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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia They Won’t Teach You on ‘Sesame Street’

December 15, 2024

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Kevin O’Leary

Kevin O'Leary has a great nose for business. Luckily for him, general knowledge isn't a category for investments. $12,800 -$2,800 KEVIN AARON Celebrity ty Mr.Wonserfull In 2015, he was a contestant on Celebrity Jeopardy! and bombed, correctly answering only a few (music) questions. CRACKED.CON — Source: 17 Geniuses Who Are Surprisingly Stupid (In One, Glaring Way)

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The Smashing Pumpkins

ICONIC '90s FRONTMEN Billy THE Согдая SMASHING PUMPKINS The band broke up in 2000 due to Corgan getting the lion's share of earnings and credit. 18 years later, they reunited for a new album and a tour. Bassist D'arcy Wretzky did not join after learning Corgan would make twice as much as every other member. CRACKED — Tinseltown/Shutterstock
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Mia Sara

CRACKED.COM HARLEY QUINN HARLEY WAS PLAYED BY MIA SARA IN THE EARLY 2000s. Do you remember the Birds of Prey TV show? Then you also won't remember that Dr. Harleen Quinzel was the main villain, played by Ferris Bueller's girlfriend. — More: 6 Superhero Films (That Made Your Favorite Heroes Idiots)

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Thanksgiving

The first National Thanksgiving was mainly to celebrate the Constitution Thanksgiving was celebrated in previous years, but George Washington made the Thanksgiving Proclamation, telling Americans to be grateful for their blessings especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government. CRACKED.COM — Source: National Archive

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Facebook

In 2011, Facebook was mentioned in one third of all divorce filings. DIVORCE And in 2012, over four fifths of divorce lawyers in the U.S. said social networks' role in divorce proceedings was growing. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: ABC

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Ben Affleck

CRACKED CASINOS IN LAS VEGAS LOVE TO HAVE CELEBRITIES PLAY AT THEIR TABLE BECAUSE THEY ARE BIG SPENDERS. However, if those famous patrons start winning too much money, the casino will stop them from playing. This is what happened to Ben Affleck when he was caught counting cards while playing blackjack at the Hard Rock Casino. — Casino

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Earth-616

Earth-616 wasn't supposed to be Marvel's A main continuity. Marvel writer Dave Thorpe came up with Earth- 616 to designate the absolute worst of all parallel Earths, for a comic that was never published. Alan Moore was the first to use it for Marvel's main universe - but for years, higher- ups hated it and never used it themselves. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Schitt’s Creek

The Roses are based on the Kardashians. CRACKED.COM Dan Levy had co-hosted an aftershow for The Hills, SO he spent a lot of time thinking about reality stars. When he was coming up with Schitt's Creek, he asked himself would the Kardashians still be the Kardashians without their money? — Source: 14 ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Behind-The-Scenes Facts That Are A Little Bit Cray-Cray

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Big Trouble in Little China

Big Trouble In Little China was heavily inspired by the 1980s movie Zu. Its full name is Zu: Warriors From The Magic Mountain, and it's a Hong Kong action movie that made John Carpenter get started on Big Trouble In Little China. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fingerprint Science

CRACKED.COM MYTH: Found fingerprints at the crime scene? Bingo! REALITY: There are no true consensus as to how and if fingerprint forensics really work. The precision and methodologies of fingerprint forensics have been questioned and opposed by a lot of experts (even entire countries). The claim that no two fingerprints are identical has still not been proven, but the error rate has. Point is that it's not an exact science, and shouldn't be believed to be. — Source

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John Lennon

GRACKED HOLDEN CAULFIELD INSPIRED MARK DAVID CHAPMAN TO KILL JOHN LENNON. Chapman claimed that he believed the Catcher in the Rye character would have killed John Lennon because he was a phony. Не cited the novel as his motive, and before his sentencing, he read a passage from the novel in the courtroom. — Medium

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Flash Gordon

A deleted scene features Flash Gordon. More scenes from Ralphie's imagination were shot than actually used including one where he uses his BB gun to r — Source: CBR

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The Facehugger

The Facehugger was originally going to be painted green. When Dan O'Bannon saw the natural-colored tone of the thing on set, he insisted they leave it unpainted. CRACKED.COM — Film School Rejects

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Tarzan

The titular character in Tarzzan (19990 learns to speak English from Jane, an English woman with a posh accent. So how does he end up with an American

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Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin lost his mind when airline staff asked him to quit playing Words With Friends on his phone. TL DL TL UeBnu After the surliest and puffies

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Hardee’s

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Pokemon

THE PSYCHIC TYPE WAS CODED WRONG. ALAKAZAM :43 HP: TAUROS :L40 TYPE 2: NORMAL 126/126 20/20 GRACKED.COM Due to an oversight in Red and Blue's code, Psychic was immune to Ghost instead of being weak to it. This just helped Psychic types become overpowered in a generation where the only thing they were weak to was Bug, which had few, if any, good moves. — Source: 16 Facts About Pokémon Red & Blue

