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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Aren’t Native to Your Brain and Will Thus Consume and Destroy All the Knowledge That Was Already in There

January 12, 2025

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Boosie Badazz

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Hellraiser

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Smallville

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StarCraft

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Down With Love

Forgotten Rom-Coms 2003 Down With Love Bring It On might be Peyton Reed's best romantic comedy, but Down With Love is a superior technical effort. An independent writer denounces love, and is seduced by a womanizing journalist in this send-up of the screwball rom-coms of the '60s with a contemporary feminist spin. The set-design, camerawork, and editing are delightful, and the two leads are clearly having fun. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Shakespeare

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James Bond

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Rebel Wilson

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Battlestar Galactica

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Zac Efron

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Arcane

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Scarlett Johansson

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Joaquin Phoenix

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Atari

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Howard Stern

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Chevy Chase

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Riverdale

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Andy Bernard

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Homeland

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Tom Hanks

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Jessica Alba

THE ACTOR: Jessica Alba THE ROLE: Susan Storm in Fantastic Four WHY SHE The director was like, 'It looks HATED IT: too real. It looks too painful. Can you be prettier when you cry? Cry pretty, Jessica. CRACKED.COM — 24 Characters Actors Wish They'd Never Played

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Mike Myers

SPROCKETS MIKE MYERS CRACKED.COM Myers based Deiter, the avant- garde talk show host, on a Toronto waiter who provided questionable service. He would be taking your order, and then it would be like, your order has become tiresome. And he would bolt and leave, and never come back. — CNN

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Opera

'80S HORROR CLASSICS OPERA DARIO ARGENTO DOES WANT TO TAPE NEEDLES UNDER YOUR EYES. Argento dislikes it when people look away from the screen during the scary parts of his movies, and has joked about taping needles to viewers' eyes to force them to look. Then he used that idea in this movie. CRACKED COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Shrek

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JFK

In Oliver Stone's 1991 thriller JFK, the real District Attorney and conspiracist Jim Garrison ... .s. plays Chief Justice Earl Warren, the man who pub

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Anthony Hopkins paints canvases that sell for up to $80,000. He paints four times a week, for hours and hours, and he's made more paintings than h

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Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills 90210 spanned 096 the decade, airing from 1990-2000. 1000 1003 1001 1005 1006 10 In one fell swoop 1997 1998 it 1995 1990 THAT 1997 1998 1999 pioneered the teen soap 1996 1997 1995 drama and spawned a 1992 1993 small army of copycats. 1991 CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s — Source

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The Office

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Casino Royale

Quentin Tarantino was offered to direct'Casino Royale.' Tarantino would have set the film in the 60's, fol- lowing the original 1953 novel, made it in black and white, and retained Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — BBC

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Disney

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Aren’t Native to Your Brain and Will Thus Consume and Destroy All the Knowledge That Was Already in There — For details, read 6 Creepy Details That Were Almost in Classic Disney Movies

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Madame Tussaud’s

Madame Tussaud made death masks for people executed in the French Revolution. The death masks were made using heads cut by the guillotine - and, to make things much worse, they were often her friends (she used to be the king's sister's art tutor). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Charlie Brown

A Charlie Brown Christmas producer Lee Mendelson banged out the lyrics to Christmas Time is Here in one sitting. It was the last minute, and all his

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Monopoly

The British Royal Family are strictly not allowed to play Monopoly. MONOPOLY NEW It gets too vicious, Prince Andrew said during one public appearance- that's why nobody in the household is allowed to play it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Yahoo

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Nickelback

NICKELBACK IS NAMED AFTER CHANGE FOR COFFEE. UNION INTERNATIONAL GLUTINO MONTICH.RU STATES FLUE CANTS ORANGE Lead singer Chad Kroeger was having trouble coming up with a name, so he approached his brother, who worked at a Starbucks. Coffee was $1.95, which meant every customer who paid two bucks got a nickel back. CRACKED.COM http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/nickelback — Source

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Pinky and the Brain

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Gran Torino

BEE VANG SAYS HE'S HAUNTED BY CLINT EASTWOOD'S GRAN TORINO. Vang recently criticized the film for mainstreaming anti-Asian racism in America. At the time, there was a lot of discussion about whether the movie's slurs were insensitive and gratuitous or simply 'harmless jokes.' I found it unnerving, the laughter that the slurs elicited in theaters with predominantly white audiences. And it was always white people who would say, 'Can't you take a joke?' Today, I shudder at the thought of what that meant. CRACKED.COM — IndieWire

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Hey Jude

Paul McCartney wrote 'Hey Jude' as a gesture of support and comfort for John Lennon's son Julian during the divorce of his parents. When he first heard it, John Lennon interpreted it as a gesture of comfort and support ... for John Lennon, for hooking up with Yoko Ono. Bet that was an awkward conversation. CRACKED GOM — 23 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Famous Songs

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Joaquin Phoenix

Joaguin Phoenix said he was engaged on Letterman. Within 24 hours, he admitted it was a lie. There's plenty of joking on late-night, but he'd feigned — Source: Hollywood Reporter

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Terry Pratchett

Fantasy author Terry Pratchett wasn't the fun, carefree guy his fantasy-comedy stories led you to believe he was. According to his friend Neil Gaiman, he was a ragingly angry man, and credited his creative energy to his anger. CRACKED COM — 19 Celebs Who (In Private) Aren't Like Their Public Personas

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Madonna

Madonna got falling-down drunk on stage. During a concert in Australia, Madge appeared to get good and liquored up onstage while dressed up as some sort of erotic Victorian rodeo clown. In between swigs of hootch, she moaned things like: Someone please take care of me, please, Who is going to take care of me? and Please, someone f--k me. She then attempted to ride, then fell off, a tiny children's tricycle. CRACKED.COM — Source

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