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Robin Williams

AT A GLANCE ROBIN WILLIAMS Williams wrote a letter to the principal of a child actor from Mrs. Doubtfire after she was expelled Lisa Jakub was expelled from school after missing too for filming SO Williams wrote a letter defending her character and work and asking her to be able to return. CRACKED.COM — Source: Lisa Jakub

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The Dark Knight

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Bebop and Rocksteady

CRACKED ВЕВОР AND ROCKSTEADY WERE CREATED SOLELY FOR TOY SALES. They didn't appear in the live action movies, but were created by Peter Laird as more characters for the cartoon's toy line. They weren't given much personality or backstory, just Shredder's henchmen for the Turtles to beat every time. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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The Goo Goo Dolls

THE Goo Goo DOLLS WERE ORIGINALLY CALLED SEX MAGGOT. Their manager balked at the name, so they picked the name Goo Goo Dolls when they spotted an ad for a doll with a moveable, rubber head in True Detective magazine. CRACKED.COM http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/The_Goo_Goo_Dolls.aspx — Source

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Ashton Kutcher

GRACKED ASHTON KUTCHER IN JOBS THINK The - - - - - - - - Steve Jobs was a known fruitarian, living on a mainly fruit diet. Ashton tried to replicate this, and wife Mila Kunis said, He was so dumb. He...only ate grapes at one point...we ended up in the hospital twice. With pancreatitis! It was really dumb! — Buzzfeed

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Home Alone

At one point, they used painted-on stairs. When Marv slips on the icy — Source: Chicago Magazine

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Extras

Always meet your heroes when they're DAVID BOWIE EXTRAS CRACKED.COM Gervais wrote the Extras scene about meeting your hero and him not being what you thought. And then he did the show and gave us exactly what Bowie was. Later he was doing a benefit in New York and he started in with, 'Chubby little loser... Please welcome Ricky Gervais.

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Will Smith

Will Smith was cast as the lead of Fresh Prince at a party at Quincy Jones' place. Не wanted to have at least a week to prepare, but Quincy Jones persuaded him to audition right then and there-so he did. CRACKED.COM — Source

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That ‘70s Show

Comedies ruined by bad behavior That '70s Show Danny Masterson was charged with raping three women between 2001 and 2003, and faces 45 years to life in prison. Watching him as Hyde is hard knowing that, at the time, he was filming Seasons 3 to 5 of the show. CRACKED — Source

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Parasite

Parasite has a nod to Pink Floyd. ANOTHER BRICK ANOTHER BRICK Mr. Park's company is called Another Brick -- because Pink Floyd was Bong Joon-ho's favorite band when he was in college. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The U.S. Navy

CRACKED SUBMARINES HAVE XBOX CONTROLLERS - BECAUSE WHY NOT? In 2017, the US Navy announced they'd be swapping out the expensive and complicated helicopter-style control sticks for Xbox 360 controllers to more easily navigate periscopes on submarines. — Source

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The Simpsons

THe SIMPSONS DO THE BARTMAN Secretly WRITTEN By MICHAeL JACKSON CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cats

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Cats Like a video game patch, Cats had to be altered right after release because the CGI was awful. Still, we know not to blame the FX artists. It was all director Tom Hooper and the studio's last-minute demands, leading to the harrowing visions of human hands, floating heads, buttholes, and, well, the film Cats. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mr. Mom

CRACKED YOUR ENTIRE PLOT CAN'T INVOLVE RIGID GENDER NORMS. MR. MOM A laid-off man becomes a stay-at-home dad while his wife returns to work. Jokes about a man changing diapers and ironing shirts couldn't be seen as ridiculous today. Don't worry, in the happy ending, he returns to work and his wife gets back to the homestead. — Source

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Lego

Specially made, aluminum Lego figures are inside NASA's Juno probe. CRACKED.COM The 3 Lego mini fig- ures represent Galileo, the Roman god Jupi- ter, and his sister and wife, the goddess Juno, specially made by the Lego Company. — Source

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Pac-Man

The brown-on-blue color scheme in the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was a result of the company having a rule against black backgrounds for non-space games. 396 SHARP KAD-M may CONDETTE - Programmer Tod Frye later said if CRACKED.COM he had known how important a blue maze on a black background was to Pac-Man's iconicity, he would have broken that rule. — Source

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Masters of Horror

Anthology Shows Stephen King scholar Mick Garris led this anthology horror series boasting some of the best names in the genre - people like Tobe Hooper, Don Coscarelli, Dario Argento, Joe Dante, Stuart Gordon, and Lucky McKee. John Carpenter's episode, Cigarette Burns, is an underrated masterpiece, and Takashi Miike's Imprint turned out to be too horrific even for such a visionary show. 2005 - 2007 MASTERS OF HORROR CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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Kevin Spacey

