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Frozen

A woman claimed that Frozen was a ripoff of her life story. There are no magic powers or talking snowmen in Isabella Tanikumi's memoir. Her book, however, does feature loving sisters, snow- covered mountains, and scenes under the moon, among other things. All these being apparently unique to her life, she sued Disney for $250 million. (Spoiler: She lost.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tom Hanks

... TELL US NOW. Josh & Susan GRACKED Brian G. thinks Tom Hanks had more chemistry with Wilson the volleyball than with Elizabeth Perkins in Big: The scene where he 'explores' her figure and wants the lights on.....awkward! — Tell Us Now: The 20 All-Time Worst Movie Couples

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South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The hidden aliens. There are cameos of aliens (called Visitors) throughout the show, and the reason for them makes perfect sense: The Visitors work for a universal TV company called Nerzod Productions, and they are there to help fix the thousands of satellite dishes hidden in — Source

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The Notebook

TELL US NOW. Allie & Noah GRACKED Adam C. argues that, perhaps, the protagonist of The Notebook is a giant scumbag: threatening suicide if Rachel McAdams doesn't go out with him. What a cute way to start a relationship.

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Movie Tropes

Twister The Parent Trap Making divorced people fall back in love is just lazy and predictable, with the addition of giving kids false hope for their o

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Sir Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart's lifelong dream was to play Othello, Shakespeare's famously dark-skinned lead. And in 1997, he did. He played a white Othello in

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Boogie Nights

RIENIGHTS Mark Wahlberg's prosthetic penis was quite an extensive undertaking, considering it had 15 seconds of screen-time The penis was created by m

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Men in Black

NDAO Barry Sonnenfeld misled Chris O'Donnell to get Will Smith cast in Men in Black. The producers wanted O'Donnell to play Agent j, and asked Sonnenf

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Pluto

Pluto's first appearance was as a nameless bloodhound who tracks Mickey when he escapes from prison in the 1930 Disney cartoon The Chain Gang. The character was so lifelike that the animators reused him in future shorts. By his third appearance, he was named Pluto and cast as Mickey's faithful friend-a role he has kept to this day. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chun-Li

CHUN-LI ALMOST WORE PANTS. 2012 GRO STREET FRICHTER Chun-Li was drawn with pants through most of her development process. Only at the last possible minute did artist Akira Yasuda change them to tights. (Не also gave her thick thighs because, well, he liked her that way and he could not lie.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Terrence Howard

Terrence Howard claimed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from South Carolina State University. Uh, no. It was an honorary degree as a commencement speaker. Не never attended SCSU. So why the lie? It could be that he was on the show promoting his new business venture: diamond growing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Roddy Piper

ROWDY RODDY PIPER could really play the bagpipes. It wasn't just part of his wrestling persona- Piper was a real piper from a very young age. And, being all out of bubble gum, he kicked ass at it, doing well in international competitions. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kobe Bryant

le Kobe Bryant's widow sued L.A. County for sharing gruesome helicopter crash pics. In 2022, Vanessa Bryant was awarded $16 million in damages after Sheriff's deputies and firefighters shared graphic pictures of the 2020 helicopter crash scene that killed Kobe, their daughter Gianna, and several others. CRACKED — DFree/Shutterstock
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George O’Leary

Careers built on a lie C 5 adidas 3 embarrassing George lie: Notre Dame stunned. O'Leary resigned as Notre Dame football coach after it was revealed that he had lied about his academic and athletic background, causing a major embarrassment to the storied Notre Dame football program. CRACKED — Chris Gent/Wiki Commons,
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Kit Harington

CRACKED.COM GAME OF THRONES KIT HARINGTON SPOILED JON SNOW'S FATE TO AVOID A SPEEDING TICKET. A police officer agreed to forget about writing Harington a ticket if he told him whether or not Jon Snow would be alive in Season 6. Harington spilled and the officer said, On your way, Lord Commander. — The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon/YouTube

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Drag Me to Hell

CRACKED.COM DRAG ME TO HELL THE MOVIE WAS WRITTEN IN THE '90S AS THE CURSE. While the movie came out in 2009, Sam and Ivan Raimi wrote the script over 10 years earlier. Then Spider-Man took priority, and they couldn't give the project much attention for a long time. — Source: Drag Me to Hell production notes (via archive.org)

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Robin Williams

TREKKER CELEBRITIES ROBIN WILLIAMS KNOWN FOR Being the only Robin Williams. TREK CLAIM TO FAME Talked about Star Trek all the time. Almost was in a TNG episode, but couldn't fit it into his schedule. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Are Big 'Star Trek' Fans

