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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Joined Up From Across Different Fact Franchises for a Cynical Crossover Event

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Joined Up From Across Different Fact Franchises for a Cynical Crossover Event

April 19, 2025

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Mattel

CRACKED MATTEL'S NIMBUS 2000: A SHORT-LIVED HIT WITH KIDS AND ADULTS ALIKE. In 2001, Mattel released a vibrating version of Harry Potter's broomstick, the Nimbus 2000. It was a big hit, but it was quickly taken off the shelves after people on Amazon.com started talking about how popular it was among younger girls. — Source

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The Birds

Illegal filmmaking Alfred Hitchcock terrorized actors and birds) on The Birds. Hitchcock pelted actress Tippi Hedren with live birds (injuring and killing the birds), and force-fed whisky to seagulls to get them to stay still for longer. Hedren was hospitalized, and he ruined her career when she refused his sexual advances. CRACKED — Source

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The Pianist

CRACKED.COM THE PIANIST It was a co-production with the UK, Poland, Germany, and France. Given the multiple settings of the story, and how World War II andThe Holocaust impacted those nations, it was important for the four countries to weigh in and invest.

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Dave Letterman

CRACKED LETTERMAN SUCKED ON JENNIFER ANISTON'S HAIR. In 1998, he grabbed her neck, put a lock of her hair in his mouth, and sucked on it. She jerked away, asking, What are you doing? and used a napkin to dry her hair off. — YouTube / Instyle

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Hakeem Olajuwon

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David Spade

Surprising Celebrity Couples HS Naya Rivera and David Spade The two were first seen in a pool together, joked about not being dating... and then kept being seen together. The 22-year age gap didn't stop them from dating for a while. CRACKED.COM — Source: The List

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Prince of Persia

PRINCE OF BE PERSIA CRACKED.COM In 2010, Disney cast Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince of Persia, and it didn't initially cause much controversy. Now seen as one of the decade's worst examples of whitewashing, Gyllenhaal has since stated, I learned a lot from that, and am now more thoughtful about the roles I pick. — Source: indiewire

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Sleeping With Other People

Sleeping With Other People CRACKED GOM Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie's characters are a womanizer and compulsive cheater whose friendship eventually turns into more.

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The Adventures of Pluto Nash

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM The Adventures Of Pluto Nash If you saw this Eddie Murphy movie in 2002, you had plenty of room to stretch out in the theater, if you didn't walk out before the end. After a 100 million dollar budget, it raked in 7.1 million dollars at the box office. — Source: The Numbers

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Lego

Lego is the world's largest tire manufacturer. The company produces over 318 million tires every year- or about 870,000 tires a day. CRACKED.COM — Source: Safelite

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Jeremy Renner

Celebrity Side Hustles Jeremy Renner House flipper Renner's been flipping houses with Kristoffer Winters for a while, and says he's made more money than from acting. Не even worked on a house during the awards season, when he was nominated for Best Actor for The Hurt Locker. CRACKED

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Idina Menzel

Idina Menzel was credited as Adele Dazeem in a playbill. AT THIS PERFORMANCE THE ROLE OF ELIZABETH WILL BE PLAYED BY ADELE DAZEEM After John Travolta famously butchered her name, the Broadway show If/Then (which starred Menzel) made a nod to the mispronunciation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Saturday Night Live Spain

SNL around the world Saturday Night Live Spain lifted material from the American SNL and aired on Thursdays. It's no surprise it was canceled after a few episodes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kung Fu Panda

CRACKED In the TV series Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Mantis mentions having dated a caterpillar. Given that a caterpillar is the larval form of a butterfly, there's zero chance - even in a world of anthropomorphized animals - it was legal. — Fandom

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Scream

GRACKED SCREAM INSPIRED A REAL-LIFE MURDER. In 2001, 24-year-old Thierry Jaradin from Belgium stabbed 15-year-old Alisson Cambier 30 times while wearing a Ghostface costume. Не confessed that he was inspired by the film, and was sentenced to life in prison. — The Guardian / Yahoo

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Wakanda Forever

CRACKED FRANCE, LEAVING MALI? APPARENTLY NOT IN WAKANDA. The French Defense Minister was mad about a scene in Wakanda Forever that showed bad guys who looked like French soldiers attacking a post in Mali. It was a sore spot since France just ended a nine-year mission in Mali the year before. — Orlando Sentinel / RFI

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Halle Berry

CRACKED RUMOR: HALLE BERRY HAS 6 TOES ON ONE FOOT. SSII BLACK AND WHITE FACT: Halle Berry has 5 toes on each of her feet. She addressed the rumor on Ellen and even pulled her 10 very normal toes out for all to see. — Instagram / Hello Mag

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Meghan Markle

Children's books written by celebrities The Bench by Meghan Markle The The Duchess of Sussex wrote a BENCH poem from the perspective of Meghan the Duchma of Supan a mother speaking to the father of her son, exploring that special relationship. CRACKED.COM — Lev Radin/Shutterstock, Random House
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Charlestown Chiefs

Fictional Sports Franchises С CHIEFS Slap Shot TIFFS Charlestown Chiefs This team are the Apostles for any and all hockey goons. While several NHL teams could outskate and possibly outscore the Chiefs, they sure as hell can't outfight them. CRACKED.COM

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Key & Peele

CRACKED.COM KEY& PEELE THEY STILL WORKED TOGETHER AFTER THE SHOW ENDED. While their careers went into different directions, Key and Peele still collaborated occasionally with projects such as Keanu, Storks, and Toy Story 4. — Source: TheThings

