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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Have Been Stuck in Our Shoe This Entire Hike

February 07, 2025

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST THE ACTORS LIVED IN THE PSYCHIATRIC WARD DURING SHOOTING. All of the actors who played patients actually stayed in the sleep quarters at the Oregon State Hospital, to get a sense of what it was like to be hospitalized. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Anna Chapman

Former CRACKED COM Russian spy Anna Chapman's 15 minutes of fame expired in the U.S. after she was deported in 2010. However, she did end up hosting a

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Thor: Ragnarok

CRACKED COM MARVEL THOR THE DARK WORLD Lacked interestinglentertaining characters beyond Loki MARVEL STUOIOS Thor RAGDAROK Every character was either

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Jojo Rabbit

CRACKED.COM LF Taika Waititi Не made Jojo Rabbit because his mom asked him to. It was Waititi's mother, Robin Cohen, who suggested he should adapt Christine Leunens' novel Caging Skies. Several details (like the imaginary Hitler) came from Waititi himself. — Source: Variety

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Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder CRACKED.COM When he was just 15, Stevie Wonder met Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a Civil Rights rally in Chicago. After King's assassination three years later, Wonder mobilized a decades-long campaign to recognize the King's birthday as a national holiday. In 1981, Wonder debuted his revolutionary reimagination of the classic Happy Birthday song in Washington, D.C. on King's birthday: You know it doesn't make much sense/ There ought to be a law against/ Anyone who takes offense/ At a day in your celebration. — Source

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Steve Jobs

CRACKED Personal Habits of Billionaires Steve Jobs: Innovator, visionary... and barefoot? Jobs was renowned for his unconventional approach, such as holding brainstorming meetings while walking around barefoot. — Source

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Harry Potter

IN THE HARRY POTTER MOVIES, THE ENTIRE DURSLEY FAMILY REMAIN UNSYMPATHETIC TO THE END. HOWEVER... IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY. In the books, Dudley

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John Leguizamo

MIAMI VICE John Leguizamo Hey played a vengeful gangster's son for two seasons, before returning as a neo-nazi drug dealer.

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David Brent

CRACKED The Office People see me, and they see the suit, and they go 'you're not fooling anyone,' they know I'm rock and roll through and through. DAVID BRENT is on a constant mission to prove how cool he is. — BBC
MyLondon

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Alien3

Alien3 (1992) The Runner Xenomorph was both man and puppet. The Dog Alien was brought to life combining a man in a suit (Tom Woodruff Jr.) and a rod puppet filmed with a bluescreen. — Bloody Disgusting

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Michael Scott

GRACKED MICHAEL SCOTT Alright, Jim. Your quarterlies look very good. How are things going at the library? THE OFFICE Jim didn't get the library sale, so Michael cockily mugs to the camera like watch the master at work. Не gets the sale but mistakes a woman for a man. A great intro to Michael Scott. — YouTube

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Movie Trailers

CRACKED PREVIEW HAS BEEN APPR OPRIATE AUDIENO TURE ASSOCIATION OF TRAILERS ORIGINALLY PLAYED AFTERTHE MOVIE. ...which is how they got the name trailers, because they trailed the main show. — MPAA
Michigan Quarterly Review

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Dick Butkus

GRACKED A RETIRED NLFER GAY CHARACTER On the '80s sitcom My Two Dads, Dick Butkus plays cafe owner Ed Klawicki. In one episode he pretends he's gay to help one of the dads hit on a woman, and it's just uncomfortable to watch. — Plex / Wikipedia

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Friends

Monica tries on a wedding dress early in Friends. Chandler arrives, and Phoebe yells, The groom cannot see the bride! It's funny nonsense. Monica's not really a bride, Chandler's in no way a groom, and the two haven't even dated. But this foreshadows the pair hooking up at the end of the season and marrying a few years later. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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The Da Vinci Code

THE DA VINCI CODE BUDGET: $125 MILLION EARNINGS: $760 MILLION CRACKED.COM The excitement and intrigue in Dan Brown's original novel is nowhere to be found here, and Tom Hanks' National Treasure franchise limped on to completion. — Source: IMDB

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Young Justice

In Young Justice, when Artemis doesn't have her weapons with her, she has this to say: I feel naked, and not in a fun way.

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H.P. Lovecraft

CRACKED.COM cthulhu Even though he's a central figure in Lovecraft's shows up mythology, the hulking brute only ever shows his squid in one story face in 1928's The Call of by H. P. Cthulhu -a story that Lovecraft himself didn't Lovecraft. consider particularly good. — Alepsilon & GradeSaver

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The Louvre

Disrespectful uses of priceless artifacts DAVID CANTES The other, secret Louvres The Louvre being such a respected, classy, high-end museum, even its leftovers stash must be cool, right? In fact, the stuff they don't consider worthy of showing is in underground storage all over Paris. It looks like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, but with masterpieces. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Miss America

The Miss America Pageant CRACKED.COM Believe it or not, New Jersey hasn't always been an enthusias- tic supporter of young women's excellence. The Miss America pageant began in 1921 as a swim- suit competition to lure tourists back to Atlantic City once sum- mer was over in the time-hon- ored marketing tradition of boobs. — Source

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Friday the 13th

They killed a real snake in Friday the 13th. Fr They didn't tell the snake's handler that that would happen, and apparently he got really upset and even had to be held back by other crew members. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: ScreenRant

