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The Office

ITunes basically saved The Office. Month College In the first week TV shows became available on iTunes, four of the five most popular NBC TV episodes were from The Office, which let NBC know how popular the show was among young, well-off, tech-savvy viewers s - a super-valuable audience. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Rock ‘n’ Roll

CRACKED.COM Rock 'n' roll is, actually, the devil's music. Rock makes heavy use of the Devil's Interval - a chord so dissonant that the Church banned it in the Middle Ages. (On the other hand, it's not very likely that pearl clutchers are actually talking about chords and the history of music, is it?) — Source

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Dustin Diamond

CRACKED Dustin Diamond released a (fake) sex tape in 2006. Diamond tried to make some quick cash by releasing a sex tape called Screeched, but it turned out that it wasn't actually him in the video. Не later admitted that a stunt person was hired, and said it was all about making money. — Source

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Human Centipede

Tom Six deliberately left out a huge detail when he pitched The Human Centipede (First Sequence). SIAMESE TRIPLET In order to get investors on board for his twisted movie, the writer/director told them that it would be about a surgeon sewing people together. Six never mentioned that the people would be sewn ass to mouth. To his surprise, the movie's financiers ended up loving the final product. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nicolas Cage and Gina Gershon (feat. Lenny Kravitz)

Celebrities who were high school buddies of Nicolas Cage and Gina Gershon (feat. Lenny Kravitz) Gershon and Cage were together in a school production of Oklahoma - while Kravitz was playing drums in the pit. CRACKED.COM — Source: Late Night With Seth Meyers/YouTube

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Lost Movies

CRACKED.COM Alfred Hitchcock His first and third movies are lost. Of these, only the latter was actually (a 1926 silent drama titled The Mountain Eagle) was finished to begin with. No copies remain- only some scattered stills, a lobby card, and Hitchcock's related travel notebooks. — Source: History

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Ted Lasso

TeD LASSO'S HOMAGE TO Scorsese's CLASSIC Season 2's Beard After Hours episode pays homage to the 1985 dark comedy After Hours and drew inspiration from the film to create the entire plot of the episode. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker CRACKED COM While Japanese censorship seems to be more lax when it comes to nudity and religion, they take less kindly to torture. A scene where Snake is tortured with cattle prods was edited for the Japanese market so that he was instead being poked with laughing rods. — 15 Video Games That Had To Change Bizarre Details (In Different Countries)

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Chris Estrada

COMEDY NERD Chris Estrada's list of favorite comedians is actually pretty short and sweet. When they asked him in 2021 about his favorites, he said some of his favorite comedians right now are Ramsey Badawi, Brian Simpson, and Laura Peek. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Batman vs. Predator

Round 6 BLOOD Batman knows that fighting powerful aliens requires a blood-based approach. So he inquires whether they bleed because if they do, they can be killed. And Predators do bleed. (Batman bleeds too, but that's, uh, badass bleeding.) BATMAN WINS!

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Martin Scorsese

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Lilo & Stitch

Released in 2002 Chris Sanders created an early version of Stitch in 1985. He shelved the character until Disney invited him to pitch a movie, which eventually came out as LILO & STITCH. — Source: Animation World Network

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Severus Snape

SEVERUS SNAPE is in his 30s. Snape is two years shy of 40 when he kicks it in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - almost 20 years younger than Alan Rickman was in the first Harry Potter movie. — Source: Radio Times

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Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman G ENE HACKMAN NATIONAL F WWW NNG T ANOVEL O YE AMERICAN OWY PAYBACK AT MORNING PEAK CRACKED CON The Oscar-winning actor has become a prol

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Witold Sadowy

POLISH ACTING LEGEND WITOLD SADOWY CAME OUT AS GAY AT THE AGE OF 100. Sadowy, who still works as an author and theater critic, said this for a televis — Source: The Telegraph

25

Happy League

2XX 2 Wu Gang successfully vanished after committing murder in 1998. Then he appeared on a dating show called Happy League-and won. Too bad viewers recognized him and got the police chasing him down.

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Harry Potter

The clock tower Harry Potter flew over has a fancy apartment. Inside the St. Pancras clock tower, there's an apartment with ridiculously high ceilings and two bedrooms. Unfortunately, since it's literally on top of a train station, neither bedroom can give you a good night's sleep. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bill Withers

Bill Withers got into music when he found out how much Lou Rawls was making. Не heard a nightclub manager complaining that Rawls was late even though he was getting paid $2,000 a week - - and when Rawls eventually showed up to the club, he got a ton of attention from women. Soon, Withers bought a cheap guitar and started writing songs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Incredibles

The name of Syndrome's island in The Incredibles is a joke. It's Nomanisan, which sounds like a typical exotic island name until you take it apart to get No man is an island. That's a quote from 17th-century poet John Donne, who meant that humans do best when they work together -- which is what the Parrs find out by the end of the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sean Connery

Sean Connery didn't understand a damn thing in the Lord of the Rings script. LORD THE OF THE RINGS The legendary actor declined the role of Gandalf in the movie trilogy, and ultimately $10 million. Connery later said, I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don't understand it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The White Stripes

