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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We’ve Bred Over Centuries to Be Much More Adorable But Much More Fragile and Helpless

February 08, 2025

Why does it feel like every American had to do square dancing in gym class? It’s all because of a certain anti-Semitic car mogul.

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Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt is a sculptor who works with stuff like wood, rebar, clay, and plaster. Не got into it after his divorce, saying the manual labor, including the chopping and moving and cleaning up after yourself was good for him at the time. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrity Hobbies That Don’t Get A Lot Of Coverage

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Star Wars

THE DEATH STAR HAS A SURFACE ALDERAAN HAD A AREA OF ROUGHLY 487 BILLION POPULATION OF ABOUT SQUARE FEET TWO BILLION PEOPLE A GALLON OF PAINT COVERS THE AVERAGE HUMAN CARRIES 350 SQUARE FEET 1.4 GALLONS OF BLOOD SO, YOU'D NEED THAT MAKES FOR A TOTAL OF 2.8 BILLION GALLONS 2.8 BILLION GALLONS TO GIVE IT TWO COATS OF BLOOD SPILLED CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 In-Universe Facts About 'Star Wars'

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David Duchovny

CRACKED David Duchovny was an aspiring poet at Yale. With a В.А in English from Princeton and a master's from Yale, he planned to be a poet and novelist before abandoning his Ph.D studies after booking a beer commercial. — NPR

37

Spider-Man 2

Deleted scenes that weren't going to be in the movie spider-Man 2 DOC Dafoe This deleted scene features Willem Dafoe as the one piloting Doc Ock tentacles, a surprise gag the crew pulled on Alfred Molina. CRACKED.COM — Source: JoBlo Superheroes

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Dracula

When they shot Bela Lugosi's Dracula, they shot a Spanish version too. The Spanish one was shot at night, when the sets were free, with the same script but a different cast. Today, that version is considered better. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Aliens

Newt from the movie Aliens never acted again. Carrie Henn, who was just 9-years-old when she was scouted at her school in England in 1986 for the role, left Hollywood and became an elementary school teacher. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The Florida Project

The bright and vibrant COLOR SCHEME of THE FLORIDA PROJEGT was used to emulate the worldview of the children living in the seemingly DREAMLIKE Orlando

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Lizzy Caplan

Lizzy Caplan From her emo-grunge character in Mean Girls to her enduring take on Virginia Johnson in Masters of Sex to her intense portrayal of Annie

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Final Destination 5

IMMEDIATE SEQUELS FINAL DESTINATION 5 This is quite solid for a fifth entry, and it keeps the surprises coming until the very ending. There, the triumphant protagonists get on a plane to celebrate - and watch some blond kid having a panic attack. Yup, this movie ends with the original's inciting incident. CRACKED.COM — Plane Crash, Sequel Ending

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Friends

Joey and Chandler's wood canoe sold for $10,500 Proceeds of the 2019 Friends auction went to the Trevor Project. CRACKED.COM — Source: Prop Store Auction

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Hugo Weaving

Hugo Weaving really didn't want to play Red Skull in the MCU again. Не was glad to do it once, and says it was good to do it and try it out, but to be honest, it's not the sort of film I seek out and really am excited by. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Big-Name Actors Who Hate Their Famous Roles

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Hackers

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Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn's Breakfast at Tiffany dress sold for $807,000 BLANCTOR Audrey Hepburn's original working script for the film sold for even more, a whoppin' $847,000. CRACKED.COM — The Guardian and The New York Times

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Suicide Squad

CRACKED.COM In Suicide Squad, Slipknot is killed almost immediately after his introduction. HIS DEATH LEFT ONE BURNING QUESTION UNANSWERED. How did a guy whose only skill is being good SLIPKNOT with ropes become one SUICIDE of the most dangerous criminals in the world? SQUAD — Source

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Superbad

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS SUPERBAD There's no bigger Superbad super-fan than EMINEM CRACKED.COM Not only does Eminem sample Superbad dialogue on his Brainless track, he also quotes a line on the song Ballin' Uncontrollablly. Eminem told Jonah Hill that Superbad is the 'best movie ever.' — Metro

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Hobgoblin

CRACKED.COM spider Man Animated Hobgoblin Early plans had the Hobgoblin as the main villain, and when showrunner John Semper Jr. came aboard the toys were already made, so he had no choice but to use the character. — Source: The World’s Finest

24

Caddyshack

Caddyshack was a vaguely likable, too-tame comedy. Variety said this SNL alumni masterpiece was all just an unabashed bid for the mammoth audience which responded to the anti-establishment outrageousness of National Lampoon's Animal House. — Source: Variety

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Speed

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22

South Park

BEHIND-THE-SCENESp FACTS THE ART STYLE WAS INSPIRED BY TERRY GILLIAM. SOUTH PARK The art style of the earlier seasons was inspired by Gilliam's Monty Python animation. Both Trey Parker and Matt Stone were huge Python fans since childhood. — YouTube

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Jennifer Aniston

Celebrity Workouts JENNIFER ANISTON is a self-proclaimed yogi. Aniston has been a yoga practitioner since 2005 in order to stay flexible and lean. CRACKED.COM — Source: Women's Health

