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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We’d Urgently Tell Our Ancestors If We Could Go Back in Time

March 17, 2025

They, of course, would have no idea what we’re talking about, but we’re sure they’d still love to meet us. After all, we’re family.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

Easter Eggs Spider-Man: No Way Home Spider-Man is referred to as just a kid in No Way Home when his identity is revealed, and in Spider-Man 2 when his mask comes off. In every universe, there is a confused person who thinks Tobey Maguire is a child. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Easter Eggs (Just in Time for Easter)

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Saved by the Bell

CRACKED.COM saved by the Bell The show was canceled every year. The cast ended each season thinking it was the last. — Source: People

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Get Smart

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM GET SMART GOT DUMB You'd think Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway would be dream casting for Get Smart. And you'd think being funny would be its main goal, said the LA Times. But you would be wrong. Very, very wrong. — LA Times

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Rebel Wilson

Rebel Wilson was libeled. TROLLS CRACKED.COM Australian publisher Bauer Media printed several articles accusing her of lying about some details of her childhood. She took them to court, and eventually won, but not before getting the boot from Trolls and Kung Fu Panda 3. — Source

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Justin Bieber

Celebrities' Favorite Foods O В F F Justin Bieber Spaghetti Bolognese True Bielebers know that the way to Justin's heart is a hearty bowl of pasta and meaty red sauce. It's not a bad pick. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Christian Slater

Christian Slater's all-time favorite role is Mark in Pump up the Volume. That's my favorite movie to this day. Look, I love the character. I think that there is a depth to that movie that still obviously resonates today, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ghostbusters

TELL US NOW. Forget bingeing The Office. What we need is a live-action Ghostbusters. Stephen C. says, a day-to-day work comedy about Ghostbusting wou — Stephen C.

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Scream

SCREAM When we meet boyfriend (and killer) Billy during the famous PG-13 Relationship scene, a song plays in the background, hinting at his secret ide

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Quentin Tarantino

Diane Kruger let Quentin Tarantino choke her until she passed out, in Inglourious Basterds. E In the scene, Christoph Waltz's character discovers Krug

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Man of Steel

They say it's all downhill after the first kiss. I'm pretty sure that only counts if you're kissing a human. MAN OF STEEL CRACKED.COM Save the world, get the girl, and then make it weird. — Source

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Kevin Hart

CRACKED KEVIN HART stepped down as host of the Oscars in 2018. Не tweeted a pretty standard apology for his past homophobic tweets, but later said, I apologize. Now we're in a space where I'm around people of the LGBTQ community, and I'm now aware of how these words make them feel, and why they say 'That shit hurts because of what I've been through.' I'm riding with you guys. I understand you. — Jaguar PS/Shutterstock
Billboard

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Bruce Lee

CRACKED Bruce Lee's death left Golden Harvest scrambling. When Lee died from a cerebral edema, production company Golden Harvest pieced together unused footage and shots of lookalikes to create The Game of Death. Director Robert Clouse reused scenes from other Lee movies, and even shot a cardboard cutout of the actor. — Golden Harvest
Mental Floss

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Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. buried the clothes that he wore in 1987's Less Than Zero in the backyard of his house. This was a symbolic attempt to bury his decadent 1980s Brat Pack image and begin a new phase of his life and career after film- ing 'Chaplin.' CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — IMDB

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Coca-Cola

Their Animal Testing Was Exceptionally Horrific It's a sad fact of modern capitalism that many corporations have a history of - or even continue to perform --animal test- ing, but Coca-Cola's was like something about of a dystopian novel. One study in- volved cutting open the faces of chim- panzees to study nerve impulses used in the perception of sweet tastes. Having apparently realized there are other ways to test that (or it's just not worth it to go Face/Off on some monkeys just to find out people like sweet things), the compa- ny pledged to cease unnecessary animal testing in 2007. — NYTimes

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio & Camila Morrone 23 YEARS Leo famously doesn't date women over 25, and Morrone is no exception. When they met she was 20, less than their age gap. Consider that she was born in 1997, the year Titanic came out. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Eyebrow-Arching Celebrity Relationship Age Gaps

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Diablo

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We’d Urgently Tell Our Ancestors If We Could Go Back in Time — Source: 29 Video Game Features With Just Bonkers Backstories

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

WHO WAS DAVID WISE? DAVID WISE CREATED EVERYTHING YOU LOVE ADOUT THE NINJA TURTLES. The turtles' love for pizza, their individual personalities, Shredder being their main foe... Nothing of that was in the original comics - it all came from Wise. He wrote the cartoon's opening five-parter, and then went on to run the show. — Source: ScreenCrush

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Ant-Man

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN LIVING NIGHTMARES CAN BEGIN IN MANY WAYS! HENRY PYM'S BEGAN WITH A CRY OF TRIUMPH! IT WORKS! I'VE DONE IT!! TALES TO ASTONISH Dr. Henry Hank Pym (played by Michael Douglas) first appeared in Tales to Astonish #27 in 1962. In the movie Ant- -Man when Darren Cross talks about Hank's career and jokes about his tales to astonish it's a reference to Hank's first appearance in the comics. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hugh Jackman

Hugh Jackman came up with the line What do they call you? Wheels? on the Men set. — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Eyes Wide Shut

Tom Cruise had to walk through a door 95 times for Eyes Wide Shut. Due to Stanley Kubrick's infamous perfectionism, Cruise had to do 95 takes of a min — Source: 6 Scenes In Famous Movies That Were Insanely Hard To Film

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Titan A.E.

