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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Just Got Back From the Finest Clown School in Europe and You Can Tell It Really Changed Their Brain Chemistry

February 01, 2025

James Cameron has spent more time inside the Titanic than Captain Edward Smith ever did.

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Schitt’s Creek

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREER Alexis' dresses Alexis eventually parts ways with many of her fashion items by giving them to Twyla. During the wedding, Twyla can be seen wearing one of Alexis' dresses that she herself wore in season one at Moira's birthday. — MsMojo on YouTube

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The SPIKE welve grown to love from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER was never meant to last or be likeable for that matter. Buffy the ampire Slauer According

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Jada Pinkett-Smith

Celebrities who were high school buddies Tupac Shakur and Jada Pinkett-Smith The actor and the hip-hop star became lifelong friends at the Baltimore School of the Arts. Pinkett-Smith wrote a poem to honor Shakur on what would have been his 50th birthday. CRACKED.COM — Source: Los Angeles Times

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James Doohan

JAMES DOOHAN SERVED IN WORLD WAR II. Не was shot six times on D-Day: four in the leg, one in the chest (stopped by a metal cigarette case), and one blew off his middle finger. CRACKED.COM — Star Trek

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Cassandra Cain

CRACKED.COM HI. Batman #567 (1991) Heirs of zorro cassandra cain The Bat-Girl with a gimp suit is one of the darker members of the Bat family, and the one who resembles Batman most in words and appearance. Trauma: She was raised to use violence as a language, to the point that she's mute.

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Army of the Dead

The zombie tiger in Army of the Dead was modelled on a famous tiger. Zack Snyder's movie used a tiger owned by Carole Baskin as reference-- but this was before Tiger King came out and the surrounding ugliness came to light. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire

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Disney

DISNEY PARKS FORCED PERFORMERS TO SHARE UNDERWEAR. THE RESULT: PUBIC LICE AND SCABIES. Finally, in 2001, workers were assigned individual undergarments they were free to take them home and wash themselves. They needed months of union contract negotiations to come to this agreement. CRACKED.COM — Source: Dark Moments From Disney’s Past

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Matt Lauer

Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now MATT LAUER was the face of NBC's Today for 20 years. НЕ ALSO REPORTEDLY HARASSED A LOT OF WOMEN, abused his power, and had a button to close the door of his office automatically, as normal people do. Не was fired from NBC, and nobody has seen him since. CRACKED.COM — Source

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OG Websites

Some absolutely 1994 huge websites were 199 launched in the '90s. 1999 1993 1995 1994 1997 - MNM M/2K Sec SAGE Over Hoppe - BRANDA Beertween Dermtellung Vertad Facation 100% grough Association +tab Center - в Schweler - - Invtyliaren منا Google Disney Google Deutschland IMDb (1993), EBay (1995), Amazon (1994), GeoCities (1994), Netscape (1994), Yahoo! (1995), AltaVista (1995), ICQ (1996), Hotmail (1996), Google (1998), and Napster (1999). 1999 are CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s — Source

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Sausage Party

SAUSAGE PARTY PITA PUBES CRACKED.COM Before being certified R by the MPAA, the film was pushing NC-17 thanks to an orgy scene. Writer/Producer Seth Rogen told Howard Stern that they took issue with pubic hair, so to drop the rating, We digitally shaved the pita bread's ballsack. — Independent

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Robert Downey Jr.

An ad lib from Robert Downey Jr. inspired the post-credits scene in Marvel's The Avengers. After the downtown battle, Tony Stark says, Have you ever

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Mass Effect 3

THE MASS EFFECT 3 NOD TO NASA By following a specific path through the solar panels at the start of the Mars mission, players can see a small rover driving up to them and giving a little nod. It's a reference to the Mars rover programme. CRACKED.COM — Screen Rant

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James Cameron

GRACKED JAMES CAMERON: TITANIC SUPERFAN. James Cameron has gone on 72 dives deep underwater, including 33 to the Titanic, and has spent more time on the ship than the captain did. — Deep Sea Challenge / MARCA

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Screen Savers

ROBERT HEINLEIN PREDICTED THE SCREEN SAVER, IN 1961. They went to the living room; Jill sat at his feet and they applied themselves to martinis. Opposite his chair was a stereovision tank disguised as an aquarium; he switched it on, guppies and tetras gave way to the face of the well-known Winchell Augustus Greaves. -Stranger in a Strange Land CRACKED.COM Robert A Heinlein, 1961 Stranger in a Strange Land — Source

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo hid underground for three months While avoiding the wrath of the Pope, the artist doodled on the walls of a room underneath the Medici Chapel. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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This Is Not a Film

Illegal filmmaking This Is Not a Film was an illegal production. Banned from filming movies in Iran for 20 years, they filmed it secretly as a protest against the Iranian government's sentencing of director Jafar Panahi to six years of prison. They smuggled the film from Iran to Cannes on a USB drive hidden inside a birthday cake. CRACKED — Jafar Panahi Film Productions
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The Hobbit

A sinkhole killed several horses. THE HOBBIT CRACKED.COM The come-from-behind winner for biggest bummer about The Hobbit is that 27 animals died during filming. Several of them fell to their death when a sinkhole opened up under their pens. — Source

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Storm

What does Storm's control of the element of wind mean fartwise? CRACKED — Decider

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Tim Horton

Officials Protected His Legacy INT una Sings PORTIGARIA O THE SCOTO NICOLA in ALBALI Coujing RESERVA MALT CHERRY 1999 I BLAUFRASENT KATE PUNTIGAMES BOX WHISKY I 1 SAMPLE the ... Sticot MARQUES - BRUS GOLDERAL ML PANTHER Store - CRACKED.COM Horton is so revered in Canada that officials refused to confirm for decades that he was driving drunk when he died. It wasn't until 2005, when an Ottawa newspaper got their hands on his autopsy re- port, that the public found out his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit. — Ottawa Citizen

