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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Were Each One Beat of a Butterfly’s Wing Away From Never Having Happened at All

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Were Each One Beat of a Butterfly’s Wing Away From Never Having Happened at All

January 04, 2025

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Clark Gable

Actor Clark Gable fought in World War 2 and was almost killed. When word of this reached MGM, studio executives began to badger the Army Air Forces to reassign him to non combat duty. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth FILING In 2011, after 27 years of marriage, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore divorced when Moore cheated on her with Eva Prinz. Moore stated that he intended to keep the band together, but Gordon (and the rest of the band) clearly thought that was ridiculous. CRACKED — Source

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The Manson Family

CRACKED.COM MYTH: Manson and his posse were serial killers. REALITY: None of them were. Serial murder is defined as the killing of three or more people by the same person, with a cooling-off period between the murders. Manson was the mastermind and didn't kill anyone himself, which means he's a murderer by proxy. Manson's followers went on a killing spree (with no cooling-off period) and are defined as mission killers. — 14 Myths About Crime We Believe (Thanks To Pop Culture)

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Britney Spears

Britney Spears had a tour bus with a tanning bed When she was 18 years old, the pop star had ten tour buses in her convoy. CRACKED.COM — Source: Rolling Stone

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John Malkovich

CRACKED COM 9 LEY CF T EY C FO John Malkovich and Larry King lost $1.7M and $700,000, respectively, to Bernie Madoff's investing scheme. King was fortunate enough to get all of his money back, while Malkovich only got $508,000 back, which he claimed ruined him financially. — Source

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Benedict Cumberbatch

CRACKED.COM Benedict cumberbatch He's actually a redhead. While he's dark-haired in most of his well-known roles, his natural hair color is a darker shade of red. — Source: Newsweek

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Us

CRACKED.COM Us Jordan Peele is terrified of rabbits. A reason why rabbits play a major part in the horror film is Peele's fear of the Peter Cottontails. Не explains this by his childhood exposure to bunny-infused yet horrifying Watership Down and Night of the Lepus. — Source: Empire

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The Fast and the Furious

The first seven Fast and Furious movies wrecked over a thousand cars -- the number is 1,487. If you included the cars from the 8th and 9th movie, plus the ones from Hobbs & Shaw, the total number might cross the 2,000 figure. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Adam Levine and Jonah Hill

Celebrities who were high school buddies Adam Levine and Jonah Hill Both carpooled together to Brentwood School and stayed at each other's homes. They've remained close, and Hill even officiated Levine's wedding. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Howard Stern/SoundCloud, Insider

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The Watcher

CRACKED.COM Keanu Reeves Не was tricked into being in The Watcher. A friend of his forged his signature on the contract, but Reeves couldn't prove it. Since he didn't want to get sued, he did the film. — The Guardian

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Bob Marley

Bob Marley gave his friend Vincent Ford a songwriting credit on several songs, including No Woman, No Cry. Marley knew any royalties would be used to keep the soup kitchen Vincent Ford ran open. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Casino Royale

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Redd Foxx

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Redd Foxx can't get enough Ballantine Beer. allantine Quality - beer There's nothing particularly funny about an ad proclaiming a beer's big and bright, crisp and light taste. But there's something about Foxx's goofy, beer-drinking grin that makes us want to crack open a can anyway. — The Jumping Frog

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Stringer Bell

CRACKED.COM STRINGER BELL was inspired by KENNETH JACKSON. Kenny Bird Jackson was involved in drug dealing and other illegal stuff in Baltimore before breaking into legitimate business, much like Idris Elba's character in The Wire. — BaltimoreBrew

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Keira Maguire

Keira Maguire CRACKED.COM Maguire, who was on The Bachelor (Australia) in 2016, says her own father founded The Seaside Sect, a polygamous cult in Victoria. Her mother, one of 9 sister wives, got them the hell out of there when Keira was 5. — Source: Now To Love

25

Aliens

Aliens (1986) James Cameron did the voice of the Alien Queen. Cameron - who loves to be involved in every aspect of filmmaking- recorded most of the sounds in the movie in his living room at home. The breathing, hissing, and shrieking of the queen was all him. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Filming 'Aliens'

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Firelight

Steven Spielberg Movies Firelight An early Spielberg movie is lost. The most important film from Spielberg's amateur phase is 1964's Firelight, a two-and-a-half hour long sci-fi epic , made on a $500 budget. Sadly, only a few minutes of the movie are available today. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Directors Series

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Donnie Darko

There was something almost serene about Donnie Darko's death. An alternate ending shows him impaled on a post. If you know the film, you know Donnie D

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MADtv

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Mad founder Bill Gaines would have hated MADTV CRACKED.COM It wouldn't have been personal. The guy who started Mad Magazine simply despised television. He refused to sell the rights while he was alive, but after his death, Quincy Jones swooped in to purchase Mad. With name in hand, MadTV was created to take down SNL. — Vulture

