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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Have Been Drinking O’Doul’s All Night and Had No Idea

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Have Been Drinking O’Doul’s All Night and Had No Idea

February 11, 2025

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Robert Downey Jr.

CRACKED VS HIREABILITY EARLY CAREER LATE CAREER CRACKED.COM A massive risk One of to involve in Hollywood's most bankable your movie, stars, blowing coming in with the lid off huge insurance 2008 with bonds required both Iron Man to have him on and Tropic set Thunder

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Knowing

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Have Been Drinking O’Doul’s All Night and Had No Idea

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Mr. Clean

CRACKED MR. CLEAN Mr. Clean got a hot new look for the Super Bowl in 2017. Не had a bald head, tight pants, and a flirty attitude, though really, he had always been pretty sexy ... but why? Do we have to be horny for imaginary men who clean our drains? — Mashable

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Alien

ALIEN COULD HAVE BEEN A LAUGHABLE B-MOVIE. ALLEN The original script was rewritten to add a couple subplots and tighten some of the dialogue- and in t — From 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies.

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American Psycho 2

American Psycho 2 wasn't supposed to be American Psycho 2. When Mila Kunis signed up for a slasher movie, she had no idea it was an American Psycho sequel-because no one did. It wasn't until production kicked off that the producers decided to connect the two films. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Princess Bride

The story was inspired by the author's daughters William Goldman asked his daughters what he should write about and one said a princess and the other said a bride. — Source: EW

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The World’s End

Family members accidentally played the same role. THE WORLD'S END ORLD'S END CRACKED.COM Two actors who were cast as slightly different owners of identical pubs met on set, only to realize they were each other's cousins. — Source

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Parks and Recreation

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Movie Tropes

CRACKED.COM Best friends in high school (these are all specifically about males) try to lose Porky's their virginity before college or some other specific date. Hilarity rarely ensues. American Pie Superbad Girl Next Door Sex Drive — Source

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Final Fantasy

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Have Been Drinking O’Doul’s All Night and Had No Idea

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T.I.

CRACKED.COM In 2014, rapper T.I. once started a fight with boxer Floyd Mayweather at a Fatburger chain because he was suspicious that his wife, Tiny, may have been having an affair with Mayweather. TMT ... Mayweather has been friends with Tiny even before T.I. came into the picture and he clarified that he never had any sexual relationship with her. Despite this, T.I. continued the bad blood, dissing the boxer with a song in 2019. — Source: 34 Celebs You Had No Idea Were In Bitter Feuds

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Beauty and the Beast

Disney's Beauty and the Beast cribbed heavily from the first movie based on the story. In 1946's La Belle et la Bête, when Belle's father enters the castle, he's taken to a dinner table by an enchanted candelabra. Also, there's a magic mirror that lets you see anywhere, and a guy who asks Belle to marry him and later tries to kill Beast. None of that was in the original story. CRACKED.COM — Source: Pop Culture That's Older Than It Seems

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Metal Gear

METAL GEAR Metal Gear is a stealth game because it started + out on a slow system. It was originally designed to run on a computer called an MSX2, which could only support a few characters (and bullets) at a time without crashing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ratatouille

Adult Jokes in Children's Entertainment Ratatouille Linguini's Little Secret Very awkwardly Linguini tries to tell Collette about Remy: I have this tiny... uh, little... And then her eyes go immediately down. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Dirty Jokes In Children’s Movies And TV (That Slipped Past Us As Kids)

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The Olympics

1956, Australia Pranksters protested the Nazi origins of the Olympic torch relay by stealing its spotlight. UEISOURNE ASTUAL TORCH Barry Larkin and fr

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Ready or Not

READY OR NOT The writers have a cameo in the crossbow instruction video. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Yo-Yo Ma

YO-YO MA helps Monty Burns WOO his lady love CRACKED.COM To set the mood for romance, Ma plays the prelude to Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G major. Producer AI Jean felt lucky to book the classical musician but he had an in --he and Yo-Yo lived in the same dorm when they attended Harvard. — LA Times

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Sir Terry Pratchett

LIFE AND LEGACY OF SIR TERRY PRATCHETT NANNY OGG WAS BASED ON A REAL PERSON. She was a little old lady with the most filthy laugh you could imagine, and she had had several husbands, was a widow, and she was kind of small and dumpy and walked with a stick. She really loved her booze. She was just a lovely character, and so I put her in the books almost without any changes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom looks way too pretty and delicate to be portraying Balian in Kingdom of Heaven, who is supposed to be an intense character who takes no

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WandaVision

Doubles in MCU's Phase Four WANDAVISION The Visions collided in this show featuring twins with the powers of their mom and uncle, respectively. CRACKED.COM

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Malcolm in the Middle

Producers didn't let Aaron Paul audition for the role of Francis. MALC THe IN LM MIDDLE On Malcom in the Middle, Bryan Cranston and Paul could have been coworkers a lot sooner, but they rejected him even though he desperately wanted it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Justin Bieber

