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Wall Street

WALL STREET RAN ALONG AN ACTUAL WALL r GRACKED SECTION OF WALL STREET PALISADE. The Dutch built a wall around 10580 Manhattan in the 1650s to defend New York from the English. You can tell they failed since we don't call it New Amsterdam. — Source: History Channel

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Eric Bana

Eric Bana made $550 off Brad Pitt in Troy. They had an agreement that they'd pay each other for hits during training for their fight scene - - 550 for minor ones, and $100 for major ones. Eric Bana apparently got a whacking, because Pitt had to pay him $750 while he had to pay Pitt $200. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Ripper CRACKED.COM Librarian zaddy Rupert Giles was almost the focus of several spinoffs -- a BBC series, a TV movie, a strai

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Belgian Frites

CRACRED.CON Belgian potato producers are begging people to eat more fries. Belgium's frites (twice-fried potatoes) are in way less demand, as they wer — Source: CNBC

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Mick Jagger

In The Bank Job, Mick Jagger has a cameo as a bank employee. It shows him as he might look if the Rolling Stones didn't pan out he was a finance and a

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Annihilation

Annihilation's first scene hints at the twist. Natalie Portman's character gives a lecture about how cancer cells spread through duplication. Turns ou — For details, read 6 Sneaky Ways Movies Foreshadowed Huge Twists

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A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange's brutal buildings are the real-life Thamesmead South Housing Estate. The estate was built in the '60s to look ultramodern, with sh — For details, read 5 Mind-Blowing True Stories Behind Famous Movie Locations

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Microsoft

CRACKED Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that would monitor employees' body language and facial expressions during work meetings, in order to give the events a quality score. 104A 106A 106C 78 106B 104C 106D 104B The patent envisions rooms being packed with sensors to monitor the participants. This raises privacy concerns, as Microsoft is already under fire over a separate productivity-score tool that allows managers to keep track of individual workers' use of different software programs. — BBC

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Mark Strong

Mark Strong's audition for a Bond villain was a terrible experience. To celebrate the audition, he went out and got drunk, then came in for the actual audition still drunk and totally forgot all his lines in front of eight people. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Super Smash Bros.

SUPER SMASH BROS. LUIGI MARIO DK LINK SAMUS C.FALCON NESS YOSHI KIRBY FOX PIKACHU JIGGLYPUFF 1PHMT 2PHR 3PHM 4 HMN CRACKED COM Super Smash Bros. was pitched as a 4-player brawler, but Nintendo did not initially want their licensed characters to appear. After the small team of developers added Mario, Link and Samus anyway, Nintendo liked the demo so much they granted them permission to use the characters. — Source

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TJ Miller

COMEDY NERD TJ Miller auditioned for SNL back in 2008, and he did not get the job. For some reason, rumors started going around that he bombed on purpose in the audition and even threw a beer bottle at Lorne Michaels (which did not happen). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Meghan Markle

WAS MEGHAN MARKLE REPLACED BY A ROBOT? Twitter erupted with theories that the duchess had been supplanted by a deranged-looking android after a surpri — Source: Mirror Online

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Monitor Lizard

One of the worst things you can call someone in Thailand is a monitor lizard. The Thai word for the animal is considered so offensive that it's banned from TV and radio. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Facebook

CRACKED Facebook's 24/7 spy machine. After a 50 million user data breach, Facebook released Portal, a video-calling device with a camera and mic that were always on. Labeled the worst tech device of the year, people distrusted Facebook's camera/microphone combo in their home, and it flopped. — Source

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Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters One Cracked reader writes, Yes, the 1984 film is my favorite movie of all time, but I don't go around bashing a reboot that did not harm me in the slightest or 'ruin my childhood.' Get over yourselves. CRACKED.COM

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Wyatt Russell

BEHIND-THE-SCENES, FACTS WYATT RUSSELL LIED ABOUT BEING A MARVEL FAN. THE FALCON WINTER SOLDIER Russell admits that he was never a comics guy growing up and that he pretended to be a knowledgable fan of the MCU during the auditioned process. Не eventually came clean and asked the producers to explain the universe to him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bracken Bat Cave

The Bracken Bat Cave in Texas has the largest known bat colony in the world. CRACKED.COM Over 20 million bats live in the cave, which is more than there are people living in Mumbai, India, one of the world's largest human cities. — Source

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Carrie Fisher

AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER She never met James Earl Jones until an episode of The Big Bang Theory. o 000 The voice of Darth Vader never went on set, SO the pair didn't officially meet until they both guest starred on the show in 2013. CRACKED.COM — Source: IGN

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Super Monster Wolf

ROBOTIC MONSTER WOLVES PROTECT CROPS IN JAPAN. With local wolves hunted to extinction 200 years ago, boars and deer have become a nuisance to farmers. A modern solution is Super Monster Wolf, an animatronic, solar-powered scareboar that keeps animals (and probably people) at bay. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cosmo Yogurt

