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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia the Doctor Said Not to Mix With Any Other Types of Trivia

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John Krasinski

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Jenna Was John's First Acting Kiss The Office Jim and Pam's first kiss was also Krasinski's first onscreen kiss EVER. That was my first acting kiss ever, said Krasinski. Now I say that I wonder whenever else I would have had the opportunity, but no college play kissing, no nothing. — Source: Office Ladies

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Batman: Arkham City

A PAINTING GIVES AWAY THE FATE OF THE JOKER IN BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY. JOKER THE CRACKED.COM Playing as Catwoman, you crack a safe that sits behind a painting titled Cain and Abel: The Duality of Man. Later in the game, Batman carries the Joker in the same manner, punctuating the twisted, good and evil, brotherly relationship between them. — 6 Brilliant Clues Hidden in the Background of Video Games

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Fear the Walking Dead

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia the Doctor Said Not to Mix With Any Other Types of Trivia

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Santa Claus

- Coca-Cola invented BELIEF: Santa Claus as we know him. TRUTH: In 1836, illustrator Thomas Nast originated the classic imagery of Santa Claus in a red suit, by combining him with Uncle Sam. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Television

CRACKED PHILO FARNSWORTH: TELEVISION At just 14 years old, Philo Farnsworth invented the technology that would eventually lead to TV. His son Kent said that Farnsworth felt like he had created a monster and was one of the first people to recognize the potential negative effects of TV. — Inventors / Britannica

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Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr stopped signing autographs in CRACKED.COM 2008, because people just eBayed them. Не got sick of seeing his autographs go up on eBay one day after he'd sign them. — Source

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The Beatles

The Beatles' last live concert, in 1966, had thousands of unsold seats. Only 5,000 out of 42,500 tickets were sold - -nobody knew it would be their last concert (besides their unannounced 1969 rooftop performance). CRACKED.COM — Source: BeatlesBible

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Topanga

Boy Meets world Topanga is named after a canyon. The Topanga Canyon, in the San Fernando Valley area, was a hippie hangout in the '60s. CRACKED.COM — Source: People

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Toy Story 3

The movie that never was: 2010 NEWT XING 5 DE 12 a 21 ET CRACKED.COM Toy Story 3 snuck in a reference to Newt, a film that was supposed to come out in 2011, but instead languished in development hell before being quietly cancelled. — Source: 14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched

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Game of Thrones

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Newhart

Newhart had a finale that rendered the entire series pointless. The llast two minutes of the finale had Bob Newhart waking up as his character from an earlier sitcom, The Bob Newhart Show, and announcing that the whole thing - - all eight seasons of Newhart, including all its characters - was just a weird dream. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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Winnie the Pooh

Christopher Robin's stuffed toys were held up by creepy-looking metal rods. ARTSY FIArtsy RO peM WEL TO FER No word on whether the kids on set were tr

28

Melissa McCarthy

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM MELISSA MCCARTHY Melissa McCarthy is obviously one of the greatest comedy revelations of the 2010s. Since she had diarrhea in the bathroom of a fancy wedding dress store, she has since gone on to star in beautiful dramatic films like Starling and Can You Ever Forgive Me

27

Paul Walker

PAUL WALKER was partly digital in his final film FURIOUS 7 CRACKED.COM It took state-of-the-art 2013 CGI (and Walker's brothers as stand-ins) to complete Walker's final performance. Amazingly, missing dialogue was pieced together from the actor's previously recorded lines. — Source

26

The Mummy Returns

Cool, a video game boss from Resident Evil? No... this poorly animated creature is one of the primary antagonists in: THE MUM MY RETURNS A 2001 movie with a 98 million dollar budget. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bridesmaids

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM PAUL RUDD APPEARS IN A DELETED SCENE REGIONAL SKIN - 1998 1999 Not 88:88 180 2001 2002 2011 188 2003-2004 parios BRIDES MAIDS Paul Rudd originally appeared as one of the men Annie dates, and also a guy who screams at kids at an ice skating rink. The clip was scrapped but can be found in the DVD deleted scenes. — Source: DVD Deleted Scenes

24

Christian Bale

Christian Bale CRACKED.COM While training to play multiple heart-owner Dick Cheney, Bale had to learn a great deal about heart attacks. So much so, that he was able to help Adam McKay recognize an oncoming heart attack in time to avoid serious damage. — Source: Deadline

23

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes 24 hours apart. Presumed dead after the second, he emerged from the jungle with a bottle of gin & some bananas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kate Upton

Most new Twitter users just worry about what to say with their tweets. Kate Upton @KateUpton I am trying to figure out how to make the background a pi

21

Mr. Deeds

Rigyan Dav Halkon MANDRAKE 1898 FALLS infuss in FIRR DEPARTMENT An The 2002 Adam Sandler movie Mr. Deeds was a remake of a 1936 film called Mr. Deeds Goes to Town which itself was based on a 1935 short story called Opera Hat. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

