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November 09, 2024

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Tony Stark

Tony's hand when he first realizes he can be a force for good... and the same hand when his journey culminates by saving the universe. NOW YOU KNOW

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Dumb and Dumber

One-Sided Fictional Rivalries Harry and Lloyd take out Mental. By killing Harry and Lloyd's parakeet, Petey, the film plays him up like a truly scary henchman, who's no doubt killed people. They kill him with poison, but he's a hired gun who could have popped them on that desolate highway where they picked him up. Dumb and Dumber CRACKED — New Line Cinema
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Chance the Rapper

Chance the Rapper 3 raised $2.2 million with his non-profit organization, SoclalWorks, to be given as a donation to 20 public schools in chicago. The

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Aerosmith

CRACKED.COM The dude in Aerosmith's Dude (Looks Like a Lady) is Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe. According to songwriter Desmond Child, the song was born when the band went into a club and saw a woman with teased- up platinum mullet and black nails and porcelain skin and jewelry and with a curvy waist - who turned out to be Neil. — Source

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Vladimir Putin

Putin celebrated his 63rd birthday with a 100% y-themed birthday bash. NORT HAO A Not only did several NHL players play at the party, but the game was broadcast live on TV and the players were introduced with custom on-screen graphics. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

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Saffron

CRACKED SPICE: UP TO $20 PER GRAM Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world - you can expect to pay around $10 to $20 for just one gram. — Source

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John Belushi

BELUSHI! NO! THAT SAMURAI'S FOR REAL! Spider-Man fought a samurai along with John Belushi. The entire SNL cast showed up in a Marvel Team-Up comic in the 1970s - not as a cameo, but to actually team up with Spider-Man. The story leads to Belushi and Spidey battling a samurai together. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Succession

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM McKay helped shape Succession. SUCCESSION McKay is Succession's executive producer. Не also directed the pilot, which meant he was involved in the casting of it, creating the style, the look, the music. I really, really enjoy doing that. — LA Times

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Mariah Carey

MARIAH CAREY LOVES WHITE THINGS. According to co-star Rob Huebel, while on set for her cameo in The House, Carey demanded her trailer be filled with w

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Ninjas

Actual ninjas didn't wear black masks. The mask associated with ninjas is actually an amal- gamation of how a thief dressed in Japan. Ninjas also didn't use shuriken (throwing stars), these were used by Samurai swordsmen. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — The Malestrom / Wikipedia

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Looting Deer

WEIRD WORLD In Syracuse, a deer smashed through the window of a business called iSmash. It's a place where you can, well, smash things for fun, and the deer got in on the action. Nobody, human or animal, was harmed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Final Fantasy XIV

Final Fantasy XIV was a disaster at launch. It contained problems which alienated fans and would have been a financial disaster for Square Enix. The s

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Independence Day

Deleted scenes that would've changed everything Independence Day Human computers were based on alien tech. Deleted scenes revealing that the alien tech was reverse engineered into most of human tech would've solved the annoying problem of Jeff Goldblum hacking an alien spaceship with a Mac — More: 7 Famous Movie Flaws That Were Explained in Deleted Scenes

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The Right to Gab

GRACKED MYTH: IF ARRESTED, YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO ONE PHONE CALL (AS SEEN IN: EVERY COP MOVIE EVER) FACT: There is no federal law or constitutional precedence that entitles you to a phone call- though some states have made specific laws enshrining the right to a phone call. — UNC / CLDC

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Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams was SO UFO-obsessed, he thought about becoming a ufologist. RW He's had plenty of what he claims are UFO experiences, including a particularly weird one when he played a song about alien contact. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Queen Bess

The first woman in the US to hold a pilot's license was of African and Native American descent. GRAGKED.COM In 1920, Bessie Coleman found a financial sponsor through a newspaper, trav- eled to France, and learned how to become a stunt pi- lot. She returned to the US as Queen Bess. — Source

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Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty almost had a massive phonograph installed inside. That was Thomas Edison's idea, when the statue was still being planned - he wanted to broadcast speeches through the entire bay. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Hercules Beetle

A Central and South American beetle can lift over 17 pounds. The Hercules beetle (a spe- cies of rhinoceros beetle) can lift more than 850 times its own weight, making it one of the strongest animals on the planet, pound for pound. That's like a 200 lb human lifting 170,000 lbs. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Russian Rivers

Russia bombed their Sukhona River in winter to break up the ice. CRACKED COM The ice dams that form in the harsh winters can cause the river to overflow, endangering 4,500 people living nearby. Two Su-34 Fullback tactical bomb- ers were ordered to bomb the dam every hour. — Source

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Carmen Electra

Carmen Electra A CRACKED.COM When she was trying out for a musical group, a young TARA LEIGH PATRICK was told by none other than Prince that: You look like Electra. That should be your name. It's impossible to tell whether he was talking about the mythological Pleiad, the Euripides play, or some even more Prince-ian thing we've never heard of. — 15 Wild Origin Stories Of Celebrity Stage Names

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Ghosts

Myths with real-life consequences Ghosts (the vengeful kind) A Zimbabwean woman admitted to murdering her husband after his spirit started haunting her, keeping her up at night. She chopped him up and dumped the pieces in three toilets, which she told her family about much later. CRACKED — Source