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Disposable Underwear

BIC UNDERWEAR LAUNCHED IN 1998. THEY SOLD DISPOSABLE UNDERWEAR IN GREECE, LEVER THIN o 5-6 BIO AUSTRIA Kieldergrope 46-52 AND IRELAND. HOSE 8 BiC NEU! Mit Zwickell GRACKED.COM — Source

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Serial Killers

CRACKED.COM MYTH: Most serial killers had an abusive childhood. REALITY: A whopping 70% of serial killers reported no child abuse. These numbers might include individuals who don't want to admit experiencing a traumatic childhood, but that's still a pretty high number debunking the popular belief. Many of them did however report bed wetting, abusing animals, and setting things on fire. — 14 Myths About Crime We Believe (Thanks To Pop Culture)

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Little Mac

Little Mac had to be little because two thirds of the screen was needed for the player to focus on the larger, more intricate opponents. 3 2:58 POINTS 4770 Rounos TKO And his name was indeed a play on the newly popular Big Mac. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baseball

Every ball used in an MLB game is covered in mud that comes from a secret location in New Jersey. * OFFICIA ISHOR LEAGUE R - CRACKED COM A man skims through riv- erbanks to find the mud, then refines it before it's applied to balls. It is called the Lena Black- burne Original Baseball Rubbing Mud. — Source

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Burger King

The ВК Piss Meal MUAD MIAS SED N FE M YAAAS и SALTY MEAL DGAF MEAL CRACKED.COM In a bizarre attempted dunk on the Happy Meal, Burger King introduced a series of competing mood-based meals, including, for some reason, the YAAAS Meal and the Pissed Meal. — Source

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Transformers

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McDonald’s

Menu Animation GRACKED.COM Companies like McDonald's even use animation specifi- cally to direct your eyes away from the cheaper items, which is how you end up or- dering a $12 burger when you walked in singing a song about nuggies. — Source

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Teen Titans

DC created their own Robin rip-off (because of cookies). An anti-drug issue of Teen Titans sponsored by Keebler (yes, it was the '80s) was already fully drawn, when they realized that Robin was licensed to rival cookie company Nabisco. So they drew a new costume on Robin and turned him into a different character, the Protector. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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Guardians of the Galaxy 2

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Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee died during the filming of Game Of Death. Yet he appears in Game Of Death . Eight years after Lee's death and actual funeral were incorporat

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My Strange Addiction

CRACKED A MENTAL ILLNESS MAKES YOU CRAVE TO EAT DIRT. Or any other type of inedible substance. It's called pica, and it's what those people who eat diapers on My Strange Addiction have. — Source

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Dennis Rodman

Dennis Rodman stomps a camera guy in the nards CRACKED COM When Rodman was bumped out of bounds in a 1997 game against the Timberwolves, he landed on a pile of photographers. In a huff, he heeled the nearest set of nads to his Nikes, a decision that would cost him — Source: YouTube

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Roy Oswalt

Roy Oswalt Houston Astros GRACKED COM In 2005, Oswalt's contract said that if the team won the National League championship, he'd get a frickin' bulldozer. That seemed to be enough incentive for him, because the Astros won the NCLS and Oswalt got his dozer. — Source: 15 Suspiciously Specific Clauses In Pro Athletes' Contracts

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Sarah Connor

CRACKED.COM The actress playing the T1000 as it imitates Sarah Connor near the end of Terminator 2? Leslie Hamilton, Linda Hamilton's real life twin sister. — Source: 30 Behind-The-Scenes Little-Known Movie Facts

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Gladiator

GLADIATOR At the beginning of Gladiator, Maximus is wounded fighting off his captors. He's bleeding from the arm when he sets off riding from Germania

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The Largest Spider in the World

The Goliath birdeater tarantula is the largest spider in the world. It can weigh more than a newborn puppy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dog Surfing Coach

CRACKEDOON Love water, dogs and surfing? DOGSURFING COACH might just be the job for you! Dog surfing coaches are people who know their way around the

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The Castle of Murder

Coolderry, Ireland - The Castle of murder - Leap Castle is said to be the home of a whopping 19 ghosts. It has a history of clan battles and familial — Source

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California

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Darth Vader

Vader's I am your father line was a shock to everyone. Including the Star Wars cast. On the set, actor David Prowse said Obi-wan killed your father. Mark Hamill didn't know what the actual line was going to BE until moments before the scene was filmed, and afterward he was sworn to secrecy. Director Irvin Kershner warned Hamill that if the secret got out, he'd know who leaked it. CRACKED.co tp://www.soundandvision.com/news/100104hamil/#OZEVRFbicgdy4DDv.97 — 27 Mind-Blowing TRUE Star Wars Behind The Scenes Stories

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