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Demolition Man

CHECK THE NAMES IMPRISONED WITH WESLEY SNIPES AND SYLVESTER STALLONE IN DEMOLITION MAN: CRYO-PENITENTIARY MORNING HEARING SCHEDULE ID# INMATE TIME 07:00 HYDE, QUENTIN 357-M 08:15 PETERSON, SCOTT 4-NKT 07:30 PHOENIX, SIMON 46B-W IT'S A MURDERER NAMED SCOTT PETERSON. Peterson would be the center of a sensational 2004 trial for killing his pregnant wife. The movie even put him in the right jail: Its cryoPrison houses california's worst criminals, as does scott's san Quentin, california's last death row facility. CRACKED.COM

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Vanilla Ice

CRACKED VANILLA ICE THREATENED A HOMELESS MAN. In 1991, he was arrested and charged with battery after threatening a homeless man with a gun.

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Justin Bieber

39 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Will Eventually Be Replaced in Your Brain by Microplastics — Source

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Army Man

Comedy hotbeds Army Man America's Only Magazine Astonishingly Primitive Debut Issue! #1 ARMY Second Printing Not A Collector's Item Why I Love America first day MAN WI ur Why do I love America? yees of the Well, maybe love is a an initiation little strong... I mean, to break I think it's a good coun- meone whacks try. Definitely. But a shattering lot of that is cause I the delicate Liner. TOU may be shocked to find was born here, and have- your iced tea full of broken glass, but brother, n't seen that many other you'd better just drink — archive.org
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Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper launched his journalist career by forging a press pass. CRACKED.COM After college, Cooper forged a pass and gained entrance to Myanmar to meet with students fight- ing the Burmese govern- ment. Не ultimately sold his home-made news seg- ments to Channel One. — Media Bistro

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Frasier

An actress was originally supposed to be cast to play the part of Maris Crane, however, after only 3 episodes they had described her physical appearance as so bizarre that she had practically become uncastable. ? FRASIER GRACKED.COM — Source: Your New 25 Favorite Weird Facts, Part 1

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Ashton Kutcher

Ashton Kutcher and January Jones used to be in a relationship. Peabody They dated in the late '90s, and were living together in 2000 - there's not a lot of details, though (somehow, there was way less celeb gossip back then). CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Celebrity Relationships We Didn’t Know About

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Moana

MOANA CRACKED.COM Moana's accidental animal companion, a chicken that's dumb even by chicken standards, has a weird habit of trying to eat things it cannot possibly consume. A villager says they were curious about the chicken eating the rock, foreshadowing the chicken later trying to eat Maui - a character voiced by Dwayne The Rock Johnson. — Source: Reddit

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Peanuts

Charles Schulz created Franklin because of a fan letter. In 1968, former teacher Harriet Glickman, wrote to Schulz and suggested he add a Black character to Peanuts as a small of way of helping change those conditions in our society which led to the assassination of MLK and which contribute to the vast sea of misunderstanding, fear, hate, and violence. After more correspondence, Schulz agreed, and came up with Franklin. CRACKED.COM — NYTimes

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Kentaro Kobayashi

Japanese comedian Kentaro Kobayashi was the creative director of this summer's Olympic games when a clip from a 1990s TV appearance showed Kobayashi making a joke about the Holocaust, he was canned -- less than 48 hours before the opening ceremony. GRACKED.COM — Jewish Eponent

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Clue

Clue EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES While the 1985 parody film shares the same basic plot, Johnson wanted to stay clear of the arch parody in his own movie while paying an obvious homage to the classic whodunnit. Knives Out CRACKED.COM — Source: Bustle

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The Addams Family

The conductor in the Mamushka scene in The Addams Family, Marc Shaiman, actually wrote the music. CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDB, IMDB

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Home Alone

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Harry Potter

How do you get a character's hair floating around them, like Katie Bell in Harry Potter? Shoot the actor in a tank of water, then drop the footage int

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Suits

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The Andy Griffith Show

THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW Andy's maps are upside-down. Weirder still: why does a sheriff in North Carolina need maps of Idaho and Nevada? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Carrie 2: The Rage

CARRIE 2: THE RAGE WAS THROWN TOGETHER 23 YEARS AFTER THE CLASSIC. CRACKED 1999's Carrie 2: The Rage was supposed to be an original project called The Curse, but it was so similar to 1976's Carrie, that MGM just decided to make it a sequel. — JoBlo / IMDB

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Adam Driver

SATIRIZATIONS of modern monsters JEFFREY EPSTEIN went to hell on SNL. Adam Driver's portrayal of Epstein has some bite, but the writing picked low-hanging fruit with lines like I'm just hanging, and To me, the devil is a woman my own age. BITING CRACKED — NBCUniversal
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The Nice Guy Love Interest