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Christian Bale

Christian Bale was almost in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Bale was in talks to play Han's mentor Tobias Beckett, an offer he called very tempting. The role wasn't the actor's only close call with Star Wars casting. Не was also Lucas (rumored) first choice to play Anakin in Attack of the Clones. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Behind-The-Scenes Star Wars Facts

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Ed Wood

The relationship between Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi CRACKED.COM in Tim Burton's was a reflection of Burton's own relationship with Vincent Price. — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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Jack Johnson

The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922. CRACKED.COM Johnson created the device while serving a prison sentence for traveling across state lines with his white girlfriend. — Ferris State University

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Hobgoblin

CRACKED.COM spider Man Animated Hobgoblin Early plans had the Hobgoblin as the main villain, and when showrunner John Semper Jr. came aboard the toys were already made, so he had no choice but to use the character. — Source: The World’s Finest

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Hook

HOOK Glenn Close played a pirate in the movie. Which one? Guess. Hint: It's this pirate CRACKED.COM — More: 7 Movies That Secretly Hid Big Actors Under Special Effects

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The White Lotus

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE MUSIC FOR THE WHITE LOTUS IS DESIGNED TO MAKE YOU THINK OF A JUNGLE OR ZOO. - Also, There are moments where the music is kind of laughing at the characters-there is some toying with making these people feel like a bunch of chimpanzees, says musician Cristobal Tapia de Veer, who composed it. — Source

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Trey Songz

Trey Songz tantrumed himself into a jail cell when told to stop playing. When alleged strip club assaulter Songz was performing in Detroit and told to stop his show at 11:30, he responded by throwing every object on the stage that wasn't nailed down. One projectile ended up hitting a police sergeant in the face, sending him to the ER with a concussion. On the bright side, Songz was arrested and provided a smiling mug shot, apparently pleased at his sudden increase in street cred. CRACKED.COM — 11 Supernova-Grade Celeb Meltdowns

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Billy Bob Thornton

Perhaps the ultimate brony is none other than Billy Bob Thornton himself. He apparently really enjoys watching My Little Pony, and he even got his own tween daughter into it rather than the other way around. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spider-Man

EASTER EGGSTRA! INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Homage to comics: Motion blur lines. To make the movie look like an actual comic book, the creators eliminated motion blur and held an image for two frames instead of one SO that, if you pause an image, it would look like a comic page. SWOOSH! To create motion in scenes, they placed motion blur lines over an image and used a rolling shutter effect. CRACKED.COM — FX Guide

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Morrissey

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN MORRISSEY MORRISSEY MORRISSEY MORRISSEY MORNISSET Used NTERESTING MORRISSEY MORDISSIY MORRISSEY MORRISSEY HER APPARENT MORRISSEY MORRISSEY When Luis is rambling on truth serum in Ant-Man and the Wasp, he talks about how his grandma was a huge Morrissey fan and only played his music on her jukebox. Later when Scott's phone rings you can hear Morrissey's Everyday is Like Sunday as his ringtone. CRACKED.COM — Source, Source

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Moira Rose

Moira Rose is based on the heir to the Guinness fortune. BOB CRACKED.COM When they were working out Moira's aesthetic, Catherine O'Hara brought in reference pictures of Daphne Guinness, a socialite and fashionista known for her outlandish wardrobe. Dan Levy thought they could just pull it off, with their limited budget, if we kept it in black and whites. — Source: 14 ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Behind-The-Scenes Facts That Are A Little Bit Cray-Cray

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Liz Taylor

Liz Taylor CRACKED.COM She actually ran an illegal drug ring out of her Bel Air mansion. Not fun drugs, though, but an experimental HIV drug that the Bush Sr. administration refused to legalize or even attempt to regulate. On the legal side of the fence, she raised over $270 million to fight AIDS. — Source: 7 Stars With Wild Off Screen Lives

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A Quiet Place

A QUIET Place In the opening scene we see a traffic light- with focus on the red - knocked over in a town that doesn't show much else destruction. This is a clue to what happens later when Evelyn needs to send an SOS and she switches on the red lights, unknowingly luring the monster.. CRACKED.COM — Mashable

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Earshot CRACKED.COM This story, about a school shooter in a bell tower, was set to air one week after the 1999 Columbine shooting. Even though we find out that this ostensible murderer was merely planning on killing himself, the WB chose to postpone it a few months. Y'know, long enough for everyone to forget about Columbine. — Source: YouTube

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Charlotte’s Web

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Beetlejuice

34 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Purchased From a Shady Arms Dealer in the Middle of the Desert — Source: The Ringer

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Viacom

VIACOM DID A STUDY THAT SHOWED THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO LIKE SCH-FL SHOWS SEE THEMSELVES AS BEING THE CENTER OF ATTENTION. 66% sci-fi fans were more — Source: Viacom.

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