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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia You Wouldn’t Believe If We Told You

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia You Wouldn’t Believe If We Told You

December 27, 2024

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Adam Devine

CRACKED WHO GETS THE DOG? 2005 Who Gets The DOG Animal Planet thought, What if the dog chooses the owner? So people competed for a shelter dog's love, while behaviorists determined who the dog liked most. Thought to be unethical to treat a rescue like a prize, it got axed (the show, not the dog). — Screenrant / Twitter

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Elizabeth Banks

Elizabeth Banks CRACKED.COM Elizabeth Banks played camp heartthrob Lindsay, launching a long and prolific comedic career, and beginning her reign as a comedy nerd crush icon.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin's debut was slaughtered by critics. Rolling Stone's John Mendelsohn bashed Jimmy Page's weak, unimaginative songs and called Robert Pla

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The IT Crowd

The IT Crowd 5.75 3.00 We almost had a US version featuring Joel McHale. But it was postponed, and McHale cust jumped ship for Community before they got their act together. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 TV Shows That Were Cancelled Before They Had A Chance

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The Big Bang Theory

MCD WE the BiGBANGTHEORY actress/ waitress Ph.D. in turned sales rep experimental physics extrovert introvert mocks the nerd nerd culture What will they talk about for the rest of their lives? CRACKED.COM — Source: 28 Doomed Movie And TV Relationships

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Christopher Reeve

A FORGETTABLE 1995 HBO MOVIE CALLED ABOVE SUSPICION FEATURED CHRISTOPHER REEVE. ... AS ... AN OFFICER CONFINED TO A WHEELCHAIR. This film aired May 25. May 27 was the day of Reeve's horseback riding accident. The movie where he plays a paraplegic was released just two days before he landed in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Aaron Rodgers

Prevea Health dropped Aaron Rodgers for lying about getting the Covid vaccine. PACKERS CRACKED.COM After stating, Yeah, I'm immunized at a press conference, he contracted Covid shortly after. Не then went on the Pat McAfee Show to defend his decision to not get the vaccine. Не had been a Prevea spokesperson for a decade. — Source

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Mr. Garrison

Mr. Garrison's alphabet is hiding an angry message. Di0sMi0hAnMolodohokeNaYbAsToRdosfoDWgPfV2GUXcboZrQj In two South Park episodes, Chickenlover a

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Moonlight

Moonlight's penis comparison scene actually happened to Barry Jenkins in middle school. I think there's something very universal about the way boys g — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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NBA

Longest Time Not Really... Doing Anything NBA CRACKED.COM LA Lakers point guard Derek Fisher once spent 34 minutes without a single point, assist, or even a rebound. — Source: 15 Embarrassing Sports Records No One Wants To Break

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Milton Crest

MILTON CREST LISCENSE TO KILL Bond frames him for double crossing Robert Davi's drug kingpin Franz Sanchez, earning the side villain and explosive death in a pressure chamber. — Source: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a29387/license-to-kill-most-underrated-bond-movie/

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Yves Saint Laurent

When revolutionary French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent released his new perfume, Opium, in 1977, the party he hosted was so decadent and opulent that even Andy Warhol wrote about his regret for missing it. The 800-person guest list included Cher and Truman Capote. The decor featured 2,000 Hawaiian white cattleya orchids and a 1,000 pound Buddha. The estimated cost was $300,000, or $1.25 million in 2019 dollars. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Absurdly Over-The-Top Celebrity Parties

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Cosmo

Cosmo did a test between $147 in drugstore makeup and $513 in department store makeup. The end result? The difference is negligible, and unless you kn

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Doom

Hell is in... New Mexico? DOOM The game's first episode canonically happens in a moon of Mars, but the sky is a stock photo taken in Yangshuo, China. The sky graphics for episodes 2 and 3 come from Utah and the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, respectively. CRACKED.COM — Source