SEVEN Kevin Spacey asked to be uncredited. Kevin Spacey is human sleaze, yes. But he can also act, and has had some good artistic ideas. If you see the opening credits for Se7en, he is nowhere to be seen. It was actually his idea not to be credited, in order to avoid spoiling the ending by giving away the actor suspiciously absent throughout the movie. CRACKED.COM — Showbiz CheatSheet

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Idris Elba

Idris Elba He's an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. PDR GOD Prince William bestowed this honor unto Elba in 2016 for his work as an actor. CRACKED.COM — ABC News

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Futurama

Fictional Presidents PRESIDENT Futurama Richard M. Nixon('s head) The Nixon Library was unhappy about the former president's villainous portrayal, and wrote to the show about it. Years later, they asked if they could use Futurama's version for a Nixon in pop culture exhibit. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wired

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How I Met Your Mother

... TELL US NOW. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER Melyssa P. says, I used to think Barney was hilarious, but now he seems like he should be on a National Registry. CRACKED.COM

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Brad Pitt vs. Shia LeBeouf

BRAD PITT VS. SHIA LEBEOUF ENGLAND POSING AS GRACKED COM Director David Ayer encouraged his Fury cast to fight on-set every day and LaBeouf got Pitt's attention with a few hard shots. It worked. It bonded us. You can only get so much out in a conversation with a bunch of boys in that kid of setting. Fighting is really intimate. — Source: 14 Celeb Actual, No-Kidding, Gloves-Off Fistfights

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South Park

Kenny's lines in the South Park theme song varies every few seasons. with Season deep 1-2: vaginas I love SOUTH girls with big fat titties, I love girls if you Season want 3: I to have clean got TARK a 10-inch penis, mouth use your 8 GRACKED.COM — 20 Backstories To Lyrics In Famous Songs

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Michael Papajohn

Michael Papajohn is the only person who was in both Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man. In Spider-Man, he's the guy who kills Uncle Ben. In The Amazing Spider-Man, he has a small part as a limo driver who's the victim of The Lizard's attack on Williamsburg Bridge. CRACKED.COM — The Huffington Post

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The Hobbit

Peter Jackson THE HOBBIT CRACKED.COM It's hard to find fault with his carrot-eating cameo in Fellowship. But when he later shows up as the very same carrot muncher in The Hobbit, he creates a time paradox. The same guy, 60 years in the past, but looking 10 years older? It's more than a simple anachronism; it's a big red flag signifying the lack of care he took in creating The Hobbit films. — Source: 14 Unforgivably Gratuitous TV And Movie Cameos

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Rain Man

THE MAN WHO CAN EVERYTHING The inspiration behind Rain Man, Kim Peek had perfectly memorized 12,000 books. He was able to recall 98% of his experiences in perfect detail. CRACKED.COM — More: 6 Real-Life People With Mind-Blowing Mutant Powers

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Adam West

Adam West tried for years to keep on playing Batman. West didn't quietly hang the batboots when his show ended in the '60s. Until the late '80s, he kept pitching increasingly deranged projects where he got to play the Caped Crusader. He was bitterly disappointed when Michael Keaton was cast instead of him for the 1989 movie. — More: Why Were There No Adam West Cameos In 'Batman' Movies?

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David Bowie

David Bowie In his will, Bowie left $2 million and shares to his personal assistant as well $1 million to his daughter's former nanny. He specified he didn't want a funeral. — Source: Rolling Stone

12

The Brave Little Toaster

TELL US NOW. THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER Brenna M. shares, I have no idea why, but I was terrified of toasters and wouldn't use them for years afterwards.

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Children of Corn

JOHN SALAPATEK CHILDREN OF THE CORN Salapatek, infamous for his role as Isaac in Children of the Corn, didn't stop leading children. But instead of rallying them to murder, he moved on to teaching high school at Garden Valley. — Source: Golden Valley High School

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My Little Pony

MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC Creator Lauren Faust couldn't use the '80s ponies, as the trademark for the names wasn't available to Hasbro - so she had to come up with new characters. — Sources: Lauren Faust's comment on DeviantArt, Lauren Faust's comment on DeviantArt

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French Radio

13 Fascinating Nuggets Of Movie And General Trivia - In , at least 40% of radio songs have to be in French. — Source: 24

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The Sopranos

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RoboCop

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Will Fight Your Brain’s Crime With Karate and Sarcasm — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves

VILLAIN: Sheriff of Nottingham MOVIE: Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves VILLAINY: Collects taxes for Prince John and tries to capture Robin Hood. BUT WAIT

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Prometheus

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Iron Man 2

When Vanko hacks War Machine's suit in Iron Man 2, the language the suit uses changes to Russian. Id8NTABNA OS CRACKEDCON

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Green Lantern

GREEN LANTERNS ARE LENSMEN. Aard E Smith PERD Any space police force is ripping off the Lensman saga, which started one year before Green Lantern. Bot

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Bic

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt had the most recognized voice in America. Yet he managed to prank-call some White House correspondents. Several of the p

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