12 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Scream Into the Mouth of the Next Person You Perform Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation On

A few weeks before John Lennon was assassinated, Yoko Ono gifted him an expensive engraved watch. It was lost for decades, thought to have been stolen by Lennon’s chauffeur, and recently emerged in the hands of a renowned watch collector. A Swiss court just ruled that it legally belongs to Ono.

Founding Bee Gees drummer Colin Petersen died at age 78, just four days after a later drummer, Dennis Bryon, had passed away.

Brando was contractually obligated to act in The Egyptian, but decided he was sick of the grind and disappeared, staying in hotels and crashing with friends so the producer couldn’t find him. He was caught by U.S. Marshals when he tried to enter his own home, and was legally required to make the 1954 film Désirée instead.

It’s not as right-leaning as you might expect, but it’s far more right-leaning than anyone should be comfortable with. The top five were SmartLess, Dateline NBC, The Joe Rogan Experience, Crime Junkie and The Daily at number one.

After a Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest went viral in New York City, similar contests have sprouted up across the country, with dweebs scrambling to pay homage to the wealthy elites they see on their phone sometimes. Harry Styles, Dev Patel and Paul Mescal have all had their own fawning masses dress like them and do half-assed impressions. The winner of a Jeremy Allen White contest won $50 and a pack of cigarettes.

Walton Goggins has reinvented the huge ugly shades they make you wear after getting your pupils dilated. “I think that eyewear is the greatest opportunity for fashion accessories on the body,” said Goggins, before unleashing sunglasses so ugly they make Snapchat Spectacles look like aviators.

The USPS is honoring Betty White, an “icon of American television,” with her own forever stamp in 2025.

Niantic announced that it’s using its ocean of data from Pokemon Go players to build a “Large Geospatial Model” to train A.I. for nebulous “augmented reality and robotics” purposes. People have pointed out that a model like that could be useful to, say, a corrupt government that wants to use weaponized robots as a means of punishing citizens of blue cities.

Chaplin owned a gorgeous little cabin in Paradise Springs, California, that was described as “a hedonistic wonderland for stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age.” You can rent it out for $650 per night.

Smollett was accused of staging a hate crime against himself in 2019, but the charges were initially dropped. He was retried and convicted in 2021, but the Illinois Supreme Court just found that his retrial was a violation of his rights.

The Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight was an embarrassment on a cultural scale, but it did set one interesting record. The fight between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano was technically the co-main event, and 74 million people watched it live.

Forbes reported in 2010 that Seagal was either on a ride-along, or actually drove a tank alongside police on a huge animal cruelty raid. The tank rumbled over hundreds of chickens and a puppy, and the owner sued Seagal for $100,000 and demanded a written apology to his children for killing their dog.