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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Assigned to You by the Trivia Distribution System

December 25, 2024

Edgar Allan Poe’s career got an incredible assist from his spiteful rival, Rufus Griswold.

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J.R.R. Tolkien

The pluralization dwarves was actually first popularized by J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit. The correct pluralization at the time was dwarfs, which Tolkien replaced with dwarves due to personal distaste. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Independent

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Sloth

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES The Goonies SLOTH WAS AN ACTUAL OAKLAND RAIDER. Sloth wearing an Raiders t-shirt was a cheeky reference to the fact that Sloth's actor, John Matuszak, was a defensive end for the team from 1976 to 1982. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga was inspired by Queen. She was first called Gaga as a reference to Queen's song Radio Ga-Ga. CRACKED.COM — 20 Surprising Reasons Behind Musicians' Stage Names

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Zack Snyder

SUPERMAN VS. WONDER WOMAN 6 CRACKED.COM Warner Brothers must really love the idea of Superman punching Wonder Woman- -seen here in George Miller's storyboards -- since this scene was resurrected by Zack Snyder for Justice League.

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Kenneth Cole

Kenneth Cole hijacked the #Cairo hashtag to promote the new collection. During the 2011 riots in Egypt, he tweeted: Millions are in uproar in #Cairo.

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Stephen Fry

Douglas Adams told Stephen Fry what 42 meant. Fry said, I cannot share it with anyone and the secret must go with me to the grave. CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

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Mr. Robot

The first season finale of the show Mr Robot was inspired by Fight Club. Fight Club was one of my big inspirations for the show, said creator Sam Esmail, and The Pixies' Where Is My Mind in S1E9 was a nod to that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Carrie Bradshaw

The iconic tutu that Carrie Bradshaw wore in Sex and the City was auctioned. ARTS It's the one she wore in the show's intro, and the money went to people affected by homelessness and HIV/AIDS. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pinocchio Syndrome

A PATIENT GETS SICK WHEN HE TELLS A LIE. The man, 51, experiences a loss of consciousness, convulsions, hallucinations, and anxiety for more than a th

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Fats Waller

A jazz prodigy was kidnapped to play for Al Capone. In 1926, Thomas Fats Waller was forced into a car at gunpoint, only to have him perform at Capone's birthday for three days straight while trying not to pass out from exhaustion. It's a story more Chicago than the musical Chicago. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Tasty Random Facts to Spice Up Your Online Scrolling

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Steak-umms

Steak- umms CRACKED CON Arguably the unholiest food to rise to power in the '80s was the Steak-umm, a thin slice of frozen beef that went national when it was acquired by Heinz in 1980. Sure, you could just grill a steak in the time it took to thaw, but the concept of beef doesn't have a sassy Twitter account, now, does it? — Source

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Mario

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Assigned to You by the Trivia Distribution System — Source

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Denzel Washington

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Assigned to You by the Trivia Distribution System — Source: The New York Times

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The Swan

Lorrie Arias underwent an extreme makeover on The Swan, but now she doesn't leave her house except to see her therapist every few months. Les Deux Khora gg BEFORE AFTER A decade after all the plastic surgery, she suffers from bipolar depression and agoraphobia, and her pre-existing body dysmorphic disorder. She blames the show for failing to offer therapy after the makeover. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Reality TV Shows That Ruined People's Real Lives

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Lance Henriksen

Lance Henriksen used to paint murals on walls and in taverns. Before he got into acting, he lived in Europe (when he wasn't working as a seaman on freighters) and made a living as a muralist. He'd paint murals in exchange for room and board (and sometimes he couldn't afford — Source: Ellensburg Daily Record

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The World Cup

CRACKED THE WORLD CUP TROPHY In 1966, two London gangsters took the soccer World Cup trophy from a glass case in Westminster. Scotland Yard launched a massive investigation to find it, and after a week, a dog named Pickles discovered it. — The Guardian

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Me Before You

CRACKED ermabe SAM CLAFLIN Me Before You Me Before You is a film about the romance between two people, one of whom has been quadriplegic since an accident and decides to end his life. Disability activists have criticized it for perpetuating the idea that death is preferable to living with disability. — Source

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe became a legend thanks to a spiteful rival. Poe never made much money from his writing while living. But sales of his books skyrocketed after his death, WHEN his long- time enemy Rufus Griswold published a slanderous biography describing him as a drunken maniac. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Famous People Who Were Total Nobodies While They Were Alive

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Thor: The Dark World

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Jim Henson

THE DRACULA MUSICAL PUPPETS were made by JIM HENSON'S CREATURE SHOP. The puppeteers also helped train Bill Hader and the cast on how to work the puppets. BEHIND THE SCENES | FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mega Man

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Assigned to You by the Trivia Distribution System

