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36 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Burrowed Into Our Heads and Have Been Puppeting Us to Nefarious Ends

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Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry's Madea is basically a mashup of two people: his mom and his aunt. As he himself describes it: My mother is the wisdom of Madea, but my aunt Mayola, that's her wig, that's her voice, that's her gun in the purse. CRACKED.COM

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V for Vendetta

BTN In V for Vendetta, they put V's on screen everywhere. That includes props arranged to form a v, V-shaped bloodstains, and daggers forming a V over and over as they fly through the air. CRACKED.COM

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Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull played himself in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show for a while. The job was easy (he just had to ride around the arena once a week) and the pay was good, but he got tired of it pretty soon anyway. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson LAPD Johansson, along with Eva Mendes, starred in My Brother the Pig, which was bad even by a kid's standards. CRACKED COM

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Charli XCX

Charli XCX was her MSN messenger name. XCX as in Kiss, Charli, Kiss. CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Lucas

George Lucas was turned down from the US Air Force because of his speeding tickets. CRACKED.COM Lucas tried joining in 1967, after he graduated with a BFA in film, but had too many traffic citations. Не was later drafted into Viet- nam but was once again turned away due to his dia- betes. — Source

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The Purge

The Purge's budget went from $8 million to $2.5 million. THE IMPROVISATION: The producer realized the movie shouldn't be that expensive, as it's set in one house. Не even got Ethan Hawke to take no salary (but a profit percentage) and crash on his couch during filming. THE RESULT: A surprise hit that kicked off a hugely popular horror franchise. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Day-Long Movie

CRACKED There are lots of needlessly long experimental art films and installations, but the longest non-experimental movie is still extraordinarily long: the Bangladeshi film Amra Ekta Cinema Banabo lasts over 21 hours. — My partner is a film student and this is the kind of stuff he unironically invites me to watch.

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Win Ben Stein’s Money

CRACKED BEN STEIN USED A PEN NAME TO ROAST JOAN RIVERS. In 1987, Ben Stein penned a hit piece about Joan Rivers in Gentlemen's Quarterly magazine under the pen name Bert Hacker. She sued the mag and Hacker for $50 million, but dropped the suit and had Stein donate to the charities of her choosing. — LA Times / YAF

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Larry David

Comedy Late Bloomers Larry David started stand-up in his 30s. Не began stand-up later than most, and he did get that one sketch on SNL in 1985, but his real success came at 42, when Seinfeld aired in 1989. CRACKED — HBO
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James Franco

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Futurama

n I CFi i A 1-dt The Futurama Theorem. Created by Futurama writer Ken Keeler for the Season 6 episode The Prisoner of Benda, this states that regardless of how many mind switches between two bodies have been made, they can still all be restored to their original bodies using only two extra people. CRACKED — Comedy Central
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Superman

CHARACTERS TURNING INTO MONSTERS SUPERMAN'S COSTUME IN ITS JAWS! OH, NO... THIS KRYPTONIAN MONSTER HAS KILLED SUPERMAN! SUPERMAN TRANSFORMS INTO A KRYPTONIAN DRAGON In Action Comics #303, some writer decided that Red Kryptonite should turn the Man of Steel into a giant, one-horned, furry Luck Dragon (or drang, as they're called on Krypton). WHY IS JIMMY RECOILING? I THOUGHT THAT BY HOLDING MY COSTUME IN MY JAWS I WOULD MAKE HIM REALIZE THE TRUTH...THAT I AM SUPERMANITVE GOT TO MAKE HIM UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED TO ME! CRACKED COM — DC
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Scott Howard

Werewolves Teen Wolf Scott Howard There's nothing in the rules that says a werewolf can't play basketball. Scott dunked so that Air Bud could soar. CRACKED.COM — More: IMDb
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Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer Initially Lost Her Part To Annette Bening CRACKED.COM Pfeiffer said she was obsessed with Catwoman when she was lit- tle and felt devastated when Ben- ing was cast over her. But then Bening became pregnant and the plans ultimately changed. Which is great, because we got to see Pfeiffer do this glorious scene: https://youtu.be/XcQIzNNRK10 — Hollywood Reporter

