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December 08, 2024

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Deliverance

GRACKED HERBERT 'COWBOY' COWARD WAS A THEME PARK EMPLOYEE. DELIVERANCE Burt Reynolds shot Gunsmoke at the Ghost Town theme park, where Coward worked as a cowboy. Reynolds recommended him for the role, and his line, He got a real purdy mouth, ain't he? haunts us all over 50 years later. — The Southern Voice

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The Godfather Part II

JOHN CAZALE AND HIS FIVE MOVIES THE GODFATHER PART II WAS PEAK JOHN CAZALE. Cazale's five legendary movies involved three people: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Francis Ford Coppola. The Godfather Part II holds a special place in his filmography, as it's the only movie to involve the three of them. CRACKED.COM — IMDb

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Medieval Knights

Medieval knights' training regimen could be incredibly physically demanding. One French knight had a regimen that involved things like jumping onto a horse and climbing a ladder on the underside, all in full armor. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lice

CRACKEDcO THE PAST WAS LOUSY WITH, UH, LICE. Being louse-fr is a modern luxury. Historical remedies included mercury, dog fat, and other stuff as gros

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Macaulay Culkin

When Macaulay Culkin was a child star, he'd get harassed on the street. His brother Kieran recounted, One time, a woman pulled off his hat and looked at him and said, 'Yeah, it's him! You're not that cute.' And then handed the hat back and walked away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Princess Bride

Filming Inigo and Westley' sword fight in The Princess Bride took ten days. It took that long because it's all Carey Elwes and Mandy Patinkinc. there — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Michael Caine

Michael Caine is actually in Dunkirk, but he never shows up on-screen. He's the voice that gives out instructions, via radio, to Tom Hardy's and Jack Lowden's pilots near the start of the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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Floyd Collins

CRACKED FLOYD COLLINS' BODY Collins was a cave explorer who tragically passed away and was buried four times. His body was put in a glass-topped coffin in Crystal Cave as a tourist attraction, and his tombstone was inscribed with the words: Greatest Cave Explorer Ever Known. WILLIAM PLO COLLINE BORN JULY 20.1888 WILLIAM COLLINS BORN FLOYD SURIED APRIL 28,1925. JULY 20,1007 SURIES APRIL 26,1925 - TRAPPED IN SAND CAVE. POLICE JAN. 30.1925. DISCOVERED CRYSTAL CAVE. JAN.18.1917. GREATEST CAVE EXPLORER EVER KNOWN — Source

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Disneyland

Disneyland's grand opening was an unmitigated disaster. Twice as many people entered the park due to counterfeit tickets, the Mark Twain riverboat sank due to overcrowding, and women's heels got stuck in the fresh asphalt. Oh, and the concession stands ran out of food and water- in 100 degree heat. — source: SFGate

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Joseph Mobutu

BANQUE DU ZAIRE VINGY MIELE ZAIRES 0 0 0 0 17-1991 Nyuhril When dictator Joseph Mobutu was overthrown, Zaire's government cut his face off the currency until they could design and print new notes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Dalai Lama

THE DALAI LAMA CRACKED.COM If a female Dalai Lama come, then she must be very attractive. Otherwise not much use. — Source

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E.T.

E.T. was a mixture of several faces. Steven Spielberg found inspiration for the wise alien visitor in portraits of Albert Einstein, Carl Sandburg, and

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Supergirl

Product Placement Supergirl A&W ROOT BEER Supergirl is thrown into an A&W SUPER vending machine, then two truckers try to rape her, one of them wearing A&W an A&W shirt. This makes A&W ROOT BEER SINCE mm look like the drink of rapists. EL FL OZ (500 ml HOT CRACKED — Warner Bros.,
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7 Times Movie Product Placement Backfired Hilariously

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New Jersey

A rich NJ guy bought his former boss' house just so he could raze it to the ground. (illustration) Billionaire David Tepper bought it from his boss' ex-wife, then demolished it, and built a giant 11,268-square foot palace on the property. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Liquor

CRACKEDcO Young men hold their liquor better than young women, but the inverse is true among old men and women. This because of an enzyme called the A

25

Woodstock

The guy who hosted Woodstock was as far from a hippie as you can get. CRACKED COM The land that held Woodstock belonged to dairy farmer Max Yasgur, 49, a Republican who supported the Vietnam War. The organizers paid him $50,000 to use his grounds, telling him 50,000 people would attend, which turned out to be 400,000. Не sold food at cost, and when he learned neighbors were selling water for huge prices, he hung a banner on his barn reading FREE WATER. Yasgur said, If the generation gap is to be closed, we older people have to do more — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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Scooby-Doo

The Scooby Gang was based on the characters in a 1960s TV show. It was called The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and it was a teen sitcom that the creators of Scooby-Doo basically just lifted the main characters from. CRACKED.COM — Source: Snopes

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Unforgiven vs. The Addams Family

WHEN THE KIDS CHOICE AWARDS CRACKED GOT IT MORE RIGHT THAN THE OSCARS UNFORGIVEN NUTRITIRA CHRISTOPHERLOND THEADDAMS EAMILY nickelodeon UNFORGIVEN THE ADDAMS FAMILY In the long run, The Addams Family is way more culturally relevant than the 1992 Clint Eastwood movie.

