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Penn Badgley Hated the Series Finale of ‘Gossip Girl’

PENN BADGLEY GOSSIP GIRL CRACKED.COM What did you think of that series finale, Penn? It doesn't make sense at all. It wouldn't have made sense for anybody. Gossip Girl doesn't make sense!

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PlayStation Fandom

CRACKED.COM An Australian serial killer refused to eat to get a PlayStation. Ivan Milat, convicted for killing seven hitchhikers, went on a hunger strike in 2011 to protest a heinous injustice committed against him: Не wasn't given a PlayStation to exercise his mind. Не lasted nine days before deciding he liked food better than video games, and gave up.

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Billy Idol

BILLY IDOL OCTOBER 1989 CRACKED.COM A drunk Billy Idol had to pay $11,200 after smashing the TV in a Bangkok hotel. Не eventually had to be escorted out of the country on a stretcher by Thai military. — Source

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Robert Pattinson

ROBERT PATTINSON TOOK AN OBSESSED STALKER OUT TO DINNER AND BORED HER. Не complained about his life the whole time, and he never saw her again. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Paris and Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise can never become an honorary citizen of Paris. CRACKED.COM In 2005, the municipal gov- ernment of Paris passed an official resolution so that unlike in Marseille, Cruise would never be made an honorary citizen, specifically because of his affiliation with Scientology. — Expatica

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Ben Affleck

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES BEN AFFLECK in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Nope, not the show - he appeared in 1991's original Buffy movie, as Basketball Player #10. We would make fun of it, but actually the movie had a pretty solid cast, with Rutger Hauer, Donald Sutherland, and Hilary Swank. The reviews were not so good, though. CRACKED.COM — Source: Cinemablend

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2 Chainz

2 CHAINZ ALABAMA STATE ALABAMI STATE 2 Chainz was sixth man on a high school state champion and got interest from D1 schools like Memphis. Known for his lanky frame, silky handle, and multisyllabic rhymes, he played for Alabama State from 1995-97. He's a staple at hip-hop celebrity games. — The Undefeated

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The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Scary Movies Based on Texarkana Moonlight Murders The Town That Dreaded Sundown The film ends with the killer attending a showing of the film you're watching. Because they seemingly want to tempt fate, the real Texarkana shows the movie every year as part of a Halloween festival. CRACKED.COM

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Kids

INDIE MOVIES OF THE '90s KIDS THE CREW RANDOMLY DISCOVERED ROSARIO DAWSON SITTING ON A STOOP. While scouting for locations, the director and the writer noticed 15-year-old Dawson and thought she'd be perfect for a role. She was kinda freaked out, but got over it and started a successful career. CRACKED.COM

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Barack Obama

CRACKED.COM KEY & PEELE THEY CREDIT PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR THE SHOW'S SUCCESS. We actually felt like Obama was kind of responsible for us even getting a show in the first place, Keegan-Michael Key has said, because there's this biracial person who might have to ride the divide between two different races.

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Jon Favreau

One of Jon Favreau's early roles was as a birthday party clown in Seinfeld. Не was Eric the Clown, hired for George's girlfriend's son's birthday. At the party, George is pretty hard on him because he's not too familiar with Bozo the Clown. CRACKED.COM

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Silent Night

THERE ARE 26,000 RECORDED COVERS OF SILENT NIGHT. CRACKED.COM Making it the most recorded holiday song in history- White Christmas is a distant second at 20,000. — Source

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Cream

Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker of Cream. Bruce once played bass during Baker's drum solo, and Baker attacked him, claiming he had a knife and would kill him. Eric Clapton said they each played so loudly (in order to drown the other out), that Clapton would stop playing and they wouldn't even notice. Their 1969 album Goodbye was indeed their goodbye. CRACKED — Source

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Matthew McConaughey

Punchline to Appreciated Then vs. Now Matthew McConaughey McConaughey's name used to mean two things: shirtless abs and bland romcoms. Then a string of amazing performances arrived, including True Detective and Dallas Buyers Club, and suddenl he become an insanely talented Character Actor.™ CRACKED.COM — Source

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NBA Jam

The NBA Jam arcade game outgrossed 'Jurassic Park' in 1993. CRACKED COM SHOT NBA Jam was America's highest-grossing arcade game of 1993. Individual ma- chines at the time were earn- ing up to $2400 per week, and the game grossed over $1 billion the first year. — Source

