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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Found Written in Our Fourth Grade Yearbook

February 09, 2025

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Tina Fey

While talking about writing Mean Girls, Tina Fey said, I revisited high school behaviors of my own -- futile, poisonous, bitter behaviors that served no purpose. UNDSAYLOHAN WATCH YOUR BACK INTHEATRESAPRIL 30 TINAFEY MEANGIRLS She also drew some bits and pieces from conversations she remembered and personal experiences with the people in her life -- one of them being her mom. CRACKED COM — 22 Eyebrow-Arching Ways Creators' Lives Influenced Their Work

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The Lone Gunmen

IN THEIR PILOT EPISODE, THE LONE GUNMENTHWARTED A PLOT TO HIJACK A PLANE AND CRASH IT INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. (Cue X-Files theme music.) It aired in March, 2001. CRACKED.COM https://youtube@ruMG2hHSLo — Source

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut's brother Bernard was a really accomplished chemist. In 1946, he discovered a cloud-seeding technique that could literally be used to create rain (unfortunately, it turned out to be very inefficient). CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities With Little-Known Relatives (Who Are Amazing In Their Own Right)

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The Sopranos

Surprising Revelations About Movies From The People Who Made Them - Tony was probably shot at the end of The Sopranos. — Source: 7 Hotly Debated Movie Questions That Totally Have Answers

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NFTs

A video game lets you steal art for real (or at least NFTs). The Crypto Doctrine is as close as a game can get to art theft, in that you can steal actual NFTs, for real. It's only fitting that the NFTs were made without the consent of the original artists. CRACKED.COM — Source

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How I Met Your Mother

Marshall carves the Thanksgiving turkey in a quick How I Met Your Mother flash forward. His father Marvin later dies in another episode's twist ending. We should have guessed he would from the flash forward years earlier. Marvin's the only Eriksen missing (and as the head of the family, he'd normally do the carving). CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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A Goofy Movie

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Kong: Skull Island

Kong: Skull Island has a reference to Taxi Driver. Hank Marlow has a jacket that says Lizard Company -- a riff on Travis Bickle's jacket (which says King Kong Company). — Source: Film School Rejects

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Chris Evans

Chris Evans Right after losing his virginity, he told his mom. In an interview with Seth Meyers, Evans shared that after he had sex for the first time, the first thing he did was brag about it to his mother. CRACKED.COM — Source: Late Night with Seth Meyers/YouTube

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Terminator 2

Tired Tropes (And The Movies That Pulled Them Off) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) LIQUID NITROGEN DEATH Demolition Man, Timecop, Goldeneye, Jason X- death by liquid nitrogen was all the rage for some time. But the movie that turned it into an iconic thing was this, the last Terminator ever made. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Aliens

Aliens (1986) James Remar was initially cast as Corporal Dwayne Hicks. At the time, Remar said he had to leave the film due to family matters, but in later years he revealed that he was actually struggling with a drug addiction. He was fired from the movie after being busted for possession. CRACKED.COM — IndieWire

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Rick and Morty

BEHIND-THE-SCENESPACTS PICKLE RICK WAS INSPIRED BY AN EPISODE OF BREAKING BAD. Rick M According to Dan Harmon, season three's Pickle Rick episode was influenced by Breaking Bad's season two episode 4 Days Out. In the episode, Walt and Jesse get stuck in the desert and have to use their smarts to escape. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS It was filmed in the same house as The Innocents Creator Richard O'Brien explains, It wasn't an actual set: it was an old Victorian gothic revival house a paddock away from the studios. — Source: The Guardian

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The Cure

The Cure was originally named after one of their first songs Easy Cure. Robert Smith thought the name Easy Cure was too American and hippie-ish so they shortened it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Monsters, Inc.

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Krabby Patty

Krabby Patties in Spongebob Squarepants contain absolutely no meat. Show creator Steve Hillenburg explicitly specified there are no animal products in them (just as well, otherwise they'd be super gross). CRACKED.COM — Source: Cinemablend

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Clerks

Clerks A deleted scene almost had the movie Clerks ending with Dante being murdered during a robbery attempt, credits fading in over his lifeless body — Source: Cracked

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Boy Meets World

Boy Meets world There's a where Are They NOW tape you'll never see. For the show wrap-up party, they shot a VHS video where all the cast played their characters years later. We never wanted to release it because it's totally inappropriate, Rider Strong has said. CRACKED.COM — Source: Us Magazine

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H.R. Giger

H. R. GIGER suffered from night terrors-not just regular nightmares, but a debilitating sleep disorder. He began sketching his terrifying visions as a form of art therapy for the condition. — Sources: The Guardian, Matthias Belz (via Wikimedia Commons)

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Star Wars

The Last Jedi Kylo Ren foreshadows two plot points at the same time. You're not doing this, he tells Rey. The effort would kill you. He's right - it's Snoke connecting Rey and Kylo through the Force, and the effort does kill Luke when he projects himself to save the Rebellion later on. CRACKED.COM

