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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Volunteered As Tribute in Your Stead, Which Was Pretty Cool of Them

March 10, 2025

The 2014 film Selma didn’t have the rights to Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches, so the director had to literally punch up friggin’ MLK.

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Superman 64

SUPERMAN 64 LUT HOR: If YOU WANT TO SAVE YOUR FRIENDS. SOLVE MY MAZE! LEXCORP CRACKED.COM It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a mass of red and blue polygons! One reason it's considered the worst superhero game ever? DC wouldn't allow Superman to punch bad guys. — Source

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Fight Club

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies Fight Club 2000 Sound Editing au (nominated) COFFEE There's a Starbucks cup in nearly every scene. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Moonshiners.

CRACKED MOONSHINERS DOING ILLEGAL STUFF The people on the show aren't doing anything illegal - Tim and Tickle, the stars, actually have the proper licenses to distill alcohol and they're following the law. The Virginia alcohol regulators have confirmed this. — Life and Style

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Aston Martin

James Bond's Aston Martin went missing. Two 1965 Aston Martin DB5 were used for Goldfinger and Thunderball, and two more for promotion. Three of those are still around, but the main star car was stolen in 1997 from a hangar at the Boca Raton airport, in Florida. As of 2021, it hasn't yet been found. — Sources: MotorTrend, Motorious

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Jim Belushi

Celebrity-Owned Booze and Weed BELUSHI'S FARM by Jim Belushi Belushi uses a farm he got from his Oregon neighbor to grow marijuana plants for CBD tinctures and THC products. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mike Rowe

Mike Rowe was an opera singer with the Baltimore Opera. The Dirty Jobs host learned the simplest aria he could find, auditioned, and got a job. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Grybyx

TMNT Cartoons' Worst Villains The Grybyx Some writer really TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA liked Gremlins (who can blame them?), but TURTLES wanted a sasquatch element to throw in. That's the beginning and end of it. CRACKED.COM — Turtlepedia, Ranker

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Video Game Cut Scenes

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Volunteered As Tribute in Your Stead, Which Was Pretty Cool of Them — Source: 13 Weird Workarounds Behind The Magic Of Fav Games

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Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon had to learn how to play cello after being cast in The Witches of Eastwick. Sarandon didn't know this was required of her until after she was cast, and was told if she left the production at that point she could be sued. CRACKED.COM — Page Six

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Garden State

TELL US NOW. ... Alex С. used to love Garden State - but life has changed that. I met people who actually have disorders and require medication. Now I have to go out of my way not to snap at people who insinuate that getting off meds is the beginning of 'healing' or similar bullsh*t. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tell Us Now: Once-Favorite Movies & Shows That Make You Cringe Now

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Watchmen

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Joanne Woodward

JOANNE WOODWARD got the first Hollywood Walk of Fame star. OTOWARD The Academy Award-winning actress for The Three Faces of Eve (1957) was the first to receive this dedication in 1960. CRACKED.COM — History

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Jack Black

JACK BLACK In 2016, some a-hole hacked into Tenacious D's official Twitter account and announced that Jack Black passed away. Once the band retrieved their account, they posted a reassuring message: We can assure you that Jack is ALIVE and WELL and that this was a sick 'prank. — Washington Post

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Mad Max: Fury Road

13 Cool Things You Didn’t Know About Movies (And Other Stuff) - The night-time sequence in Mad Max: Fury Road was shot in bright daylight. — Source: FX Guide

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Doctor Strange (1978)

CRACKEDcO COM The 2016 Doctor Strange isn't the superhero's first live-action film. The 1978 Doctor Strange TV movie was initially created for CBS as

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an erudite scholar. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Alan Steinberg BLACK PROFILES IN COURAGE He's written seven books, with titles like

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Awkward Handshakes

TIRED COMEDY BITS AWKWARD HANDSHAKES It's usually the punchline in most commercials, but countless movies and TV shows feature a spin on it. The missed high-five, or being left hanging, or the are we gonna hug, or fist bump, or shake, or high-five, or 'oh my god, this is so awkward! CRACKED

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Selma

CRACKED.COM Selma The movie couldn't use MLK's actual speeches. Director Ava DuVernay had to rewrite Dr. King's speeches, as someone else had the rights. — Source

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Serial Killers

MYTH: Movie and TV serial killers are geniuses (or at least clever). FACT: Actual serial killers have below-average IQs. A study of over 2,600 serial killers found that they were no smarter than your everyday idiot, with an average IQ of 94.7. This makes sense when you consider how the most famous ones got caught: Charles Manson was found hiding under a sink. John Wayne Gacy voluntarily went through a Secret Service background check. Jeffrey Dahmer left Polaroids of his murders lying around his house. Etc. CRACKED.COM http://www.businessinsider.com/a-surprising-look-at-the-average-serial-killer-2015-5 — Source