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My Little Pony

TRANSFORMERS crossed over with MY LITTLE PONY. Autobots and Decepticons in Equestria! Can you imagine it? Well, someone can, and will tell you all about it in comic book form. — Source: IDW Publishing

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Taylor Swift

celebrity Hobbies Taylor swift makes snow globes. When she's not killing it in record sales or writing a new song about some ex, Swift enjoys making Christmas in a jar, with glitter as gifts to her friends. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Island

Michael Bay and his movies The Island The film is suspiciously similar to a B-movie. Robert S. Fiveson, director of 1979's Parts: The Clonus Horror, sued DreamWorks citing around 100 points of similarity between both movies. The suit was considered to have merit, but it was settled before going to trial for a seven-figure amount. CRACKED.COM — Sources: IMDb, Wikipedia
Image Credit: DreamWorks Pictures, Clonus Associates

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Stephen Colbert

COMEDY NERD Stephen Colbert was once, briefly, a host on Good Morning America. Apparently, they needed a funny guy for a particular segment one day in 1997, and they got Colbert - and he looked like he hated every second of it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hugh Jackman

TO get ready for Wolverine, Hugh Jackman followed a routine for 5 months. In that time, he'd follow a strict workout regimen and diet plan for 6 days a week - and he was already in great shape after Les Miserables. CRACKED.COM — Source: Healthline

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Marshawn Lynch

Sandwiches Named After Celebrities HB W THE MARSHAWN LYNCH You can tackle this sandwich over at lke's Love and Sandwiches, in Southern California. The monster sandwich's ingredients include fried chicken, bacon, cheddar, lettuce, tomato, and Beast Mode BBQ sauce. W CRACKED.COM — Source

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Beverly Hills Cop

Sylvester Stallone wanted more action, less comedy. BEVERLY HILLS COP CRACKED.COM Sly refused to work with the script he was given. Не even punched up (completely rewrote) the script, in an attempt to balance the scales of ass-kicking and joke-telling. — Source: 15 Freakouts That Got Actors Fired

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LEGO

350,000-Piece LEGO City Brick engineer Gerry Burrows completed the 350,000-piece Garrison of Moriah in only 11 months. It includes a colosseum, hangar, bridge, waterfalls, and Gerry-Burrows-sized statuary. Thematically, it draws from The Lord of the Rings, the Bible, and classical architecture, and is peopled with Star Wars action figures. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Olympics

Athletes in the olympics host huge parties in Olympic villages. The Olympic Village in London, 2012 Olympic villages, which are mini-towns built to house Olympic athletes and their entourages, are full of sex, drinking, and partying before and after big events. Many Olympians say the second Olympic motto is What happens in the village stays in the village. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peter Frampton

Peter Frampton stormed off during a concert when a cameraman ruined his solo. IRDS A At a concert in Minnesota, the musician known for Baby, I Love Your Way (and snatching cell phones out of fans' hands) took great offense when the overhead screen showed a woman in the crowd holding up his album Frampton Comes Alive while he was playing. And when the screen showed the same woman holding up his I'm In You album, he cursed into the camera, accosted the operator, and walked off mid-performance. CRACKED.COM — Source: 11 Supernova-Grade Celeb Meltdowns

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Aretha Franklin

A DIFFERENT WORLD ARETHA FRANKLIN CRACKED.COM The Different World theme song went through many versions, from cast member Dawnn Lewis (producers didn't want to give her too much focus) to AI Green (never made air) to Phoebe Snow (Season 1) to Aretha Franklin. Once Aretha sang, all agreed her version was definitive. — Vulture

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Boogie Nights

RIENIGHTS Mark Wahlberg's prosthetic penis was quite an extensive undertaking, considering it had 15 seconds of screen-time The penis was created by m

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Kids Choice Awards

WHEN THE KIDS CHOICE AWARDS CRACKED GOT IT MORE RIGHT THAN THE OSCARS nickelodeon GLADIATOR HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS I'm pretty sure no one has thought of Gladiator since 2001. But we think 2001 about the Grinch at least once a year.

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Dwight Schrute

DWIGHT K. SCHRUTE UTZ CARREN Eaglia - Brasiler Live CRACKED COM Despite clearly being on the spectrum, Dwight is constantly harassed, belittled, pranked and talked down to by his coworker Jim for the crime of being... really serious about his work? Не wouldn't be so wound up if Jim would just leave the poor beet farmer alone.

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Emma Watson

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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. — Source

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South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Celebrity cameos: MUso edition. COMEDY In South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, Police drummer Stewart Copeland voices a random American soldier, and Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran voices a Canadian fighter pilot. — Source

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Groot

Originally, Groot was going to be all grown up again in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. But James Gunn decided to keep him as baby Groot because he thought that'd be too repetitive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Prince Harry

On a Las Vegas bender, Prince Harry met Ryan Lochte and asked to swim race him. Lochte said yes, so they jumped into a pool with their clothes on and

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Boss Tropes

CRACKED COM American Beauty Office Space Fight Club Getting the best of your boss is no problem in movies. Just lay out the truth of how absurd the workplace is, or just threaten to make wildly unprovable accusations. Boom! Bosses OWNED! — Source: 26 BS Things That Only Work In TV & Movie Universes

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Major League Baseball

The baseball hand signals were invented by a 19th century deaf player. DI S GRACKED.COM William Ellsworth Dum- my Hoy played for sev- eral teams from 1888 to 1902 and is sometimes credited with developing the hand signals used by umpires to this day. — Source

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