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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Your Mom Says You Can’t Hang Out With Anymore Because They’re a Bad Influence

February 02, 2025

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Left 4 Dead

LEFT 4 DEAD 4 89 Liower 30 T Achievement unlocked ZOMBIE GENOCIDEST The creators of the game saw Dead Rising's Zombie Genocider achievement, which made you kill 53,594 zombies, and decided to make it 0.001% harder. The task: kill 53,595 zombies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Professional Sports

Professional sports suffers from the birthday effect. 47 89 This phenomena results in a 16 S6 large number of professional athletes having been born in the beginning of the year- because in school they were originally more physically developed than their peers, giving them a head start. CRACKED.COM — Source: NCAA

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Reindeer Games

Charlize Theron REINDEER GAMES CRACKED CON Theron said that was a bad, bad, bad movie. She knew it could very well suck from the start, and only t

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Game of Thrones

Easter Eggs for Polyglots Game of Thrones Your mother was a hamster! The Mereenese champion who challenges Daenerys and her army in Season 4 speaks Valyrian and not French, but his taunts come straight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Blood Diamond

Inconspicuous CGI Blood Diamond For the scene of Leo DiCaprio' saying goodbye to Jennifer Connelly, they added one single CGI tear to her performance. It's seamless, it does give the scene the sort of oomph that the average movie desperately needs-but on the other hand, do they dare question Jennifer Connelly's acting? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters dropped 500 lbs. of spaghetti on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer. A long prank war between Foo Fighters and the Red Hot Chili Peppers led up to Foo Fighters dropping ping pong balls, glitter, and finally 500 pounds of spaghetti, on Chad Smith. CRACKED.COM — Source: Diffuser.fm

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Olympic Gymnastics

In olympic gymnastics, women are required to have music for their floor routines, while it's banned for men. Which means outdated gender norms are the reason we can't watch guys doing flips to Smash Mouth. CRACKED.COM — Source: Bustle

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Bugs Bunny

MYTH Rabbits eat carrots, obviously. TRUTH Carrots should only be rare treats, as rabbits don't eat them in nature. Their main source of food should be hay, grass, greens, and pellets. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sleeping Beauty

Some people suffer from 'Sleeping Beauty Syndrome' which basically turns them into a hibernating bear. CRACKED.COM Sufferers will have periods of several days to a few weeks where they sleep for 16-20 hours a day and be- come extremely hungry when awake. They usually don't remember what they did during these episodes. — Source

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Felicity Huffman

Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now FELICITY HUFFMAN can boast an Emmy and a Golden Globe. SHE CAN ALSO BOAST 14 DAYS IN PRISON for a college admission bribery scandal. Lori Loughlin was also involved, but Huffman is, you know, a much better actress- so her downfall actually darkens the movie industry, and not just Full House reboots. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mike Myers

COMEDY DEL NERD Mike Myers and Dana Carvey got locked in a feud for years and years. TR F ST BUS Apparently, it all started when Carvey got mad that Dr. Evil came off a lot like Carvey's impression of SNL mastermind Lorne Michaels. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lost Tropes

CRACKED.COM EMERGENCY EXIT ONLY ALARM WILL UND STAIR Lost Tropes New father's cigars Nothing says healthy environment like smoking around newborns! We haven't seen Knocked Up in ages, but if they didn't parody this trope but with joints, that's a total missed chance right there.

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Busta Rhymes

Busta Rhymes shattered a windshield when he first heard Eminem PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT Busta Rhymes was on a tour bus when he first listened the Slim Shady LP and was so moved that he smashed his head against the bus' windshield. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

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The Truman Show

When The Truman Show came out, it was ridiculous to think anyone would watch a show about one normal guy doing normal guy things. But one look at Twitch or any YouTube celebrity will make you realize our culture has thousands of Trumans. - I - - - - Amanda South an - MIN - - - - - - - - - - LM - - My - - - - - Deliver . - - - - Protein GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Paramore

Paramore was an original member's mother's maiden name. When they learned the meaning of paramour, they took on the name, using the spelling of the maiden name. CRACKED.COM — 20 Surprising Reasons Behind Musicians' Stage Names

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Homeland

CRACKED.COM The background graffiti in Homeland's fifth season is a metaphorical middle finger. #بلاك #blacklivesmatter = لليغل Homeland is II racist عنصرى الوطن A group of Arab street artists hired to decorate a refugee camp set with Arabic graffiti used the gig as an opportunity to make a point about their own and others' unhappiness with the show. They graffitied nothing but accusations against Homeland. The biggest joke is that nobody checked what their graffiti said before shooting. — Source: We Found These Killer Movie & TV Jokes So You Don’t Have To

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was photographed an a munitions plant. A photographer for Yank (a magazine intended to boost morale of troops overseas) snapped a photo of her for the cover and complimented her looks. So she took acting classes, cut and dyed her hair blonde, and became a legend. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Joker

