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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Horror movies on streaming A Nightmare HBO on Elm Street max Freddy wears a red and green sweater because Wes Craven read on Scientific American that the human eye doesn't like seeing those colors together. CRACKED.COM

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The Lone Gunmen

IN THEIR PILOT EPISODE, THE LONE GUNMENTHWARTED A PLOT TO HIJACK A PLANE AND CRASH IT INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. (Cue X-Files theme music.) It aired in March, 2001. CRACKED.COM https://youtube@ruMG2hHSLo — Source

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Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra Не started his own record label out of spite. By the late '50s, Sinatra was tired of Capitol Records telling him what to do. Even before his contract expired, he founded Reprise Records and started making better albums, that would critically and commercially beat Capitol's. CRACKED.COM — More: 6 Musicians Who Made Entire Albums Just To Say F#@k You

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Wall-E

In WALL-E, Buy n Large Times is probably one of the company's most ollution-causing products. I1S810 ARGE BUY N TIMte COAL TR TOO MUCH SH! FARTH COV R

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The Vulcan Salute

The Vulcan Star Trek salute Leonard Nimoy based the live long and prosper hand sign on a blessing he had seen as a child, during a synagogue service. CRACKED.COM

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The Goonies

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES The Goonies DO GREMLINS EXIST IN THE GOONIES UNIVERSE? The cop dismisses Chunk's call with, Just like that last prank about all those little creatures that multiply when you throw water on them? Both movies were written by Chris Columbus. CRACKED.COM

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Star Wars

STARWARS EPISODE I THE PHANTOM MENACE CRACKED.COM At the end of the movie, Senator Palpatine and the Jedi Council arrive on Naboo. Well, the Jedi Council and some dude pretending to be Mace Windu, cause that ain't Samuel L. Jackson.

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T.I.

T.I. PRETENDED TO BE AN OWNER OF A CRYPTOCURRENCY COMPANY. EXCHANGE AND COMMISSION SECURITIES In 2020, the SEC charged T.I for promoting FLiK, an unregistered and fraudulent ICO, to his followers and claiming to be its co-owner. Не was forced to pay $75,000 and got barred from participating in the cryptocurrency market for five years. CRACKED.COM

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The Wizard of Oz

CRACKED.COM DOROTHY'S SLIPPERS WERE RESCUED IN AN FBI STING. The iconic shoes from The Wizard of Oz were stolen in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids. The FBI managed to recover the slippers 12 years later, after a year-long investigation that involved agents going undercover. — Source

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Star Trek

Red Shirt, Short Life Number of crew deaths in Star Trek: The Original Series: 59 Number of Red Shirt Deaths: 43 79% of dead crew-members wore red shirts. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jim Halpert

CRACKED.COM Awful Sitcom Tropes The Jim Halpert John Krasinski looking at the camera was a perfect straight man gesture, creating complicity between the mockumentary format and the audience. After every show started following The Office's template, however, it grew tiresome, as they just had to have the smartass glancing at us to tell us how dumb everyone else was. — Source

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Three’s Company

THREE'S COMPANY Chrissy Snow CRACKED.COM FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE Replaced by her Ditzy near-identical cousin blonde, because no one series wanted to work regular. with Suzanne Sommers. — Source

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart wasn't really a tough guy. According to James Cagney, Bogart was about as tough as Shirley Temple. In a time when studios pretty much owned the actors, everything about Bogie's public image was a fiction carefully constructed by Warner Bros. They even went so far as to rewrite Bogart's life history to make him fit his niche. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Animal Farm

The Germans nearly destroyed the Animal Farm manuscript before publication. ORWELL ANIMAL FARM Not on purpose, though - it's just that a Nazi bomb hit George Orwell's house, but he found the manuscript in the ruins. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Far Cry 6

The tradition continues: FAR CRY 6 has an early alternative ending Easter egg You'll have to work a bit harder than before, and the ending involves a beach, pandemic lockdowns, and Gloria Estefan's Conga. CRACKED COM — Source

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Charlie Sheen

Product Placement TASTY - - TOODLE CER UGAR IDGERS - - - Foodfight! This movie released on DVD in 2013 stars supermarket mascots and a dog detective voiced by Charlie Sheen. It cost around $50 million to make, but the animation looks like it was done on a Nintendo 64. CRACKED — Viva Pictures
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Futurama

