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June 28, 2025

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Dr. Slump

The poop emoji comes from comics. Everyone's favorite emoji was already big in Japan before emoji were even a thing. A popular 1980s manga called Dr. Slump (later adapted to anime) regularly featured sentient piles of poo. Its author eventually left friendly feces behind and went on to create Dragon Ball. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bart Simpson

CRACKED BART SIMPSON Jingle Bells/Batman smells/Robin laid an egg/The Batmobile broke its wheel/The Joker got away. THE SIMPSONS If you were a kid in the late '80s and early '90s, you were 100% singing this song. — Mental Floss / IMDB

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Robotech

... TELL US NOW. Robotech CRACKED lan О. appreciates a show with some real stakes: I was into Transformers and GI Joe cartoons when I was a kid, until I saw Robotech where people actually died = ... At the time people dying in cartoons kind of blew my mind. — Source: Tell Us Now: 20 Absolutely Bonkers Kids' Cartoons That Would Never Fly Today

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Fatal Attraction

FATAL ATTRACTION CRACKED.COM In the late '80s and early '90s, erotic thrillers like Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct turned the genre into a money-making machine. The rise of the internet and HBO really hurt the genre, and box office bombs like Showgirls and Striptease were the nails in the coffin. — Source: looper

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A Perfect Circle

A PERFECT CIRCLE CRACKED.COM While working as a guitar tech for Tool in 1999, Billy Howerdel convinced Maynard James Keenan to front his new band. While definitely the main gig for Howerdel, A Perfect Circle became a very successful side project for Keenan, selling 4 million albums from 2000-2004 in and around Tool projects. — Source: Whatculture

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Tigger

Tigger used to have a club-shaped face. OWL TIGGER PIGLET Walt Disney oThen Now 1965 Production That's how he looked in the first Winnie the Pooh shor

32

Arm-Fall-Off Boy

ARM-FALL-OFF BOY --AND TRANSFORM IT MY POWER WILL ASTOUND YOU! OBSERVE INTO A DEADLY WEAPON! AS I DETACH MY LIMB-- DIE, VILLIAN! HA-YAAAA! PLORP KRAK GRACKED.COM I will rip my arm off and beat you with it! In DC's Pre-Zero Hour Universe, Arm-Fall-Off Boy got rejected from The Legion of Superheroes, cus yeah, his only ability is using his own arms as weapons. Suicide Squad's The Detachable Kid is a hilarious riff on it.

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Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Fallon THE TONIGHT SHOW CRACKED.COM PER YEAR OF SHOW $16 million Jay Leno reportedly made $30 million a year for hosting The Tonight Show.

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Alexa

CRACKED ALEXA IS DANGEROUS FOR KIDS In 2017, the FBI had to warn people about the dangers of internet-connected devices after Amazon Alexa told a child to stick a penny into an electrical socket. — Source

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Anthony Michael Hall

ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL GRACKED.COM Film producer Bruce Edwin: He's got a certain magic and power about him with women that is just unbelievable. I mean he's just on fire! — Source

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Jonah Hill

Jonah Hill only got paid $60,000 to star in The Wolf of Wall Street. He'd really wanted to work with Martin Scorsese, so he accepted the ridiculously low pay. On the other hand, Leonardo DiCaprio, who was also a producer, was paid about $10 million. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Courtney Love

CRACKED COURTNEY LOVE SAVED THE LIFE OF ONE OF KURT'S FRIENDS. Mark Lanegan and Kurt Cobain were really close friends before Kurt became famous. After Kurt passed away, Courtney Love helped Mark out by paying for his rent and getting him into rehab - she literally saved his life. — Ultimate Guitar / NY Times

26

Jaws

CRACKED A SHOOTING STAR IN JAWS. During the night scene, while Brody grabs his gun, a shooting star soars behind his head. Spielberg thought it was good luck, and has since digitally added shooting stars into movies like Close Encounters, and Temple of Doom. — Screenrant

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Yeardley Smith

Celebrity Side Hustles Yeardley Smith Podcaster Famous for voicing Lisa Simpson, Smith and her husband Detective Dan host the popular true crime podcast Small Town Dicks. It's had 11 series, including trips to Australia and the UK to look into small-town crimes, with Smith adding humor. CRACKED — s_bukley/Shutterstock,
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Whoopi Goldberg

Comedy performers in cringeworthy ads WHOOPI GOLDBERG Poise bladder leakage pads Goldberg starred as various historical figures in an ad for Poise bladder leakage pads. Her accents were way off, and it's just one big I pee my pants confession. CRACKED — Kimberly-Clark
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23

Godzilla

Kyle Chandler binge-watched 30 movies for Godzilla: King of the Monsters. To prepare for his role, he performed the near-superhuman feat of watching every single Godzilla movie ever made (covering a span of 65 years), over just two days. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Facts To Look Clever And Knowledgeable

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Michael Keaton

Michael Keaton 'couldn't really hear' in the suit BATMAN (1989) Keaton describes his time in the batsuit as 'ridiculous' and 'kind of cool.' It made him feel isolated inside it, which helped him to develop the character. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Batman Behind-The-Scenes Facts (From The Movies and Shows)

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Big Bird

Big Bird's species was revealed in an episode of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. During an episode in the 11th season of Mr. Rogers, Big Bird was asked if he was related to a cassowary, and Big Bird noted to Mr. Rogers that he was a Gold- en Condor. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Pechakucha

