16 Random Facts About John Cena, Anime, And Director's Cuts
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Is anyone else out there as obsessed with random facts as I am? I could sit down and spend hours reading random factoids online. And, of course, when I'm bored at work, the first thing I do is pull up my phone to check out some new fun facts. It's just a habit at this point. Anyway, today I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite random facts with you all. So without further ado, here are interesting bits of information that you may or may not have known before!
Were you hoping to pick up some new skills today? Well, bad luck — you've arrived, and you can't get away from knowledge now. What's a little more trivia to cram into your head, right? It's good trivia, mind you, the kind we've carefully selected for you. So open your skull and allow us to send this data directly to your cerebral cortex. You can also continue reading. Whichever you'd like.
![John Cena auditioned for Blue's Clues. When the show was revived in 2019, one of the persons who auditioned to host was John Cena. Yes, that John Cena. They actually entertained the idea of hiring someone mostly known for elbow-dropping people to talk to a cartoon dog.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/8/778508.jpg)
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![Captain America: The First Avenger takes clues from Raiders of the Lost Ark. According to director Joe Johnston (who worked on Raiders), he took Steven Spielberg's classic as a template for his Marvel movie. You can see this in nods such as Red Skull's comment that the Fuhrer digs for trinkets in the desert.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/4/778514.jpg)
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![Director's cuts became a thing by accident. In the early '90s, a Warner Bros. employee came across an abandoned print of Blade Runner, and eventually lent it to a movie theater, thinking it was the theatrical cut. It was actually a workprint, before the studio-mandated changes. No one was asking WB to #ReleaseTheScottCut-audiences got it by mistake.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/9/778509.jpg)
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![Not even experts understand health insurance. Getting a headache while trying to pick a healthcare plan? It's not just you. With so many different, ill-defined factors in play, even economists often find they aren't equal to the task. If people who do this stuff for a living can't do it, what hope do we have?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/5/778525.jpg)
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![Guitar distortion was thought to cause violence. Link Wray pioneered the use of distortion in the late '50s. His fans loved it, but moral guardians freaked out at Wray's ragged chords. His song Rumble (which has no lyrics) was banned from radios, for somehow being a call to engage in fights.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/0/778520.jpg)
![King Kong was going to have a real gorilla. Director Merian C. Cooper's original idea revolved around a fight between a gorilla and a Komodo dragon as in, he intended to get real animals and make them fight. Luckily, he then felt like including dinosaurs, necessitating a really big ape to fight them.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/0/778510.jpg)
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![Anime artists are horribly overworked and underpaid. While the anime industry is worth an estimated $24 billion, animators can earn as little as $12,000 a year (in Japan, a ridiculously expensive country to live in). Also, 100-hours workweeks aren't unusual, with the burnout sometimes leading to suicide.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/6/778506.jpg)
![Bitcoin isn't as anonymous as you may think. No information about who you are is stored anywhere, that's true-but your address and other data are unique to you, and can be used to trace the ownership of cryptocurrency. Police are actually getting pretty good at tracing and seizing the stuff.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/7/778517.jpg)
![Iron Man 3 didn't have a female villain for sexist reasons. An early draft had Rebecca Hall's Maya Hansen as the villain, but the idea was nixed by Marvel CEO like Perlmutter, who believed that toys of female characters wouldn't sell. The movie was rewritten so that Guy Pearce's character became the bad guy.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/7/778507.jpg)
![The Nanny isn't Jewish in Italy. If you ever saw The Nanny (and you most likely did if you lived through the '90s), then you know that being Jewish was a huge part of Fran Drescher's character. Which makes it particularly odd that the Italian dub turns her into a Roman Catholic hailing from Italy, for some reason.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/8/778518.jpg)
![New car smell is delicious...I ly unhealthy. Going for a drive? Then you have a good chance of inhaling high levels of benzene, formaldehyde, and other carcinogens, coming from the various rubbers, fabrics, glues, and paints used to assemble your car. The problem is at its worst in the car's first six months.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/3/778513.jpg)
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![Mary Jane Watson was deleted from The Amazing Spider Man 2. Divergent star Shailene Woodley was cast as Mary Jane, but none of the scenes shot with her made it to the finished movie. According to reports, she was cut to keep the focus on Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy as Peter Parker's love interest.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/1/778521.jpg)
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![A teen turned down millions for his COVID- tracking website. Avi Schiffman was 17 when he created nCoV2019.live. a widely visited COVID tracker. Despite the site taking up all of his free time, he has turned down offers for several millions dollars to include ads. I don't want to be a profiteer, he said.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/5/778515.jpg)
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![E-readers can mess up your sleep. Reading does wonders to help you relax before bed -unless you're using an electronic device. The light from tablets and backlit e-readers suppresses melatonin, the hormone which regulates sleep cycles. You'll have a harder time falling asleep, and you'll feel more tired the next day.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/6/778516.jpg)
![COVID-19 may put old actors out of a job. Movie insurance premiums have gone astronomical during the pandemics, and older actors have become very hard to insure at all. Stars like Judy Dench, Ian McKellen and Maggie Smith have all expressed doubts about their future careers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/9/778519.jpg)
![Britney Spears' Toxic musically shouldn't work, yet it does. Toxic disregards the rules of music- not because it doesn't know them, but because it said, F- you, you won't tell me what to do. The song is a chaotic mishmash of clashing genres and musical traditions and it makes it work. Generic pop music? Think again!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/1/778511.jpg)
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