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39 Tasty Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Slurp on Like the Snozzberry Wallpaper in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory

December 14, 2024

Remember when Geraldo Rivera dug up Al Capone’s precious collection of dirt and garbage?

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

39 Tasty Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Slurp on Like the Snozzberry Wallpaper in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory

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It

IT 2017 CRACKED.COM The script originally called for Pennywise to straight-up eat a baby. It was an off-screen, but still brutally visceral death that was only ever partially-filmed. — Bloody-Disgusting

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Major League Baseball

When an intersection in Williamsport, PA. was transformed into a baseball diamond with bronze player statues to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Little League Baseball... PEOPLE KEPT BREAKING AND OFTEN STEALING THE BAT OF THE BATTER STATUE. Security cameras were eventually installed to monitor the statue, which was then repaired with a thicker, steel rod support. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scream 2

MYTH An original ending of Scream 2 had Sidney's boyfriend Derek and best friend Hallie as the killers. REALITY It was a dummy draft to prevent the real ending from leaking. After an actual draft of the movie was leaked, writer Kevin Williamson wrote three different decoy endings to keep the real twist from getting out. Williamson says he even wrote an ending where Deputy Dewey turned out to be the killer. GRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Pieces Of 'Movie Trivia' Everyone Gets Wrong

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The Goonies

The Goonies No, you didn't blink and miss the octopus. The octopus was very scary, Data says near the end - even though there's not a single octopus in the entire movie. Or is there? As it turns out, there was a scene featuring a giant cephalopod, but it was cut out because it didn't look good. — Source: Cinema Blend

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Cottingley Fairies fooled grown-up people. Both Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Kodak Company said the photos showed no signs of faking. As it turn

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Facebook

Facebook shrinks your brain. n. accumbens That's the finding of a 2017 study, in which higher daily frequency of checking Facebook on the smartphone was robustly linked with smaller gray matter volumes of the nucleus accumbens. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: PubMed

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Geraldo Rivera

On April 21, 1986, Geraldo Rivera teased nearly 30 million viewers for two hours in his live primetime show The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults with t

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Al Pacino

Al Pacino nearly got fired from The Godfather. In the first couple of weeks, his performance totally baffled the filmmakers (except for Coppola, who supported him) and they wanted to replace him. They only changed their mind once they saw him in the restaurant scene -- if that scene hadn't worked, not even Coppola's support would have kept him in the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Secret of Nimh

The THE same animators SECRET NIMH did the animated sequence in Kanadu. While NIMH was Don Bluth Productions' first independent feature, they also did the 2-minute animation sequence for the 1980 musical film while still in production. They would go on to produce An American Tail, The Land Before) Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, and Anastasia. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Porn

CRACKED COM Romans had porn coins. Coins with sexy imagery have been found for centuries, going back to the early times of the Roman Empire. Regular money, however, wasn't X-rated- so it isn't clear what the deal with these was. It's been theorized they were tokens to be used at brothels. — Source

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Colonel Sanders

KFC 1952 New الله CRACKED.COM After varied careers, Colonel Harland Sanders began selling food out of his gas station in 1930. It wasn't until the invention of the pressure cooker in 1939 where he perfected his quickly fried chicken with 11 herbs and spices. In 1952, he franchised the business. — Source

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Joe Rogan

JOE ROGAN ROGAN JOe HE FREREEY CRACKED.COM NewsRadio fans didn't see this one coming. Rogan parlayed his role as handyman Joe into hosting Fear Factor and then his own podcast. Spotify just inked Rogan to a $100 million deal that ain't sidekick money, sister. — BBC

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Popeye

Popeye the sailor is the hero in comics, cartoons, and movies. SPINAC He was meant to be an expendable bit character. Popeye's first appearance came i

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The Thing

Amazing effects made without CGI The Thing John Carpenter rejected the idea of a guy in a suit, so his FX team created several incarnations of the Thing, mimicking different creatures and organs. The result feels and moves like it is truly alive - perhaps because there's very little stop motion as well. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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April O’Neil

CRACKED.COM APRIL O'NEIL WILL SHOW YOU A GOOD TIME. Hey, do you remember that episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles where April was a streetwalker? Neither do we, but that didn't stop Playmates Toys from releasing this Ravishing Reporter action figure, complete with detachable skirt. — Source

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The Shawshank Redemption

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION GRACKED COM Andy tells Red he wants to go to the idyllic beaches of Zihuatanejo, Mexico, after getting out of prison, to which Red responds, These are just shitty pipe dreams. To make this dream a reality, Andy tunnels out of Shawshank, emerging past the prison walls through a literal, shitty pipe. — More: 23 Movies And Shows With Sneaky Foreshadowing

