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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Raised Us As Babies When We Were Abandoned in a Library

February 15, 2025

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Radiohead

On A Friday CRACKED.COM Before they were Radiohead, they were just a few lads who would reserve their high school's band room every friday. — Source

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Ric Flair

Recognize this financial wizard? Figure-4Process Mortgage Auto Loan Refinance Loan a About Ric Flair Tired of getting the runaround and turndown fro

38

The Golden Girls

CRACKED.COM THE GOLDEN GIRLS was inspired by MIAMI VICE. In 1984, NBC shot a humorous skit titled Miami Nice, starring two older actresses, for a special advertising their new shows (like Miami Vice). Execs liked it, and the idea was developed into a full series about old ladies living in Miami. — Source

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Zach Galifianakis

ZACH GALIFIANAKIS CRACKED.COM Galifianakis thought he'd landed a spot in the cast but I got to New York and I realized quickly that I was writing. That less-than-dream job lasted only two weeks. — Source: 15 Comedy Stars Rejected By SNL

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George Clooney

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Raised Us As Babies When We Were Abandoned in a Library — Sources: Decider, YouTube

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Bone Tomahawk

CRACKED.COM Movies that switch genres mid-story 2015 Bone Tomahawk Kurt Russell leads a group of men searching a woman kidnapped by a group of feral people. It's a whole slow-burn Western, with all the classic tropes and even pulpy tone-but then we're thrown in a straight-up Italian gore movie. And it's awesome. — RLJ Entertainment
Trailer on YouTube

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The Outsiders

Matt Dillon actually fell on his ass. THE OUTSIDERS CRACKED.COM When Dallas falls out of his chair in his skeazy attempt to flirt with Cherry, the whole cast is genuinely cracking up. — Source

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The Shining

easter eggstra meanings and references THE SHiNiNG Jack's colored clothes In the first part of the film, Jack wears a lot of green, but following the dream in which he cuts Wendy and Danny into pieces, he dons his red jacket for the rest of the film, signifying how his nature has changed. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 References And Hidden Meanings In 'The Shining'

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Akon

Celebrity Colognes and Perfumes KONVICT by Akon The rapper created fragrances for men and women in bottles with handcuff-oriented designs. Because if you want to go HARD, you gotta smell like bergamot and lemon like a prisoner does. من AKON KONVICT EAU DE PARRIM-FEMME -50581 1.7FL.OZ K2 KONVICT CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movie Tropes

In movies, vast spaces separate every lane and vehicle. In real life, if you try leaving three cars' worth of room between yourself and the car in fro

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Born in the USA

Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen The song has a long history of being used in a patriotic fashion, despite it being about the difficult experiences of a Vietnam veteran returning home. CRACKED.COM

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Modern Family

Genre-Switching Episodes Modern Family Baby On Board This season finale pokes fun at the soap-opera approach to season finales by having Mitchell and Cam's adoption fall through because of secrets and scandals of the Latino family from whom they were getting the baby. Though this strays into fantasy, it's still an amusing episode that ends with Gloria revealing she is pregnant. CRACKED — ABC
The A.V. Club

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Scooby-Doo

SCOOBY DOO Shaggy CRACKED CO CASEY KASEM WILL FORTE The tragedy here is that Matthew Lillard wasn't even given a chance to play Shaggy in Scoob!, desp

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Late Night TV

WHEN YOU'RE OUT OF IDEAS KEEP GOING d Z H B CRACKEDCOR Being out of ideas' may simply mean you've worked through the obvious angles. Can you find another way to tackle the premise? When you reach your limit, try to write ten more jokes. Every dang day. — Vulture

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Seven Samurai

Best Movies Ever Seven Samurai The samurai were originally just six. Kurosawa's plan was to tell the story of six honorable and serious samurai, which he and his writing team soon realized just sounded boring. So they added Toshiro Mifune's non-samurai, and allowed him to bring some improvisation to his character. ç٥ CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sammy the Bull

CRACKED SAMMY THE BULL GRAVANO: MOB HITMAN TO INFLUENCER John Gotti's underboss took part in 19 murders, and now openly discusses them on his podcast and YouTube channel with almost 600,000 subscribers. Through those, his merch and his book, he's made roughly $500,000 since his release from prison. — Salvatore "Sammy The Bull" Gravano/YouTube
Rolling Stone

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Captain America

Easter eggs in Marvel deleted scenes The Incredible Hulk cap in ice Captain America is fleetingly visible in the ice while the Hulk is in Alaska. CRACKED.COM — Source: Scene on YouTube

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Taboo TV

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Sigur Ros

Sigur Ros CRACKEDcO For a while, they had a partnership with CBD company Lord Jones, offering gummies wistfully inspired by the flavors of foraged Icelandic berries. Those seem to be out of commission, but they now offer two different tinctures of non-THC CBD through their own website: 'Sleep and Wake. — Source: Sigur Ros

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The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES RAILWAY STATION NEIGHB BORHOOD 12358W The Fibonacci sequence The fake Good Place neighborhood's designation is 12358-W, which are the first numbers in the sequence. Michael's apartment on Earth's address is also 12358. Another frequent number used in the show was 322 (Michael's apartment number, for one), representing the Skull and Bones secret society at Yale University. The creators said they added the numbers solely to troll Reddit users. The Good Place CRACKED.COM — Source

