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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Like Catnip to the Trivia Hound

December 29, 2024

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Happy Gilmore

BIG BOSS BOND VILLAIN CRACKED.COM Happy's gigantic boss Mr. Larson was played by 7-foot-2 Richard Kiel, who played steel-toothed super-assassin Jaws in '007: The Spy Who Loved Me. Audiences loved Kiel as Jaws so much that he returned in 'Moonraker' as James Bond's ally. — Source: youtube

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Deadpool 2

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's photo makes a cameo in Deadpool 2. She's one of the candidates Deadpool's considering for X-Force. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Weird Al

Weird Al wrote his The Phantom Menace parody before he saw the movie. Uamkome CRACKED.COM LucasFilm denied Al's request to see Star Wars: Episode I early, so he relied on internet spoilers for plot details. — Source: Ubisoft

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Taco Bell

Taco Bell BELL 1962 TACO BELL CRACKED.COM Glen Bell tried to copy the success of McDonald's with Bell's Hamburgers. In 1951, he added tacos to the menu after learning about them from a Mexican resturaunt across the street. Tacos were the biggest success, and Bell went on to create Taco Bell. — Source

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Dodgeball

Behind-the-scenes Drama NO - - - - Gyu Rates B Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story The team was supposed to lose. Keeping with its irreverent tone, the film originally ended with the team losing. When the studio changed that, the credits included Ben Stiller's White Goodman mocking the fact that they won. CRACKED.COM — Source

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War Dogs

While Miles Teller plays David Packouz in the biographical comedy drama War Dogs ... .. the real Packouz makes a cameo appearance in a retirement home

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Eric Clapton

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Like Catnip to the Trivia Hound — Source

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Superman IV

SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE SET IN: NEW YORK FILMED IN: UNITED KINGDOM Of all the places in the world to fill in for the UN headquarters in New Y

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Cream

Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker of Cream. Bruce once played bass during Baker's drum solo, and Baker attacked him, claiming he had a knife and would kill him. Eric Clapton said they each played so loudly (in order to drown the other out), that Clapton would stop playing and they wouldn't even notice. Their 1969 album Goodbye was indeed their goodbye. CRACKED — Source

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Zodiac

The Zodiac killer in David Fincher's 2007 film ZO DIAC was played by 3 different actors based on CRACKED.COM actual descriptions from eye witness testimony. The use of the different actors helped emphasize a sense of mystery about the never identified killer as well as reinforce the film's ambiguous ending. — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker learned the language Kiswahili for The Last King of Scotland. He also spent 3 and a half months doing extensive research in Uganda, learned to play the accordion, and put on over 50 pounds. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBS

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Mark Wahlberg

MARK WAHLBERG ISN'T A FAN OF THE HAPPENING In 2010, Wahlberg finally revealed his thoughts on The Happening. F**k it. It is what it is. * *king trees

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Saw II

The writer of Saw wasn't aware that Saw existed. Darren Bousman was upset when he learned that his script The Desperate was very similar to this incom — Source: ComingSoon.net

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Sherlock Holmes

Watson from Sherlock Holmes is supposed to be hot. In the story The Retired Colourman, Holmes specifically mentions Watson's natural advantages that would allow him to basically hook up with whoever he likes, from the girl at the post-office to the wife of the greengrocer..om — 'Sherlock Homes' Watson Is (Canonically) Supposed To Be Stupid Hot

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Aliens

IMMEDIATE SEQUELS ALIENS By the end of Alien, Ripley puts herself into stasis as she heads back to Earth. When James Cameron's sequel begins, Earth is nowhere to be seen, she is rescued by Weyland-Yutani guys, and we learn she was in stasis for 57 years. This movie begins both immediately and half a century after Ridley Scott's. CRACKED.COM — Ending, Sequel Opening

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Battle of the Planets

Battle of the Planets This cartoon was a redub of the Japanese show Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, pretending it was set in space when it actually wasn't (and adding in a robot to replace all the blood and violence). — More: 6 Classic Kids Shows Slapped Together From Recycled Material

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Fight Club

IIDEO Brad Pitt and Edward Norton learned how to make soap for Fight Club. Norton estimated that they spent more time learning how to make soap with a

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Dutch

Dutch CHICAGO The film was called Driving Me Crazy overseas. Apparently, it was thought that people in U.K. and Australia wouldn't understand that a movie called Dutch was unrelated to the Netherlands. CRACKED.COM — Source: TV Overmind

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James Wan

James Wan is known for his terrifying horror films and for directing the upcoming AQUAMAN movie for DC... But people often forget he also directed the

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The Rock

When he was 15, The Rock saved his mom from committing suicide. She left her car on Interstate 65 and just started walking into traffic. The Rock followed her and pulled her back - - and today, he says, she doesn't remember any of that (Probably best she doesn't, he says). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Final Destination

Final Destination THE ALTERNATE ENDING: Alex is electrocuted and burned alive, Clear has his baby, and then she and baby Alex run into Carter and talk about death while a leaf falls next to them. That's right, they tried to make a falling spooky. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Warrant