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The Exorcist

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 1973 THE EXORCIST The home where the movie would be filmed caught on fire, so filming was delayed. During the shoot, actress Ellen Burstyn was injured, and her scream of agony can be heard in the film. Relatives of Linda Blair and Max Von Sydow died during production, and two actors died shortly after production wrapped. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cards

Normal playing cards are older than tarot cards. A A Tarot cards were originally designed for a card game similar to modern-day bridge. People only started using them for fortune-telling about 250 years ago, a good 400 years after they were imported from the Middle East. In fact, normal playing cards have a longer history in Europe than tarot cards, preceding them by about 50 years. Photo Getty Creative CRACKED.COM hittp://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/extrasensory-perceptions/tarot-card6.htm — Source

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As Good As It Gets

CRACKED YOU CAN'T MAKE $100 MILLION ROM-COMS ANYMORE. In the 2000s, movies like As Good as It Gets and Spanglish were made for over $80 million. 2010's How Do You Know cost $120 million, but studios today are much more risk-averse, with recent rom-coms costing between $10 - $30 million. — Watch Mojo / Supertran

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Andy Hallett

Childhood icons who had a rough time Lorne Andy Hallett, who played Lorne in the show Angel for 76 episodes and sang in six of them, sadly passed away at 33 after calling 911 due to difficulty breathing. CRACKED — 20th Television,
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Electro

Spider-Man Movie Villains The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Electro's design was based on the one in Ultimate Spider-Man. The electric blue meanie swapped the traditional green and yellow tights for a more Dr. Manhattan- adjacent design inspired by the character's appearance in the Ultimate Spider-Man comics. CRACKED.COM — Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment
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Marvel Database

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The Muppets Take Manhattan

August on hulu August 1 The Muppets Take Manhattan Joan Rivers and Miss Piggy were drunk. The scene wasn't clicking, so Frank Oz ordered Bloody Marys for him and Rivers. It loosened them up to get the performance they wanted. CRACKED.COM — Source: NPR

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Spock

Movie and TV Aliens Star Trek Spock was almost cut from the pilot. Executives almost axed Spock because they thought that the pointy ears and eyebrows made him look Satanic. Producer Oscar Katz stood his ground and kept him in. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Get on the Bus

Forgotten Indie Movies From the '90s VCI 1996 Get on the Bus This little-discussed Spike Lee film about a group of black men taking a cross-country bus trip to the 1995 Million Man March. It's a smart, challenging, dialogue-driven movie, with a great cast and an awesome soundtrack. CRACKED.COM — Watch the Trailer

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Office Space

Milton and Lumbergh were on MTV in the early 90's. CRACKED.COM Office Space is based on a series of animated shorts Mike Judge made for MTV's Liquid Television, and later SNL. After There's Something About Mary was a hit, Fox looked at these crude animations and thought they could be the basis for their next big, broad comedy hit. — SNL Transcripts

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Heathers

Heathers Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast? Heather Chandler sasses at Heather Duke. Chandler's actress Kim Walker eventually died of a brain tumor. She was 32 years old. — Sources: Movie scene on Youtube, Entertainment Weekly

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The Comedian

The second time wasn't the charm for BOB DE NIRO THE COMEDIAN CRACKED.COM Unlike Rupert Pupkin in King of Comedy, De Niro's Jackie is supposed to be an awesome comedian. But he's just not that convincing. You sense that he's trying too hard, when the secret to great stand-up is its effortlessness. — Vulture

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Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson is a massive fan of the TV show Eastbound and Down. The director, David Gordon Green said, Yeah, Marilyn Manson, he's f---ing obsessed with the show. And Adam Bhala Lough, who worked with Manson on Splatter Sisters, said Manson just rattled off whole chunks of dialogue from the — Source: MTV

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The Hulk

Jack Kirby came up with The Hulk after seeing a woman lift a car. Her baby got caught underneath it, and in her desperation, Kirby says she lifted the rear of the car to save her baby. He realized that we can all do something like that in desperation or — Source: TCJ

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Insured Fingers

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Travis Barker

Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker barely escaped a burning plane. LOS TIIS NOT In 2008, his flight crashed on takeoff, killing four people but sparing B

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A Horse in ‘The Last Samurai’

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Lord of the Rings

In Lord of the Rings, Boromir tries to take the One Ring. But his father specifically sent him to do just that. Because of that action, Boromir comes

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