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The Sense of Belonging TV Provides

Your favorite TV show can give you the feeling of belonging. The illusion of relationships with TV characters can give you a sense of warmth and belonging, even when you've been rejected by friends and family. CRACKED.COM

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Getty Images

Getty Images sold unauthórized licenses of photos donated to the Library of Congress. CRACKED.COM Carol Highsmith donated 100,000 of these images and then received a letter from Getty, demanding $120 for displaying them on her personal website. Highsmith sued for $1 bil- lion, but lost.

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Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson PORCY THE OLYMPIANS NOW JACKSON THE LIGHTNING THIEF RICK RIORDAN CRACKED.COM 'A al and Author Rick Riordan was nonplussed with the films based off of his work: to you guys, it's a couple hours entertainment. To me, it's my life's work going through a meat grinder when I pleaded with them not to do it

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Back to School

Kurt Vonnegut cameod as himself in the Rodney Dangerfield movie Back to School. We're here IH to help students! Rodney's character, Thornton Melon, hires a guy to write a school paper on Kurt Vonnegut -- that guy turns out to be Vonnegut himself. CRACKED.COM

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Tyler, the Creator

Rapper Tyler, the Creator trashed a Los Angeles club in December 2011. Apparently, he destroyed some sound equipment at L.A.'s Roxbury Theater and got his fans to start rioting - he ended up having to pay $8,000 in damages. CRACKED.COM

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The Birth of a Nation

Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1915 The Birth of a Nation D. W. Griffith's movie is a technical and narrative wonder-and an embarrassment in every other respect. Nate Parker took the name to tell the actually worthwhile story of true American badass Nat Turner. 2016 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Up

The house in Up was lifted by 10,297 balloons. While Up is a cartoon and Carl's house was lifted by the power of imagination and computer animation, Pixar animators still painstakingly created over 10,000 colorful balloons to do it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Election

CRACKED.COM Election THE ALTERNATE ENDING: Tracy and Professor Jim patch things up, apologize to each other, and she gives him her yearbook for him to sign. This mature ending (discovered on a VHS back in 2011) is closer to Tom Perrota's novel, and Matthew Broderick kinda likes it, but the movie loses a lot of its edge. — Source

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Michelle Pfeiffer

CRACKED SHADY TIES MICHELLE PFEIFFER AND THE BREATHARIANS The group claims to get all their nourishment from the sun. They were very controlling, Pfeiffer said. I had to pay for all the time I was there, so it was financially draining. When researching cults for a film, she realized she was in one, and left. — Source

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Harry Potter

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The Graduate

The Graduate Mrs. Robinson is almost always wearing some kind of animal print, symbolizing her predatory behavior. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hedy Lamarr

CRACKED.COM HEDY LAMARR made WiFi possible. Lamarr was a big-name actress in Golden Age Hollywood. She was also an amateur inventor. She came up with an idea for radio communication that eventually led to cellphones, WiFi, etc. — Source

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The Powerpuff Girls

CRACKED.COM THE POWERPUFF GIRLS theme song is based on a sample from the break in the James Brown song Funky Drummer. — Source

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Billie Joe Armstrong

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong had a total meltdown on stage at a festival. When the band's time was about to end, he cried, I've been around since 19-f--ing-88! And you're gonna give me one minute? I'm not f---ing Justin Bieber, you mother---er! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tootsie Pops

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger Twins and Kindergarten Cop were his favorite movies to make. Не had a great time working with kids (and Danny DeVito). As for the movies where he likes the movie itself, those are True Lies and Terminator 1 and 2, plus Dark Fate. CRACKED.COM — Source: GQ/YouTube

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Online Gambling

An Online Gambling Site's Pay For Your Wife's Cancer Treatment Ad 888 2 YEARS of excellence casino 15 £88 £50 £20 CRACKED COM Gambling websites are usually really careful to claim that bankrupting your- self with their services is for entertain- ment only, so it was pretty bold for the website 888 to run an advertisement depicting a depressed man who had sold his house to pay for his wife's can- cer treatment discovering the site while waiting outside the hospital and won over 30 times his annual salary in a single spin. Bold enough to get banned by the — Buzzfeed

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Kicking and Screaming

Forgotten Indie Movies From the '90s 1995 Kicking and Screaming '90s indie dramas with witty banter and anxiety- ridden white Gen-Xers don't get more spot on than Noah Baumbach's first movie. Sure, it lacks Singles' killer grunge soundtrack and it's much more bourgie, but unlike Singles, it's actually a good movie. CRACKED.COM — Watch the Trailer

