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CRACKED.COM DE - Twin Peaks David Lynch cast the Log Lady 13 years before the first episode aired. Catherine Coulson got her start as an actor in Lynch's Eraserhead. During the shoot, Lynch told to her, Someday, I'll do a series and you'll play a girl with a log. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Arrested Development David Cross had to fight for Tobias' mustache. The head of FOX had a no mustache rule as part of her 3 Rules of Comedy, but Cross just couldn't see the character without it. Не saw no logic with that rule, along with the other two: no baseball caps and no puffy sleeves. — Source

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Game of Thrones The furs were dolled-up IKEA rugs. In spite of having a multi-million dollar budget, the production wanted to save a few bucks in the costume department. So the costumers fashioned Jon Snow's furry robe and other Winterfell costumes out of $79 rugs from IKEA. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Brady Bunch The kids didn't have a toilet. Family TV was very restrictive-viewers should never imagine that the Brady kids ever needed to relieve themselves, based on the set design of the kids' bathroom. — Source

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Cheers

CRACKED.COM Cheers Ted Danson went to bartending school. Danson took bartending classes in order to become a mixologist, thinking it would help the show. By his own admission, he's the world's worst bartender. — Source

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How I Met Your Mother A real engagement happened on the show. Timothy Russo was friends with one of the writers, and used that connection to get him and his girlfriend Jana Rugan a gig as extras. It was there that he proposed to Jana, and it stayed in the episode. CRACKED.COM — Source

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aff ewsle COMPLE eon T - LIM ! MIFF The Office Phyllis had her role made up for her. Phyllis Smith was working as a casting assistant as the show was being put together. Everyone was impressed by her performance as she read opposite other actors at the auditions, so they wrote a part for her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Happy Days Ron Howard joined to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Since the government wasn't accepting college deferment for service, Howard auditioned and got the acting job to get a work deferment. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives The show was meant to be a 30-minute comedy. Marc Cherry noticed the pilot script he was writing kept getting longer and a bit more dramatic. Instead of fighting this, he decided it would be a different kind of show. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Family Guy Chris' voice is based on Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. Seth Green used to do that really silly voice when screwing around with his friends, and decided to use it while shooting the script. — Source

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Bob's Burgers The show was supposed to be about a cannibal family. In Loren Bouchard's original pitch, the quirky, loving family made their burgers out of people meat. Coming from Adult Swim, he figured a dark angle was the best way to get the show noticed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Grey's Anatomy Writers were told not to use the word vagina. Shonda Rhimes claims that network censors tried to get her writing staff to stop using the actual medical term so much. She popularized the term vajayjay instead. — Source

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Frasier

Kelsey Grammer got Emmy nominations as Frasier Crane for three shows. Grammer was nominated for Cheers and Frasier multiple times-but in 1992, he was nominated for the same role in Wings. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Golden Girls There was a sequel series called The Golden Palace. Once the show ended in 1992, the sequel series began. It only lasted a single season, and while it didn't have Bea Arthur, it did have Cheech Marin and Don Cheadle. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRAGKED.COM A Different World The writing staff went on field trips to black colleges. Producer/director Debbie Allen would take the writers to Morehouse College and Spelman College in Atlanta, for them to capture that experience. under — Source

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CRACKED.COM Buffy the Vampire Slayer Buffy was the first show to use Google as a verb. We all use google as a catch-all term for researching on the internet now, but it wasn't used like that until the fourth episode of Buffy's final season in 2002. — Source

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GRAGKED.COM Curb Your Enthusiasm The show proved a man was innocent of murder. Juan Catalan was a suspect, but he claimed that he was at the Dodgers Stadium watching the game. Не was doubted until he showed up in the background of a Curb episode that was shot there on that day. — Source

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine The cast all got police gun safety training. Andy Samberg stated that he and the rest of the cast went through gun training before shooting the series. The producers wanted the police to be portrayed as accurately as possible with firearms. CEWTON CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gambling is a $40 billion dollar a year industry in the United States. 5 10 23 8 30 11 9E 13 27 9 34 LV S - GO - CRACKED.COM The revenue that is gener- ated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined. — Source

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Richard Nixon liked ketchup on his cottage cheese. CRACKED.COM A typical day in the Nixon White House started with fresh fruit, wheat germ, coffee, and cottage cheese topped with ketchup. This is probably the worst thing Nixon ever did. — Source

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Taiwanese Funerals

1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper. CRACKED.COM Funeral strippers are often brought in to entice a larger crowd to join the procession in Taiwan and China, but officials are trying to ban the prac- tice. — Source

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A chance of a woman having twins increases after the age of 35. CRACKED.COM About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9. — Source

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7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day. 15 10 COKO 12.8 CRACKED.COM It was the first conve- nience store to sell coffee to go, as well as the first to operate 24 hours 7 days a week. — Source

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A rat can fall from a five story building without injury. CRACKED.COM It can jump two feet to the top of a garbage can- three feet with a running start. This is the equivalent of a human leaping from the driveway up to the roof of the garage. — Source

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Pierce Brosnan once worked with the circus as a fire eater. GRAGKED COM A teenage Brosnan was taking an acting work- shop but decided to learn the ancient skill of the flame when he saw a group of women with their tops off. — Source

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90 percent of people who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right. VIVID FLAR VINION - GRACKED COM The Invariant Right is the name given to the phe- nomenon of Americans usually sticking to the right of concourses and sidewalks, even when they don't need to. — Source

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On average, the lifespan of an American dollar bill is eighteen months. 12 400273123 12 THE UNITED STATES I. -12 بكم a DELDOLIAR 4 CRACKED.COM г Notes that meet the Federal Reserve's strict quality criteria continue to circulate, while those that do not are taken out of circulation and destroyed. — Source

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There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old and covers 3.4 square miles of land. CRACKED COM The fungus spreading through the roots of trees now covers 2,200 acres.

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A queen bee uses her stinger only to sting another queen bee. CRACKED.COM When a virgin queen emerges from her brood cell, she'll immediately seek out other virgin queens and try to kill them by stinging them. When only one is left, she'll mate and begin laying eggs. — Source

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Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War. CRACKED.COM Until then, people just ate with knives or their fingers. Usually a knife was enough to stab a piece of food and bring it to the mouth. — Source

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Los Angeles' full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula. CRACKED.COM In 1781, a group of 14 fami- lies journeyed more than one-thousand miles across the desert from pres- ent-day northern Mexico and established a farming community in the area. — Source

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The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island. CRACKED COM The ranch was founded in 1853, and continues to operate today as a di- versified private con- cern that includes agri- business, cattle ranch- ing and tourism. — Source

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Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world, outside of Poland. 8 SOX CRACKED COM In the early 19th cen- tury, Chicago was seen as the place where new ideas and new technology could be tried out. — Source

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