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Age of Love

Reality shows with dark sides Age of Love simply mocked older women A bunch of 40-something women were brought in for a Bachelor-style show with Australian tennis star Mark Philippoussis - without being told that the show's gimmick was to pit them against another group half their age. That's just not cool, man. CRACKED.COM — More: Dating Reality Shows That Achieved Full Berserk

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

MOVIES SAVED BY RESHOOTS E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL E.T. ORIGINALLY DIED! With a humans are the real monsters theme, E.T. originally died in military custody. Test audiences hated it, because they loved E.T. so they reshot an emotional goodbye (complete with flying bicycle). CRACKED — Universal Pictures
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Escape From New York

Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - The fancy 3D shot in Snake's glider's computer in Escape From New York isn't 3D. — Source: 8 Movie Special Effects You Didn't Know Weren't CGI: Classic

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Wild Wild West

will smith Movies wild wild west Will Smith passed on The Matrix to do this movie. I'm not proud of it, he has admitted. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Square Dancing

HENRY FORD'S ANTI-SEMITISM IS THE REASON WE HAD SQUARE DANCING IN GYM CLASS Ford believed that the rise in the popularity of jazz was part of a Jewish conspiracy to destroy the morals of American society. Не actively campaigned to revitalize the nation's interest in square dancing, which he saw as more white, more traditional, and more moral, to combat the negative influence he thought jazz had. CRACKED.COM — Source

15

Teen Titans Go!

EN TTANS GO! Darkseid, one of DC's most powerful villain, is voiced by Weird Al Yankovic in Teen Titans Go! CRACKED CON

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The World Series

The first televised World Series 1947 CRACKED.COM The New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers - featuring a rookie Jackie Robinson. — Source: 19 Television Firsts (That We Never Really Recovered From)

13

Action Comics

IFK POSED AS CLARK KENT IN A 1964 ACTION COMIC. IN THE STORY, HE KNOWS SUPES' SECRET IDENTITY, AND HELPS HIM OUT BY POSING AS CLARK KENT AND MEETING W

12

Ferris Bueller

CANCELLATION COMES AT YOU FAST FERRIS BUELLER In the pilot, TV Ferris breaks the fourth wall to let viewers know he is the real Ferris. Guess we'll take the fake movie one, thanks. Look for unknown Jennifer Aniston as Ferris' spiteful sister Jeannie. — Ultimate Classic Rock

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Indy 500

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Starship Troopers

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We’ve Bred Over Centuries to Be Much More Adorable But Much More Fragile and Helpless

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Duck Soup

THE MARX BROTHERSD DUCK SOUP IS UNIVERSALLY CONSIDERED THE CRAUN COMEDY TEAM'S BEST AND FUNNIEST FILM BUT AUDIENCES AND CRITICS CAND BENITO MUSSOLINDD

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Aubrey Plaza

CRACKED.COM NERD COMEDY SHES ON A BASKETBALL TEAM ALL-STAR BASKETRALA TEAM Jour Curvey right METRO - Lagate Morette nagita ESSEC IN Kainta Wilmatt CV -Lindenbau Dimitri ndro Perez poctar Reser Reyvesa PISTO PISTOL ISTOL PISTO PISTOL SHRIMPS HRIMPS SHRIMPS 9 - - Plaza is a point guard on the Rec-League basketball team the Pistol Shrimps. The LA team consists of several women from creative industries and was the subject of a 2016 documentary bearing the same name. — Source: GQ

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King of the Hill

The series ended not with a bang, but with a yep. CRACKED The first and last lines of the series are Hank and the boys exchanging a round of yeps. — 15 Dang Ol' Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'King Of The Hill,' Man

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Chewbacca

Chewbacca is Han Solo's faithful sidekick and co-pilot. Не was almost his dad. In a scrapped storyline from Episode III, Han is a filthy orphan Jungle-Booking his way through the forests of Kashyyyk (the Wookiee home world). Не was going to be a scruffy-looking kid raised by Chewbacca, which would have made Chewie Han's adoptive father. CRACKED.COM http://geektyrant.com/news/2013/2/6/young-han-solo-concept-art-from-lucasfilm.html — Source: 21 Ways The Star Wars Movies Could Have Been Worse

5

Mr. Freeze

Mr. Freeze: What killed the dinosaurs? The lce Age! BATMAN ROBIN No, that came 62.4 million years later.

4

Blade Runner

Blade Runner blew its budget on details you never see. Conceptual artist Syd Mead was hired for a few days, at $1,500 a day - but he ended up staying for weeks, filling the sets with stuff you never really notice (like fastidiously detailed, futuristic parking meters). That was one of the reasons for the movie's budget issues. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Eddie Redmayne

While auditioning for Elizabeth I, Eddie Redmayne led the director to believe he was an experienced horseback rider. Не got the part and the truth came out. Redmayne nearly killed himself trying to shoot his scene on the horse. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

CRACKED.COM Buffy the Vampire Slayer Buffy was the first show to use Google as a verb. We all use google as a catch-all term for researching on the internet now, but it wasn't used like that until the fourth episode of Buffy's final season in 2002. — Source: The Atlantic

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David Letterman

DAVID LETTERMAN regrets his relentless Monica Lewinsky jokes. After reading Lewinsky's Vanity Fair essay, he said, I started to feel bad...Because myself and other people with shows like this made relentless jokes about the poor woman. And she was a kid, she was 21, 22. I feel bad about my role in helping push the humiliation to the point of suffocation. CRACKED — CBS,
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