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La Jetée

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES LA JETÉE THE MOVIE IS MADE ENTIRELY OF STILL PHOTOS. You won't see the actors moving in this 1962 French short film that inspired 12 Monkeys - it's all a series of pictures. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dracula

There's a fake Dracula gravestone placed in the graveyard of the British village of Whitby. Part of the novel takes place there, and tourists regularly visit it and ask for Dracula's grave - so someone had a fake gravestone put up. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stephen Colbert

The International Space Station has a treadmill named C.O.L.B.E.R.T. after Stephen Colbert. CRACKED.COM Stephen Colbert used his show The Colbert Report to encourage his viewers to write in votes to use Colbert during a naming contest that NASA held. — NASA / Wikipedia

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Pulp Fiction

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Carved From a Single Block of Marble

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

CRACKED The TMNT's attraction to April is never consummated. Good - in the wild, multiple male turtles often mate with the same female, using their front flippers to grip. She might not be up for that. — Eziyoda

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Skyscraper

CRACKED.COM Skyscraper was supposed to be Dwayne Johnson's 2018 summer blockbuster... ...but it only raked in $67 million in the US (only half its budget). However, The Rock is so popular in countries like China, the film tripled that overseas, pulling in $304 worldwide! — Source

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Almost Famous

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.' - Lester Bangs ALMOST FAMOUS CRACKED.com

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Pirates of the Caribbean

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Carved From a Single Block of Marble

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Popped Collars

The popped collar originated as a way to keep tennis players' necks from getting sunburnt. Prolific French tennis player René Lacoste came up with a softer, starch-free polo shirt in 1929, breaking with the stiff tennis gear tradi- tions of the day. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Mountain Dew

In 2014, PepsiCo combined two of its more popular brands- MOUNTAIN DEW and CHEETOS. FritoLa Mountain The peculiar snack hybrid DeW was only sold in Japan, but - six years earlier the U.S. had its 99¢ own nobody- asked-for-this atrocity... Doritos THE HEST Mountain Dew flavored CUESSINO THE PLAYON ART T-- - Doritos, called The Quest. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Recess

CRACKED.COM Recess L Recess is just as good as I remember, but it surprised me how many complex, well-developed characters it contains who all navigate various social networks. The episode where Ms. Finster babysits Spinelli, and Spinelli is forced to see an adult as a dimensional is very funny to see on the other side of childhood. — Source

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Rom-Coms

Tired Rom-Com Tropes (That Still Make Us Swoon) Multiple intertwining stories We love rom-coms that manage to juggle several stories at the same time - it's like getting multiple movies for the price of one. Love Actually totally pulled this off-it might have aged badly, but it's still miles better than American knock-offs. An even better example? Crazy, Stupid, Love. CRACKED.COM MERRY — Source

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The Rat Pack

Frank Sinatra The Rat Pack called themselves the Summit. The gang of hard-drinking buddies (made up of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and other celebrities) did a bunch of movies and ruled the Las Vegas scene during the '60s. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Wikipedia, Mental Floss

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Love Actually

15 Weird Details About Love Actually That You Never Knew - Hugh Grant dreaded his dance scene. He thought it would be excruciating — Source: USA Today

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George R.R. Martin

George R.R. Martin first imagined fantasy worlds thanks to the pet store turtles he had as a boy. Young Martin was taking proper care of them, so he couldn't figure out why they would die a few months later. Не then imagined that they might've been killing each other, competing for the Turtle Throne. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Grand Theft Auto

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Carved From a Single Block of Marble

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Will Smith

M Will Smith is now older than James Avery (Uncle Phil) was at the beginning of The Fresh Prince of BelAir. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Facts That Will Shatter Your Perception Of Time

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The Criterion

THE YEAR WAS 1922... T. S. ELIOT ESTABLISHES THE CRITERION No. I. Vol. I. THE CRITERION A Quarterly Review : October, 1922 3/6 NET CONTENTS: AMONGST OTHER CONTRIBUTORS GEORGE SAINTSBURY Dullness WILL BE F. DOSTOEVSKY Plan of a Novel Richard Aldington, Julien Benda, Jean de Bost- (Translated by S. S. Koteliacaky and chèm, E R. Curtius, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry 'irginia Woolf T. STURGE MOORE The Story of Tristrano Ramon Gomez de la Sems, Stephen Hudson, and Irole is Modern Poetry, 1. W. R. Lethaby, Wyndham Lewis, Antonio Mari- T.S. ELIOT The Waste Land chaler, J. M. Murry, Extra Pound, Marcel — Source

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Prometheus

CRACKED.COM An android with ulterior motives spikes the champagne, which leads to a squid baby and other fun stuff. FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ALIEN AND GLA

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Woody Allen

MANHATTAN A V al won the BAFTA Award for best film in 1980. SH MEXUAL - - - In retrospect, it's unseemly to praise Woody Allen for making a film about his romance with a teenage girl. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Country Music