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American Eagle

Patriotic Superheroes American Eagle (the Indigenous hero, not the clothing line). Navajo Jason Strongbow was blasted with sonic energy by Ulysses Klaw. That combined with the uranium within his tribe's holy mountain to grant Jason superhuman powers (and caused his crossbow to fire energy bolts, for some reason). CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Shining

The Shining The Shiping by Stephen King A new novel by the author of CARRIE and SALEM'SLOT CRACKED.COM Ticked off that Stanley Kubrick gave up the supernatural for the psychological, Stephen King says it's a film by a man who thinks too much and feels too little. — Source

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The Golden Girls

WHITE ARTHUR THE GOLDEN GIRLS CRACKED.COM SHE WAS NOT THAT FOND OF ME, WHITE SAYS. SHE FOUND ME A PAIN IN THE NECK SOMETIMES. IT WAS MY POSITIVE ATTITUDE - AND THAT MADE BEA MAD SOMETIMES. SOMETIMES IF I WAS HAPPY, SHE'D BE FURIOUS! — Source

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Beethoven

Beethoven had a technique to hear his piano after he went deaf. CRACKED.COM Beethoven discovered that if he bit onto a metal pole that connected to the pia- no he was playing, he could hear almost perfect- ly well. This process is called bone conduction. — Time

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Alien

THE XENOMORPH'S BREEDING CYCLE IS ALREADY NIGHTMARISH ENOUGH. AND YET... IT COULD HAVE BEEN EVEN SCARIER. A scene deleted from Alien showed Brett and

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To Die For

Forgotten Indie Movies From the '90s 1995 To Die For '90s Gus Van Sant gave us My Own Private Idaho and Good Will Hunting, but this one deserves way more love. It features Nicole Kidman as a sociopathic social climber trying to make it in the news business, an insanely awesome '90s cast, and a soundtrack with classical music and death metal. Come on. CRACKED.COM — Watch the Trailer

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Khloe Kardashian

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Geena Davis

GEENA DAVIS CRACKED.COM Geena Davis met with us in the lobby of the Century Plaza Hotel, remembers Harry Shearer, and it was all quite awkward and uncomfortable for everybody involved. Especially considering she didn't get the job. — Source: 35 Bonkers Behind-The-Scenes Facts About The History Of Saturday Night Live

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Neopets

Neopets was designed for and by college students create a neopet create.a.pet bet central Step 1 - Choose your pet's species! Click on the picture for more information about each explore species. Remember that creating a pet will earn you 50 Neopoints! You can have up to 4 Neopets, but no more, as soon they will begin to get very demanding. If you are just games starting out, it may be best for you to choose one. neomail shops boards new: :tuff In 2002, the site was the most popular site on the internet in terms of time on site. NOW YOU — Source

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Villain Tropes

SOCIOPATHS IN FICTION Myth SOCIOPATHS ARE MASTER SCHEMERS. Truth Sociopaths are often incredibly impulsive, and do self-harmful things out of boredom. They're more likely to rob a grocery store than hatch some plot. CRACKED.COM — Source: Simply Psychology

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Sean Connery

3 strikes, and Sean Connery's out. THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN Connery had 3 big misses at the tail end of his career: turning down Gandalf in the LOTR trilogy, turning down a (mystery) role in The Matrix, and then accepting a role in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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Spotify

Spotify's payout model screws over small artists. Your subscription fee isn't divvied up among the Spotify artists you listen to it all goes to a common pot, and then is shared based on each artist's total streams. So even if you never listen to Drake or Taylor Swift, they get — More: 5 'Cool' Brands That Have Big Problems

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Carlton Banks

Carlton almost changed actors after the pilot. THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL AIR CRACKED.COM In the pilot, Carlton was pretentious but muted-so muted that Alfonso Ribeiro was almost recast. They luckily kept him, but his nerdy, rich boy ways were played right up. Не relies heavily on Geoffrey (the butler) and becomes an antagonist to Will. — Digital Spy

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Dr. No

JAMES BOND'S GUN FROM DR. NO. CRACKED.COM The legendary semi-automatic pistol Sean Connery used in the very first James Bond film sold for $256,000 at an auction in 2020. — Source