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Katy Perry and Johnny Lewis

Katy Perry & Johnny Lewis OT D SIO M Sto Before Katy Perry was an international superstar, she dated the future Sons of Anarchy actor Johnny Lewis. Shockingly, Lewis is believed to have killed his landlady before accidentally falling to his death in 2012. CRACKED.COM — Source: People

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Billy Idol

BILLY IDOL OCTOBER 1989 CRACKED.COM A drunk Billy Idol had to pay $11,200 after smashing the TV in a Bangkok hotel. Не eventually had to be escorted out of the country on a stretcher by Thai military. — Source

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The Shining

Pop culture inspirations The Shining Stanley Kubrick was inspired by A DIANE ARBUS PHOTOGRAPH to cast the Grady sisters as twins. The original book by Stephen King does not feature twins. CRACKED

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Florence Nightingale

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Raised Us As Babies When We Were Abandoned in a Library — Source

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Ned Flanders

Sitcom Neighbors The Simpsons Hi diddly ho, Flanders, ideal neighbor. Anyone but Homer Simpson would've loved Ned Flanders as a neighbor. Half of Ned's stuff is in Homer's house, and yes he snapped and roasted everyone in town, but it was more than deserved. CRACKED — 20th Century Studios
YouTube

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Hippies

CRACKED.COM 1967 1969 1967 If you immediately think of tie. dye when you think of the hippie scene of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in the '60s, think again. The forefathers of the hippie movement were definitely into long hair, but tie-dye wasn't a thing yet. They were more into vaguely South Asian designs. — Source: 18 Historical Moments That Get Pictured Wrong

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Ashlee Simpson

GRACKED WALKED A THOUSAND MILES WHILE EVERYONE WAS ASLEEP. NOBODY'S REALLY SEEN MY MILLION SUBTLETIES. ASHLEE SIMPSON Ashlee Simpson reminds us that not everyone's journey has the same starting line. You never really know what someone's been through. — Genius

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Steely Dan

STEELY DAN was a jazz-rock duo from the late 1970s. GIANT, They were named STEAM-POWERED after a DILDO from the book Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs. CRACKED.COM http://www.steelydan.com/faq.html — Source

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127 Hours

The Disarming Scene 127 HOURS James Franco commits to a permanent round of The Stranger by cutting his own arm off with a dull pocket knife.

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Zack Snyder

ZACK SNYDER IS IN ZACK SNYDER'S JUSTICE LEAGUE. Come is Me're OPEN GRACKED COM The director can be spotted inside the coffee shop Lois Lane is exiting. The location is the actual coffee shop Snyder frequented while storyboarding the film. — Yahoo!

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The Sopranos

The Sopranos was meant a movie. Creator David Chase conceived the story of Tony Soprano as a feature- film. He was eventually convinced that his pitch would make a great TV series. — Source

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Leonard Nimoy

CRACKED Leonard Nimoy ALCOHOLISM Nimoy, most famous for playing Spock, had a long battle with alcoholism that lasted for decades before he passed away in 2015. — Vicki L. Miller/Shutterstock
National Post

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Geena Davis

Geena Davis CRACKED.COM After she was already famous, Davis came impressively close to making the US Olympic archery team for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Specifically, she came in 24th out of the 300 women who tried out. — Source: 14 Startlingly Athletic Hollywood Actors

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Extreme Dinosaurs

... TELL US NOW. Extreme Dinosaurs GRACKED Sergio L. tapped into that unique vein of radi-cool animals that followed in the wake of the lean, green ninja team: Extreme Dinosaurs/Street Sharks/Biker Mice from Mars/whatever else was released to cash in on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles craze in the 90s. — Source: Tell Us Now: 20 Absolutely Bonkers Kids' Cartoons That Would Never Fly Today

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Jedi

The Jedi are officially wild sleazebags. While Jedi Knights are often assumed to abstain from sex, George Lucas has clarified that they can, as a matter of fact, bone. The thing that is forbidden is attachment, he has said. You just know the lightsaber-wielding players keep using relationships are against my religion as an excuse to run away from commitment. — More: The Jedi Are A Bunch Of Hos

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Gravity Falls

Gravity Falls' mermaid gOeS way, way back. In the series finale, Soos holds up a mermaid that's half-fish and half-monkey. P.T. Barnum exhibited e

4

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

There are a ton of visual clues indicating what level Scott is on at any time. 2ERO 2 LL Most notably, each evil ex is subtly (okay, sometimes overt — There are countless X's, too.

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Little Mac

Little Mac had to be little because two thirds of the screen was needed for the player to focus on the larger, more intricate opponents. 3 2:58 POINTS 4770 Rounos TKO And his name was indeed a play on the newly popular Big Mac. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Doom II

John Romero's head behind the Doom II end boss was a joke the artists put in, thinking Romero wouldn't know. The head is behind the spot you shoot to kill the boss. Romero found out and, to tell them he knew, he made the boss speak (backwards): To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Quentin Tarantino

QUENTIN TARANTINO gave a yes-and-no response Yes: Tarantino agreed to his likeness being used for an Itchy and Scratchy Reservoir Dogs takeoff. No: He wouldn't voice his cartoon likeness because he didn't want to say what have him saying. — The Things

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