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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Escaped From the Zoo, But the Zookeeper Isn’t Too Worried About

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Escaped From the Zoo, But the Zookeeper Isn’t Too Worried About

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Alfonso Ribeiro

Jocks playing dorks ALFONSO RIBEIRO considers himself an athlete, playing basketball and golf, and has also raced cars professionally. Не is a scratch golfer, shooting low 70s and high 60s. CRACKED — NBC
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30 Rock

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The Mandalorian

The Mandalorian literally couldn't have been made without fans. The crew ran out of Stormtrooper costumes for a Season 1 scene, so they got in touch with the local members of the 501st legion, a group of fans who wear and make super-accurate Stormtrooper costumes. The legionnaires showed up, in their own suits, and played the remaining Stormtroopers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jump Scares

CRACKED.COM TIRED HORROR TROPES THAT STILL WORK JUMP SCARES Its overreliance by mediocre horror movies does not mean this trope is bad. Recent movies with amazing jump scares include It: Chapter 1, Hereditary, Rec, Lake Mungo, Insidious, The Descent, and We Need To Do Something. Special mention to David Lynch's Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire - who knew even artsy directors had it in them? — Source: CineFix - IGN Movies and TV/YouTube

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Commando

Commando was meant for Gene Simmons. Can you picture anyone but Arnold starring in this testosterone fest of a movie? And yet, the original script was a much more subdued story. The lead character was a retired Israeli soldier, intended to be played by Kiss frontman Gene Simmons. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts About, You Know, the World and Stuff

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Olivia Munn

Olivia Munn's eyelashes are always perfect! That's because she has to maintain them with fabe lashes due to her habit of ripping out her eyelashes! Sh

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Harry Potter

The clock tower Harry Potter flew over has a fancy apartment. Inside the St. Pancras clock tower, there's an apartment with ridiculously high ceilings and two bedrooms. Unfortunately, since it's literally on top of a train station, neither bedroom can give you a good night's sleep. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Born Yesterday

Classic Hollywood Movies Original VS. Remake 1950 Born Yesterday This classic rom-com with Judy Holiday tells the story of an uneducated woman whose pig of a boyfriend gets her an educated man to, erm, educate her. The remake with Melanie Griffith, John Goodman and Don Johnson wasn't nearly as good, but we still think this dangerous concept still has some steam in it. 1993 CRACKED.COM

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis CRACKED COM We've had false alarms before, but his current retirement, effective since 2017, seems pretty permanent. He released a statement that he will no longer be working as an actor, nor would he make any further comment on this subject. — Source: People

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The Heat

Jessica Chaffin's boobs get their own credit in The Heat. MARK MULLINS BILL BORN DATE CORDDRY EL MULLINS GINA JESSICA CHAFFIN GINA'S BOOBS JESSICA CHAFFIN'S BOOBS JAMIE DENBO BETH MIRIAM TOLAN PATHOLOGIST You gotta give credit where credit's due. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Brad Pitt's character in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is based on real life. Tarantino was inspired on stuntman Hal Needham, who was pretty badass - he did the kind of stunts you'd see in The Fast and The Furious, way back in the 1950s and 1960s. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Christmas Story

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Archer

COMEDIES that shouldn't have been saved ARCHER undertakes a divisive rebranding. After a Season 4 dip, Season 5 was rebranded as Archer: Vice. Fans thought the new style made it a whole different show. Critics said it wasn't quite on par, but Season 6 got back to business as usual. CRACKED — FX
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Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) during a rooftop- jumping scene in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, an injury that took months

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The Godfather

THE SICILIAN This movie starring Christopher Lambert should be a Godfather spin-off, just like the book it's based on- but copyright issues prevented any connection to Francis Ford Coppola's saga. (Which is lucky, as the movie isn't exactly good). — Source: The Directors Series

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Supernatural

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Sarah Connor

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Escaped From the Zoo, But the Zookeeper Isn’t Too Worried About

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Reading Rainbow

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Escaped From the Zoo, But the Zookeeper Isn’t Too Worried About — Source: Mental Floss

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Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj worked at multiple Red Lobsters before she was famous She was fired from multiple locations. She once followed a customer who hadn't tipped and taken her pen out to their car. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

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Princess Leia

Think Leia's slave girl costume was sexy? You have no idea. According to Carrie Fisher, the gold bikini was hard plastic that didn't move with her body, so the other actors on set got an eyeful. She quipped, if you stood behind me you could see straight to Florida. You'll have to ask Boba Fett about that. CRACKED.co http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Slave costume — 27 Mind-Blowing TRUE Star Wars Behind The Scenes Stories

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The Dark Knight

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Eminem

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Cabbage Patch Kids

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Bruce Lee

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Trader Joe’s

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Halloween

Halloween is a mashup of different cultures and traditions. It originated with the Celtic people and was a festival called Samhain. The Celts believed that at the end of summer in the north, the barrier between our world and the world of spirits were at its thinnest. So they had a festival to honor the dead and keep evil spirits away. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Historical Halloween Facts To Hex Your Brain

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Inception

INCEPTION is about filmmaking. SU NECTION WEST Ariadne is the screenwriter, Yusuf is Eames is the actor, because she the special because he can designs the effects literally change faces. dreams. guy. Cobb is the director, the Saito is the team leader studio executive, Arthur is the with vision. because he's producer, the guy paying for the who knows how it whole thing. all works. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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Frank Costanza

Why Frank Costanza Was Recast After Season 4 Frank Costanza was originally portrayed by John Randolph in the season 4 epi- sode The Handicap Spot. While the show creators had nothing but nice things to say about Randolph, they said they went in a new direction with Jerry Stiller. They felt Randolph's portrayal was a bit too waspy, and too unlike George. They also added that while they original- ly wanted a calmer father for George to juxtapose his mother, they eventually de- cided they wanted the character to be more Seinfeldian. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — ScreenRant

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Napoleon Dynamite

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Frank Zappa

FRANK ZAPPA OCTOBER 21, 1978 mne He deliberately delivered his monologue in a stilted, hey everybody, I'm reading cue cards! style, enraging both th — Mental Floss

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Cinderella

In the original story of CNDERIUA The evil stepmother cuts off the heel and toes of the stepsisters So their feet will fit the glass slippero

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Girl Scouts

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Iron Man

GAMORA AND IRON MAN HOOKED UP In the 2013 run of Guardians of the Galaxy comic, Iron Man briefly joined the team. After a night of drinking and flirti

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Keifer Sutherland

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Cars

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

CRACKED.COM Amazing effects made without CGI Close Encounters of the Third Kind Besides the insane model work, the alien ship was shot on 70 mm film, which has a greater resolution than the 35 mm film used for the rest of the movie. This allowed it to keep a good deal of sharpness and detail in the final composition.

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Ellen DeGeneres

You used to be cool ELLEN DeGENERES' shattered reputation. After BuzzFeed detailed allegations of racial insensitivity, sexual harassment and bullying, Ellen's 30 years of likability were shattered. A Twitter thread asked people to share stories of Ellen being mean, and it quickly received over 2,600 replies. CRACKED — Source

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Eternals

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Superman

In 1978's Superman, the fabric at the top of Clark's backpack when he goes to the Arctic is his baby blanket from Krypton. Which means he must have ke

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House of Cards

On HOUSE OF CARDS, Kevin Spacey portrayed Frank Underwood - a calculating sociopath with a fake charming persona for the public. After all the revelations about his sexual, CRACKED.COM and all around disturbing, behavior came out, it became apparent that he wasn't just playing a character, he was living it. — Source

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