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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Cheaper Than Therapy But Likely Somewhat Less Effective

January 13, 2025

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Denzel Washington

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Cheaper Than Therapy But Likely Somewhat Less Effective — Source: CNN

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The Descent

Tired Tropes (And The Movies That Pulled Them Off) JUMP SCARES Even horror movies pushing for quality and originality often ruin their surprises with the cheap trick of loud noises. But the videocam scene in this masterpiece is just an earned and clever jump scare. The Descent (2005) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Judy Garland

MGM Started Her Young GRACKED.COM After signing with MGM when she was just 13, the studio put Judy on the stan- dard regimen of pills to keep us on our feet long after we were exhausted, then they'd take us to the studio hospital and knock us out with sleeping pills ... then after four hours they'd wake us up and give us the pep pills again so we could work 72 hours in a row. That would turn even most adults into Ozzy Osbourne, shuffling around in perpetual disorienta- tion and somehow with a British accent. — History

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway hunted German U-boats in the Caribbean during WWII. CRACKED COM Hemingway used his fish- ing boat named after his ex-wife (Pilar) to hunt Ger- mans, armed only with Thomson machine guns and hand grenades. Не was given unlimited gasoline by the US government. — Source

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Get Out

BEHIND-THE-SCENESP FACTS JORDAN PEELE PURPOSELY HIRED LIBERAL ICONS AS THE PARENTS. GET OUT Peele says he specifically wanted Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener for the film because they were considered the liberal elite god and goddess. CRACKED.COM — Film School Rejects

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Jack McBrayer

CRACKED Jack McBrayer on Conan. Не had multiple minor roles on Conan's Late Night show, and after booking 30 Rock, came back for a ton of interviews, sketches, and street segments (including a ton of spots with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. — Pajiba / The Interrobang

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James Bond

The last film John F. Kennedy ever saw was an early print of From Russia, With Love. JFK was a huge James Bond fan, so he got an early look at the film at the White House on No- vember 21st, 1963. Не was killed the next day in Dallas. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Inside 'from Russia with Love'

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Angelina Jolie

While she was married to Billy Bob Thorton, Angelina Jolie thought it would be romantic if the two of them slashed their fingers with razor blades and smeared the blood into lockets that each of them would wear. She believed that this act would strengthen their bond and the two wore the lockets for the remainder of their marriage. GRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Bonkers Celebrity Beliefs

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Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones directors shot fake scenes to keep the final season a secret. ol 1GE 5 1 Fans and paparazzi were so intent on getting Season 8 spoiler

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Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake is absolutely terrified of spiders just spiders - in general. Apparently, it's pretty bad: one time, he said I was staying at a nice hotel and I had to call reception because I spotted one in my room. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dane Cook

CRACKED REMEMBER WHEN DANE COOK WAS THE BIGGEST COMEDIAN ON THE PLANET? His 2005 album Retaliation went double platinum and hit top 5 on the Billboard. Не was a must for every comedy movie, but joke-theft accusations had everyone question his act's substance. His bro-y attitude was mainly for bro-y college kids who then grew up. — Source

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Hello Kitty

HELLO KITTY MOTOR OIL Agip for MELLINT HELLO KITTY SAE 5W-30 API SM, ILSAC GF-4 - una PART Agip - In a collaboration between an oil company and everyone's favorite cat cartoon, the strange crossover motor oil was exclusively available in Japan. CRACKED — Source: AutoEvolution

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World of Warcraft

An unintentional pandemic spread across the online game World Of Warcraft. CRACKED.COM The debuff spell Corrupted Blood, cast by newly added end boss, Hakkar the Soulflayer, was only supposed to last a few seconds, but an oversight allowed in-game pets to catch the corruption and spread it across the game. Programmers imposed quarantines and players fled densely populated areas, until a series of patches got rid of the infection. Epidemiologists studied the event for real world prevention. — Source: 14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You

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The Avengers

CRACKEDcO How was it possible for Erik Selvig in The Avengers to put a fail-safe, in a machine he built while brainwashed? Did Loki secretly request i

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James Cameron

After watching Star Wars, James Cameron decided to quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry. GRACKED.COM Cameron credits Geoge Lucas with raising the bar for other filmmakers and showing that the only limitation is your imagination. — The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of Star Wars

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Steven Tyler

CRACKED COM The iconic drum beats at the end of Livin' On The Edge by Aerosmith... were played on a bass drum that Steven Tyler stole from his high school after senior prom. — Source

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Blade 2

Final Action Scenes 2002 BLADE 2 Everything that shouldn't work, works wonderfully: the cartoonish early-2000s CGI, the dizzying videogame-like camera movements, the uncannyvalleyness of it all. Guillermo del Toro was way ahead of the game here. It's dated, sure, but you can also see the creativity spilling out of the scene (and the brutality doesn't hurt, either). CRACKED.COM — Watch it on YouTube

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Forever Knight

Forgotten Sci-Fi and Horror Shows 1992-1996 Forever Knight Nic Knight is an 800-year-old vampire cop trying to redeem himself and become human again. This Canadian series (which began as a TV movie starring Rick Springfield) is considered a direct precursor of other vampire shows, like Angel. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Meryl Streep

