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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Got Instead of the Value Meal We Ordered

February 08, 2025

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Lord of the Rings

A lot of Lord of the Rings fans have asked why the Fellowship didn't just ride the giant eagles into Mordor. But maybe that was Gandalf's plan, and the reason his dying words were fly, you fools! CRACKED.COM

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The Wolf of Wall Street

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE PRODUCTION GOT INTO TROUBLE WITH THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET The film's production company, Red Granite Pictures, was forced to pay around $60 million to the U.S. government after being sued for using money misappropriated from a Malaysian state fund to finance the film. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About The Wolf of Wall Street

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Ben Stiller

Ben Stiller got attacked by a ferret while filming Along Came Polly. Stiller was holding the ferret for a scene, and, in his words, he did this crazy turn-around thing. Не literally attached himself to my chin and he didn't let go. CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Takei

EARLY GIGS OF STAR TREK ACTORS GEORGE TAKEI GODZILLA Oh no, there goes Tokyo, go go Godzilla! Before his Star Trek fame, George Takei was in a bunch of Godzilla movies, including Rodan, Gigantis and Godzilla Raids Again. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Bill Murray

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Got Instead of the Value Meal We Ordered

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Alec Baldwin

In 2013, Alec Baldwin chased down a TMZ paparazzo and called him homophobic slurs. HARRI HARR de INSTON AMERICA So MSNBC first suspended his talk show Up Late with Alec Baldwin for two weeks, then cancelled it. Funding for his radio show dried up, AT&T cancelled a paid speech of his, and his bank didn't renew their contract with his charity foundation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ke$ha

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Got Instead of the Value Meal We Ordered

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The Last Jedi

RIAN JOHNSON'S HAND IS IN THE TDC 90000 LAST JEDI. CRACKED.COM The gloved hand grabbing Han Solo's dice at the end of the movie doesn't actually belong to Mark Hamill-it's the hand of the director, Rian Johnson. — Source

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Bewitched

NOT-SO-WHITE CHRISTMAS BEWITCHED Samantha and Darren teach Tabitha about racial equality for the holidays -in blackface. Darren looks disturbingly lik — Popdust

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Katy Perry

Apparently, Katy Perry's pet name for Orlando Bloom is bubbadoo. That's judging by the way she described one of her songs - - I feel very loved and this next song is about being so loved and so seen that you never, ever, have felt this feeling before. This feeling of love. This is called 'Into Me You See,' for bubbadoo. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kingsman: The Secret Service

Kingsman: The Secret Service was a surprise hit, praised for its clever humor and thrilling action. IT ALSO ENDS WITH AN AWKWARD ANAL SEX JOKE.

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Jim Carrey

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM JIM CARREY Carrey has evolved from the stand up, impressionist, and rubber-boned physical comedian he was in the '80s and '90s. After condemning his own appearance in Kick Ass 2, and having everyone else condemn Dumb and Dumber To, Carrey has brought a very different energy to his work. When he's not trying to kill a CGI hedgehog, he is an avid (and successful) expressionist painter. — Source: Art Net

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Captain Picard

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Got Instead of the Value Meal We Ordered

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Steve Rannazzisi

STEVE RANNAZZISI LIED ABOUT BEING IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ON 9/11. In 2015, The League star came clean and admitted that he came up with the story to get people to like him after moving from New York to Los Angeles. CRACKED.COM — Source

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American Gothic

The couple depicted in American Gothic aren't husband and wife. They're father and daughter. Artist Grant Wood wanted to paint the type of people he t

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MythBusters

MYTHBUSTERS DESTROYED ALL FOOTAGE OF DISCOVERING READILY AVAILABLE, EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS CRACKED.COM They got ride of all evidence and made everyone sw — Source: Nerdist

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Siri and Alexa

Don't worry: Siri and Alexa don't make kids bossier Researchers discovered children were sensitive to the context of bossing around a robot versus another human. CRACKED.COM — Source: IDC

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Orange Is the New Black

THE CIGARETTE-SMUGGLING ROACHES IN ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK WERE REAL TRAINED COCKROACHES. - Prop master Rachael Weinzimer said she CRACKED.COM couldn't just attach a cigarette to a cockroach and send it on its way, SO insect handlers had to teach the bugs to navigate a prototype maze they designed. — Source

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Jigsaw

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Got Instead of the Value Meal We Ordered

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Ben Stein

Ben Stein's economics lecture in Ferris Bueller's Day Off was an ad-lib. Lrcu Director John Hughes said Would you ad-lib a scene just as if you were teaching economics, and we'll see how it goes. Don't write anything down, just something that's really interesting to you.' CRACKED COM — Source: Yahoo

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Redwall

The guy who wrote the Redwall series was actually an unhappy milkman. - IN EVENTERS The Original ENTERS سعود : AIR Well, he was unhappy because he'd been reading to blind kids, and he thought the books available were pretty crappy, so he wrote new ones. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Grateful Dead

CRACKEDCOr So you think The Grateful Dead's CASEY JONES is for getting high? It's pretty much against it. Driving thattrrain Highoncocaine oncocaine It's clearly an anti-coke song, Jerry Garcia said in an interview. The words aren't light, good-time words.