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Oasis

Oasis issued concert refunds they hoped fans wouldn't cash. CRACKED.COM After having technical dif- ficulties at a large gig, the band issued refund checks with their branding, hop- ing that fans would keep them as collectibles in- stead of cashing them in. It worked. — Source

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Martin McDonagh

UNDERAPPRECIATED DIRECTORS MARTIN McDONAGH Two words: In Bruges. McDonagh then used his classy playwright background to again explore the black comedy crime genre, and the result was the underrated Seven Psychopaths. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is interesting but politically misguided, but we still bet the In Bruges reunion, The Banshees of Inisheerin, will be amazing. IN BRUGES CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ke Huy Quan

GRACKED KE HUY QUAN JUST TAGGED ALONG. A teacher convinced her student to audition in an open casting call, and the boy's brother tagged along. They asked the brother, Ke Huy Quan, to audition, and loved him. Не met Spielberg the next day, and began shooting Temple of Doom 3 weeks later. — YouTube / Geek Tyrant

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The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker is set in 2004 and features a YouTube reference. When Owen Eldridge spots an Iraqi man filming him with a camera, he jokingly says, He's getting ready to put me on YouTube. One big problem with that - YouTube didn't launch until 2005. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Silly Historical Mistakes From Famous Movies

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Shrek

Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah became big because of Shrek. The song went mostly underappreciated for years, even as other artists kept covering it, until a version of it was used in a movie about an ogre, a princess, and a donkey. Then it started popping up everywhere. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Of Our Favorite Songs (Have Surprising Backstories)

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Dr. Strange

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The Fifth Element

POLICE ELL NYAD Flying cars, like in THE FIFTH ELEMENT, are fun and have long been a staple of the depiction of the future. This means that air traffic controller might become a more common job than fast food worker. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Inevitable, Bizarre Consequences Of Sci-Fi Technology

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House of Wax

For House of Wax, Paris Hilton had the whole crew scream together with her. She had to scream for her death scene, but she was embarrassed, so she asked the entire crew to scream along with her. They did. CRACKED.COM — Source: IGN

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Broadway

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Alien Tropes

TELL US NOW. SEXY ALIENS Mark S. says, Sexy aliens are unrealistic. Chimps are 98% the same as US, and don't we find them sexy. Imagine how different aliens will be. CRACKED.COM

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Thor: Ragnarok

Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - Valkyrie's way of opening bottles in Thor: Ragnarok is a New Zealand film — Source: Film School Rejects

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Moon

Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - The chair at the console in Moon came from the make-up room at the studio. — Source: Film School Rejects

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Lee Ving

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Volunteered As Tribute in Your Stead, Which Was Pretty Cool of Them

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Alien

CRACKED.COM Alien It just wasn't Kane's day. Kane's very first words in the movie are, I feel dead (to which Parker jokingly replies, Anybody ever tell you you look dead, man? - words we're sure he later regretted).

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Rocky

Rocky Then & Now From some dude's script to an Oscar-winning film Inspired by Joe Frazier and the two real-life Rockys (Marciano and Graziano), Stallone wrote Rocky in three days. Studios wanted to change the script and disliked the unknown actor's push to star in it. Rocky became 1976's highest grossing film, and won the Best Picture, Director, and Editing Oscars. CRACKED.COM — MGM
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Game Balls

Every ball used in an MLB game is covered in mud that comes from a secret location in New Jersey. * CFFICIA MON LEAGUE B BOO - CRACKED COM A man skims through riv- erbanks to find the mud, then refines it before it's applied to balls. It is called the Lena Black- burne Original Baseball Rubbing Mud. — Gizmodo

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Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton used to babysit Paula Abdul. When he was a teenager, Bolton and his girlfriend were friends with Paula Abdul's older sister, and he'd keep an eye on Paula on occasion. He wasn't the best at it, thoughc- most of the time, he'd be off jamming with the musicians — Source: ABC

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Dennis Haysbert

THE GOOD HANDS GUY ALLSTATE Dennis Haysbert assured us we were in good hands, and casting directors agreed. Haysbert spent five seasons as President Palmer on 24, ranking top three on IndieWire's list of Greatest TV Presidents of All Time. — IndieWire

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Michael Caine

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Cloverfield

The last shot of Cloverfield shows the monster's origin. As the camera pans away, something hits the water in the lower right corner. That's the only — Source: 6 Minor Details That Reveal Major Things About Movie Worlds

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Kryptonite

Brad Arnold from 3 Doors Down wrote Kryptonite when he was 15 during his math class. — Source

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