Stupid plots that became reality On Futurama Zapp Brannigan mistakenly names Leela as Miss Universe 3001. In reality Steve Harvey mistakenly named Miss Colombia as Miss Universe 2015. MADE UNITESSE THE CRACKED.COM — 20th Television, Miss Universe/FOX
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Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones Then vs. Now From a kid to an old man In The Last Crusade, young Indy was played by River Phoenix. In The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Sean Patrick Flanery played him as a teenager, and Harrison Ford made a cameo as an older Indy. The child version was played by Corey Carrier, and the elderly version by George Hall. GAF 990 CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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The Playboy Mansion

GRACKED COM The Playboy Mansion hot tub was once responsible for a Legionnaire's disease outbreak affecting over 100 guests who attended a fundraising party at the mansion. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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Otherworld

Forgotten Sci-Fi and Horror Shows 1985 Otherworld An American family visits the Egyptian pyramids just as the planets align, and they're transported to some parallel dimension. As they explore this world, they're chased by a ruthless commander played by Jonathan Banks, of Breaking Bad fame. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Superbad

In 2007's, SUPERBAD, Jules is popular, social and stylish. Seth, on the other hand, is cantankerous, uncool and hard to be around. SUPERUNLIKELY LIKE REALLY NEVER. EVER WOULD HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE EVEN ONCE And, of course, in this film of nerd wish fulfillment, she is busy working hard to convince him that she is interested in him. CRACKED COM — 20 Onscreen Relationships That Should Never Have Existed

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Schoolly D

SCHOOLLY D Marshall CRACKED.COM In 1985, Philly rapper Scoolly D's, P.S.K. What Does It Mean? is credited as the first gangsta rap song. The drums and hardcore lyrics inspired Ice T's, 6 In The Mornin, which became the defining gangsta rap record and paved the way for N.W.A and 90s gangsta rap that incorporated gang culture. — Source: billboard.com

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Kyle MacLachlan

Apparently, Kyle MacLachlan is really, really into TikTok these days. MacLachlan says that there's so much you can do with it and that it's very playful -- which apparently explains the appeal to him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Margot Robbie

MARGOT ROBBIE AND PRINCE HARRY Robbie mistook the Royal Prince for singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. At a housewarming in London, Robbie didn't know the redheaded man was actually Prince Harry, all the while taking photos with him and thinking it was probably the English singer. CRACKED.COM — Vogue

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Ellen

CRACKED.COM Ellen Degeneres inspired Dory's most recognizable trait even before she signed on to portray the forgetful fish. Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton was struggling to write the character without it sounding annoying until he heard Ellen Degeneres changing topics mid-sentence five times on The Ellen Show. Dory was then modeled after the way Degeneres speaks. — 26 Origins Of Characters' Signature Traits

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David Lynch

PIERRE FROM TWIN PEAKS LOOKS LIKE A MINI-ME VERSION OF DAVID LYNCH. That's because, in a way, he is. Pierre was played by the director's son, Austin Jack Lynch. NIKE CRACKED.COM — Entertainment Weekly

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Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf thinks Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull was a disservice to the series, and his acting contributed. I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished. Harrison Ford wasn't happy with it either. Look, the movie could have been updated. There was a reason it wasn't universally accepted. CRACKED.COM — Source: 32 Ace Facts About Famous Characters

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Death Wish 3

Marina Sirtis CAKA Troi on Star Trek) was once tortured on a movie set. PARKING-CUSTOMERS ONLY COLATOR It was a sexual assault scene in Death Wish 3, and when she told her brother what happened, he threatened he'd kill director Michael Winner. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Liam Cunningham

Liam Cunningham made off with a big haul from the Game of Thrones set. LA EXPO OFI It includes the bag with Davos' finger bones, a Dothraki sword, the carved stag Davos made for Shireen, and more. I know what to take, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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MythBusters

A WOMAN WAS ABLE TO SAVE HERSELF AND HER CHILD BECAUSE OF WHAT SHE LEARNED FROM THE SHOW CRACKED COM In 2007, a woman slid off the road into a large b — Source: CinemaBlend

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