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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Only Ripe for About 20 Seconds

February 13, 2025

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John Cena

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Danny Elfman

Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -Danny Elfman composed the Batman score in an airplane bathroom. The score came to — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Doctor Who

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Ursula

The Little Mermaid's Ursula is a mashup of Bea Arthur, drag queen Divine, and Joan collins' Dynasty character. Bea Arthur Bea Arthur's cutting wit is

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Lara Croft

LARA CROFT CRACKED The developers of Tomb Raider wanted to stand out from the pack with a female player character, but calling her Laura Cruise felt too American for the UK-based team. — Source: Time

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Drake

DRAKE In 2015, 4Chan briefly convinced the intemet that Drake died in a car crash. The infamous messageboard filled the singer's YouTube videos with comments of condolences, changed his Wikipedia page to say that he died, and even made a fake BuzzFeed article corroborating their hoax. — Washington Post

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Sony

Sony continued to lose money on every PS3 sold until 2010. PS3 SONY GRAGKED.COM The PS3 launched in 2006 at $599, making it one of the most expensive con- soles of all-time, and it took longer than expected for PS3 to enjoy strong sales and close the gap with Xbox 360. — CNET / Wikipedia

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Billy Joel

Billy Joel wasn't impressed by We Didn't Start The Fire. THE BILLY JOEL WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE B loel- (4:29) VS 73021 - Joel and - . Hero Richard del in too Terror A inc light a Nown BAX Again Moon the Woodbleck Watergate Punk SALE Rock Begin Reagan. Palestine On The Autine in ko - Alghmaistan Wheel of Fortune Salts Ride Henry Meral. Sancide Forcign Debex Monden Ven Air Crack Bernie Goets m the - . - - We Didn't Start the Fire is one of Billy Joel's biggest hits. But Billy himself didn't think the song sounded very — Source

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Steve Jobs

THE CONSPIRACY: Steve Jobs is hanging out in Egypt. Mike Sington @MikeSington Steve Jobs is discovered alive and living in Egypt! CRACKED.COM THE THEORY: This 2018 picture is of Steve Jobs kickin' it in a plastic lawn chair. Case closed! — Source: 24 Super-Ding-Dong Theories About Celebs

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Cyrus the Virus

Cyrus the Virus gets creative. Con Air When first meeting Johnny 23, he tells him, You're somewhere between a cockroach and that white stuff that accumulates at the corner of your mouth when you'ré really thirsty. CRACKED — Source / Facebook

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Ernie Hudson

Ghostbusters movie fact - Ernie Hudson auditioned to play Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters cartoon, but didn't get cast. — Source: AV Club

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311

311 is an Omaha police code for indecent exposure. The guitarist got arrested for skinny dippinng, so they used the citation code as a band name. CRACKED.COM — 20 Surprising Reasons Behind Musicians' Stage Names

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Bill Paxton

Bill Paxton came up with his iconic Aliens line. He figured his character would have grown up playing video games, and Game Over would come naturally to him. And he had no idea it would get as popular as it did. CRACKED COM — Source: Uproxx

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Wayne’s World

Benjamin is the villain of WAYNE'S WORLD despite doing absolutely nothing wrong. He only: Gives Wayne a T.V. Finest contract yermont's OsS ENBJERRTS E

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Biopic Tropes

AWFUL BIOPIC TROPES INNOVATION COMES FROM DRUGS Yeah, drugs and famous musicians often go together - but when it comes to the narrative place of drugs, they're usually used to explain pushing artistic boundaries. Biopics, in other words, have no idea what to do with drugs. Examples include Ray, Rocketman, Walk the Line, and Bohemian Rhapsody. CRACKED.COM — Source: Patrick (H) Willems/YouTube

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Bee Movie

Bee Movie knock-off Plan Bee is a weird combination of political themes and sexual subtext. The plot is about a beehive rising up against a tyrannical

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Mr. T

I PITY THE FOOL B. .A. Baracus Sure, Mr. T said it all the time - but never in an episode of The A-Team. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot was a trap Arnold Schwarzenegger baited for Sylvester Stallone. Schwarzenegger knew right away that the movie he was being offered was crap - but knowing how hyper-competitive Stallone was, he pretended to be interested in taking the role, so his rival would try and take it away from him. And Sly just went and swallowed the bait. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Edgy Movies

CRACKED.COM Edgy Movies Then vs. Now Half buried People tortured while buried up to their necks appears in Eli Roth's Knock Knock (or The Stoning of Soraya М., to mention a good movie). The idea, however, showed up in the first Italian movie ever, 1911's L'Inferno. Italians have always liked their horror movies brutal. — More: 9 Terrifying Old Movies That Put Modern Horror To Shame

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Parasite

EASTER EGGSTRA Parasite The many staircases and their use during significant moments in the film were inspired by the Bates house in Psycho. Bong is a huge Alfred Hitchcock fan, and he also snuck in some of the filmmaker's movies into the Park family's movie collection. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Easter Eggs and Hidden Meanings in Bong Joon-ho's “Parasite”

