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January 27, 2024

From the looks of this list, it seems like acting resumes are pretty easy to throw together. Ride a horse? I sure can! Play the drums? Oh yeah! That’s all pretty innocent. Do what you gotta do to get the gig. But when a myth (or a straight-up lie) makes the rest of us believe something for years, shame on you!

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A SILENCER DOESN'T WORK LIKE IN THE MOVIES A silencer muffles the sound of gunshot, only comparitively. It's much louder than the noise that is used for movies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CHLOROFORM TAKES 5 MINUTES TO TAKE EFFECT. Unlike in action movies, you can't just use a towel over someone's face to knock them unconscious. CRACKED.COM — Source

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NEANDERTHALS WERE NOT DIM-WITTED. They were capable of complex thought, communication, and sophisticated technology. And they bred with modern humans. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MOVIE SWORD FIGHTS WOULD END WITH BROKEN BLADES. Edge-on-edge parry would damage the swords, resulting in dull and damaged blades. Most sword fighting involves the swords not making contact. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BULLETS GO STRAIGHT THROUGH CAR DOORS. (11 ANCELES to protect and to serve POLICE 24785 You can't use a car door as a shield. They are made to be light-weight, not bulletproof. CRACKED.COM — Source

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KEPT MAKING UP STORIES AFTER НЕ WAS FOUND OUT Journalist JAYSON BLAIR's lies ruined his career and damaged his reputation, so he had to quit The New York Times in 2003. Before that happened, though, he kept fabricating stories even after his editors confronted him. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED NEVER APOLOGIZED TO HER FAMILY FOR HER LIES COSMOPOLITAN FUN earless ALE Wellness blogger BELLE GIBSON claimed she'd had a tough childhood, but her family denied her claims, saying she hadn't been forced to do housework, her brother wasn't autistic, and more. Gibson acknowledged the lies, but never apologized. — Source

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CRACKED KEPT LYING IN COURT JUSSIE SMOLLETT said in court that he didn't make up the infamous fake racist attack, and he didn't plan it either. Не denied the accusations that he faked a hate crime - which turned out to be a lie. — Source

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KEPT LYING AFTER HER FAMILY POINTED OUT HER LIES THAT Ezra Dolezal, RACHEL DOLEZAL's adoptive brother, said that she's been making up more and more stories to back up her claim that she - a white person - identifies as black. She even said there's no proof her biological parents are just that. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED KEPT LYING AFTER BEING FOUND OUT AND SWITCHING CAREERS STEPHEN GLASS, an infamous journalistic faker, was denied a law license in California in 2014 after the state Supreme Court discovered he was still telling lies and making up stories even when he was applying for the license. — Source

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Theranos

CRACKED KEPT LYING AFTER A JOURNALIST'S INVESTIGATION After the Wall Street Journal investigated ELIZABETH HOLMES' company Theranos, Forbes changed her net worth to zero. She then said in an interview: First they think you're crazy, then they fight you, and then, all of a sudden, you change the world. — Source

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CRACKED MADE UP AN ALL-NEW LIE AFTER НЕ GOT BUSTED A guy named JAYME GORDON was found guilty in a federal court of lying about inventing the characters and story of DreamWorks' movie Kung Fu Panda. After they found him out, he claimed that, actually, Disney based Timon from The Lion King on his stuff. — Source

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Truth Serums

THERE'S NO TRUTH IN TRUTH SERUMS Any individual that can hold out in normal interrogation can hold out in a drugged- state, according to the CIA. If you trust them to tell us. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM Swedish meatballs are actually Turkish- The dish was introduced to Sweden by their monarch, King Charles XII, who had developed a taste for it while travelling throughout the Ottoman Empire. — Source

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Most wasabi on the market contains no actual wasabi. It's most likely horseradish tinted green. That's because wasabi is so difficult to produce, and thus is very expensive. US CRACKED COM — Source

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МУТН: ORGANIC FOOD IS ALWAYS BETTER. Organic food has not been found to be significantly healthier than non-organic and eating the recommended servings of fruits and veggies is more important than how it is grown. GRACKED GOM — Source