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Microorganisms

40 Random Bits of Trivia That’ll Dice Up Your Cerebral Cortex Like a Slap Chop — Source: NIN

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Catwoman’s Suit

The Catwoman suit was incredibly uncomfortable BATMAN RETURNS It was the most uncomfortable costume I've ever been in, said Michelle Pfeiffer. They had to powder me down, help me inside and then vacuum-pack the suit. They'd paint it with a silicon-based finish to give it its trademark shine. CRACKED.COM — Source: Hollywood Reporter

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Babushka Lady

IDENTITY UNKNOWN The babushka lady An unidentified woman was around when JFK was assassinated in 1963, and she's never come forward. People are interested in her because she might have taken pictures. CRACKED — Jim Altgens
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Chrysippus

40 Random Bits of Trivia That’ll Dice Up Your Cerebral Cortex Like a Slap Chop — Source: Culture Trip

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Breaking Bad

The owners of the Breaking Bad house built a six-foot iron fence around it. For years, have been throwing pizzas on the house's roof (to recreate the scene where Bryan Cranston did that), and this was the only family's only remaining option to deal with it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Pirates of the Caribbean

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN HAD REAL HUMAN BONES. THEY LOOKED BETTER THAN PLASTIC PROPS. Eventually, the bones were buried and replaced. But numerous park employees and Disney enthusiasts insist (probably falsely) the ride still has some mixed in, including at least one skull. CRACKED.COM — Source: Dark Moments From Disney’s Past

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Yakuza

A Japanese porn actor flew a plane into a Yakuza boss's home for betraying the samurai code. COM 28 .. A . AM to 42N ABR RGB AIR CRACKED.COM Mitsuyasu Maeno was a Japanese ultrana- tionalist and wanted to punish the Yakuza don for accepting millions of dollars in bribes from Lockheed. — Source

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Inception

Christopher Nolan has said that Inception was very much inspired by the James Bond movies. — Source: 16 Movies That Owe Their Existence To Other Films

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Homeland Security

Dr. Laura Callahan worked for Homeland Security. DEYANIM MENT MLAN CRIT Despite the fact that she faked her credentials. Callahan held one of the most

13

Donkeys

Two donkeys together for 10 years at a Polish ZOO were separated because of complaints they were mating in front of children. A petition with 7,000 signatures reunited them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — The Star

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Skydiving

A skydiving instructor saved a woman on a tandem skydive by using his body as a cushion. انتاج CRACKED COM After the main chute failed and the second got tan- gled, Dave Hartsock placed himself under the woman to absorb the eventual im- pact. Both survived, with Hartstock becoming para- lyzed from the neck down. — Sobify / Wikipedia

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Radio Waves

40 Random Bits of Trivia That’ll Dice Up Your Cerebral Cortex Like a Slap Chop — Source

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Cigars

A tobacco company bluffed a patent to plastic-tipped cigars. HOYO DE MONTERREY HABANA LAVA CRACKED.COM Nat Sherman Tobacco Com- pany introduced plas- tic-tipped cigars to the in- dustry. They bluffed away any competitors for 32 years by putting Patent Pending on the packaging. — StogiePress

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James Brown

40 Random Bits of Trivia That’ll Dice Up Your Cerebral Cortex Like a Slap Chop

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Michael J. Fox

The production team gave Michael J. Fox real alcohol. While shooting the Back to the Future scene where Marty takes a sip of booze — 6 Behind-The-Scenes Movie Pranks That Were Total Madness

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The Human Brain

CRACKED 86 BILLION NEURONS? WOW, TALK ABOUT OVERKILL. The human brain has an incredible 86 billion neurons, which makes it the most neuron- dense primate brain around. — Andrii Vodolazhskyi/Shutterstock
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Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper sang a song called Taffy Butt. TAFFY BUTT PERFORMED BY CYNDI LAUPER CRACKED CO The Belcher kids find a butt-shaped map of a taffy factory in The Belchies. Ms. Lauper herself sings a parody of Goonies 'R' Good Enough from The Goonies.

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The Investor

40 Random Bits of Trivia That’ll Dice Up Your Cerebral Cortex Like a Slap Chop — Source: 15 Creepy Crimes That Were Never Solved

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Benedict Cumberbatch

CRACKED Khan Noonien Singh played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Khan Noonien Singh should have been played by Kal Penn, or somebody remotely resembling a g

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Biopic Tropes

CRACKED.COM AWFUL BIOPIC TROPES TRAUMA AS MOTIVATION Genius is explained by trauma, right? Because that seems to be a narrative staple of biopics. Every traumatic incident in your life and every mistake you make pushes you towards your destiny of greatness. — Source

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Marisol Nichols

CRACKED.COM Riverdale's Marisol Nichols fights sex criminals in real life. In the lulls of her acting job, Nichols moonlights as an undercover agent, helping the FBI hunt down sex predators. It sounds like the premise for a TV show - so of course, it's been turned into a TV show by Sony Pictures Television. — Source

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Genetic Variation

YOUR CHOICE TO OWN A DOG IS PARTLY HEREDITARY. According to one study, genetic variation explains more than half of the variation in dog ownership. CR — Source: EurekAlert

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