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Going Postal

CRACKED.COM Lost Tropes Going postal After a series of incidents during the '80s, '90s comedy was full of mailmen just losing it and shooting up people. You know, before shootings got a bit too real for laughs. — Source

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Film Firsts

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first screen 1930s fighting techniques John Wayne and Yakima Canutt began working closely after Canutt stunt-doubled for Wayne in 1932. They pioneered techniques (still in use today) that make fake punches look real on camera. CRACKED — Source

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RoboCop

IIGS PRESENTS GE No.1 $1.00 CAN L2S DD ROBOCOP IS A JUDGE DREDD MOVIE. Both director Paul Verhoeven and scriptwriter Ed Neumeier admit that the Britis

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Game of Thrones

Bran GAME OF THRONES Where does Westeros' most famous peeping tom get his name? Bran is an Irish name that means Raven much like the title he later receives. It's also a bit ironic, since the first thing we learn about him is that he can't fly. — Source: BuzzFeed

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Carlos Mencia

CRACKED CARLOS MENCIA STILL WON'T ADMIT HIS JOKE THIEVERY. After two HBO specials and his own very popular show Mind of Mencia, his career was derailed in the mid 2000s after many accusations proved him to be arguably the biggest joke thief in comedy history. Не still wouldn't admit it on Bobby Lee's podcast in 2021. — Ranker / AZ Central

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Dave Mustaine

cartoon celebrities Duck Dodgers Dave Mustaine The metal guitarist and singer's body is unfrozen in the 24 1/2 century to help Duck Dodgers fight off an easy-listening jazz Martian invasion. CRACKED.COM — Sources: ChechoDeadSoul/YouTube, Looney Tunes Wiki

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Spider-Man

Spider-Man Mo. 128 HUMIBKE Gwen Stacy's death is a key event in Spider-Man's history but the Mexican publisher went their own way, so Gwen never died, and even married Peter Parker. — More: 5 Insane Ways Superheroes Were Changed In Other Countries

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Halloween

Notes From Execs HALLOWEEN John Carpenter had lots of feedback on his scripts, like the time someone said about Halloween, This isn't scary. Не learned to just keep going no matter what. CRACKED — Universal Pictures
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Pokemon

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THERE WAS (ALMOST) NO SUCH THING AS 100% ACCURACY. :L9 HP: MANKEY :L9 HP: 10/ 29 MANKEY's attack missed! CRACKED.COM There is a 1 in 256 chance to miss any move, even if they have perfect accuracy. The only exceptions were for moves that didn't check for accuracy, such as Swift and Bide. — Bulbapedia

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The Blob

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Only Ripe for About 20 Seconds — Source

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Movie Tropes

MR. & MRS SMITH Perfect Gift... Bill Card TMNT West SPIDER-MAN WALL-E DAWN OF THE DEAD X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE *Awkward Elevator CRACKED.COM Music* — Source

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Kelly Kapoor

CRACKED THE OFFICE KELLY KAPOOR The emotionally charged, celebrity-obsessed drama queen who annoyed Jim with her ramblings was initially portrayed as a buttoned-up, borderline extra (which made slapping Michael in Diversity Day all the more shocking). — ScreenRant / Wordpress

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Harry Truman

Harry Truman once threatened to break a music critic's nose. After Paul Hume, an editor for The Washington Post, wrote a scathing review of a show put

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Batman Begins

CRACKEDC COM BATMAN BEGINS I admired Batman's no killing rule in dealing with criminals, especially hen he goes out of his way to stop Henri Ducard fr

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Apple

Apple: We'll let AI decide when you can swear. Apple has said they won't be changing swear words to ducking anymore in their autocorrect feature. Instead, they're going to use AI to figure out when people actually want to use bad language. i o p u t y r e W q f a C @ space CRACKED — Jesse33/Shutterstock
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The Nightmare Before Christmas

Danny Elfman's role as Jack Skellington was the only time he played a character in a movie he composed music for. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Wild Facts About 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

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Reese’s

HALLOWEEN treats Harry Burnett Reese named two candy bar creations after his children, the Lizzie Bar and the Johnny Bar, before creating and naming his biggest hit after himself: REESE'S PEANUT BUTTER CUP. eese PEANUT BU eanut bu d'arachi col ola CRACKED.COM — rustycanuck/Shutterstock, Marshmallowz/Shutterstock
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Apocalypto

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Only Ripe for About 20 Seconds

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Sega

About 150,000 Sega Master System consoles are sold per year in Brazil. SEGA Master System TM DNOCOCSCA DD That's a console from the '90s, and it's so popular because modern consoles are hugely expensive thanks to high import fees but Sega consoles are produced locally and are much cheaper. CRACKED.COM — Source: Atlas Obscura

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Doctor Dolittle

Classic Hollywood Movies Original VS. Remake 1967 1998 2020 Doctor Dolittle The original was never a classic, and the '90s version isn't exactly Eddie Murphy's best movie, but both are masterpieces compared to the latest one. How Robert Downey Jr. went from out-snapping Thanos to dragon fart jokes, we have no idea. CRACKED.COM

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