movie made, adored it, and made a sequel. CRACKED.COM — Source

3

Lando Calrissian

A BASEBALL GLOVE ON SOMEONE'S HEAD INSPIRED LANDO'S HELMET. The idea for Lando's skiff guard helmet came to the designer after he put a baseball glove

2

The Martian

ARES The Martian cut a reference to cannibalism. In Andy Weir's novel, astronaut Beth Johanssen (Kate Mara in the movie) explains that if the ship fails to get supplies for the trip back to Mars, the rest of the crew will commit suicide - and she will eat them. The supplies wouldn't be the only source of food, she exposits. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Office Space

Someone was busted trying to pull off an office Space-esque scheme.. CRACKED CON 22-year-old Michael Largent, who apparently didn't watch the second half of the movie, wrote an automated script to open up 58,000 accounts with online brokerage firms -each of which would deposit a few cents in his account for — 7 Completely Unrealistic Movie Plots (That Came True)

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