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Say Yes to the Dress

HOLF BBM ED A bride sued say Yes to the Dress. Seeing the bride's dress before the wedding is bad luck, but it's probably worse if the whole world sees it - which is why one woman sued after her episode was aired before her wedding. CRACKED.COM

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Fan Theories

Different faces. The same man. James Bond, like Doctor Who, is a Time Lord. PPYP CRACKED COM

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Twilight Zone: The Movie

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 1983 TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE The tragic helicopter accident that killed actor Vic Morrow and two child actors was just due to gross negligence from the higher-ups. The spooky-ass coincidence, though, is that Morrow got a $1 million life insurance in 1974 because, I have always had a premonition that I'll be killed in a helicopter crash. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pretty Woman

Early drafts of movies Pretty Woman It was a serious, dark drama. J. F. Lawton was writing ninja movies when he penned this script called $3,000. Disney asked him for a lighter rewrite, and surprisingly he made it too light. Other writers were then asked to find the sweet spot and fix the melancholic ending. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Get Out

Get Out's shade of light blue for its opening credits is an homage to The Shining. G E T OUT THE SHINING CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt was banned from Toyota ads in Malaysia for being too good looking. CRACKED.COM Toyota Altis ads featuring Pitt were banned after the country's deputy informa- tion minister ruled that Pitt's handsome appear- ance may make Malaysian countrymen feel inferior. — Source

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Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena was supposed to die very soon. Xena was created for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and was intended to kick the bucket after a three-episode arc. But the producers wanted a spin-off, and thought this new character could carry her own show, so she ended up surviving - and XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS overshadowing the original series. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pulp Fiction

Using Winston Wolfe from Pulp Fiction to sell insurance should be breaking some kind of law. But that's just what Direct Line did in a series of TV ads. I sell insurance doesn't quite have the same ring as I solve problems. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Oscars

Oscar winners can't legally sell their awards. Since the Academy doesn't want their statuettes in the marketplace, there's a rule that if you want to sell your Oscar, you have to first offer to sell it back to the Academy itself, for just $10. Sounds like a weird rule, but a judge upheld it as legal in 2015. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scrooge McDuck

Estimated value of Scrooge McDuck's Money Pit: $ DEPTH GAUGE 90ft Depending on your starting point: $52 billion (based on depth), $239 billion (based on ladder length), $12 trillion (based on blueprints), or $333 trillion (based on 3 cubic acres) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rescue Rangers

There is a Russian cult that worships Gadget Hackwrench from Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers. They pray to posters of her, gather to talk about how incredibly great she is, compose songs about her, and spread stickers of her wherever they go. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Oddity Central / Wikipedia

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Keri Russell

On-Screen Couples That Became Real Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell The actors played a married couple on The Americans, and then officially became partners in 2014. CRACKED.COM — Us Magazine

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Robert Wise

Directors and their beginnings Then vs. Now Robert Wise If you don't know Wise by name, you surely know of The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Sound of Music, or Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Wise started by helming 1944's The Curse of the Cat People, a sequel to the 1942 scare jump-inventing classic. Before that, he was an editor on movies like friggin' Citizen Kane. CRACKED.COM — FilmVerse, Wikipedia

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Chris Rock

Chris Rock CRACKED.COM Chris Rock was constantly compared to Eddie Murphy. But Rock was more of a storyteller and Eddie was known for his impersonations and characters. In 1993, he told Lorne Michaels that he was frustrated by the stereotypical material he was being given, and that he was considering a move to In Liv- ing Color. Не was fired, made the move, then In Living Color was can- celled 3 weeks later. — CheatSheet

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Sin CIty

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ SIN CITY THE MOVIE DOES NOT HAVE A WRITING CREDIT. Rodriguez conceived it as a direct translation of Frank Miller's comics, so there's actually no one to give credit to besides Miller himself. CRACKED.COM — Source: Uproxx

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Canteen Boy

CANTEEN BALL BOY ADAM SANDLER CRACKED.COM Sandler specialized in characters that were losers. Canteen Boy's having a rough day today. I feel like people will respond to it because they know people like that. I'd rather write about... ... people who have a tough time. It's more interesting than a winner. — Source: Behind-The-Scenes Beginnings Of 14 Iconic SNL Characters

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Peter Pan

Peter Pan His name comes from a god. Pan is the faun god of song and shepherds. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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P.T.

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Zootopia

Zootopia is a sequel to Disney's Robin Hood. While Zootopia wasn't intended as Robin Hood 2, the directors loved the idea so much when they came across it that they declared it canon. So, does this mean that Nick Wilde comes from British royalty? — More: 4 Classic Childhood Movies That Got Suprising Stealth Sequels

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The Usual Suspects

Verbal Kint is the character in The Usual Suspects who (spoiler) is secretly Turkish crime lord Keyser Soze. But the name gives away his identity. In Turkish, Soze comes from soz and can mean, among other things, talk or say. You know, to be verbal. CRACKED.COM — Source: 32 Ace Facts About Famous Characters

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Beauty and the Beast

Be Our Guest from the new Beauty and the Beast took over 18 months to make. It lasted four minutes in the movie, but it took six months to plan it, one month to shoot it, and about a year to put everything together. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz used to buy pot from Snoop Dogg in high school. They went to Long Beach Polytechnic High school, and he was a year ahead of her. I remember him, he was very tall and skinny. He wore lots of ponytails. — Source: US Magazine

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Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone CRACKEDcO Sylvester Stallone may get painted as a meathead, in part because of the slurred speech patterns caused by Bell's Palsy. — Source: More

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The Walking Dead

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Harry Potter

15 Convincing Fan Theories, Debunked - Are the Dursleys mean to Harry Potter because he has a Horcrux inside of him? No, they’re just terrible people. — Source: Bustle

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Jon Hamm

JON HAMM WAS A 11995 DATING SHOSTANTO With a smile that looks like he's auditioning to play the Joker, he promises an evening of total fabulosity fo

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The Daytona 500

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Day of the Dead

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The Matrix

NEO WAS GOING TO WIN WITH THE POWER OF THE FINGER. Remember the ending of The Matrix, when Neo stops the bullets and destroys Agent Smith? In the firs — From 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies.

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Boris Kodjoe

Boris Kodic claims that in order to keep your marriage in order, you have to keep it sexy. However, he also says that if you fail to keep your marriag

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