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The Beatles

The Beatles had their start at a seedy German bar. Before the Beatles were the Beatles, they were a regular feature at the Indra Club, the naughtiest place on earth, a joint in Hamburg's red-light district. It wasn't exactly a good time for them, but the experience they gained helped them become a professional band. Friends HSV CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage has already bought his grave-a 9-foot pyramid in New Orleans. CRACKED.COM There is no name on the pyramid yet, but it is em- blazoned with the Latin maxim, Omnia Ab Uno, which translates to Every- thing From One, and it's covered in lipstick prints from fans. — Atlas Obscura

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Frasier

Behind-the-scenes feuds Pho Delices Frasier Kelsey Grammer vs a dog We're not saying that Grammer was jealous of Eddie's popularity, but he did repeatedly go out of his way (even in his own biography) to make clear that dogs can't actually act. Kelsey, if you're such a thespian at least act like this is a non-issue. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Thunderball

Thunderball almost had a theme by Johnny Cash. r They asked Cash to write a song for it, which he did, but they didn't like it and Cash was pretty let down, apparently, because he wanted to broaden his fanbase. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: BBC

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Love Actually

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Were Each One Beat of a Butterfly’s Wing Away From Never Having Happened at All — Telegraph

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Mason Gooding

MASON GOODING WROTE AN ESSAY IN COLLEGE ABOUT HOW MUCH HE LOVED THE FIRST SCREAM MOVIE. Gooding plays Chad in 2022's Scream. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Birds of Prey

CRACKED.COM Diadyly Menstan Bird of Prey A second musical sequence was cut. While it was fully choreographed and shot, it was cut for length. — Cinemablend

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EPMD

Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith of EPMD. : CLOU In 1991, Smith's home was robbed, and Sermon was named as the orchestrator. Sermon denied it but implied that Smith had it coming. Soon after they split in 1992, people shot up Sermon's house. After all this, they reunited for Back in Business in 1997. CRACKED — Source / Style Weekly

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The Dark Knight

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Were Each One Beat of a Butterfly’s Wing Away From Never Having Happened at All

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American Psycho II

WORST SEQUELS EVER AMERICAN PSYCHO II: ALL AMERICAN GIRL The very definition of a cash-grab, this movie was supposed to be called The Girl Who Wouldn't Die, (which sounds splattery enough), but the title was changed mid-production in order to make it a loosely-connected American Psycho sequel. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jose Canseco

JOSE CANSECO'S TWITTER ACCOUNT HAS IT ALL. Hurley) CRACKED Не obsessively tweets about people he hates, has threatened to fight Shaq and A-Rod, and he planned to track down Sasquatch with actors and models. Не promotes random stuff like car washes, and claimed he could run bases faster than a horse. — Twitter / Elite Sports NY

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Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain invented Grunge fashion because he was broke. of His mismatching outfits were mostly stuff he bought in thrift stores. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck

Matt Damon & Ben Affleck The world continues to be entranced by the friendship between the childhood friends. They both wrote and starred in the Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting, rocketing them into A-list celebrity status. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Famous Friendship Pairs Who Created Art Together

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James Doohan

Scotty kicked ass during D-Day. While you rarely notice it in Star Trek, James Doohan was missing a finger - according to him, he gave it to Hitler. Lt. Doohan led an infantry unit as they stormed Juno beach, and the German couldn't stop him-it was friendly fire that wounded him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Leslie Knope

LESLIE KNOPE'S WAFFLES FROM PARKS AND RECREATION We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gal Gadot

CRACKED.COM Gal Gadot was five months pregnant while shooting Wonder Woman. Gadot reportedly didn't want any different treatment, and hid her pregnancy when doing reshoots, even during action scenes. RUE — Source

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Get the Party Started

P!nk's Get the Party Started VE ATION 13+THE YSIUM Part ART OF 'E N OF El ra E CRACKED.COM Written by frontwoman of 4 Non Blondes, Linda Perry, Get The Party Started was originally intended for Madonna, who passed on the song. Perry explained that, while writing the song, I picked up a microphone and said, 'I'm just going to say every clichéd line I can think of. MA — Source

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The Stand

easter eggstra meanings and references The DOCTOR, SLEEP Stand THE STAND novelby the author of THE SHINING STEPHEN KING At the end of the movie, Dan tells Abra to keep shining on because the world needs people who stand. It's a reference to Stephen King's The Stand, a novel about the fight between good and evil forces. GRACKED.COM — Looper

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The First Movie

The first motion picture. 1885 CRACKED.COM Louis Le Prince, aka The Zaddy of Cinematography, was the first to film a moving sequence on a film-like strip with a single lense camera. — Source

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Sherlock Holmes

SHERLOCK HOLMES is a (barely) exaggerated EUGENE VIDOCQ. A former criminal turned police informant Vidocq was the world's first private detective, and also invented modern criminology. — More: 9 Absurd Movie Premises That Actually Happened

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Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo was released to a mixed reception, and barely broke even at the box office. In 1959, the British Film Institute's magazine

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