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Star Wars

STAR WARS The Death Star attacking the Rebel base was created during editing. The attack on the Rebel base was created entirely out of old and unused shots-originally, the climax was only an attack on the Empire. The ticking clock was added to put more on the line. CRACKED.COM — Source: Nerdist

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Death Note

LOVE & MURDER DEATH NOTE Mainly the foot-washing scene. What says love and hate more than washing your enemy's feet? CRACKED.COM

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Ryan Seacrest

They bullied Ryan Seacrest about his weight when he was just a kid. I was teased for it, and I will always see that little boy when I look in the mirror. I cannot get past it, I've talked to our experts about it, but for some reason, I just cannot see that guy, he explained. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Street Fighter II

MAKING STREET FIGHTER II COST ABOUT $2.45 MILLION. 3701 1P Zamolas 99 It was the most expensive game Сарсот had made up to that point, with about 35 people (half of them artists) working on it for nearly a year. It paid off, though, as the game was a huge hit, both in Japan and overseas. CRACKED.COM — Polygon

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James Woods

When Hollywood actor James Woods isn't making guest appearances on The Simpsons and Family Guy... HULL MSH CRACKED.COM LOOTING: Не slams undocumented immigrants, denounces the president, and shares alt-right memes! WHEN FREE FOOD, HOUSING, PHONES, HEALTHCARE Millions come LEGALLY to USA. Calling Illegal & EDUCATION AREN'T ENOUGH. aliens undocumented immigrants is like James Woods calling heroin dealers undocumented @RealJamesWoods pharmacists. This President is a true abomination. That is, until he QUIT Twitter over the site's purging of alt-right figureheads for violating community guidelines. — 18 Surprising Things That Celebrities Believe

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Ashlee Simpson

Mother- & Daughter-In-Law GRACKED.COM Did you know Ashlee Simpson is married to the son of Diana Ross, making her a sister-in-law to Tracee Ellis Ross. — Billboard

14

Perfect Dark

PERFECT DARK Position Image er ightness OK CRACKED.COM Perfect Dark was to have a face-mapping feature that enabled players to change the appearance of enemies into that of family and friends using their GameBoy Camera. Insurmountable technical difficulties caused the feature to be scrapped; that, or the eventual lawsuits sure to follow. — Source: 16 Early Wack Versions Of Popular Video Games

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The Fault in Our Stars

GRACKED COM THE FAULTIN 1 OUR STARS INTIANA 45 In the book, Augustus Waters has another girlfriend, Caroline Mathers, who dies from brain cancer before he meets Hazel. In the film, it is heavily implied that Hazel is his first girlfriend. — Source: 24 Adaptations That Ignored The Source Material

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Dunkirk

When you're watching Dunkirk's dogfights, you're seeing real planes. The planes weren't CG or anything - they're either actual WWII planes or 1/4 scale models. All in all, there's very little CGI in the aerial scenes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Poltergeist

THE ACTOR PLAYING ROBBIE ALMOST 'COT STRANCLED FOR REAL WHILE FILMING POLTERGEIST. In the 1982 film, Robbie gets strangled by the animated clown doll, but while filming the scene, the arms of the props doll was way too tight. Actor Oliver Robbins screamed that he couldn't breathe, but Spielberg thought Robbins was just improvising... until he saw the kid's face turn purple. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Eminem

AT A GLANCE EMINEM In 2020, the Marshall Mathers Foundation sent Mom's Spaghetti to frontline caregivers Eminem sent 400 spaghetti meals for the staff of two Detroit hospitals in April 2020. CRACKED.COM — Source: Detroit News

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Seth Rogen

SETH ROGEN AND BEYONCE LICEN ING THE Rogen met Beyonce at the premiere of The Lion King... and got some of his beard stuck in her sequins. The first time he tried to meet her - years ago at the Grammys- he walked straight up to her, only to have a bodyguard hit him so hard he spilled his drink all over the place. CRACKED.COM — Bustle

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Blade Runner

Blade Runner is known as Winged Bounty Hunter in Hungary. RYAN GOBLING HARRISON FORD SZARNYAS FEVADASZ 2OS Bounty Hunter makes perfect sense, but th — Source: IMDB, Google Translate

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George Clooney

GEORGE CLOONEY MADE MATT DAMON THINK HE WAS GAINING WEIGHT. While filming The Monuments Men, Damon needed to start losing weight for his next role. Cl — People

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Cypress Hill

CYPRESS HILL OCTOBER 22, 1993 AFl Lorne banned Cypress Hill for life after DJ Muggs sparked up a spliff onstage. (Psst, Lorne, it's legal in NYC now.) — Good Housekeeping

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Freddie Prinze Jr.

Freddie Prinze Jr. FRED JONES CRACKED COM As he started to age out of teen heartthrob territory, he had a hard time finding his niche. He spent the la

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Horizon Zero Dawn

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

What if Mac, Dee, and Dennis from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia don't actually look the way we see them? BEATCOAST Mac looks strong, but is often

2

Porky Pig

Porky Pig's directors thought he was awful. Freleng Tashlin The first director of Porky Pig cartoons, legendary animator Friz Freleng, said Porky was

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Westworld

CRACKEDcO Show: Westworld COM Inspiration: Bioshock Director Jonathan Nolan explained: I was Ken Levine, the designer of those games... and he

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