Masterfully Subverted Tropes Colossal The nice guy love interest When the Colossal trailers came out, we were too busy theorizing about the kaiju to see that Jason Sudeikis' casting was a set up. Не seemed like a nice guy, a predictable love interest among the mayhem. But against character, the comedian actually plays an alcoholic abuser. It's a clever bait-and-switch that Promising Young Woman would later echo. CRACKED.COM — Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers/YouTube
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Kate Mara

Kate Mara has a clause in her acting contracts for when the Steelers and/or NY Giants play the Super Bowl. Mara is the great-granddaughter of both the founder of the NY Giants, Tim Mara, and the founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Art Rooney. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Post gazette

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Titanic

TITANIC THAT'S JAMES CAMERON DRAWING KATE WINSLET. Leonardo DiCaprio can't draw, so the hand doing the drawing belongs to Cameron. However, since DiCaprio is right-handed and Cameron left-handed, they had to flip the image. CRACKED.COM — Screen Rant

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Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo's sister Katia Aveiro is a musician who's put out six albums. Until 2013, her stage name had been Ronalda, and at one point she announced that she wanted to represent Portugal in the EuroVision Song Contest. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities With Little-Known Relatives (Who Are Amazing In Their Own Right)

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Orgonites

Orgonites In 2014, Kylie Jenner, Willow Smith, and Jaden Smith posted photos of them- selves making orgonites, which are manmade healing crystals, and reading books by a cult leader influenced by the guy whose theories about or- gones (a vague sort of energy derived from orgasms) led to the concept of the crystals. It's not clear how much they knew about the sex cult they were os- tensibly aligning themselves with, but you know. It's probably fine. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/07/203978/orgonite-society-cult-kylie-jenner-jaden-smith-osho

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Brendan Fraser

Brendan Fraser was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Fraser, born to Canadian parents, was the first American-born actor to receive the honor, and still doesn't have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — TIL Brendan Fraser is the first American-born actor to be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

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Crimson Peak

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes Crimson Peak They built the entire mansion. You could just walk around the thing. — Source

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Garfield

Jon Arbuckle YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE BIRTH TO GARFIELD CONGRATOLATIONS, A FINE, HEALTHY LITTER OF MR. ARBUCKLE PUPPIES I HATE n 1990 PAWS NC.AI PUPPIES! JYM DAViS 5-30 CRACKED.COM In the 46 years since his first appearance, we haven't seen Garfield eat cat food once. Also, 46 years? The original Garfield died and has been replaced a dozen times over at this point, which means there's been an unbroken chain of animal abuse spanning generations.

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Steve Irwin

It's almost impossible to actually get killed by a stingray Steve Irwin 00 just had really bad luck. Since 1945, two people have been killed by stingrays in Australian waters- they got stung in the chest, just like Steve Irwin. Worldwide, there are 1-2 annual cases. CRACKED.COM — Source: ScienceLine

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Ant-Man

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN THE PINCODOCE KOCK! PINGO DOCE POSTER The poster advertising the green soda can be seen behind Scott in Ant-Man. For those who don't remember, it's the soda Bruce Banner was bottling in The Incredible Hulk. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Steve Harvey

STEVE HARVEY Heard y'all wanted to see me without a tie. (Theory: No one asked to see Harvey without a tie.) Commented one fan: I was not ready for this HEA CRACKED.COM — Good Housekeeping, Tik Tok

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John Mayer

AT A GLANCE JOHN MAYER John Mayer was inspired to be a musician: by Back to the Future TTL LA M Bey B AN STARLIGHTERS As a kid, Johin Mayer started taking guitar lessons after seeing Marty McFly's version of Johnny B. Goode. CRACKED COM — Source: LA Times

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Fred Armisen

FRED ARMISEN -+- ELISABETH MOSS ORACKED CON They met when Moss cameoed on Jon Hamm's Mad Men sketch. Traumatic and awful is how she describes their — LA Times

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Paris Hilton

PARIS HILTON FEBRUARY 5 2005 Unbelievably dumb and sO proud of how dumb she is, according to Tina Fey. She's a piece of S---. — Insider

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Way Different - Yondu was supposed to get saved in Guardians of the — Source: Film School Rejects

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Thor

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Mariah Carey

15 Epic Feats of Partying by Famous People - This son of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi spared no expense to get A-list celebs for his lavish party. — Source: The Guardian

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Christina Ricci

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Judy Winslow

39 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Will Eventually Be Replaced in Your Brain by Microplastics

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Wonder Woman

? WONDORWOMAN We witnessed Diana Prince's childhood, teenagehood and adulthood in the film. But after World War I, she just stops aging for no reason.

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The Shining

snatch CRACKED.COM The Godfather TSHINiNG The slow-zoom builds drama, tension and suspense by slowly turning a mid-shot into a close-up

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