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June 21, 2025

James Bond has had GPS for at least six decades.

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Quentin Tarantino

celebrity Hobbies MB I Dream Quentin Tarantino - NEW im of Jeannie GAME collects board games MILTON based on old TV shows. MARATHON RADLEY DAGING The gritty film director has a niche hobby of collecting vintage board games licensed by classic television shows, such as I Dream of Jeannie, The A-Team, and The Dukes of Hazzard. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scarface

SCARFACE Badass Last Words from Fictional Characters You need an army, you hear! An army to kill me! -Tony Montana CRACKED — Universal Pictures
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Britney Spears

The British navy used Britney Spears' songs to scare off Somali pirates The navy chose Spears' hit songs Oops! ...I Did It Again and ...Baby One More Time to ward off the pirates because of the pirates' dislike of western culture. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

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Pokemon

LUDICOLO IS A KAPPA CRACKED.COM A semi-aquatic imp, the kappa is most known for the dish-like basin on their heads that collect water. Taking the water out of their basins results in harming and weakening the kappa. The Pokémon Ludicolo is a large, amphibious creature with a basin on its head, which it uses in-battle to fill with water during rain to restore health. — Source: 16 Pokémon We Didn’t Know Had Mythical Origins

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Game of Thrones

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO... Lady GAME OF THRONES CRACKED.COM Sophie Turner says her parents never let her have a dog growing up, but they changed their tune after falling in love with Zunni on set: We knew they wanted to re-home her. My mum persuaded them to let us adopt her. — 16 Movie And TV Life-Affirming Behind-The-Scenes Stories

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Brad Paisley

BRAD PAISLEY You're doing stand-up now? asked David Hasselhoff the on set of Brad Paisley's Comedy Rodeo. Not exactly, but he's hosting comedy shows and belting out groaners like Ode de Toilet (The Toilet Seat Song). — Entertainment Weekly

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Star Wars

Star Wars (1977) ANGLED CAMERA RUNNING ON A TRACK The iconic opening crawl was created by filming a print placed under a glass PaNel. CRACKED.COM

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James Bond

0.27 Famard Colhionv Warring James Bond had amenndt GPS in the '60s. 537 2:135 SAMMIN 007 always used futuristic gadgets - like the positioning system

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The Joker

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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Saving Private Ryan

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Taxi

Latka Gravas was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder in Taxi's third season. Comedian Andy Kaufman had grown tired of the role, which had its roots in the Foreign Man persona in his stand-up routine. Giving Latka the disorder appeased Kaufman, allowing him to create new personalities for his character. Among Latka's alters was notorious lounge-lizard Vic Ferrari. GRACKED.COM — Source

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The Last Temptation of Christ

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Cloverfield

The Cloverfield sequels weren't meant to be sequels. 10 Cloverfield Lane was written as The Cellar, and The Cloverfield Paradox was The God Particle. Both scripts were refactored to be part of the Cloverfield universe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jonathan Taylor Thomas

JTT won the first-ever Kids Choice Lifetime Achievement Award Jonathan Taylor Thomas won the award at age 18, which maaay have been premature. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Punisher

In an issue of Punisher, three random people blow up. LATE. AGAIN. HE DOES KNOW TRANG IS MAKING GIVE HIM THE SEQUEL. DOES A MINUTE. RIGHT? MIKE THINK TRAFFIC WAS THIS MOVIE IS ALL UNREAL ON ABOUT JOHNNY? SUNSET-- I MEAN... HE FIVE AWAY THEY LOOK LIKE THE ACTORS FROM FANTASTIC 4. In one panel they're introduced as three actors waiting for a fourth to arrive for a meeting to discuss a sequel with a director named Trang. The actors bear a solid resemblance to the cast of the terrible 2015 Fantastic Four reboot, which was directed by Josh Trank. — Source

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Rocky

CRACKED.COM The skating date in ROCKY was supposed to take place in a crowded ice rink. But the production ran out of money, and couldn't afford all the extras. So the scene was shot in an empty rink, leading to one of the franchise's most memorable moments. — Source

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Pan’s Labyrinth

CRACKED.COM PAN'S LABYRINTH FLAMES AND SPARKS WERE DIGITAL TO PREVENT FIRES. Because of a drought in the film's shooting location of Segovia, Spain, the timber was dry enough to risk a blazing fire. For this reason, most sparks and fire were added in post and green moss was used to cover the brown, dead vegetation. — Source

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50-Point Games in the NBA

MOST 50-POINT BE NBA GAMES WILT CHAMBERLAIN ORIGINAL CRACKED.COM This mark is even more unreachable than his (bonus unbreakable record) 100-point game. Wilt Chamberlain's 118 50-point games is nearly 4 times as many as second place Michael Jordan's 31. From 1958 to 1973, Wilt the Stilt dominated the NBA, and in 1961-62 alone he had 45 50-point games (more than any other player's entire career). — Source