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TV Tropes

Teens in movies and TV It can't all be plastic surgery. Movies and TV shows portray rich kids who also happen to be gorgeous. Rich, popular, and attractive is a rare combo, since in reality, popular, attractive kids can be lower middle class, and rich kids can be unattractive. A LITTLE BIT DRAMATIC CRACKED — Paramount Pictures
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Houdini

Harry Houdíni CRACKED COM Before he died, the magician and his wife created a secret way to communicate to test whether seances were real. After his death, his wife held unsuccessful seances for a decade. — Source

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Pharrell

Pharrell's 24-hour music video. ISE 08:57AM AM 08 SHARE THIS MOMENT Directed by We Are from LA, the full length version of Pharrell's 2014 hit Happy is 24 hours long. It filmed hundreds of regular people and celebrities dancing to the song overll days of shooting and 42 separate locations around L.A. CRACKED — Source

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Adventure Time

PILOTS THAT WERE WILDLY DIFFERENT ADVENTURE TIME The original pilot features Penn (after creator and voice Pendleton Ward) instead of Finn, a fun catchphrase Adventure Time!, and ninjas. n CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Pilots That Were Wildly Different from the Rest of the Show

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William Shatner

William Shatner intentionally ruined takes on Star Trek when they tried to censor his kiss with co-star Nichelle Nichols. CRACKED.COM The interracial kiss between Kirk and Uhura in 1968 was a first for TV, and the network was nervous about the potential backlash. To appease certain affiliates, producers attempted to shoot an alternate scene for southern audiences where the two did not kiss. Shatner deliberately sabotaged his takes during these scenes by making faces and looking right into the camera, SO that the network was forced to show the kiss. — Source: Hollywood Reporter

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Amelia Earhart

Its infamous Amelia Earhart documentary was debunked two days after airing. AMELIA EARHART THE LOST EVIDENCE C I it CRACKED.COM Airing on History in 2017, Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence claimed that the famous pilot was captured by the Japanese in 1937. The claim hinged on a photo of her and Navigator Fred Noonan that was supposedly taken after their disappearance, but it was quickly discovered the photo was taken in 1935; two years before the expedition. — Source

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Spencer Prior

Spencer Prior Cardiff City F.C. CRACKED.COM The team owner snuck in a clause that stated Prior had to eat sheep testicles before games (a weird, but legit tradition) and had to have physical liaisons with sheep (a weird, and wholly unnecessary dig at the Welsh). — Source: 15 Suspiciously Specific Clauses In Pro Athletes' Contracts

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Dr. Evil

When Dr. Evil goes nuts about not getting sharks with frickin' laser beams, that's based on SNL boss Lorne Michaels. An SNL alum said they'd seen that conversation play out between Michaels and the SNL set designer before the show started 500 times. And, like Dr. Evil, Michaels puts his pinkie to his mouth and chews the fingernail once he's done speaking. CRACKED.COM — 7 Insane Ways Actors Got The Ideas For Famous Performances

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Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford has a species of spider named after him. The spider Calponia harrisonfordi was named after Ford nar- rated a documentary for the London Muse- um of Natural History in 1994. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Gaming Culture

CRACKED VS CULTURE GAMING THEN GAMING NOW CRACKED.COM You play Oh, you're a gamer? Name 5 games too? open lawsuits Cool! against Blizzard. — Cracked VS: Gaming Then and Now

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Mila Kunis

MILA KUNIS WAS ON BAYWATCH. Not as a lifeguard, though, as she was a preteen. She was on two episodes, playing different characters. CRACKED COM

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Friday the 13th

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Have Been Drinking O’Doul’s All Night and Had No Idea

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Diddy

P. Diddy bragged about his private jet. Then said gas cost SO much, he had to ditch it. Turned out though that there was no jet registered under his n — Source: Palm Beach Post

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Pope Francis

Pope Francis briefly worked as a nightclub bouncer in his hometown Of Buenos Aires, Argentina. CRACKED.COM

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Poltergeist

Horror movies on streaming HBO max Poltergeist Drew Barrymore auditioned to play little Carol Anne, but Stephen Spielberg thought she'd be better suited for his next feature, E.T. CRACKED.COM — MGM
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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe She liked smart guys. In addition to being married for five years to playwright Arthur Miller, Monroe was reportedly attracted to Albert Einstein, and had a framed photo of him on her piano. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Girl Scout Cookies

$800 million GRACKED.COM Forbes estimated Girl Scouts make about $800 million from cookie sales. — Source

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Chubby Checker

Singer Chubby Checker sued HP over the app called, uh, Chubby Checker. The app did exactly what you thought it does: it estimated the size of your dong (based on your shoe size), and Chubby wasn't happy about it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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