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15 Facts To Catch Us Up

May 05, 2022

The Empress of the Moon was an ordinary little girl until her parents were killed in a tragic accident when she was five years old. Her grandfather, a minor duke who owned a small estate outside the imperial capital city, raised her with love and care and gave her his last name. But he died two months after the accident. And so she was raised by her uncle and aunt in the Imperial palace where, as she grew into a beautiful young lady, everyone expected that she would marry the heir to the throne. Instead of marrying the prince she fell in love with the court jester—a man whose only talent was for making others laugh, but who also had an amazing gift.

He could recount a list of fifteen facts off the top of his head, backward and forward, word for word, whenever he liked at all. That list went ...

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Jar Jar Binks’ dad hates him so much he tried to blow his head off.

A Star Wars comic features Jar Jar Binks' suicidal dad, George. In the story, the Binks family is stranded on a desert island after a whale-like creature destroys their ship (not space-ship, but ship-ship). George almost blasts his head off when he realizes Jar Jar is his legacy. CRACKED.COM — Star Wars Once Had A Story About Jar Jar Binks' Suicidal Father, George Binks

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Blake Lively resents her Gossip Girl role.

Blake Lively felt personally compromised playing her breakout role in Gossip Girl. She told Allure back in 2015: People loved it, but it always felt a little personally compromising - you want to be putting a better message out there. CRACKED.COM — 4 Actors Who Despised Their Breakout Roles

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Fahrenheit 45 isn’t about censorship.

Fahrenheit 451 is about the '50s television boom destroying interest in literature. The misinterpretation that the book is about censorship is so pervasive that Ray Bradbury was driven out of a UCLA lecture by people who kept telling him he was wrong about his own book. CRACKED.COM — 15 Books Everyone Gets Wrong

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Zack Snyder was developing a standalone Star Wars movie in 2013 loosely based on Seven Samurai. That film obviously didn't happen, but Snyder confirmed his new movie 'Rebel Moon' is using that concept, just away from the Star Wars universe. CRACKED.COM — Zack Snyder's New Movie 'Rebel Moon' Started Out As A 'Star Wars' Film

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Nicolas Cage tried to find the Holy Grail.

Nicolas Cage spent years reading up on the grail to try to track it down. INTERNATIONAL in - ي MOSTRA INTERNA INTERNATIONAL What I ultimately found, said Cage, upon finding no physical evidence of the Grail, is: What is the Grail but Earth itself? The metaphor for me is the earth. The divine object is Earth. CRACKED.COM — Nicolas Cage Actually Tried To Find The Holy Grail

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Netflix is trying to wring as much money out of us as possible.

Netflix is cracking down on people that share passwords. NETFLIX $1.20 This is presumably coming after a drop in subscribers, because nothing helps with user retention like charging them more for worse features. CRACKED.COM — God Save Us: Netflix Is Cracking Down On Account Sharing

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Nic Cage likes the way fish and birds do it, so he eats them.

Nic Cage decides what animals he eats depending on which ones have the best sex. ON Cage doesn't eat pigs, since they have dirty sex and therefor are ill-fit for human consumption. Fish have sex in a respectable manner, as do birds, so Cage eats them both. CRACKED.COM — Nicolas Cage Chooses His Diet Based On Animals' Mating Habits

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The Weezer bassist predicted his death to a scary degree of certainty.

In 2011, the Weezer bassist tweeted that he dreamt died in Chicago weekend after next, specifically of a heart attack in sleep. Two weeks later, he was found dead in his hotel room in Chicago, apparently of a drug overdose that led to a heart attack in his sleep. CRACKED.COM — 15 People From History Who Predicted Their Own Deaths

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Game studios are desperately trying to make us watch ads in games we’ve paid money for.

Playstation and Microsoft are trying to make in-game ads the new norm. Microsoft is investing in technology that'll facilitate the implementation of better ads on video games, making it easier to update their games to display what's hot at any given moment. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Homer’s Gun

The NRA denounced the 'Simpsons' episode where Homer gets a gun. In this episode Bart finds a revolver in the fridge, Homer points a gun at marge's face, and Bart almost shoots Milhouse in the head. CRACKED.COM — The Simpsons: 15 Times The Show Was Censored

5

Stop trying to make the ‘Jurassic Park’ Barbasol can a thing.

Early drafts of 'Jurassic World' involved retrieving the Barbasol can from Isla Nubla, even though it makes no sense. The lingering shot of the dino-DNA filled can of shaving cream being covered in mud in 'Jurassic Park' is meant to illustrate that all the suffering that follows from Nedry's actions are ultimately pointless. CRACKED.COM — The Stupid 'Jurassic Park' Plot Point That 'Jurassic World' Keeps Obsessing Over

4

Nic Cage showed up unexpectedly to a Nic Cage film festival.

After years of open invitations, Nic Cage finally crashed the Alamo Drafthouse Nic Cage festival in 2017. Не answered questions from the audience, presided over a wedding proposal, and then, for some reason, performed a live reading of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. CRACKED.COM — The Time Nicolas Cage Crashed A Nicolas Cage Film Festival

3

Pythagoras was no square.

Pythagoras, of Theroem fame, was a hard-partying dude who dabbled in drugs and sex cults. Не even had his own band of followers who regarded him as a drug-taking wizard. CRACKED.COM — 15 Most Impressive Things Accomplished Under the Influence

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Friends

The cast of Friends was purposefully played against the concept of Generation-X. Co-creator Marta Kauffman argues that by appearing to be of no decade, 'Friends' could appeal to broader demographics - and get renewed for ten seasons. CRACKED.COM — 6 Things ‘Friends’ Didn’t Understand About The 90’s

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Vampire: The Masquerade

Anyone can now make and profit from their own Vampire: The Masquerade game. Anglum AO This is part of Unbound, a publishing program that spawned out of the Vampire Jam, a Vampire: The Masquerade-themed game development event for fans. CRACKED.COM — Anyone Can Now Make Their Own 'Vampire: The Masquerade' Game (And Make Money From It)

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