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The Haunted Mansion

People won't stop scattering ashes at The Haunted Mansion. This happens so often that the code word for dealing with it is HEPA cleanup because a special HEPA vacuum attachment is needed to suck up the extra fine particles of human remains. CRACKED.COM — source: Ripley's

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Hasbro

Between 2008-2016 Hasbro printed billion over 20 Magic: The Gathering cards. Kokusho. Virdlicare the Evening 000 Star Breeder Master Sahr. Endrek $pin

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Dolph Lundgren

CRACKED Star Wars merchandise made millions, so making movies that were nothing but toys seemed like a no-brainer. Dolph Lundgren gives it his all as He-Man, but it all just added up to not enough - a planned sequel ended up eventually becoming the JCVD vehicle Cyborg. — Source / Mentalfloss

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Jurassic Park

In Jurassic Park, Dr. lan Malcolm remarks, God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.

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Batman Begins

DRACULA UNTOLD COPYING BATMAN BEGINS CAPE OF BATS THE LEGEND Is BOMN BNLE CANE OMES OLDMAN FREEMN BATMAN B EGINS DRACULA UNTOLD COMING SOON JUNE 17 Di

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Young Thug

YOUNG THUG'S TWEETS ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO DECIPHER. CRACKED Fans are confused by what could either be inside jokes or random nothingness. Tweets like, I hate when GIRLS die, I'm changing my name to SEX, and We smokin' penises are serious head-scratchers. — Twitter / WRDW

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Dinosaurs in Movies

Dinosaurs in movies Then vs. Now Dinosaurs as metaphors In 1954's Godzilla, the giant lizard was a metaphor for untamable nuclear horrors. In 1993's Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs represented a warning over profit-driven scientific hubris. Finally, 2014's Godzilla served as a metaphor for climate change. CRACKED.COM — UDS Films/YouTube

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The Beastie Boys

The Beastie Boys' Shadrach includes a Biblical allusion to Daniel 1 - Daniel 3. We're just three MCs and we're on the go/ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Daniel 1- Daniel 3 tells the stories of three Jewish boys - - Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego - who are saved from being burned alive in a furnace by divine intervention. CRACKED.COM — 20 Backstories To Lyrics In Famous Songs

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Althea Gibson

CRACKED.co COM Althea Gibson was the world's #1 tennis player in 1957, and was the first to win the Wimbledon, French, and U.S. Opens. She was added to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971, and had 11 championship titles under her belt. — Source: 31 Amazing Women Who Deserve To Be Way More Famous

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Liz Lemon

Liz Lemon's favorite cheese snacks in 30 Rock have the saddest flavor in the world. DIRI DISMING WEEK SABOR DL SOLEDOO gR EMMA CRUJENTE Their name is Sabor de Soledad, or in Spanish, Taste of Loneliness. CRACKED.COM — We Found These Killer Movie & TV Jokes So You Don’t Have To

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Doom II

John Romero's head behind the Doom II end boss was a joke the artists put in, thinking Romero wouldn't know. The head is behind the spot you shoot to kill the boss. Romero found out and, to tell them he knew, he made the boss speak (backwards): To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Paprika

CRACKEDcO COM: NOLAN STOLE EVERYTHING FROM THIS MOVIE THE PLOT THE SETTINGS THE EFFECTS PAPRIKA EVEN THE ROTATING ROOM SCENE. GOOGLE IT

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King Charles

Rich people requests THE MANNEQUIN KING A former Royal Family staffer said that King Charles won't undress himself. Не has an entourage undress and redress him five times per day. One member irons his shoelaces. CRACKED — Source

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Zootopia

ZOoTOPIA Judy Hopps BIG saved a shrew from getting DONU crushed by a giant donut. That shrew turned out to be the daughter of the guy who's about to k

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Motorola

The first car radios were sold in 1930. 12. CRACKED.COM The Galvin Corporation introduced one of the first commercial car radios, the Motorola model 5T71, which sold for between $110 and $130 ($2,200 in today's money) and could be installed in most popular automobiles. — History

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Superman

Superhero Movies Then vs. Now S Respect for the original Back in the time, even fine movies like Richard Donner's Superman took strange liberties. By now, creators respect the comics much more (just don't ask Tim Burton what he thinks of comic books). CRACKED.COM

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Martin Sheen

CRACKED COM ApocalypzeN Now In an early scene, actor Martin Sheen is alone in a hotel room. Sheen, an alcoholic, had been drinking heavily that day pr

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Green Goblin

Green Goblin Amazing Spider-Man #14 1964 Into the Spider-Man: Spider-Verse No Way Home 2018 2021 Spider-Man's chief enemy. Father to his best friend (or sometimes his best friend). Killer of Gwen Stacy. CRACKED.COM

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James Gunn

That's James Gunn's own dog in the Guardians of the Galaxy hologram on Morag. His name is Dr. Wesley Von Spears. — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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