TELL US NOW. There's way more to Titan A.E. than we saw in the movie. There was a lot of world building done in preparation for the movie, but so muc — Ben S.

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Family Matters

Family Matters CRACKED.COM Long before Urkel stole the show, the spotlight was supposed to be on Harriette Winslow. She was a breakout success on Perfect Strangers, where she played a sassy elevator operator whose cop husband used to drop by from time to time. In this scene, she delivers the line: excuse me baby, this is a family matter, and you're in the line of fire. — Source

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Bambi

The voice of Bambi became a Marine. Donnie Dunagan voiced young Bambi when he was 6-and for decades, he didn't tell anyone. Не went on to join the Marines Corps, and became the youngest drill instructor ever- a career path where being a baby fawn would have only brought him endless mockery. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Christopher Reeve

A FORGETTABLE 1995 HBO MOVIE CALLED ABOVE SUSPICION FEATURED CHRISTOPHER REEVE. ... AS ... AN OFFICER CONFINED TO A WHEELCHAIR. This film aired May 25. May 27 was the day of Reeve's horseback riding accident. The movie where he plays a paraplegic was released just two days before he landed in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brent Hershman

Hollywood tragedies that brought change Pleasantville A car crash In honor of cameraman Brent Hershman, who died in a car crash after a 19-hour shift, the Screen Actors Guild and other entertainment unions have come together to make sure no one works more than 12 hours in a day. This is now known as Brent's Rule. CRACKED — New Line Cinema
Backstage

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Frank Sinatra

CRACKED.COM The Shot Frank Sinatra Не struggled with depression, destructive tendencies, and loneliness. Indeed, loneliness might be the one central theme of his entire musical career. His up-tempo songs are about release from it (a new girl), and his ballads are about newfound loneliness (a girl that goes away). — Source: Why Sinatra Matters, by Peter Hamill (via Google Books)

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Star Trek

The Star Trek episode Amok Time showed us Vulcans' mating season, which is triggered by a condition called Pon Farr which would kill Spock unless he mates... Unless you saw the German edit, which changed Pon Farr to a space fever, cut out all mating references and turned everything else that happened into a hallucination Spock was having. CRACKED COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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Uncharted

Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series originally looked a lot like Johnny Knoxville. Developer Naughty Dog based the character model on the Jackass star, but later decided to go for a less goofy approach, and turned the handsome up a few notches. The final product became a mixture of Knoxville and Drake's voice actor, Nolan North. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Unnoticed Game Details That Were Insane Work

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Rushmore

One shot in Rushmore is a nod to French photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue. YANKEE RACERS FOUNDER Lartigue partly inspired the movie, and the shot of Max as the Founder of the Yankee Racers is closely based on a photo of Lartigue's brother. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Interesting Facts (About Movies And More) To Tickle The Ol’ Grey Matter

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Gorillaz

Gorillaz drummer Russel Hobbs was the sole survivor of a drive-by shooting. His friends that were killed possessed his body, gave him extraordinary music skills, and turned his eyes completely white. CRACKED.COM — Origin Stories That Are Over-The-Top Dark (For No Reason)

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Bill Hicks

I don't come here to think, a heckler yelled at BILL HICKS Hick's comeback was, Well, tell me where you do go and I'll meet you there. — Source: The Guardian

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin's debut was slaughtered by critics. Rolling Stone's John Mendelsohn bashed Jimmy Page's weak, unimaginative songs and called Robert Plant prissy. John Paul Jones later said, In our naïveté we thought we'd done a good album, and then this venom comes flying out. CRACKED.COM — Source: 24 Pop Culture Iconic Things (That Bombed Initially)

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Shallow Hal

... TELL US NOW. SHALLOW HAL Jennifer K. says, The whole movie is just so cringe now. The movie is about a superficial man who is given the ability to only see people's inner beauty, so he unknowingly falls for an overweight woman. Fat jokes galore. CRACKED.COM

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Devo

The kids wanted to get down with DEVO SQUARE PEGS CRACKED.COM The young cast was out of control-they were doing drugs and they were making out and they were coming on to us in a big way, says Devo's Gerald Casale. They might have been 15 or 16, but in their heads they were already 40. I don't think there was a virgin on the set. — AV Club

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Mikhail Youzhny

A tennis pro slices his own forehead open Russian tennis player Mikhail Youzhny was frustrated with his performance in a 2008 match, and decided to give himself a hard reset by bashing his own head repeatedly with his racket. And it worked! He won the match. — Source: YouTube

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Star Wars

TELL US NOW. Star Wars CRACKED Mike D. called out TIE fighter pilots: The Millennium Falcon is a much bigger ship that was flown by various /copilot teams and it constantly outmaneuvered the (supposedly) more agile fighters.

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Labyrinth

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George R.R. Martin

George R.R. Martin first imagined fantasy worlds thanks to the pet store turtles he had as a boy. Young Martin was taking proper care of them, so he c

2

Chuck E. Cheese

Chuck E. Cheese's existence was an accident. PzzA TIME CHUCKECHEESE'S WheteicanbeAkid. Nolan Bushnell was planning on creating a coyote mascot for his

1

Fox News

Ever catch terrorism analyst Wayne Simmons on Fox News? LIVE Fo INEWSI WA NE SIMMONS c0u FORM R CIA OPERATIV AND HAS THE RIGS TO CHOOSE HE Then you've

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