Avengers: Infinity War

Avengers: Infinity War was partly based on 1990s heist movies, it turns out. Co-director Joe Russo said that Structurally, with this first film, Avengers 3, we've been using the smash-n-grab '90s heist films, so there's a real urgency to the film. CRACKED COM — Source

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Drew Carey

Drew Carey ERCY FO ANIMALS GRACKED.COM Drew Carey tried killing himself twice. The first time, he was 18 and tried overdosing on pills. Then he went in for stand-up comedy, which only made things worse, so he tired again while in his twenties. — Source

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Five Point Palm Exploding Heart

Q's fave kung fu flick is THE FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH KILL BILL So it's no surprise that the Bride's finishing move was called the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart. Kill Bill's Vengeance Theme was also featured in Five Fingers. — Alternative Nation

17

The Matrix

CRACKED.COM Reality In The Matrix, the Wachowskis tinted 'real world' scenes blue and The Matrix scenes green. The green tint is inspired by the color of the text in old PCs. Matrix — Source

16

Tony Bennett

SHADY TIES TONY BENNETT AND THE MOB While performing in mob-owned nightclubs, Bennett dated the then-girlfriend of Anthony Spilotro (the inspiration for Joe Pesci's character in Casino), who knocked Bennett out with a phonebook. CRACKED — Source

15

Animal House

Illegal filmmaking Piano thievery on B National Lampoon's Animal House. The production brought the Delta Tau brothers up to the University of Oregon five days before shooting to bond. They hit up a real frat party that involved hard drugs and a massive brawl, and they stole a piano. CRACKED — Source

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Nintendo

CRACKED FL ASE MMA WeeWaa was a plush toy you inserted a Nintendo Wiimote into in order to play it - a fun enough idea plagued by logistical issues, licensing issues and the realistic prospect absolutely nobody would want such a thing. — Source

13

Get Schwifty

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS GET SCHWIFTY WASN'T WRITTEN FOR THE SHOW. Road MOREM BAS The fan-favorite song from the fifth episode of season two was originally created for Rick and Morty's Rushed Licensed Adventure- a Flash game Adult Swim put out. The whole team loved the song so much that they wrote an entire episode around it. CRACKED.COM — Collider

12

Last Action Hero

Meta Movies Last Action Hero Charles Dance was a replacement for Alan Rickman. As Benedict was a similar character to Hans Gruber, Alan Rickman was approached about the part, but turned it down. Dance wore a t-shirt to set which read, I'm a cheaper Alan Rickman. CRACKED.COM — Source: HuffPost

11

Jamie Foxx

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia the Doctor Said Not to Mix With Any Other Types of Trivia — Source: Ambrosia for Heads

10

Stranger Things

STRANGER THINGS INSPIRATIONS Treamy GREATEST HITS A NIGHTMARE ONELM STREET Did you know that Freddy Krueger has a greatest hits album? Is this a bigger insult to the character than that Fat Boys song? If you found this 1987 nightmare for just $1, would you buy it ironically? Because we totally would. CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Clerks

CLERKS CRACKEDCO COM Quick STOP GROCERIES Kevin Smith's slacker masterpiece is one of the best indie movies ever made, but has one major flaw... Brian

8

Kill Bill

Kill Bill builds the tension between Beatrix Kiddo and Bill over the course of two films. It ends with a battle that lasts a few seconds. Kiddo uses t

7

Young Astronauts

A cartoon was never aired because of the Challenger disaster. In January 1986, all was set to start broadcasting Young Astronauts, a CBS cartoon/Marvel comic combo made with government involvement. Then the space shuttle Challenger blew up, and all 13 episodes of space-going children were quickly canned. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss' First Book Was Rejected 27 Times. CRACKED.COM Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss had his first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, rejected 27 times. It wasn't until Geisel ran into a friend in NYC who had recently become an editor at a publishing house, that it was finally published in 1937. — NPR

5

Sloth

Movie and TV Himbos The Goonies Sloth The muscle of The Goonies and pirate. HIMBO CLAIM TO FAME Helped the Fratellis HIMBO SKILL Pirate. CRACKED.COM

4

Mr. Show

MOVIE DIRECTORS cut their teeth CRACKEDcO Peyton Reed CAnt-Man) and Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine) got some of their first behind-the-camera experience directing episodes of Mr. Show: — Flavorwire

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Will Smith

The first choice to play Django in Django Unchained was Will Smith. Не just turned the role because, after reading the script, he was convinced Django wasn't really the star - it was Christoph Waltz' character Dr. Schultz. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ron Howard

Ron Howard's dad Rance was an Emmy-nominated television actor. He was on Seinfeld, The X-Files, Gray's Anatomy, Murder, She Wrote, and Happy Days, and got an Emmy nom for kids' show Through the Magic Pyramid. CRACKED.COM — Source: Deadline

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The Shape of Water

THE SHAPE OF WATER The scene where Eliza floods her bathroom was something that the director, Guillermo del Toro, actually did once as a child. Althou

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