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Daniel Craig

DANIEL CRAIG AS JAMES BOND CRACKED.COM In 2005, the Blonde Bond controversy had fans boycott the film. They saw James Bond as sleek, elegant, and debonair whereas mostly-unknown Craig seemed like a meathead. His 5 installments as Bond from 2006 to 2021 have grossed nearly $4 billion. — Source

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Scooby-Doo

CRACKED SCOOBY-DOO Scooby-Doo has entered semi-serious horror territory with the comic series Scooby Apocalypse. The Mystery Inc. gang faced a case that even they couldn't solve: the apocalypse. The monsters, this time, are real and out for blood. — CBR / Fandom

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Community

CRACKED Community came back, much to the joy of its dedicated fanbase. Yahoo picked up Community for a 13-episode sixth season. The show was previously canceled, but fans fought hard to bring it back. All the old cast members and creators came on board. — Sony Pictures Television
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Titanic

CRACKED.COM TITANIC STUDIO HEADS WERE BAFFLED AT CAMERON'S PITCH FOR ROMEO AND JULIET ON THE TITANIC. They were like, 'Oooooohkaaaaaay-a three-hour romantic epic? Sure, that's just what we want. Is there a little bit of Terminator in that? Any Harrier jets, shoot-outs, or car chases?' I said, 'No, no, no. It's not like that.''' They said yes only because it was him. — Wikipedia

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger Не seems like a cool guy, but has a dark side. Besides his divorce due to him having had a child with an employee, six women brought harassment allegations during his run for governor, with one case being settled out of court. More recently, he has acknowledged he stepped over the line. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia, CNN

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Peter Pan

CRACKED.COM Peter Pan wendy's daughter followed on her footsteps. After the events of the novel and play, Peter Pan comes to find an old Wendy - and her daughter Jane, whom he flits away to Neverland with. — Source: Disney Wiki

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Euphoria

Shows about mental illness EUPHORIA EVERYTHING/BEING BORN POST-WAR ON TERROR Seriously, everyone in here is messed up- depression, anxiety, schizophrenic, bipolar, dysphoric, borderline. If there ever was a fakeout mental hospital episode, almost nothing would change. CRACKED.COM — Source: Hollywood Insider

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Lady Gaga

LADY GAGA LOVES BAYONETTA. Lady Gaga @ladygaga Still playing #Bayonetta middle of chapter XIII and my hands hurt and I have to sleep and it's 4 In the damn morning but this damn dragon with the face that I have to kill with my weave. Smh. Give it another go in the morning #gamer respect to the experts I need emotional support 10:24 AM-Nov 24. 2018 - Twitter for iPhone In 2018, Gaga live-tweeted her experience playing Bayonetta for the first time. She was so into the game that she played until her hands started to hurt at four in the morning. — Source: 15 Hollywood Stars Who Happen To Be Huge Nerds

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Scream

74 Mike Koo A SCENE IN THE ORIGINAL SCREAM SCRIPT ALMOST GAVE AWAY THE TWIST. Writer and creator Kevin Williamson said he originally wrote a scene that Wes Craven filmed where Billy and Stu talk about all the fun they were going to have on that final and bloody night. It got cut because it was just too obvious. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tom and Jerry

COMEDY NERD Tom and Jerry's initial names were pretty different: they were Jasper and Jinx. In their first-ever cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot, Tom was named Jasper and Jerry was apparently called Jinx. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Empire Strikes Back

CRACKED.COM In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke would sooner fall to his death than join Vader. And it's not like vader could just lift LUKE with his mind, is it? Nope, he can only watch him fall. — Source: 25 Plot Holes in Famous Movie Scenes

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Paris Hilton

That's Hot Paris Hilton reveals that her Simple Life catchphgrase was originally something her sister Nicky used to say a lot. Paris took it and trademarked it. CRACKED.COM — Source: Yahoo!

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The Crown

As in The Crown, Princess Diana roller-skated through Kensington Palace. In real life, she probably kept to the palace's less glamorous parts, where it might have been easier to skate but that wouldn't have made for good TV. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

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George Lucas

Most of the money George Lucas got from selling Star Wars to Disney went to charity. The sum was $4.05 billion, and Lucas announce he'd spend it on educational issues. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

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Frasier

MOOSE WAS A DIVA. John Mahoney, who played Martin Crane, hated Moose because he would bite him. Moose also couldn't be in the same room as his son Enz — Source: TV Guide

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Family Ties

The dad from Family Ties does train stuff. You know him as Michael J. Fox's dad and Burt Gummer in Tremors, but Michael Gross is much better known amo

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Batman v Superman

In Batman V Superman, Bruce Wayne is supposed to speak decent Russian. But all accounts are balanced in the end. What he ends up with is not only bare

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