Serious actors and directors doing comedy Meryl Streep in Don't Look Up Yes, Streep has been doing comedies for a while, including awesome ones like Death Becomes Her and Mamma Mia! But she mainly turned to comedy after decades of serious dramatic roles and winning, like, every Oscar. By the time Don't Look Up came along, she could easily rock as a ridiculously dumb and corrupt, gender-swapped version of Donald Trump. CRACKED.COM

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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr was an actress, beauty icon, and inventor. Along with composer George Antheil, Lamarr created a frequency hopping system to make radio- guided torpedoes harder to detect. This eventually became the basis for modern wireless technologies. CRACKED — Source

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Dave Navarro

DAVE NAVARRO 1998 CRACKED.COM After shooting UP some heroin at a Playboy Mansion orgy, the Jane's Addiction musician tried to use the syringe to write his name on the wall in blood. This earned him a lifetime ban from the house. — Source: 15 Epic Feats of Partying by Famous People

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Clifford the Big Red Dog

Emily Elizabeth CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG CRACKED COM Uh, hello, your dog is the size of a dinosaur. Once your pet has to duck down to go through a doorway, it's time to admit you don't have the resources to take care of it. We'd hate to live in the neighborhood where this monster takes their massive bowel movements.

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WarGames

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Cheaper Than Therapy But Likely Somewhat Less Effective — Source: YouTube

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2 Days in the Valley

Crime Movies That Want To Be Pulp Fiction 1996 2 Days in the Valley A group of cops, criminals, femme fatales, and normies are brought together by a murder in this movie by the director of Cobra, of all things. They all talk funny, their stories intertwine, you know the deal. James Spader is here, for some reason, but also Teri Hatcher, Jeff Daniels, and Charlize Theron in her very first official role. CRACKED.COM — Trailer Chan/YouTube

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Frost/Nixon

Frost/ Nixon CRACKED.cO COM If Frost/Nixon is to be believed, British journalist David Frost, through a series of televised interviews, got former president Nixon tO admit his guilt regarding various illegal activities. In reality, the apology was carefully scripted by Nixon and his people well ahead of time. The movie — For details, read 6 Movies Based on a True Story (That Are Also Full of Shit)

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The Nice Guys

THE NICE GUYS The movie was set in Los Angeles, but filmed in Atlanta. While many productions are shot in Atlanta, it's still a weird location choice for a movie that's set in 1970's L.A. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peppa Pig

WEIRD WORLD The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom praised Peppa Pig in a speech. In the same speech to industry leaders, he kind of made comparisons between himself and Moses, and mimicked the noise of a car. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chris D’Elia

Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now Stand-up comedian CHRIS D'ELIA portrayed characters such as a child molester and a sexual predator. PLOT TWIST: НЕ WAS ACCUSED OF BEING EXACTLY THAT. His agency dropped him and he lost a bunch of gigs, including a role in Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead (which actually sounds like a win for him, but whatever). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Trek

ST:THE ORIGINAL SERIES The Alternative Factor OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN DON'T GET ALONG WELL. The Enterprise arrives on a planet with an oxygen-hydrogen a atmosphere. Put oxygen and hydrogen together, and they'll react explosively. (They'll also produce water in the process). — Source: Memory Alpha, Sciencing

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Thick and Thin

Thick and Thin A 2006 sitcom about a once- once-overweight woman struggling to maintain her new lifestyle.

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Bill Murray

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Cheaper Than Therapy But Likely Somewhat Less Effective — Source: Esquire

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Rambo

Rambo was going to die. First Blood suddenly becomes a much worse title. — Source: SlashFilm

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The Lost World

The Lost World's Tembo says, predators don't hunt when they're not hungry. We guess he never met cats of any kind. Or dogs. Or bears, weasels, or ho — Source: NY Times

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Professional Wrestling

Pro wrestling weapons to use in a bar fight Legos Any parent will tell you the pain of accidentally stepping on these hard plastic hell bricks. Now imagine the pain that reverberates through the body if they're used to intentionally hurt people! CRACKED.COM — WWE/YouTube, WWE/YouTube

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Community

COMMUNITY Beetlejuice is summoned (over the course of 3 seasons) Someone says Beetlejuice once per season.The third time, he strolls across the background. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jurassic World

JURASSIC WORLD JURAISIC PARK BEGAN PRODUCTION BEFORE THE BOOK WAS EVEN PUBLISHED. Author Michael Crichton told Steven Spielberg about his next book in 1990. Spielberg loved it so much that he bought the rights, and even storyboarded scenes before the book was fully written. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Jackson Pollock

CRACKED.COM A CALIFORNIA WOMAN BOUGHT A JACKSON POLLOCK PAINTING FOR $5 AT A THRIFT STORE. A forensic art specialist helped determine 10625 38.4 W that the painting Teri Horton purchased is THE UNITED -280m W COL an original work by the artist also known - - ISEN 9 as Jack the Dripper. DOLLAR Its estimated value: anywhere from $10 million to $50 million. — Source

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KFC

Photo of KFC's Double Down sandwich with the text 'Calling the double down discontinued may be a lie as they keep retiring it and bring it back'

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Eddie Murphy

EDDIE MURPHY backed out as Oscar host in 2011 Did it hurt Murphy's future Oscar chances? It was a career mistake, says one Academy member. What the hell was he thinking? Not hosting is still a better move than what James Franco did. Should have won for: Dreamgirls — Hollywood Reporter

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