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Moaning Myrtle

Moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter was played by a 36 year old woman. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), the ghostly figure Moaning Myrtle slain by the Basilisk when she was just 15, haunts ONE of Hogwarts' bathrooms. She was played by 36 year old Shirley Henderson, which makes the scene where she sexually harasses the teenage Harry super uncomfortable. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Scream

39 Tasty Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Slurp on Like the Snozzberry Wallpaper in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory — The Telegraph, Hollywood Reporter

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Commercial Radio

Commercial radio call signs must be announced at the top of the hour by law. Most US commercial radio stations east of the Mississippi river start with the letter 'W' and west start with the letter 'K'. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Reader's Digest

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Black Panther

Black Panther M'BAKU is a supervillain in the comics. Called the Man-Ape (a moniker the movie wisely dropped), M'Baku was exiled from Wakanda and became just another generic villain for the Avengers to fight. — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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King of the Hill

Detail is a must. Check with director and add the correct time on watch when seen in a close-up. When using close-up on money make sure you show the c

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Powerpuff Girls

What's wrong with the Powerpuff Girls reboot Whitewashing Featuring racially diverse Powerpuff Girls, the show reframes the cartoon as a whitewashed adaptation of their childhood. CRACKED.COM — Source: Junkee

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Kevin Smith

kevin smith не has his own street. Kevin Smith Way, in Paulsboro, New Jersey. No word on if there's any tall-guy-skinny-quiet-guy duos lurking about it, but there's gotta be. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Kevin Smith And His Movies

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The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer

THE SECRET DIARY OF DESMOND PFEIFFER 4 stayed mostly unread EPISODES CRACKED A freed black slave is the serious butler to a wacky version of President Abe Lincoln - need we say more? — Source

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D.B. Cooper

D.B. cooper Some dapper gentleman in 1971 calmly (and by all accounts, coolly) introduced himself as Dan Cooper, then hijacked a plane. He arranged to

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Dominic Monaghan

celebrity Hobbies Dominic Monaghan loves spiders and lizards. Ever since he was a kid, the Lord of the Rings/ Lost actor had been fascinated with lizards and bugs, keeping them as pets. Не even has a recently discovered species of spider named after him! CRACKED.COM — Sources: The A.V. Club, Digital Spy

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Ted Bundy

DEBBIE HARRY hitchhiked with Ted Bundy CRACKED.COM In the late 70s, Harry bummed a ride from a handsome stranger. Inside the car, she got a weird vibe and opened the door, getting thrown from the vehicle when the driver took a hard turn. She later realized the driver was the — Face It

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James Bond

Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgia's richest man, lives in a $50 million steel-and-glass structure nicknamed the glassle. The top two floors are all glass. On-site aides greet visitors with Welcome to the James Bond house. CRACKED.COM — 24 Facts About One Percenters And All Their Money

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Winter’s Bone

39 Tasty Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Slurp on Like the Snozzberry Wallpaper in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory — Source: BusinessInsider

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Wes Craven

39 Tasty Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Slurp on Like the Snozzberry Wallpaper in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory

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Hostel

CRACKED.COM Eli Roth's HOSTEL has a poor reputation due to its excessive gore and shallow characters. However, it's actually surprisingly fun, and has some rich themes and biting satire under the surface. Especially regarding how Americans view and treat the outside world. It's much more clever than you'd think. — Source: 20 Underrated Things & Three Reasons To Check Them All Out

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Planet of the Apes

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES PLANET OF THE APES THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT WAS TOO AMBITIOUS. Rod Serling's draft would have been too expensive to shoot, so many changes were made. The twist ending, however, is all his own. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Dr. Strangelove

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Dr. Strangelove This Kubrick classic satirizes the Red Scare and impending fear of a worldwide nuclear fallout. You may remember seeing the scene where Major Kong rides a nuke like a bull as it plummets to earth. — Source: Dr.Strangelove

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Willy Wonka

Willy Wonka has a sequel partly set in outer space. In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket, and Charlie's family ride a magic elevator to space, where they meet aliens-and that's the least bonkers thing that happens. It's an outrage that we never got a movie adaptation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Total Recall

TOTAL RECALL 1990 See that high-tech contraption on that soldier's wrist? It's a Casio calculator. 89795901 120

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Jared Leto

39 Tasty Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Slurp on Like the Snozzberry Wallpaper in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory — Source: AI Joker Tattoo Removal (u/Dknight560)

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American Apparel

American Apparel tweet Diar 6 not that in the to the the DE the *** the with 3211 on the CRACKED.COM Comedian Fahim Anwar noticed that this spot sure feels like it's treating the Mexican dude as a fashion accessory. AA, for their part, called the controversy contrived. After all, Raul is a family friend and the photos turned out great.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson was Kanye West's biggest inspiration for his album CRACKED.COM Heartbreaks And 808s. K E WE When Kanye played Heartless to Jackson, he complimented him (without knowing it was him singing on the track), and that made Kanye way more confident about his singing. — Source

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