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Terminator 2

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Performers Bookends First episode / Last Episode Philip Seymour Hoffman At his start, Hoffman guest starred in an episode of Law & Order. His final role was as Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. CRACKED.COM — Wolf Entertainment, Lionsgate
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Spike Lee

CRACKED filr SOC of li cente THE 48TH CLINT EASTWOOD AND SPIKE LEE Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee got into a big fight after Lee criticized Eastwood's war movies for not having any Black soldiers. Eastwood told Lee to be quiet and Lee called him an angry old man and said they weren't on a plantation. — Digital Fix / Britannica / Wikipedia

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Animation

Animation dates way back to the stone age, using only charcoal, flickering flames, and neuroscience. 21,000 years ago, prehistoric artists would draw

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Uncle Fester

The Addams Family CHRISTOPHER LLOYD WAS A HUGE UNCLE FESTER FAN WHEN НЕ WAS A KID. I grew up on Charles Addams' cartoons, particularly The Addams Family, and Uncle Fester was always one of my favorites. Every time the magazine came in with Charles Addams' cartoons, I'd open it up, hoping there'd be one with Uncle Fester. Не just always appealed to me, his whole persona. So, I was astonished when, literally decades later, I get a call to play the part. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kodak

CRACKED KODAK Kodak had subsidiaries trading with Nazi Germany even after the US joined the war, buying photographic supplies for 72,000 Swiss francs in 1942 and 1943. The US Embassy in London called these substantial purchases. KODAK you rest. KODAK 41 KODAK 43 KOREA STORE If I STORES - MADE 41 ROBARS KODAK DE KODAAS SOLIO FOR KOMAS secreta PURES HAND NASO NATURALS KODAK AVEL POCKET KORAKI KORAK'S 43 KODAK venta KODAK KODAK UNITED KODAK KODAK KOBAK KODAK UNITED verta UNITED KODAK one KODAK KODAK - UNTO 43 43 — The Nation / All That's Interesting

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Product Placement

Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is one of the first cases of product placement. The labels on the bar show that they're from Bass Brewery. Art critics believe it's a negative commentary on consumer culture. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Now-You-Know Facts From Art History

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Midnight Express

Midnight Express The story of Bily Hayes unbelevable courage happen THE dd A SPORTOR THAM Midnight Express CRACKED.COM Author Billy Hayes says the film completely changed the ending to his real-life story about spending years in a Turkish prison. It probably didn't help that Oliver Stone was reportedly high on coke, weed, and booze while Hayes was recounting his daring escape. — Source

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Dick Towel is a real product. Dicktowel.com is an actual website where you can purchase merchandise. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stephen Hawking

Some Swiss doctor really did suggest they should just let Stephen Hawking die. In The Theory of Everything, his wife insists Stephen must live rather than be taken off the ventilator - that's how it actually happened. CRACKED.COM — Slate

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The Smurfs

Smurfette was created to be a honey pot to trap the smurfs. The recipe Gargamel used to bring her to life called for sugar and spice but nothing nice, a dram of crocodile tears, half a pack of lies, a chatter of a magpie, and the hardest stone for her heart. Her hair turned blonde when Papa Smurf countered the spells. CRACKED.COM — Origin Stories That Are Over-The-Top Dark (For No Reason)

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Kristen Bell

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Got Instead of the Value Meal We Ordered

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Disney

O. J. Simpson DISNEY'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND CRACKED.COM Simpson appeared as himself in this already unsettling kids' show, which made the truly baffling choice to call its final episode White Rabbits Can't Jump. — 15 (Once-Cute) Cameos From Awful People

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Joe Namath

JOE NAMATH gives Bart some QB advice CRACKED.COM When Namath's car breaks down in front of the Simpson house, Bart asks the legend for pigskin secrets. There's only one thing you need to know to be a great quarterback, Joe says. But his car is quickly fixed, SO he leaves Bart with an unsatisfying remember what I said. — YouTube

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She-Hulk

SHE-HULK'S TEASER FEATURES A REFERENCE TO THE INCREDIBLE HULK TV SHOW The teaser features the same line said by Bill Bixby's Banner in the show (Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry), and Mark Ruffalo's Banner even wears the same style of clothes. CRACKED.COM — Source: We Got This Covered

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Michael Cera

Michael Cera- The Grubbs III CRACKED COM The Grubbs was yet another run-of-the-mill family sitcom set to air on Fox in 2002 featuring Mi- chael Cera as Mitch Grubb. The show was scheduled to air in No- vember of that year but was pulled before it was even given the chance due to overwhelmingly negative reviews of the show. — Source

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Baby Groot

When Baby Groot throws up in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, that's James Gunn's nod to his roots. It's his way of acknowledging that he started out in B-movies and isn't afraid to resort to the lowest common denominator which is a baby tree vomiting. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Black Panther

Black Panther's London sequence is full of blue (for a reason). The image is tinted blue, and nearly everyone is wearing it - because, according to the filmmakers, it represents colonization. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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