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The Two Hobbit Movies

THE LORD OF THE RINGS THE HOBBIT THE HOBBIT WAS GOING TO BE TWO MOVIES, NOT THREE. As of 2007, the adaptation had two parts: An Unexpected Journey and There and Back Again. But then studio heads changed their minds. CRACKED.COM — Source: ScreenCrush/YouTube

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The Marlboro Man

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Cannonball

Cannonball By The Breeders/Pixies theBreeders cannonball After learning that Frank Black had scuttled the band via fax in 1993, Pixies bassist Kim Deal focused all of her attention to The Breeders. They released Last Splash that same year, which went platinum, and the triumphant single Cannonball became the best song The Pixies never wrote. Deal would return to Pixies when they reunited in 2004, but would leave again in 2013. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

CRACKED.COM Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar enjoys cannabis and doesn't judge drug users. I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adverselyaffecting my team and team- mates. I've known enough drug users not to view them as UCL pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked 33 more than my quota of weed. — Source: Fade Away World

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eBay

New Zealand was put up for auction on eBay. GRACKED COM An Australian man in 2006 put the country up for sale for just $0.01 AUD, and bids got all the way up to $3,000 before eBay put a stop to it. — Source

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Rogue One

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story MAY THE FORCE OF OTHERS BE WITH YOU Chirrut Imwe's blessing appears in an early script for the first Star Wars movie, before the concept of the Force was fully formed. — Source: In a Far Away Galaxy

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Priyanka Chopra

PRIYANKA CHOPRA WANTS TO DE JAMES BOND. lCRACKEDo COM When asked if she would like to play a Bond girl, Chopra responded by saying, I get that all the time, but fu*k that wanna be Bond. — Complex

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Mindy Kaling

CRACKED adidas Natural Studies NP DUN MIF WASEN 1st Qua I MINDY KALING'S FAVORITE WORK OF HERS ISN'T THE OFFICE. Kaling thinks that Never Have / Ever is the best thing she's ever done, even better than her work on The Office. — Source

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The Ballad of the Green Berets

AN AMERICAN PATROTIC SONG TOPPED THE CHARTS AT THE HEIGHT OF THE BRITISH INVASION. Do you think the '60s were all about The Beatles? Nope! The Ballad of the Green Berets, . by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler, was the #1 song on the Billboard chart for 1966. CRACKED.COM — Source

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David Fincher

In David Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Nils Bjurman was supposed to be clothed in Lisbeth's revenge scene. Fincher asked people he knew w — Source: Film School Rejects

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Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood squints because his eyes are sensitive to light. Shooting in bright light for the Fistful of Dollars trilogy only highlighted the effect. At the time he wasn't even thinking about how it would look on camera. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ant-Man

Ant-Man has an obscure SNL reference. It's Garrett Morris' cameo -- a nod to his playing Ant-Man in an old SNL sketch about a superhero party. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg earns the average person's annual salary in his bathroom break. The average full-time U.S. worker makes $46,800 a year. Zuckerberg makes that much in less than two minutes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives

Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown DDD: Takeout A pandemic will not stop Guy Fieri's unstoppable march across restaurants. DDD: Takeout was created to do what Triple D could not - make Fieri praise his own food. Chefs walked Fieri through a box of specially sent ingredients, teaching him how to cook their recipes. BA TEAVORTOWY ARMY CRACKED.COM — Food & Wine

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Fleetwood Mac

CRACKED WHILE MAKING RUMOURS When Fleetwood Mac were making Rumours, drugs played such a big part, they thought about thanking their coke dealer in the album credits. Unfortunately, the dealer ended up getting killed before they could do it. — Rolling Stone

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Bitcoin

Nobody knows who actually invented Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies in general). TROYOZ INTERNATIONAL MJB EUSTER bb ITALYOZ BITCON. NTRAL METALS B MAJIENDO The inventor went by the name Satoshi Nakamoto online, but the person (or group) behind the handle never came forward and has never been identified. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Business Insider

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Jurassic Park

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The View-Master

The classic toy was THE VIEW-MASTER created by William Gruber, a German- WAS INVENTED born amateur BY A NAZI. photographer who was a registered member of the Nazi Party. But it was also used to fight Nazis. A few years after it came out, the U.S. ONE government ONE purchased thousands EL ONE of View-Masters to to no Sweet - nou - - train pilots in the cous 7 THREE I I I MIT FULL COL identification of 12 a KORE TOOO . HEIDO I . - CITY BOOK FUE enemy aircraft. a pow - et FOO GRACKED.COM — Source

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The Outsiders

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Found Written in Our Fourth Grade Yearbook

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Bill O’Reilly

Bill O'Reilly witnessed all sorts of combat. In the Falklands, Northern Ireland, El Salvador ... News sites found he was lying. For example, he said he saw nuns get shot in the back of the head in El Salvador, but he didn't step foot in the country till months after the conflict. CRACKED.COM — Source: Bizarre Lies 19 Famous People Thought They'd Get Away With

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