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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Circled Our Heads Like Cartoon Birds After We Got a Concussion

January 30, 2025

We don’t know where we are after getting knocked in the head like that, but somehow we were able to remember all of these facts.

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Professor Slughorn

Jim Broadbent CProfessor Slughorn in Harry Potter) carves bizarre wooden statues. After carving them, he paints them, dresses them, and puts human hai — Source: The Guardian

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Guardians of the Galaxy

After filming Guardians of the Galaxy, they had to melt down the Kyln set and sell off the steel. That was the only way to make the budget for the Kyln scenes work. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hannibal

Hannibal FIRST LINE “If you weren’t neurotic, Benjamin, you would be something much worse.” LAST LINE “See. This is all I ever wanted for you, Will. For both of us.” A killer love story. Throughout, Hannibal is nothing if not helpful to those he considers worthy of it. First to his patients, then to the man he falls for, Will Graham, who finally becomes what Hannibal always knew he could become - a killer. — Sources: Script for “Apéritif”, Script for “The Wrath of the Lamb”

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The Jeffersons

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Circled Our Heads Like Cartoon Birds After We Got a Concussion — Source: Will Is From Mars

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America’s Army

America's Army RELEASED ON: PC GRACKED.COM Predating Call of Duty by one year, this US Army recruitment tool and propaganda vehicle spawned 7 sequels, an arcade port, and an untold number of Ford F-150's with a Punisher skull decal. — NY times / Wired

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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie didn't like her character in Wanted. So SHE INSISTED THAT FOX COMMIT SUICIDE. Jolie didn't think that her character - an assassin manip

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Fourth of July Movies Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Congressmen walked out of the movie. When the movie premiered in front of congressmen, senators, and Supreme Court justices, a third of them walked out. Senate Majority leader Alben W. Barkley said the movie makes the Senate look like a bunch of crooks. Imagine that. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia, Mental Floss

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Moana

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Circled Our Heads Like Cartoon Birds After We Got a Concussion

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Bong Joon-Ho

Bong Joon-Ho is one of the biggest fans of the second Mad Max movie. I am a crazy fan of the film. I have watched it more than 20 times, he once said in an interview. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Khloe Kardashian

Khloe Kardashian CRACKED.COM She made the kindest gesture for the most narcissistic reason: the kid she took to prom wasn't ill or anything, they just ran a massive Kardashian fan account on Instagram. — Source: Twitter

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That ‘70s Show

Kitty Forman CRACKEDOON Thaf 70 Show In the begining By the end She's quirky, Someone she laughs a make her lot, and a drink. is hilarious She's when

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Spider-Man

Spider-Man and his itsy-bitsy friends. MARVEL AMAZING SPIDER-MAN - THE NATURAL 302 CRACKED GOM Comic artist Todd McFarlane would hide spiders on the cover of his Amazing Spider-Man issues, beginning at #303, woven into the fabric of the illustration. If you're having trouble seeing all the sneaky arachnids, just look at the number next to McFarlane's signature to see how many there are to find. — Source

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Billy Connolly

Lord of the Rings Stars' Side Projects Billy Connolly From 1965 to 1971, Connolly was part of The Humblebums, a Scottish folk rock band. And they were not bad. They released three albums, and Connolly would later have a solo folk career for a few years before turning fully to comedy and acting. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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Revenge of the Nerds

Booger's winning belch in Revenge of the Nerds came from an animal - specifically, a camel. They took the sound of a camel having an orgasm and mixed it with a human belch to get the truly amazing seven-second sound in the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dumb and Dumber

Doofy henchmen Dumb and Dumber Dante's INFERN MenTAL By killing Harry and Lloyd's parakeet Petey, the film plays him up like a truly scary henchman, but he's quickly proven to be a dumbass by thinking the gasman is referencing him. Не thinks Harry and Lloyd are pros, then dies by their dumb hands. CRACKED — New Line Cinema
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M&M’s

M&Ms were a purely military product in WWIl. m m W I m m L m They were sold only to the military- being heat-resistant and easy to transport, they were really well suited to being part of soldiers' rations. CRACKED.COM — Source: History.com

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Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates' grandfather paraded the (fake) mummy of John Wilkes Booth. According to Finis Bates, the Booth who died in a barn was an impostor. The real Booth ran away, and he, Bates, had his mummified body, which he exhibited at circus sideshows. Henry Ford was close to buying the mummy, until his subordinates exposed the hoax. — More: Ridiculous Frauds Whose Schemes Worked (For A While)

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American Crime Story

TOUGH-AS-NAILS PROSECUTOR MARCIA CLARK NEVER SHOWED EMOTION IN THE CRACKED.COM COURTOOM. YET, AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SimpsoN HAD CLA

22

‘90s Hair

Men were 1994 1995 11 1992 1993 1994 bleaching their 1992 1990 hair in 9 the late '90s. for 1999 Bangs 1993 men 1995 were 1996 1997 also 1998 1997 big at that time, either 1994 1995 1993 flipped up or curtained. 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tron