Country music was popularized by a Nazi quack. Back in the 1930s, Doctor John Brinkley had a radio station where he pushed phony remedies, praised H — More: The Drunk Nazi Surgeon Who Made Country Music Super Popular

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Encanto

Encanto CAMILO IS A SHOUT-OUT TO THE FILMMAKERS' LOCAL GUIDE. The name of the shapeshifting Madrigal was chosen partly because it sounds like chameleon - and partly as a tribute to Camilo García Escobar, who was hired as the movie creators' tour guide in Colombia. — Source: Jared Bush/Twitter, El Quindiano

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The Matrix

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Paul Giamatti

PAUL GIAMATTI BILLIONS CRACKED.COM One of the greatest actors of our generation, Big Fat Liar's own Paul Giamatti, stepped into the silver screen with his series Billions, opposite Damian Lewis and a domination fetish. With powerful performances from Giamatti and his co-stars, this Showtime series is elevated to the level of a really good movie from 2003. — Source: GQ

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Snowpiercer

EASTER EGGSTRA snowpiercer There's a hidden meaning in the colorful classroom car. While the rest of the train has muted colors, the classroom is different. Of course this explosion of color is all about the kids but underneath it all, there's this terrifying ideology that's being taught about the idea — Fast Company

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Toy Story

Toy story was very different at first. The original idea featured a weirder Woody and Buzz, and an altogether more sinister feel. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee died during the filming of Game Of Death. Yet he appears in Game Of Death II. Eight years after Lee's death and actual funeral were incorporated into Game Of Death, producers cobbled together a bunch of B-roll footage of Lee and worked them into Game Of Death II. His character appears for 30 minutes, then dies. Again. CRACKED.COM Game of Death II, 1981 — Source

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe married for the first time at 16, and she basically did it just to stay out of the orphanage. Her mother was schizophrenic and often ho — Source: Vanity Fair

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Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise WAR OF THE WORLDS CRACKED.CON Tom Cruise asked for a fully-staffed Scientology tent to be available on the set of War of the Worlds. Wait, — Source: Cracked

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Billy Idol

The first choice to play T-1000 in Terminators 2 was Billy ldol. The T-1000 even looked like Billy ldol in James Cameron's sketches he didn't do the m — Source: MTV

10

Wonder Woman

In Wonder Woman, Steve's sailboat covers the thousands of miles between the Aegean Sea and London in one night. The movie's explanation? We got lucky

9

Turbo

Bugs in pop culture Turbo from Turbo FAST 5 A speed-racing snail is all one can want out of a Netflix cartoon for kiddos. Watch it with your nephew or niece sometime, it'll be better than you think. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alien

Alien was a cinematic bastard, and a pretty mean bastard at that. That's Time who owes a small fortune to the Cheeky Swear Jar. They claimed the film attempts to crossbreed the scare tactics of Jaws with the sci-fi hardware of Star Wars, but comes up wanting in wit, — Source: Time

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Lance Armstrong

Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now DGIRO GROU ESTRONG.ORG LANCE ARMSTRONG won the Tour de France seven friggin' times, which is amazing. LIVESTRONG EXCEPT WHEN YOU FACTOR IN THAT НЕ RAN A HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED DOPING RING, and took performance-enhancing drugs for most of his career. Не was stripped of his wins and banned from the sport, but hey, what would Dodgeball trivia be without him? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep heavily focused on playing the guitar for six months for a movie. It was Ricki and the Flash, where she plays a rock star-and, while filming the movie's finale, she shredded so hard that she drew blood. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Actors Who Went Way, Way Beyond The Call Of Duty For A Movie

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Dark Shadows

Inconspicuous CGI Dark Shadows Johnny Depp's Barnabas Collins never blinks, as his eye movements were digitally altered. We'd say it's the exact opposite situation to Wesley Snipes in Blade: Trinity (where he refused to open his eyes for a scene, forcing horrible CGI trickery), but Depp deserves to be the butt of more jokes than Snipes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Lizard

Spider-Man Movie Villains = O l'ez ONLY THE Dylan Baker was all set to play the Lizard, but didn't. Despite appearing as the one-armed Dr. Curt Connors in both Spider-Man 2 & 3, with a mountain of hints to his future transformation, Baker never got to play the Lizard. Rhys Ifans played the scaly villain when he finally appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Goonies

CRACKED THE GOONIES With the resurgence of Ke Huy Quan, you could see some studio exec frothing at the mouth for a reboot of the Goonies as parents. 40 years later, no Gen-Xers are strapping in for a new group of kids googling where the treasure is. — Buzzfeed / Hollywood Reporter

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Sasquatch

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Carved From a Single Block of Marble

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Sweeney Todd

FOr THE FILM ADAPTATION OF SWEENEY TODD, THEY TOOK A GREAT STAGE MUSICAL AND REMOVED HUGE AMOUNTS OF THE NUANCE, HUMOR. PLOT, AND SCORE, IN ORDER TO C

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