If You Can't Win, Just Change the Law

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On September 24th, 2012, the underdog Seattle Seahawks faced the powerful Green Bay Packers. Down 12-7 in the game's final seconds, Seahawks quarterback Russel Wilson lobbed the ball blindly into the endzone praying for a touchdown. It was ruled one, but the call proved highly controversial, with many Packers fans feeling cheated.

So cheated that one sore fan tried to change the law to prevent it from ever happening again.

Michael Bay's Reused Shots

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Film-making is tough. It takes months of work and millions of dollars for big budget studios to release a complete film to the public. Fortunately, one film-maker has managed to figure out a way to cut a corner.

Michael Bay, known for slowly making all millennials deaf via movie explosions, has gotten into the habit of simply reusing footage from his previous films. Because if you've seen one explosion you've seen them all, right?

The Young Guns of Barbershop

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Barbershop is a style of music that society as a whole has reserved exclusively for old people it seems. That's a problem, because some people believe that the art form is dying out. These days, the average age of a barbershop singer is a whopping forty-nine. 

But that's where one new Californian barbershop chorus is changing everything.

Air Force One's Last Minute Soundtrack

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Air Force One was a blockbuster hit from 1997 that featured President Harrison Ford single-handedly fighting off terrorists who have taken over the president's personal aircraft. From beating the sinister evil Russian, to the night-time special operations raid, all capped off with an enormous plane crash, the film is so full of "America, fuck yeah!" motifs you'd think George Washington himself had directed it.

Capping off the massive patriotic tone of the film is the score by Jerry Goldsmith. The music for the film is enough to make anyone within a fifty foot radius pop a freedom boner, which is surprising since Goldsmith haphazardly threw the entire thing together at the last minute as a favor to director Wolfgang Peterson.

The Science Behind Avatar

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The 2009 film Avatar by certified film-god James Cameron was released to fantastic reviews and went on to become the highest grossing film of all time. In it, a paralyzed marine is assigned to deal with diplomatic efforts via an alien body to move the native Na'avi from their home tree so that RDA, the mining company, can mine out unobtanium from underneath it because . . . you know what, whatever. Most people didn't pay attention to the plot because they were so stunned by the beautiful visuals and realistic portrayal of the future.

And that's probably because more thought went into the science behind the film than you think.

The Simpsons Mystery Room

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The Simpsons have been an American icon since it began airing in 1989. The family of five has been happily living at 742 Evergreen Terrace for over twenty-five years. The house itself has almost become as iconic as the show, with Bart's treehouse, the tv room, and their living room all becoming common settings for the family's antics.

The house is so famous that they even built a real version of it in Nevada. Yet despite its familiarity with most people, one thing nobody seems aware of is the secret room in the house: their rec room. 

The World's Most Spoiled High School Football Team

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Allen High School is like many in the United States. Students go there to learn, grow, and realize whether or not they're going to be shitheads for the rest of their lives. One thing that sets Allen High School apart from the rest of the US's educational system is its football stadium. Whereas most high schools might have a small scale field with some bleachers for parents to come watch their kids, Allen High School chose to spend a little more with their venue. How much is a little?

Try $60 million. But hey, it's not like the US is lagging behind the rest of the world in education.

Ruptured Space Suit? No Problem.

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If there has been anything that Hollywood has taught us, it's that a ruptured space suit is very bad news for anyone inside of it. The unfortunate person usually spends their last few seconds frantically waving in desperation before dying, except in the 2015 film The Martian.

Matt Damon survives being impaled in a space suit, and the explanation is a cheesy "my blood clogged the hole and I survived" throwaway line. Utterly ridiculous, until you realize its totally happened in real life. Well, except for the whole "while on Mars" thing.

US Government: X-Men Aren't Human

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The X-Men series of films and comics is set around the central theme that the X-Men are striving for humanity to accept them as human. The first film struggles with X-Men registration whilst the most recent film portrays them fighting against extinction. Fortunately it's not a question that needs answering in today's world.

But of course, it already has. And incredibly according to the US Government, X-Men are "inhuman creatures", lacking "human qualities".

The Town that Was Destroyed by a Movie

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In the 1996 film Twister, Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt star as storm chasers whose ultimate goal is to study a tornado via a device named "Dorothy". Throughout the film, they have several close calls with tornadoes, including one which rips through the town of Wakita, Oklahoma.

The scenes of them driving through the rubble and remains is one of the most iconic moments of the film . . .

The Missing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Children

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In 1964, Roald Dahl released his third children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The plot essentially consists of a gleefully deranged candy maker methodically picking five children to slowly kill off one by one in his candy factory, turning them into the very delicious treats his factory produces.

But what if I told you there originally wasn't just five children Wonka was leading to their deaths?Because in Dahl's original draft, there were fifteen children.

The Real Life Top Gun

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Dale Snodgrass was a United States Navy pilot from 1974 until 1997, flying the F-14 “Tomcat” made famous by the film Top Gun. In the film, Maverick uses his jet in ridiculous antics such as low flybys of towers to buzz the controllers. Nobody in real life would do something so stupid less they wanted to end up in the brig.

Unless you're the previously mentioned Dale Snodgrass.

The Heartfelt Pixar Movie (That Nearly Killed a Baby)

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Toy Story 2 is considered one of the greatest children's films of all time. Holding a mind-blowing 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the end product is obviously the result of a huge amount of hard work and heart poured into the film by Pixar employees.

That, and a baby's near death.

The French Warship that Fooled Pirates

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In the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Captain Maximus Aurelius of the British Royal Navy is assigned to hunt down a French privateer that is threatening commercial ships in the area. In order to accomplish this, he tricks the French pirates into approaching his ship, the HMS Surprise, to almost point blank range before firing by disguising the Surprise as a vulnerable commercial ship.

Captain Jor-El wins the day in the end, easily defeating the very surprised pirates. But that movie took place in like the 1850's or something. In an age of technology that allows ridiculous things like finding a high school shaped like the Millennium Falcon, it would be tough to pull off a strategy like this.

Unless it's 2009. And you're on Nivôse of the French Navy. Who in an odd twist actually wound up winning . . .

The Most Unwatchable Film of All Time

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Andy Warhol was a man known for being visionary in a way very few people could even pretend to understand. His film-making endeavors are as equally baffling, whether he was filming a man receiving a blow-job for thirty-five minutes, or someone sleeping for six hours. But if there is one film that takes the cake for strangeness, it would be his 1964 “masterpiece” Empire, which has been called the most unwatchable film of all time.

The US Army Star Trek Office

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The US Army, aside from being one of the largest armies in the world, may also be home to one of the world's strangest offices. All one has to do is go to Fort Belvoir, Virginia where you will find that the headquarters of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command looks oddly like the starship Enterprise.

The Transformers Scene that Actually Happened

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It's hard to imagine a scene from a Michael Bay movie even coming close to reality. Especially when the scene is from a film series whose plot is devoted to the adventures of strangely explosion-prone talking vehicles. But reality likes to be funny like that sometimes.

The US Air Force Once Had the Security of Spaceballs

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For decades, the Soviet Union and United States engaged in a stare down, waiting for the other to make a move. One suspicious event, and a hailstorm of nuclear missiles weren't far away. We came close to nuclear warfare more times than most would like to admit. And with the security systems we had in place, boy are we lucky the missiles weren't ever launched.

Wait, what?

Yamamoto's Line That Wasn't

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We've all heard the line before. Whether we saw it on film, read about it in a book, or were taught it in history class. After the devastating attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto delivered one of the most famous quotes of all time:

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

With that one line, Admiral Yamamoto summed up the direction of the entire war for the Japanese.