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King Shark

Sharks Movies & TV Harley Quinn King Shark was originallya Superboy villain. Nanaue was first seen in 1994's Superboy #0, as Connor Kent rescues some beach goers from him. A long way from being a happy-go-bloody IT specialist voiced by Ron Funches, but we all start somewhere. CRACKED.COM — Source: Cinemablend

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Super Soaker

A NASA ENGINEER INVENTED THE SUPER SOAKER IN HIS BATHROOM. Super Soaker Lonnie Johnson was testing an idea for a water-based refrigeration system. Не hooked his invention to his bathroom sink and got a very marketable high-pressure stream. CRACKED.COM — Source: 26 Wild Facts About Common Products

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Shang-Chi

Easter eggs in Marvel deleted scenes shang-chi Deadpool Concept art for the movie shows the Merc fighting one of Thanos' minions. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Easter Eggs in Marvel Deleted Scenes

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Alfred Hitchcock

CRACKED.COM Alfred Hitchcock Не drew his own caricature for his TV show. Hitchcock himself drew the iconic doodle from the intro of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. His interest and training as a title-card designer and graphic artist would be a constant during his entire life. Also, the drawing is cool. — Source: Wikipedia

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New Found Glory

celebrities who Are Into Magic: The Gathering DIAGOITE HORNETS Vanilla Britanly ABY, ONE MORE MEI TOMMY HII FIGER New Found Glory ПИИМ New Found Glory and Yellowcard both play Magic, with founding members of Plaim NFG rumored to be huge fans. forest Idant Card that rocks: Mountain Swamp RedrE Mana Bab العيا es BAR Land I CRACKED.COM — Sources: Reddit, Magic: The Gathering/Twitter

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Batman: Arkham Asylum

BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM 241 PERFECT CRACKED GOM Batman: Arkham Asylum was going to turn into a colorful, 2D rhythm game whenever a fight would start. Developers said they wanted the fights to feel choreographed but with the player in complete control, which isn't SO different from how the final game turned out, minus the colorful notes flying up the screen. — Source: 16 Early Wack Versions Of Popular Video Games

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Liv Tyler and Joaquin Phoenix

Surprising Celebrity Couples Liv Tyler and Joaquin Phoenix The two met on the set of Inventing the Abbotts, and bonded over their weird family lives - before making a family of their own. CRACKED.COM — Source: TheThings

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Battlestar Galactica

... TELL US NOW. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2004) Heather P. says, The original Battlestar Galactica was a cheaply made Star Wars rip-off. The reboot was cleverly written with real ethical dilemmas and accomplished actors. CRACKED.COM

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Top Gear

GRACKED.COM So, you like the original version of Top Gear the best? The one with Clarkson, Hammond, and May? You might be shocked to know that the TRUE original episode aired in 1977 with a completely different cast. — Source: Pop Culture That's Older Than It Seems

11

Seth Rogen

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SETH ROGEN WAS SUPPOSED TO STAR IN THE ROM-COM THE LONG D IN THE 2000S. It was about a high-school couple starting a long-distance relationship while in different colleges, and Rogen, Apatow, and Seth Goldberg wrote it for Rogen to star in-but then they made Pineapple Express, and this got shelved. — Source

10

The Death Star

CRACKED.COM The Death Star is the size of a small moon, but its habitable space isn't limited to its surface. You'd have to cover THE ENTIRE EARTH (oceans and all) with a building 14 feet tall to get as much living room. — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Netflix

Oddballs & Outcasts Fight-the-System TV Shows A NETFLIX TAGGER gets paid to watch Netflix all day. They're the ones who make sure every movie and TV show We-is tagged accurately. They're also responsible for giving names to the category titles NETFL in the recommendation section. Dead THE OA Me FRO CRACKED.COM — Source: 29 Weirdo Jobs Nobody Thought Existed

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Tom Hanks

CRACKED.COM 1956 The last Tom Hanks surviving was born person to witness Abraham Lincoln's assasination dies — Source: 13 Historical Comparisons That Have Us Convinced Time Is An Illusion

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Charlie has a tattoo for continuity of a one-off joke. In Season 2, Charlie writes Bad New on his forearm, and it has remained on there in every episode since then. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM — 14 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia'

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

SEVERAL STAR TREK EPISODES WERE WRITTEN BY FANS (WHO THEN BECAME PROS). Star Trek: The Next Generation began an open submission policy, allowing anyone to send in scripts. Several TV writers had their start that way, including Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller. — Sources: Daily Star Trek News, Den of Geek

5

The Departed

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS A SEQUEL WAS IN DEVELOPMENT. DEPARTED THE In 2016, producer Roy Lee revealed that a sequel was in development at one point and that the idea was to bring back characters that died in the original. The project fell through because it was too expensive and Scorsese wasn't — Collider

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Lionel Richie

LIONEL RICHIE HELLO CRACKED.COM Just your average twice-her-age college professor stalking his unwitting student story. (No, she can't see him creeping around the corner because, hello, she's blind.) — YouTube

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Robert Pattinson

ROBERT PATTINSON KEEPS LYING ABOUT BEING A HAND MODEL. KOUSEVELT HOTEL B LASTE THE OCKETM As recently as 2019, Pattinson told the same story he's been telling in interviews for over a decade - that he used to do women's hand modeling as a child. However, the story is a complete — Wyoming Public Media & Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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Black Panther

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Star Trek

You can now spend eternity Spock-style with this new Star Trek coffin. CRACKED.COM

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