I'd have to give Cracked a 2/5 on this one, their facts are awfully lacking in facts:

#1. WRONG: People listening to music on headphones are often (but not always) massively oblivious to what's going on around them. It's got more to do with the focus/distraction than sound-proof headphones.
#2. MOSTLY TRUE: Most modern fire sprinklers are individually activated, but deluge systems were previously more common, and still used for critical locations (eg. pathways).
#3. MOSTLY WRONG: The video actually disproves the claim and shows a nail gun as a passable weapon from a few feet away. Just need to choose just the right type of gun and nail.
#4. MOSTLY WRONG: The test video was BS. OF COURSE a pillow AN INCH away from a gun isn't going to silence anything! That's never been how it was meant to work. This guy tries it without the idiocy, and instead finds a pillow to be pretty effective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnMeTlXsXC8
And of course you CAN suffocate someone with a pillow... That Hollywood doesn't show the whole process in absolutely agonizing real-time and detail, is hardly a sane criticism, as NOTHING in the movies is real-time, and both ratings and good taste prevent realistic portrayals of violent, murderous deaths.
#5. HALF TRUE: Cheaper annealed glass is dangerous and will slice and probably kill you, but tempered glass is required in large commercial-building windows precisely because it shatters into tiny, non-jagged, and not very dangerous pieces. OTOH, tempered glass is a lot stronger, so expect bruises and concussion braking through it.

Hollywood massively exaggerates all of these, certainly, but Cracked is just as bad, or worse, and they're the ones pretending they're not spouting pure fiction.

Not too fond of their list, but I'm not even sure where the genre starts and ends. How much of the movie must the disaster take-up? What kind of disasters count? How many people have to be involved? With both Titanic and Airplane in there, the definition must be pretty wide-open. I'd say most popular movies probably include something crashing and/or several people dying for some reason, at some point, but are they all disaster movies?

If any of these count, I'd vote for:

Abyss (1989)
Pitch Black (2000)
Sum of all Fears (2002)
Fortress 2 (1999)
Resident Evil (2002)
Prometheus (2012)
Alien (1979)
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Poltergeist (1982)
Hero (1992)
Soldier (1998)
2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
Gremlins (1984)

Absolutely insane. One little spot of dust, moisture, or flake of paint anywhere, and he's gone. Some people just can't conceive of how easily they could be killed by mundane trivialities, but the base jumper casualty stats say otherwise.

Stewart only meant 2013 was the first time he *bought pizza by the slice*, as opposed to a whole pie. NOT the first time he'd ever eaten a slice pizza.

http://teamcoco.com/video/patrick-stewart-pizza-rumor

Soldier #1: Where'd you get the coconuts?
Arthur: We found them.
Soldier #1: Found them? In Mercia? The coconut's tropical!
Arthur: What do you mean?
Soldier #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.
Arthur: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
Soldier #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Arthur: Not at all. They could be carried.
Soldier #1: A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.
Arthur: I'm not interested!

Independence Day is where I recall the industry first eating it's tail... Before then, the advertising matched the quality of the movie. Here, they first got the idea that they could churn out a complete piece of junk, but make awesome-looking trailers, and advertise the hell out of it, and people would still buy tickets, no matter how horrible it was... Since then, it's been a long slide into mindless, formulaic crud, with the industry profits shrinking, and consumers assuming the worst and foregoing trips to the theatre.

And in the current climate of wringing every bit of money out of a franchise, and especially making horrendous sequels, I can't imagine this one would be worth picking up when it is eventually released inside boxes of breakfast cereal... But hey, at least it's not a remake, or prequal, or "reboot", or "re-imagining", or similar.

"You've done a wonderful thing. You've shortened your life significantly so someone else can have a slight extension of his." -The Simpsons Ep211 'Kidney Trouble' Dec 1998

The sharks is Palau sure are lazy...

I could understand fakes of expensive foods (walnuts, almonds, avocados, etc), but RICE? Seriously? When rice is significantly more expensive than plastic, there's something horribly wrong with your economy.

And while China deserves its bad rap, let's not forget that reliable old Nestle is killing close to a million babies in poor countries every year, with it's falsely advertised and unsterile baby formula. They get condemned by the UN and NGOs, then get convicted of wrongdoing by various international courts about every 10 years. Immediately afterwards, they claim the behavior was just a sad mistake from the distant past, then continue doing what they've always been doing, killing babies for more profit, until they get sued (and convicted) once again... This cycle has been going on since the 1970s. If you're buying any Nestle products, you're supporting their baby-murder-for-profit money-making scheme.

http://www.natural-motherhood.com/nestle-boycott.html

There are always rumors that some actress was hired because the director/producer/star wanted to sleep with them, but here we've got a confirmed case with the sexism reversed (Davis wanted to, and did, date Pitt), and everyone is okay with it? Clooney could have a good lawsuit here.

Until Korea, "The Forgotten War" referred to the war of 1812, which resulted in the US National Anthem, the 1812 Overture, The White House being burnt to the ground by British Soldiers, Andrew Jackson's future presidency, and more. It has been so completely forgotten that a less-forgotten war has taken the title of "The Forgotten War" away from it...

Sounds quite appropriate for a carousel.

It just makes good sense to buy furniture that matches the color of your cats. There will be hair all-over, no matter what you do... but if that hair is the same color, nobody will know.