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Boy Meets World

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Dune

About a third of Stellan Skarsgard's time on Dune was spent in makeup. I had eight hours in the makeup chair every day to be turned into Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, he said. CRACKED COM — Source

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Tiger Woods

TIGER WOODS REFUSES TO TALK TO HIS SIBLINGS, EVEN HIS BROTHER IT KEVIN, WHO HAS MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS. COUNTRY GLUS Half-brother Earl Jr. said, I leave updates on Kevin, but for whatever reason I don't get a response. Tiger's sister Royce, whom he once bought a home for, said I would live in a shack... if I could have my relationship with my brother back. GRACKED COM — Source

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Barack Obama

Presidential jokes At the 2016 White House Correspondents Dinner, Barack Obama quipped about his popularity and the lame controversy surrounding his college activities: The last time I was this high, I was trying to decide on my major. CRACKED.COM — Pete Souza
Los Angeles Times

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Fellowship of the Ring

In Fellowship of the Ring, when Frodo and Gandalf are at the same table, it's not really one table. To make Elijah Wood seem much smaller than he really is, they used forced perspective, meaning they put him really far from the camera and then shot at an angle that would conceal the distance. To make sure camera movement wouldn't ruin the effect, they moved that half of the set in a way that exactly followed the camera's movements. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bob Dylan

Yakko reveals the fine print of a classic Bob Dylan song: CRACKED.COM The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. Except in New Jersey where what's blowing in the wind smells funny. — Animaniacs References / YouTube

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Martian Manhunter

Movie and TV Aliens DC Comics Martian Manhunter shares a connection with Sailor Moon. In a comic, J'onn J'onzz goes undercover as a Japanese reporter named Hino Rei. Rei Hino happens to be the secret identity of Sailor Mars. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBR

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R.L. Stine

R.L. Stine's one-line Goosebumps cameo was filmed in a total of 25 takes. The cameo takes five seconds, and it consists of him saying Hello, Mr. Stine, to Jack Black as he passes by. And they shot him doing that 25 times. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Army of the Dead

LV.00 VOLUNTEER Army of the Dead was going to include zombie rape. An early iteration of the script (back when Zack Snyder was producing, but not directing) had male zombies raping human women, producing hybrid offspring. Thankfully, Snyder came to the realization that wasn't something the zombie genre was lacking. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Disney

The '90s are 1994 1995 15 1992 1993 1994 sometimes 199 called the Disney 92 Renaissance. 1993 1994 1995 1996 999 1991 1997 It began in late 1989 with the wildly successful The Little Mermaid, 199 reached its peak in popularity with The Lion King in 1994, and ended in 1999 with Tarzan. 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s — Source

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Isaac Hayes

13 Scintillating Now-You-Know Movie Facts and General Trivia - Isaac Hayes didn't actually leave South Park. — Source

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Madame Tussaud

Madame HOLLYWOOD Tussauds The real Madame Tussaude was spared from the guillotine, then employed to fetch its famous victims' heads and create death masks. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 19 Spooky Facts For Scaring Others

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Dolores Umbridge

Dolores Umbridge is a sadistic Harry Potter character. She's a parody of a reat person. The character is based on a real teacher that J.K. Rowling did

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Power Rangers

In the 1990s, researchers monitored two groups of elementary school children while they played indoors. One group had been shown an episode of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the other had not. The children who'd watched Power Rangers were six times more aggressive! CRACKED.COM — 23 Disturbing, Real Experiments Done On Children

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Anne Hathaway

To pull off playing a British character in The Hustle, Anne Hathaway took inspiration from Stewie Griffin. While Hathaway looked at actresses like Julie Andrews and Joanna Lumley from Absolutely Fabulous to get the accent right, she said it was mostly the famous Family Guy character who influenced her. CRACKED.COM — 15 Iconic Characters' Inspirations

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George Clooney

George Clooney hurt his head SO bad on Syriana, his memory didn't work right. He hit his head when he fell from a chair, and had to retrain his memory to work right again. For a while, he even had to write his lines on bits of paper. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet

celebrity Besties Friends near, far, wherever they are Leonardo Dicaprio + kate winslet The two actors have been friends ever since they starred in Titanic together, being each others' cheerleaders at award shows and on the red carpet. DiCaprio also walked Winslet down the aisle at her wedding. CRACKED.COM — Source: BuzzFeed

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The Fantastic Four

4 4 Weird Superhero Endorsements The Fantastic Four and Hitachi Data Systems fight monsters and poor data storage. Marvel's First Family battles M.O.D.O.K. and a cluster of corrupted data spheres called Datazilla. They succeed thanks to Hitachi's Virtual Storage Platform (and The Thing clobbering stuff, of course). CRACKED.COM — Source: Comic Vine
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Howard Stern

Public votes that backfired big time PEOPLE'S MOST BEAUTIFUL PERSON IN THE WORLD For this 1998 People Magazine poll, Howard Stern fans wrote in 230,000 votes for Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf to beat Titanic-era Leonardo Dicaprio. People said he would never be considered and gave Leo the cover. Pffft. CRACKED — Source

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Tokyo Drift

The Tokyo Drift production had a designated fall guy. They couldn't get permits to shoot on location in Tokyo, so they hired one guy to say he's the director when police showed up. Не spent a night in jail, and director Justin Lin is forever grateful. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Facts About Movies (And Other Cool Stuff)

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