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Tron PAC-MAN IS JUST HANGING THERE. In a close-up on a screen filled with circuits, we can see the dot-munching Pac-Man munch on some dots, doing his thing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus

The first Elaine get out shove wasn't scripted. CRACKED.co Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus brought her own signature intensity to the role and the Elaine character, and the characteristic shove became a recurring theme. — Source: New Yorker

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Disney

Disney employees had to fight to wear their own underwear. In 2001, the Disney employees union won the right to wear their own underwear while dressed as Disney characters. Previously, Disney insisted on shared, approved undergarments- which led to an outbreak of pubic lice among its employees. CRACKED.COM — source: Los Angeles Times

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Ready or Not

READY OR NOT The Le Domas' traditional masks mirror those in the 1965 The Twilight Zone episode, The Masks. The episode sees a dying rich man forcing his greedy children to wear masks representing their gross personalities if they want their inheritance. CRACKED.COM — Cinemablend

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Abe Simpson

The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it. - Abe Simpson. THE SIMPSONS CRACKED You might think this is complete gibberish, but a rod is actually an old English measurement that can equal anywhere from 9 to 28 feet. A hogshead is an old unit of measurement for liquids that equals about 79 old wine-gallons. — YouTube

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Knives Out

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Sleuth The film starts with detective Benoit Blanc having recently solved a case involving a tennis player. Johnson explained: At the beginning of Sleuth, the novel that he's dictating is Death by Double Faults, and he's describing how the killer paced along the lines of the tennis court and threw the body into the clay. Knives Out CRACKED.COM — Source: EW

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Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis MARRIED HIS UNDERAGE COUSIN CRACKED.COM The 22-year-old heartthrob kept his underage cousin-wife a secret for a while, until a journalist made it public mid-tour. His defense? It's cool guys, she's 15. (She was 13). — Source

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Terminator 2

Terminator 2 GRACKED.COM Terminator 2 almost ended with an old Sarah Connor sitting on a park bench, explaining that Judgment Day didn't happen and now everything's peachy. Because what's a more satisfying ending to a movie than the main character going, and then everything was fine! Ok BYEEEEEEE! — Cracked

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Army of Darkness

CRACKED.COM Army of Darkness THE ALTERNATE ENDING: Ash screws up the potion and wakes up not in his own time to fight department store monsters, but in an empty, post- apocalyptic London. It's an awesome, Planet of the Apes-like ending, but boy is it bleak. — Source: Alternate ending on YouTube
More: 5 Classic Movies That Almost Had Terrible Endings

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Porn

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Circled Our Heads Like Cartoon Birds After We Got a Concussion — Source

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Angela Bassett

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Circled Our Heads Like Cartoon Birds After We Got a Concussion

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Rohmer Sax

ROHMER SAX WAS INSPIRED BY AN ACTUAL CRIME LORD (WELL, SORT OF). I knew that I had seen Dr. Fu Manchu! Rohmer proclaimed after briefly seeing a gentleman who may or may not have been a crime boss of London's Chinatown. Then he added, His face was the living embodiment of Satan, because judging people's morality by their faces was cool back then. — Source: The Spectator

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Harrison Ford

While shooting Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Harrison Ford's leg was broken when the Millennium Falcon's door fell on him. The production was shut dow

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Wall-E

CRACKED.COM WALI PIXAR MOVIES WALL-E WAS ONE OF PIXAR'S FIRST FILMS. A Bug's Life, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and WALL-E were all conceived (in that order) during one Pixar lunch in 1994 - but it took until 2008 for the film to finally see the light of day. — Source: 16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In

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Dog With a Blog

CRACKED DOG WITH A BLOG 2012 - 2015 ENC Like Lassie saving the day? No, no, he just blogs about it. It's another Disney Channel case of Kids better like it, 'cus everyone else hates it. Variety called it strictly low-hanging biscuit fare, because how many butt-sniffing jokes can we handle? — Variety / YouTube

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Jerry Lewis

JERRY LEWIS was a filmmaking innovator. While making his first movie as a director, Lewis had the idea of mounting a video camera next to the film cam

5

The Office

COMEDY NERD The Office episode Christmas Party is, well, exactly what the title says. It's the one where Michael goes and buys alcohols to prevent the Christmas party from descending into soul-crushing boredom. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MADtv

COMEDIES that shouldn't have been saved MAD TV Let's go bland! For 14 seasons (1995-2009), Mad TV gave SNL some zanier, spicier competition, and sprouted some now household names. The 2016 revival on The CW failed to produce new interesting characters, and the primetime slot watered down the Mad TV style CRACKED — The CW
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Pogs

Pogs were a rip-off of the Japanese game Menko. Menko's been popular since the 1600s, travelling to Hawaii when Japanese people imigrated in the early 20th century. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pretty Woman

Edward and Vivian are a couple at the end of Pretty Woman. THEY'RE TOGETHER FOR THE MONEY. At that point he has already paid her for sex, and the only

1

Get Out

Get Out All the characters who've taken over the bodies of Black people are deliberately trying to hide their surgery scars. That is why Walter and Andre both wear hats, and why Georgina is seen fussing over her wig. — Cinemablend, Time

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