WTF PUNISHER MOMENTS GOING TO DO IT. Punisher/Batman: Deadly Knights ALMOST KILLING THE JOKER. It's not often that The Clown Prince of Crime isn't smiling, but Frank Castle nearly shot that smile and the rest of his face off. Luckily for Joker, Batman showed up to enforce his no killing rule. THAT'S WHAT ENOUGH, CASTLE. THE HELL IS THIS? CRACKED.COM — Source: Fernando Comics/YouTube

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Eternals

MCU Phase Four and Legacy GRACKED.COM ETERNALS The Eternals deal with the loss of a matriarch and rebel against their parents in this film (that covers same ground as Runaways, but with an actual budget). — Source: 15 Ways The MCU’s Phase Four is About Legacy

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Wooden Sully

Pixar Easter Eggs Sully You can see a wood carving of Monsters, Inc.'s Sully in the background of the Witch's workshop. Fan theories suggest the Witch is actually little Boo, but we would object that that's not far-fetched enough. Brave CRACKED.COM — Source: MsMojo/YouTube

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Peter Capaldi

CRACKED Peter Capaldi was 5 years old when Doctor Who first aired. Capaldi was born in April 1958. Не would go on to play the 12th incarnation of the Doctor in 2013, at 55 years old.

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Hugh Jackman

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Your Mom Says You Can’t Hang Out With Anymore Because They’re a Bad Influence — EW

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Billy Bob Thornton

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Your Mom Says You Can’t Hang Out With Anymore Because They’re a Bad Influence — Source: 6 Absurd Phobias (And The People Who Actually Have Them)

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Medical Dramas

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Your Mom Says You Can’t Hang Out With Anymore Because They’re a Bad Influence — Source: Science Daily

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Luke and Leia

Think the relationship between Luke and Leia got awkward? It was almost a lot worse Before Empire was conceived, Alan Dean Foster. wrote a Star Wars s

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Carrie Fisher

MYTH: Carrie Fisher was a script doctor on The Empire Strikes Back Carrie Fisher was a great script doctor, but she didn't actually rewrite the script for The Empire Strikes Back. The changes were actually made by the movie's director, Irvin Kershner. CRACKED — Source

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

CRACKED INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE Badass Last Words from Fictional Characters A messenger from God. For the unrighteous, the cup of life holds everlasting damnation. - Kazim — Paramount Pictures
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Reese Witherspoon

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Your Mom Says You Can’t Hang Out With Anymore Because They’re a Bad Influence — Source

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Magic Johnson

Magic Johnson In 2020, Magic lent his image (and a whole bunch of money) to Uncle Bud's Hemp and CBD. But he stipulated that it's 'very important to him that inobody's getting high while using our products, sO there's no THC. — Source: Forbes

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Tom Holland

Tom Holland learned on social media that he was Spider-Man. After a grueling seven months of auditioning, Holland finally learned that he landed the part - not through a call from his agent, but while scrolling on Marvel's Instagram account, just like any random person. Only later did the studio reach out to him. our ENGLISH Instagram 2 Continue CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Simpsons

There is a guy who is paid to watch The Simpsons. Alexander Townley is paid by an online casino to watch the cartoon and find any hints of the show predicting the future. I have to sit with a notepad and pen and have to write every little detail down, even the opening credits with the chalkboard sequence and couch gag, he says.00M — Meet The Man Who Gets Paid To Watch 'The Simpsons'

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Eva Longoria

Eva Longoria once filmed a TV spot advertising premium cat food. It involved her dancing in her house in a very revealing dress and, somehow, it apparently tried to make cat food incredibly sexy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Exit 57

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Memoirs of a Geisha

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Judge Judy

In 2010, a group of people made up a fake case just to get on Judge Judy. It involved smashed TV sets and a dead cat, and four roommates just made it up out of thin air. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dumb and Dumber

COMEDY NERD Nicolas Cage and Gary Oldman nearly got cast as the leads in Dumb and Dumber. They were the Farrelly brothers' first choice for the two leads, but things just didn't work out. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

According to the original Hitchhiker's Guide, The worst poet in the universe is Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge. That's a real guy. Johnstone i

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Psycho

Norman Bates is actually a chubby nerd. PSYCHO CRACKED.COM In the 1960 film (and all other iterations) Norman Bates is a thin, attractive man, but Robert Bloch's novel describes him as an overweight, middle-aged man with thick glasses. — Hitchcock Wiki / Gizmodo

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Drake

DRAKE HAS BEEF WITH PETE DAVIDSON Poking fun at his hip-hop feuds, Drake drops a diss track after Pete asks him if they have TV in Canada: You skinny as hell, and you make me mad. You think you funny, huh? Well you ain't Josh Gad. Your tattoos suck, you're the guy по one likes. We used to be best friends, now we foes for life. Damn. — Source: NBC
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The ‘I’m Lovin’ It’ Jingle

Justin Timberlake was paid $6 million to sing the I'm Lovin' It jingle M i'm lovin' it™ Timberlake recorded the McDonald's jingle expanded into a full song, written by Pharrell Williams. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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