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Sugar

Brown sugar is not healthier than regular white sugar. vs The only difference between the two is the taste. Although the difference in taste is caused by brown sugar's containing more minerals, the amount is too small to have any sort of effect. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Coffee does NOT dehydrate you. The reason you might see an increase in urination is because it's mostly water. It actually helps hydrate you and you can count it toward your water intake. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fat does not cause weight gain. Healthy fats-such as eggs, avocados, and nuts-actually help people consume fewer calories, possibly due to the satiating effects of fat. CRACKED COM — Source

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TORI SPELLING LIED ABOUT HOW SHE LOST HER BABY WEIGHT. US After giving birth in 2012, Spelling told Us Weekly that she got into shape by doing low-impact cardio and by dieting. In her 2013 book, the actress revealed that that was a lie her publicist told her to say and that she actually lost the weight by starving herself. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Meg and Jack White said they were siblings. Then the news found their marriage certificate. And no, they weren't siblings AND married. Jack later explained he thought when band members are relatives instead of lovers, fans care more about the music, not the relationship. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Joaquin Phoenix said he was engaged on Letterman. Within 24 hours, he admitted it was a lie. There's plenty of joking on late-night, but he'd feigned enough seriousness that the story was reported as true by various outlets-including ABC, whose original story about the engagement CRACKED.COM remains online to this day. — Source

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Mila Kunis auditioned for That '70s Show. She said she'd be 18 on her birthday. That was technically true, but not on her next birthday. Or the one after that, or after that. She was 14. Luckily, when the producers found out the truth, they were amused enough to let her keep the job. CRACKED.COM — Source

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P. Diddy bragged about his private jet. Then said gas cost so much, he had to ditch it. Turned out though that there was no jet registered under his name ... under any of his many names. Diddy clarified that he meant part of a plane-a wing-and, technically, someone else owned it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2014, Haruko Obokata wrote an amazing paper. Stem cells could be made quickly and cheaply. A few months later, after 100 attempts in seven labs worldwide failed to reproduce the results, a report found she'd fabricated data. She apologized and resigned ... and her mentor hanged himself. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Eddie Redmayne had to audition for Elizabeth I. Не claimed he knew how to ride a horse. Не didn't, so first time he tried, he nearly fell off and died. Elizabeth's Tom Hooper later directed Redmayne again in Les Miserables and inserted a gratuitous horse scene purely out of revenge. CRACKED.COM — Source

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TERRENCE HOWARD FALSELY CLAIMED TO HAVE A PH.D. IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING. any DE In 2013, Howard told Jimmy Kimmel that he got a doctorate from South Carolina State University. However, he actually only got an honorary degree after speaking at the school's commencement ceremony-scsu doesn't even offer a chemical engineering degree. CRACKED.COM — Source

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PUBLISHERS IN 2003 WEREN'T INTERESTED IN A COMIC BOOK SERIES ABOUT ZOMBIES. ROBERT KIRKMAN So creator Robert Kirkman told them The Walking Dead was about an alien invasion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sony really didn't like the idea of actors playing themselves in THIS IS THE END. So Seth Rogen lied and assured Sony they would shoot the movie in a way that would make it easy to cut around it, if they didn't like it. Which of course wasn't the case, as almost every scene in the movie makes it pretty clear they're playing themselves. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Laurence Fishburne lied about his age to secure his casting in this epic film. Не said he was 16 to get the part of a 17 year old. Now Не was only 14 years old. — Source

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Werner Herzog

CRACKED COM Werner Herzog forged official documents so he could film in a Peruvian military restricated area. It worked and he made the award-winning film, Aguirre: The Wrath of God — Source

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In order to avoid price-gouging, fans, and journalists, Lucasfilm convinced everybody they were shooting a CRACKED.COM horror film called Blue Harvest... HALVEST HORROR BEYOND IMAGINATION BLUE HARVEST when they were really filming Return Of The Jedi. — Source

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In order to get a role in Bohemian Rhapsody, Ben Hardy said he was a drummer. Не was not. Hardy knew nothing about the instrument before he signed on to play Queen's drummer, Roger Taylor. The actor began practicing for two weeks, ten hours a day so he could master just one song. CRACKED.COM — Source

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