40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Monotonously Droned Into Our Ears on NPR

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Monotonously Droned Into Our Ears on NPR

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Wizards of Waverly Place

WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE ALEX AND MAX KILL THEIR FRIEND Alex turns her former friend Stevie into stone. Max accidentally trips on the stone, shatterin

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hollywood tough guy, also took ballet lessons.

Stan Lee

Stan Lee's cameo in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is a nod to an old comic. During Reed Richards and Sue Storm's wedding, the Marvel comic

McDonald’s

M U NAGGA RUSSIAN In 2006, McDonald's Japan ran a promotion in which 10,000 mp3 players would be awarded to lucky customers. The players contained a virus which stole data when connected to a computer. McDonald's had to provide the winners with an antivirus program and replace the players. GRAGKED.COM

Sylvester Stallone

In 1971, Sylvester Stallone sold his dog, Butkus, for $40 to buy food. After selling the script for Rocky, he bought him back for $15,000. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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I Know What You Did Last Summer

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER LOIS DUNCAN The book by Lois Duncan: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST Four high-school SUMMER friends accidentally kill a boy, and try to hide it. The movie: A bloody slasher film full of dead teens. CRACKED.COM

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Silence of the Lambs

The first choice for Hannibal Lecter was Sean Connery. Не refused a role in Silence of the Lambs very quickly because he found it disgusting and said he'd never play something like that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Saturday Night Fever

CRACKED.COM SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER WAS BASED ON A BIG LIE. The New York Magazine article Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night made disco mainstream overnight, and the movie was based on it-too bad that it was all lies. Reporter Nik Cohn made up Tony Manero (and everything else) after he failed to get any good interviews.

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Mission: Impossible 2

A stuntman got hurt so badly on Mission Impossible: I, his career was over. TOM CRUISE M:i-2 SUMMER 2000 It was his first big Hollywood movie, and he got knocked over by a motorcycle flying through the air, resulting in severe injuries that left him unable to work as a stuntman. CRACKED.COM

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Microsoft

CRACKED Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that would monitor employees' body language and facial expressions during work meetings, in order to give the events a quality score. 104A 106A 106C 78 106B 104C 106D 104B The patent envisions rooms being packed with sensors to monitor the participants. This raises privacy concerns, as Microsoft is already under fire over a separate productivity-score tool that allows managers to keep track of individual workers' use of different software programs.

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The Beatles

In 1968, the Beatles formed Apple Corps Ltd (informally known as Apple). GRACKED.COM In 1981, a lawsuit was settled with Apple Computer with the payment of $80,000 to Apple Corps. As a condition of the settlement, Apple Computer agreed to stay out of the music business.

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Boy Meets World

Deleted scenes that weren't going to be in the movie Boy Meets world You're crushing Eric That was the line that they could never make it through. Shawn and Corey were supposed to sit on a couch where Eric was hiding, but could never get through the shot without breaking. CRACKED.COM

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Spider-Man: Homecoming

SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING CRACKED.COM Peter Parker and his PE class get physical fitness tips from Captain America, but a number of Rappin' with Cap PSAs didn't make the final cut. It doesn't get much funnier than listening to the Captain take on fire safety, tooth decay, and puberty. So your body is changing.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

VOICE TALENT WAS ESPECIALLY HEROIC CRACKED.com Kaneda, in the original English dub, is voiced by Cam Clarke (Leonardo; the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series), Masaru and Kai were voiced by Bob Bergen (current Porky Pig), and, in the 2001 remaster, Kaneda was voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch (Adam Park, the black Power Ranger).

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Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper CRACKED.com Wet Hot American Summer was Bradley Cooper's feature film debut, as multi-poloed prepster Ben. Now, your mom knows him as the handsome Hangover guy.

Ron Nessen

RONNESSEN FORD PRESS SECRETARY SRTURDI NiGh AL FRANKEN INVITED NESSEN TO HOST AFTER CHEVY CHASE DID HIS PART TO PAINT PRESIDENT FORD AS A CLUMSY BOZO. THE PRESS SECRETARY TOOK HIM UP ON THE OFFER, DELIVERING A WOODEN PERFORMANCE MANY TOLD HIM WAS AGROSS ERROR OF JUDGEMENT.

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Superman

1978's Superman is still the gold standard for superhero movies. THANKFULLY, NO ONE EVER THOUGHT OF RECREATING THAT BAFFLING POEM. Can you read my mi

George Romero

George Romero was an FBI agent in Silence of the Lambs. After the conversation in which Clarice tells Hannibal Lecter about the lambs screaming in her

Iron Man

IRON MAN & DR. STRANGE ARE THE SAME GUY. J ARROGANT J WEALTHY J COLD AND DISTANT HUMBLED BY A BRUTAL INURY THAT FORCES THEM TO DISCOVER THEIR HIDDEN S

Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy's Babes in Toyland (aka March of the Wooden Soldiers) is my Christmas must-see movie. Sure, it's a fun holiday tale about how good tr

The Croods

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Monotonously Droned Into Our Ears on NPR

Gabriel Iglesias

AodGn fny Gen e SHOULD HAVE BEEN PLAYED BY Gabriel Iglesias PLAYED BY Will Smith His ripped abs aren't reminiscent of Genie's fluffy waist His knack

Nintendo DS

Plasl In the early days of the Nintendo DS people were afraid that predators could use the Pictochat feature to prey on children. The fears were unfou

Speed

Speed is about a fast-paced h-speed chase. Speed 2 takes place on a slow-moving cruise ship. In the original movie Sandra Bullock plays Annie, who is

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