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Business.com

Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold at $7.5 million. + x business.com discover, compare & save ECompanies, a Santa Mon- ica Internet venture fund shelled out the cash to ac- quire business.com from a Houston media en- trepreneur who bought it for $150,000 in 1996. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Wall Street Journal

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Scrubs

CRACKED.COM SACRED HOSPITAL HEART SCRUBS JANI... WHO? The Janitor was originally planned to be a figment of J.D.'s imagination. Не isn't seen talking to another character until season 2. — Source: NPR

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One More Day

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME EASTER EGGS ONE MORE DAY The entire plot is an adaptation of One More Day, in which Peter Parker gives us Mary Jane and his identity to save his aunt. Thankfully the film doesn't feature an appearance by his and MJ's future daughter, telling him how badly he scrrewed up. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Rocky IV

Sly Stallone hated Dolph Lundgren when he cast him in Rocky IV. The moment Stallone saw him, he looked just perfect and, Stallone says, I go 'I hate this friggin' guy, I hate him. He's just too good looking, too perfect. And if I loathe him, I'm sure the world will.''' CRACKED COM — Source

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2001: A Space Odyssey

HAL IS HERE. The name of HAL, the sentient computer from the 1968 film 2001, is a one-letter shift from IBM. Today we have IBM's Watson, an artificial intelligence so sophisticated that it defeated the two most successful Jeopardy contestants ever. Without being connected to the Internet. CRACKED.COM http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/what-is-watson.html — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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Milk and Cookies for Santa

It's not really a universal custom to leave out milk and cookies for Santa. 17 59 GUINNESS In Argentina, they leave hay and water, in Britain they leave sherry, and in Ireland they leave a pint of Guinness. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Francis Ford Coppola

FRANCIS FORD-COPPOLA PLAYED A DIRECTOR IN APOCALYPSE NOW. CRACKED.COM Coppola appears as a TV news director yelling at Willard to not look at the camera as he's moving through a war-torn coastal village. — YouTube

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Blue’s Clues

Steve left BLUE'S CLUES because he was going bald. I refused to lose my hair on a kid's TV show, Steve Burns explained in a 2014 interview. That's why Steve left to go to college at the height of the show's popularity. — Source: Business Insider

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Jurassic Park III

They used people in elaborate velociraptor suits as late as Jurassic Park III. To bring raptors to life, instead of CGI, they'd just put people in raptor suits and have them puppeteer the creature's head from the inside. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ed Gein

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Three separate horror movies are inspired by real-world serial killer Ed Gein. CRACKEDG In the late 50's, Ed Gein confessed to two murders and was found with a house full of human remains. The horrific actions of Gein were used as inspiration in film over four decades in Psycho (1960), The Silence of the Lambs (1974), and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1991). — Source: 14 Behind The Scenes Facts About Your Favorite Horror Movies

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George Clooney

George Clooney had a beloved, pot-bellied pig that was called Max. The press called them inseparable, and Clooney allowed him in his bedroom. Apparently, Max's presence even ended two of Clooney's relationships. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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Logan

One of Logan's deleted scenes totally changed the tone of the dinner sequence. In the scene, Xavier reveals that Logan actually killed Jean Grey, which makes the dinner pretty bleak and kills the sense of renewed hope that sequence has. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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The Wizard of Oz

A turn-of-the-century traveling illusionist inspired The Wizard of Oz. KFILAR Harry Kellar was one of the world's most popular illusionists when the book was written, and he inspired the Wizard -- early illustrations of the Wizard looked a lot like Kellar, too. CRACKED.COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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WandaVision

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS CRACKED CON PAUL BETTANY THOUGHT HE WAS GETTING FIRED. STAN ISU0E WundVision Disney+ The actor revealed that when Marvel called him in for a meeting shortly after his death in Infinity War, he thought they were about to tell him his time in the MCU was over To his pleasant — yahoo!

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The Beatles

The Beatles CRACKED COM When they played in Portland in 1965, their contract stipulated that Artists will not be required to perform in front of a se

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James Bond

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The Masked Singer

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Sherlock

SHERLOCK'S PARENTS WERE PLAYED BY BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH'S ACTUAL PARENTS. Established UK actors Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham appeared on Sherlock — RadioTimes

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Snow White

Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs doesn't talk because Disney couldn't find a voice actor they liked. Their original idea was for Dopey to talk

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Ernest Hemingway

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