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James Bond

James FOREVER Bond Then vs. Now AND A DAY Expanding on the novels Authors other than lan Fleming have expanded Bond's literary canon. John Gardner wrote 16 novels between 1981 and 1996, and Raymond Benson other 12 between 1996 and 2002. The current run is written by Anthony Horowitz, and there's also the Young Bond and The Moneypenny Diaries series. A JAMES BOND NOVEL CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Gone With the Wind

Censor Joe Breen almost had the most famous line in GONE WITH THE WIND replaced with such alternatives as: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a whoop! Thankfully director David Selznick successfully contended that the dramatic use of the word 'damn' was at worst a common vulgarism, not a curse or oath that required censoring. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock was scared of eggs. Have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it, said Hitchcock. CRACKED.COM — Business Insider

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Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog A fan redesigned Sonic for the movie. After the backlash to the horrible original design, they brought in comic artist and fan Tyson Hesse to turn Sonic into something that less scream-worthy. CRACKED.COM — Source: USgamer

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Sean Saves the World

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN 2014, NBC CANCELLED THE SITCOM SEAN SAVES THE WORLD. It featured Sean Hayes as a gay single dad, and the network ordered a total of 18 episodes - but it pulled the plug while five were still being filmed. — Source

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The Joker

The Joker licks his lips based on practicality THE DARK KNIGHT The Joker's tic was started because Heath Ledger licked his lips to help keep the scar prosthetics on. It eventually became part of the character. CRACKED.COM — Source: ScreenRant

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them was going to be a documentary. In the very first discussions about the movie, the idea got floated that it could all be a documentary about what Newt Scamander gets up to. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Weird Early Versions Of Movies And Shows We Love

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles believed that the inability to hear music was more of a handicap than the inability to see, despite being blind himself. Because of this belief, he funded several people's cochlear implants anonymously through a charity he founded, which continues doing SO to this day. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Bizarre, Unexpected Facts About Historical Figures

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Barry Bonds

BARRY BONDS BEVERLY HILLS 90210 CRACKED.COM Barry plays Barry, who shows up on the golf course to talk trash Steve Sanders and his dad. You missed those opportunities to watch me trounce your old man here! Shots fired. — ESPN

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Banksy

Banksy feuded with London graffiti artist Robbo for years. ING Robbo was introduced to Banksy at a party in the late 9Os but said he'd never got heard of him, and when Banksy said that sounded unlikely, Robbo slapped him. Not long after, Banksy painted over one of Robbo's last — Source: The Guardian

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Pepsi

Pepsi commercializes Black Lives Matter PEPSI In the 2017 commercial, millionaire Kendall Jenner walks through a crowd of protestors to give a can of soda to a cop, and everyone cheers as systemic inequality is solved!

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Cats

36 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Burrowed Into Our Heads and Have Been Puppeting Us to Nefarious Ends

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Love Actually

15 Weird Details About Love Actually That You Never Knew - Sitting next to SO many uber-famous actors at the read-through overwhelmed — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Silence of the Lambs

36 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Burrowed Into Our Heads and Have Been Puppeting Us to Nefarious Ends — Screenrant

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30 Rock

36 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Burrowed Into Our Heads and Have Been Puppeting Us to Nefarious Ends

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Jurassic Park

36 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Burrowed Into Our Heads and Have Been Puppeting Us to Nefarious Ends — Source: BBC

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Subway

Subway was started by a 17 year-old ... and his family friend who had the $$$. Don't get it twisted, money comes from money. — Source: NPR

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ER

CRACKEDcO was based off the ER experiences Michael Crichton had at Harvard Medical School. In 1974, Crichton wrote a screenplay based on the experienc

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Pulp Fiction

This is the worst screenplay that this. film company has ever been handed. This is awful. Tristar executive Mike Medavoy said about Pulp Fiction. PU

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Nintendo

In 1987 only around 200 copies of Family Fun Fitness: Stadium Events for the NES were distributed. BANDAR Family FItness BANDAF STADIUM ceness Famiily

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Jaws

JAWS DEPICTED SHARKS AS VENGEFUL, MAN- HUNTING MONSTERS. AND THE SHARK POPULATION IS PAYING FOR IT. The fearsome reputation given to great white shark

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