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NFTs

WEIRD WORLD A big-shot gaming exec defended NFTS and derided gamers for not getting it. For now, because of the current situation and context of NFTs, gamers really believe it's first destroying the planet, and second just a tool for speculation. But what we are seeing first is the end game, CRACKED.COM were his words. — Source

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Kaitlin Olson & Rob McElhenney - The Always Sunny In Philadelphia stars met on set and kept their relationship a secret for a year- which was hard to do considering McElhenney was also living with co-star Glenn Howerton at the time. GRACKED.COM — source: Philly Voice

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Allergies

CRACKED DISCOVERING OUR ALLERGIES MIGHT COME FROM NEANDERTHALS Two 2015 studies showed that some people are more likely to have hay fever and other allergies due to genes they inherited from Neanderthals. This suggests that Neanderthal DNA helped our ancestors to be more resistant to illnesses. — NPR

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The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale There was an awful movie in 1990. The script is a disjointed mess, but its main problem is lacking a voice-over narration. Instead of following Offred, we're just seeing her in the trashy style of the erotic thrillers of the time, which is just wrong. CRACKED.COM — Source: Girl Behind The Counter/YouTube

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Ariana Grande

CRACKED VS ARIANA GRANDE THEN NOW IN C Am GRACKED.COM Sultry voiced, The pale, tan brunette bottle and very sexy red-head baby, voice to sidekick from a generation Nickelodeon's of girls who Victorious vape for breakfast

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Long Lost Siblings

Two long-lost twin sisters found each other in Indonesia, over TikTok. The identical twin sisters' family was torn apart during sectarian unrest when they were mere babies, and around 24 years later, one of them saw and recognized the other on a TikTok video. They have since reunited, and are making videos together. CRACKED.COM — Source

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American Apparel

GRAGKEDON American Apparel wanted to launch an XL clothing line and created a casting call to hire plus-sized models to promote them. THE NEXT BIG THI

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James Cromwell

Babe messed up James Cromwell so bad he went vegan. CRACKED.COM When he saw crewmembers trying to corral an escaped pig actor, he decided I don't want any part of this. I am out. He's since become an outspoken activist, even having been arrested for protesting. — Source: 13 Actors Affected By Roles In Wild Ways

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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

IMMEDIATE SEQUELS HAROLD & KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY By the time the first Harold & Kumar is over, Harold has kissed Maria. Guantanamo Bay opens with Harold's immediate shower and Kumar ruining his dreamy kiss recollection with a big dump, because these movies turned the stoner comedy into art. CRACKED.COM — Elevator Scene, Sequel Opening

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JFK

THE CONSPIRACY: JFK is still alive (and consulting for other presidents). CRACKED COM THE THEORY: The assassination attempt was real, but he survived, — 5 Insane (but Convincing) Theories About Dead Celebrities

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Mark Ruffalo

CRACKED.COM Who killed Mark Ruffalo's brother? When Scott Ruffalo died in 2008, police said he had been playing Russian roulette-until they found out that someone else had shot him. Two people were with him at the time, one of them a rich Saudi heiress. But if anyone knew anything, they kept their mouths well shut. — Source

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Watchmen

SEX SCENES IN DC COMICS NITE OWL II & SILK SPECTRE II Dan and Laurie celebrate their post-save-people- from-a-burning-building superheroics with some love making - with the costumes on, as it helps Dan's little owl stay ready for lovin'. Watchmen #7 CRACKED COM — Source

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Rainforests

Rainforests aren't the Earth's lungs. There are many good reasons to protect rainforests, but oxygen just isn't one of them. When you tally up the entire ecosystem (animals included), forests actually consume more oxygen than they produce. Most of the oxygen you breathe comes from algae in the ocean, not trees. — More: 5 Everyday Science Facts (Nearly Everybody Gets Wrong)

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Space Jam

EASTER EGGSTRA SPACE DAM Shawn Bradley references his missionary work. During his college basketball years, Bradley took two years off to do missionary work for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the movie, after the NBA players lose their skills, they talk about what's next for them and Bradley says: I've got other skills. I could go back and work on the farm. Or maybe I could go back to the jungle and be a missionary again. CRACKED.COM — LDS Living

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Nick Kroll

Nick Kroll's father recovers dictator plunder. MOFFLY MEDI WICH OIS Z E N E ENV LY MEDIA al Filr NWIC Jules Kroll runs a detective agency that tracks misappropriated money. With 35 offices across the world, he's recovered money from Saddam Hussein, Ferdinand Marcos, and Baby Doc Duvalier. But we're sure he was very impressed when his son told him he'd be playing Professor Poopypants in Captain Underpants. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Mayer

AT A GLANCE JOHN MAYER When he was 17, he was hospitalized for cardiac arrhythmia The experience inspired him to start writing song lyrics with a depth I didn't even know I had as a person. CRACKED COM — Source: Men's Health

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Massachusetts

EARLY MASSACHUSETTS COLONIES WERE PURITAN. THE EXCEPTION: MERRYMOUNT, FOUNDED BY THOMAS MORTON. Morton invited all to live and trade as equals, a deal — For details, read The 5 Most Important Things Ever Done While Black Out Drunk

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Buffalo Bill

In 1869, Ned Buntline wrote a dime novel about Buffalo Bill. BUFFALO TLAL The King cf Border Men. NLD And the legend of the American Wild West was bor

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