39 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Conservative Pundits Are Convinced Are Evidence of Satanic Worship

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39 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Conservative Pundits Are Convinced Are Evidence of Satanic Worship

Activision was started because a shortsighted Atari boss told programmers “anyone can do a cartridge.”

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Lost Tropes

CRACKED.COM Lost Tropes Japanese products suck After World War II, a common trope was Japanese products being of inferior quality. The country seems to live in the future now, but hey, this made sense back then.

Street Fighter

Street Fighter's M. Bison got that name kind of randomly. om The original M. Bison M. Bison The character was originally called Vega In the Japanese version of Street Fighter lI, and M. Bison was the name of a boxer character who was a pretty clear homage to Mike Tyson.

Source: Kotaku

E.T.

Pop culture inspirations E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg's childhood experiences and filming the climactic scene of Close Encounters of the Third Kind inspired him to incorporate a divorce theme into E.T., which explores a family trying to fill a big void after a divorce. CRACKED

Monsters University

Back to School Movies and Episodes The Right Scare For The Job SCARER it I MU 2013 SCARE and I Monsters University The sequel to Monsters Inc. takes us back to when Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan were in college. On top of seeing what monster-based fraternities are like, we get to see how Sully and Mike go from rivals to besties between classes. CRACKED.COM

The Godfather Part II

Hyman Roth from The Godfather: Part II was based on Meyer Lansky, a real gangster. The story goes that Lansky called Roth after seeing the movie and said the performance was great, but also told him, You could have made me more sympathetic. After all, I am a grandfather.

Source: AMC

Mario

39 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Conservative Pundits Are Convinced Are Evidence of Satanic Worship

Bella Thorne

When A hacker threatened to leak Bella Thorne's nudes... ...she released them herself -- exposing his phone number billboat to her 7 music awards mill

Burning Man

Burning Man used to be held on a beach next to the Golden Gate Bridge. They moved it to the desert when the crowds got so big that the police started

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