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Rocky

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Bo Burnham

AT A GLANCE во BURNHAM Не starred in the show Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous Burnham co-wrote the show with Dan Lagana (the showrunner for American Vandal). It was canceled after one season. CRACKED.COM — Source: Variety

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Elf

Jim Carrey almost played the lead. Carrey was initially attached to star in the movie, but the script took 10 years to finally go into production, and by that time he wasn't interested anymore. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Son Of A Nutcracker Facts About The Christmas Classic Elf

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Little Caesars

Little Caesars Little Caesar's 1959 PIZZA TREAT CHICKEN FISH SHRIMP CARRY OUTS DEL/VERY CRACKED COM Mike and Marian llitch spent their life savings opening Little Caesar's Pizza Treat. Their original menu included chicken, fish, shrimp, and hot dogs. — Source: Mashed

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OpenAI

CRACKED CHATGPT LEARNS FROM THE WORLD WITHOUT PERMISSION, AND NOW THE WORLD'S FIGHTING BACK. A class action lawsuit was taken against OpenAI, the people behind ChatGPT, for using stuff from the entire web to teach their Al language models without asking the people who made the content (i.e. just about everyone). — First Post

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Kizz Daniel

CRACKED Kizz Daniel needs ALL of his gold chains. The Nigerian singer was wearing a gold chain, but he refused to perform without all of his gold chains since an airline lost his bag. Не was arrested for refusing to perform after being pre-paid $60,000. — Linda Ikeji / BBC

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Patrick Dempsey

Patrick Dempsey is an accomplished juggler. Не says juggling changed his life, in school. Dempsey says learning the craft gave him a purpose. And he's cocky about his skills-with good reason. McDreamy can juggle five pins at once. CRACKED.COM — The New York Times

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Deadpool 2

In Deadpool 2, Deadpool's angst about committing suicide is from the comics. He gets pissed off all the time in the comics at the fact that he's suicidal but can't actually kill himself (due to his healing factor). CRACKED.COM — DenOfGeek

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Ice Cube

Ice Cube geeks out over architecture. ICE CUBE CELEBRATES THE EAMES - - He's a Getty Museum expert on the subject. Before returning to Compton to revolutionize rap, Ice studied architectural drafting. So for their 2011 post-war exhibition, The Getty made him their resident expert on Hollywood architectural design legends Charles and Ray Eames. CRACKED.COM — Source: 19 Celebrities Who Are Huge Fans Of Surprising Stuff

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Super Mario

The Boos' shy but scary personality is based on one of the Super Mario developers' wives. The wife of developer Takashi Tezuka was normally a quiet person, but one day she exploded at him because he worked so much. So he decided to put her in the game as a character that becomes scarier when they're not looked at. CRACKED.COM — Source

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E.T.

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Bic

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Samuel L. Jackson

As a young man, Samuel L. Jackson had to run from Atlanta for his life. In 1969, he was buying guns because he was sure there'd be a revolution, and somebody from the FBI came to his mom and told her to get him out of Atlanta so he doesn't get killed. So he flew to Los Angeles where his aunt lived. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bob Marley

According to Bob Marley's girlfriend, I Shot the Sheriff was inspired by their fights over birth control. The Sheriff was the doctor who prescribed her the Pill. Sheriff John Brown always hated me, For what, / don't know. Every time / plant a seed, Не said Kill it before it grow. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Muppets

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Captain America

Iconic Captain America #1, with Cap punching Hitler, came out a year before the U.S. entered WWII. Jewish creators Joe Simon & Jack Kirby received death threats, but the mayor of New York pledged protection. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Severus Snape

In the Harry Potter series, Severus Snape physically and emotionally abuses students by manhandling them, discriminating against any students that are

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Eva Cassidy

Eva Cassidy was known only in Washington, D.C. when she died. A couple years after her death from cancer in 1996, Cassidy became a sensation in the U.K. when a radio host played her songs, leading to more widespread fame. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Famous People Who Were Total Nobodies While They Were Alive

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Eddie Murphy

CRACKEDGON Shaggy's hit song It Wasn't Me was inspired by a skit Eddie Murphy did in Raw about men being unfaithful and denying it.

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Tippi Hedren

Untrained lions ROAR CRACKEDG Hollywood power couple Tippi Hedren and Neil Marshall decided to use their own pet lions for the film, which went about as well as you might expect. Melanie Griffith was mauled on set, and needed reconstructive face surgery. — CBS News

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Taxi

Underrated Action Movies Taxi Before The Fast and the Furious, there were the Taximovies. The American remake tarnished their reputation - and to be honest, SO did the French sequels. But for a brief moment, the 1998 original was a refreshing post-Tarantino chase film about a speed-obsessed cab-driver helping a cop catch an international gang of bank robbers. CRACKED.COM — Trailer on YouTube

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Wreck-It Ralph

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Boy Meets World

Boy Meets world what does Boy Meets World have in common with Batman? Just like with Robin's death, there was a poll to decide if Cory and Topanga should get hitched or not. Wedding bells won. CRACKED.COM

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