13 Nuggets Of Movie And General Knowledge
![13 Nuggets Of Movie And General Knowledge](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/5/763335_320x180.jpg)
Anna Wintour is among the most well-known names in the industry as the Director of American Vogue. However, she was sacked after nine months as a Junior Fashion Designer at Harper's Bazaar when her photographs were deemed too edgy. Later, she stated: "I think you should all be fired. It's a fantastic learning opportunity." She continues to dominate the fashion value chain, receiving the OBE in 2008 for her achievements in British media and British fashion inside the United States.
Rejection is a common theme in biographies of creative people, but you might not realize how important it was in Stan Lee's development of Spider-Man. Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland are all actors who attribute their success to their perseverance.
The thing is, these tales don’t end with surprising failures that turned into successes–we cover modern solutions ot ancient murder mysteries as well as beauty secrets from the height of the Roman imperium. What else do you want, really?
Here's the complete tale, along with 12 others:
![In 2016, they found a new room in the sprawling Winchester Mystery House. ETTRUT It's in the attic, and it contained paintings, a Victorian sofa, a pu](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/4/763374.jpg)
Source: Architectural Digest
![Japan's tsunami-prone Tohoku region has a saying for self-preservation during a disaster. It's called inochi tendenko, or self-preservation, and i](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/6/763376.jpg)
Source: Japan Times
![In 2014, a Florida family ate a steak they didn't know was laced with LSD, and the pregnant mother gave birth that night. It was a Walmart steak.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/3/763373.jpg)
Source: NBC News
![A dog was the mayor of a Californian town from 1981 to 1994. He was nominated as a joke, but he beat out the two actual candidates, and they kept him](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/9/763379.jpg)
Source: Atlas Obscura
![The Inuit resolve disputes through singing contests. Each of the two people involved in the dispute composes a song ridiculing the other and performs](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/1/763371.jpg)
Source: Pennsylvania State University
![We only have Spider-Man because Stan Lee wouldn't take no for an answer. His publisher didn't like the character (he thought people hated spiders, and](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/2/763372.jpg)
Source: TIME
![A beauty YouTuber helped us learn more about how Roman women did their hair. She couldn't recreate a Roman hairstyle using hairpins, So she researched](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/2/763382.jpg)
Source: The Cut
![The solution to a 19th-century mystery was found in Sir David Attenborough's back garden. In 1879, Julia Martha Thomas was murdered by her maid.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/7/763377.jpg)
Source: BBC
![Martin Scorsese hates it when actors emphasize something by moving their eyebrows. He does not allow eyebrow movement](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/1/763381.jpg)
Source: BBC
![Matrix movie fact - The fetish club where Trinity meets Neo in The Matrix is exactly what it looks like. It's a real S&M club in Sydney.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/8/763378.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![Elf movie fact - Elf was supposed to feature Macy's, but Macy's wasn't into it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/5/763375.jpg)
Source: ABC News
![Ghostbusters movie fact - Ernie Hudson auditioned to play Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters cartoon, but didn't get cast.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/0/763380.jpg)
Source: AV Club
![The Social Network movie fact - Mark Zuckerberg criticized his portrayal in The Social Network, except for the wardrobe.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/3/763383.jpg)
Source: The Guardian