Warrant frontman Jani Lane really resented his biggest hit, Cherry Pie. WARRANT CHERRY VS PIE Blind sa the TRACKS Onty Red Feels Of The late singer

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Spider-Man: Homecoming

SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING has a scene where Michael Keaton's Vulture flies in front of the moon, recreating a shot from Burton's Batman (1989) starring Keaton. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Trek: Voyager

ST:VOYAGER Parallax YOU CAN'T PUNCH A HOLE IN THE EVENT HORIZON. The Voyager escapes a black hole (or quantum singularity) through a tear in the event horizon. The event horizon is a distance from the black hole, not a physical barrier. You might as well try to snip the Equator with a pair of scissors. — Sources: Memory Alpha, Live Science

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Tokyo Drift

Tokyo Drift couldn't secure certain permits but filmed scenes anyway. Universal Studios hired a fall guy to go to jail instead of the director. NOW YO — Source: Digital Spy

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Harlan Ellison

2AD TETA3RO LIIW BTA3RD 2310T2 WOHIW MI EM PROLIFIC SCH-FI WRITER HARLAN ELLISON PUNCHED ONE OF HIS OHIO STATE PROFESSORS BECAUSE HE TOLD ELLISON HE H

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Begin Again

CRAGKEDCOM Ever hear of the Keira Knightley/ Mark Ruffalo musical BEGIN AGAIN? Well then you probably live in South Korea. I|? While this Judd Apato

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Britney Spears

The British navy used Britney Spears' songs to scare off Somali pirates The navy chose Spears' hit songs Oops! ...I Did It Again and ...Baby One More Time to ward off the pirates because of the pirates' dislike of western culture. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — The Guardian

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Daft Punk

Daft Punk recorded orchestra parts for nearly every song on their last album. Random Access Memories They only used the parts in three or four songs, though, and threw away the rest. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Transformers

CRACKED THE TRANSFORMERS CARTOON WAS MADE TO HAWK PRODUCT. In 1984, Hasbro bought a toy line from the Japanese company Takara, and rebranded them as Transformers. They created the Transformers series based on the toy line, and made $950 million in toy sales from 1984 to 1990 alone. — Source

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Betty White

Funny Celeb Commercials BETTY WHITE & ABE VIGODA for Snickers If you've got Betty White and Abe Vigoda getting brutally taken down in a muddy football game, we'll be there with a chuckle. CRACKED — Mars, Inc.
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John Swartzwelder

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM LEGENDARY SIMPSONS WRITER JOHN SWARTZWELDER HAS AN ODD WRITING TIP. Не first writes a super-simple, crappy version of a script, as fast as possible, then goes back and puts in jokes. So I've taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight, he says. — Source

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Kramer

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM EXTERNALITY jungfraujed 11333 firt BERNESE OBERLAND SWITZERLAND An externality is a situation in which the private costs or benefits to the producers or purchasers of a good or service differs from the total social costs or benefits entailed in its production and consumption. A great example of this is when a Kenny Rogers Roaster moves in next to Kramer, which casts his entire apartment in a red glow. — Source: Yada Yada Yada Econ

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Pepsi

The Real Reason Pepsi Became a Competitor In fact, Coca-Cola's troubled history with the black community is the whole reason Pepsi managed to enter the market so successfully in the '40s. They aggressive- ly courted the black dollar, hiring all-black sales teams and placing adver- tisements featuring black entertainers in black publications. It worked so well that by 1968, Coca-Cola was personally flying Martin Luther King, Jr.'s widow to his fu- neral (while still reportedly discriminat- ing against black employees, however). CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — New Pittsburgh Courier

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The Martian

ARES The Martian cut a reference to cannibalism. In Andy Weir's novel, astronaut Beth Johanssen (Kate Mara in the movie) explains that if the ship fails to get supplies for the trip back to Mars, the rest of the crew will commit suicide - and she will eat them. The supplies wouldn't be the only source of food, she exposits. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Presume That You Know Things

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Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson believed that he could've reached out to Hitler and somehow cured him of his evilness, according to a taped conversation with his frie

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Ryan Reynolds

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM RYAN REYNOLDS IS SUCH A FAN OF BETTY WHITE, НЕ CAN'T GET OVER HIS THING FOR HER. Those are her words, and he says he's been her fan for as long as I can remember. — Source

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John Cena

John Cena auditioned for Blue's Clues. When the show was revived in 2019, one of the persons who auditioned to host was John Cena. Yes, that John Cena. They actually entertained the idea of hiring someone mostly known for elbow-dropping people to talk to a cartoon dog. — More: 5 Bonkers Behind-The-Scenes Stories Of Beloved Kids' Shows

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Ben Hardy

Ben Hardy swore he was an experienced drummer. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY CRACKED COM Then, when he got the part, he took a crash course to make good on his pr

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John Wick: Chapter 3

IMMEDIATE SEQUELS JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3-PARABELLUM Parabellum might as well begin with a Previously on John Wick recap. At the end of Chapter 2, Wick has been excommunicated by the assassins society thingie. When Parabellum begins, it is now nighttime and Wick is indeed escaping from pretty much the whole city chasing him. Awesome fight scenes ensue. CRACKED.COM — Ending, Sequel Opening

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