Meg and Jack White said they were siblings. Then the news found their marriage certificate. And no, they weren't siblings AND married. Jack later explained he thought when band members are relatives instead of lovers, fans care more about the music, not the relationship. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Michael Keaton

Spider-Man Movie Villains Michael Keaton isn't sure which Spider-Man universe he's in. Keaton starred in 2017's Spiderman: Homecoming as the Vulture, who also appears in 2022's Morbius... which is in a separate universe? When producers attempted to explain the two timelines, Keaton said he had no idea what you're talking about. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Cena

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Detective Pikachu

Easter eggs in video game movies Detective Pikachu Mewtwo references an event 20 years ago. This film came out 20 years after Pokémon: The First Movie, about Mewtwo's origins. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Filet-O-Fish

In the '70s, the Filet-0-Fish briefly had a mascot. PhilA.O'Fish TM says: For a surprisingly good taste... AA TM His name? Phil А. O'Fish, of course. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mongo Beefheads

CRACKED There are action figures for every obscure-ass Star Wars character, but around 1985 they ran out. New characters were prototyped in a continuing story, including an alien tribe with the offensive-sounding name Mongo Beefheads. — Source

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Russell Brand

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Sixteen Candles

CRACKED JAKE RYAN OFFERS HIS PASSED OUT GIRLFRIEND UP AS A PLAY THING. SIXTEEN CANDLES He's played up as the perfect high school good guy, but why, because he likes the nerdy girl? His infatuation becomes outright stalking, and he hands his drunk, passed out girlfriend to the perverted Anthony Michael Hall saying, Do whatever you want. — Salon / Grunge

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Pitbull

Public votes that backfired big time PITBULL GOES то ALASKA In 2012, Facebook sponsored a Pitbull concert at the Walmart franchise who got the most likes. The poll was hijacked to have him sent to Kodiak, Alaska (the most remote Walmart in the U.S.). Не thought it was funny and actually performed there. CRACKED — Nick Biemans/Shutterstock
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Zach Braff

Celebrity Crowdfunding ZACH BRAFF's movie is funded by fans! (And a financier.) Braff raised $2 million through Kickstarter for his film Wish / Was Here, and secured millions in extra support from a traditional film financier. Braff denied that this changed the picture he initially presented to fans. CRACKED — Focus Features
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Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd Murdering people and baking them into meat pies? Who could be such a heartless monster? Italian Leonarda cianciulli was. Leonarda, however, didn't bake her pies with her victims' flesh - only with their blood. The flesh, she it used to make soap. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Outlandish Things in Movies (Which Are Actually Realistic)

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Movie Sharks

Sharks Movies & TV Open Water The movie is bașed on an actual incident. In 1998, Tom and Eileen Lonergan disappeared during an expedition to the rim of the Great Barrier Reef. Their bodies were never found (but shark attacks were mostly ruled out as the actual cause of death). CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Jackie Chan

CRACKED.COM Jackie Chan His political beliefs are, erm, less awesome than his movies. While he was more liberal in his youth, Chan has come to support the Chinese government and its repressive policies, and has questioned whether freedom is actually a good thing. — Source: Wikipedia

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Eminem

WTF PUNISHER MOMENTS YOU NARWAI 'CAUSE MAON WANNA SHADY WILL ****IN' KILL YOU GETTING PISTOL-WHIPPED AND SHOT BY EMINEM. During the peak of the rapper's popularity, Eminem and the Punisher teamed up- but only after Slim Shady clocked Castle with a gun, and then shot him point blank in the chest. DAMN. DAM BAM BAM THAT WAS EASY. Eminem/Punisher WHY THIS FOOL AFTER YOU IN THE CRACKED.COM FIRST PLACE, 'CUDA? — Source: Screen Rant

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Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart hid behind his amplifiers during his first concert because of stage fright. GRACKED.COM It took a shot of brandy to get him out. Decades later, he set the record for playing at the largest free rock concert in history, in front of 3.5 million peo- ple. — NBC News

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Eternals

The tension between Kro and Thena in Eternals hints at the comics. CRACKED.COM SECOND ADD In the comics the two are soulmates AND with an on-off relationship. They even had twins at one point. — Source: Vulture

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Skyfall

TELL US NOW. Skyfall GRACKED Eric W. says The opening chase scene that introduces Daniel Craig showed that the new Bond is a physical force, and gets the adrenaline going right away. — YouTube

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Lori Loughlin

Lori Loughlin SEINFELD Two years after Full House ended, she was on the Serenity now! episode of Seinfeld, playing Jerry's girlfriend. She later bec

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Titanic

THE ACTOR: Kate Winslet THE ROLE: Rose in Titanic WHY SHE Winslet says she's HATED IT: mortified by her performance in the iconic role. Especially her

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Ant-Man

In Ant-Man, Darren Cross dismisses the Ant-Man research as Tales to astonish. Silly, I know. Propaganda. Tales to SAVE SOMEB astonish. Trumped up B

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