Celebrities are everywhere, from magazines to commercials to the inside of your eyelids because they've been seared in by all the goddamned magazines and commercials. They're so omnipresent, you'd think their likenesses belong in the public domain. They don't, but that doesn't stop their pictures from showing up on a bunch of products no sane publicist would ever give permission to. Such as ...

6 Nicolas Cage Was On A Serbian Biology Textbook

Nicolas Cage has done a lot of crazy shit over the years, like taking magic mushrooms with his cat, buying a serial killer's house, and method-acting as an amulet-clad voodoo god for the sake of a movie nobody liked. So when a story came out that Cage's face graced the cover of a Serbian biology textbook, you have to figure a lot of people assumed that this was another one of his nutty escapades.

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The baby is the only one who seems to realize there is something seriously wrong here.

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While the textbook itself is genuine, it turns that no, Cage didn't kick off a stock photo modeling career in Serbia to pay for more dinosaur skulls. Movie fans will recognize the poorly Photoshopped image as a scene from the Coen Brothers movie Raising Arizona. See, that's Holly Hunter standing next to them, awkwardly cut out and pasted on top of a picture of a flower bed, itself awkwardly cut out and pasted on a white void of nothingness, because every piece of Eastern European literature doubles as a text on existentialism.

So how in the hell did this happen? Not surprisingly, Cage didn't know a damn thing about it, but reportedly thought the picture looked "cute" -- referring to the baby and not his distinctly un-adorable mustache. Well, it seems that the book's designer didn't recognize Cage or Hunter and thought it was "a generic happy family shot" (if kidnapping a rich man's child and going on the lam can be called "generic happy"), and once the mistake was recognized, the book was pulled from circulation and replaced with a cover that hopefully didn't feature a collage of screenshots from The Wicker Man.