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Nintendo

In 1987 only around 200 copies of Family Fun Fitness: Stadium Events for the NES were distributed. BANDAR Family FItness BANDAF STADIUM ceness Famiily

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Awful Sitcom Tropes

CRACKED.COM Awful Sitcom Tropes Celebrity cameos Remember the Matt Lauer cameo in the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt pilot? Yeah. Add to that Michelle Obama in iCarly, Donald Trump in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Quentin Tarantino in All American Girl, Bob Dylan in Dharma and Gregg, or Elon Musk in The Simpsons and Rick and Morty, and you'll agree that celebrity cameos in sitcoms can be highly obnoxious. — Source

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Michael Richards

CRACKED 67294 MICHAEL RICHARDS' RACIST RANT. While on stage, a camera captured him repeatedly calling a heckler the N-word, and saying, 50 years ago they'd have you hanging upside down with a f-ing fork up your ass! Не apologized on Letterman, but it kind of dug him a deeper hole. — Everett Collection/Shutterstock
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Star Wars

The I am your father scene is one of the most iconic in Star Wars. It almost happened twice. In the original Episode III script, we find out that Anakin's conception was part of an evil scheme by Palpatine to breed the perfect Sith. In a deleted scene, he tells Anakin: I used the power of the Force to will the midi-chlorians to start the cell divisions that created you, adding, You might say I'm your father. Anakin's response: That's impossible! CRACKED.COM Paul F McDonald, 2013. The Star Wars Heresies — Source: 21 Ways The Star Wars Movies Could Have Been Worse

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Kurt Cobain

THE CONSPIRACY: Kurt Cobain was killed by his own guitar. CRACKED.COM THE THEORY: Не learned to play on a left-handed guitar, which exacerbated his scoliosis, causing the chronic pain that led him down his dark path. — Source: 24 Super-Ding-Dong Theories About Celebs

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Michael Jackson

The secret to Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal move? A shoe he invented. Jackson designed a special shoe with a triangular slot in the heel, which hooked onto a metallic peg that came up from the stage floor at the right moment. This allowed him to lean forward at an impossible angle without collapsing. CRACKED — Warner Bros.
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Knives Out

CRACKED.COM KNIVES OUT Joseph Gordon-Levitt has a hidden cameo. JGL's voice is heard during the program Marta's sister is watching in the kitchen, saying We have the nanny cam footage. — Source

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David Spade

Surprising Celebrity Couples HS Naya Rivera and David Spade The two were first seen in a pool together, joked about not being dating... and then kept being seen together. The 22-year age gap didn't stop them from dating for a while. CRACKED.COM — Source: The List

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Jason Segel

In The Muppets, Jason Segel wrote a scene that involved Elmo trying to join the Muppets but being stopped by lawyers. The scene was cut out of the movie because Sesame Street lawyers didn't want Elmo to be involved in a Muppet movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Euros

WEIRD WORLD The internet raised almost $35,000 for a German kid who was crying at the Euros. A girl was caught crying on camera when Germany lost, but she got booed. So someone started a fundraiser for her that got over 25,000 (about $34,700). CRACKED.COM — Source: GRM Daily

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones GIMME SHELTER Merry Clayton is the female vocalist singing: Rape, murder. It's just a shot away. It's just a shot away. Merry is singing so intensely that her voice cracks twice. After her voice cracks on the word murder (the second crack) you can hear a man in the background shout 'Woo!' GRAGKED.COM That is Mick Jagger, cheering on Merry. SOURCE:HYYP:/. — 20 Spirited Easter Eggs Hiding On Famous Albums

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J.K. Rowling

The first Harry 1991 Potter book : 1999 1990 published 199 in 096 1997. is 1999 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1998 1999 the 1594 1995 1996 1997 J.K. Rowling says she 1996 1997 regrets having different titles in the U.S. vs. worldwide. 1991 1995 1999 NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s CRACKED.COM — Source

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