12 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Fished Out of a Dumpster With Our Little Raccoon Hands

A minor detail dropped at the end of Breaking Bad became an important setting in Better Call Saul. But writer Peter Gould found an early draft of the original episode, which has Saul working at Hot Topic, instead of Cinnabon.

Since 2016, Warren Buffett has been offering a $1 million prize to any employee who can correctly guess the results of the first round of March Madness, but no one’s been able to do it. After relaxing the rules to allow for two wrong picks, 12 people qualified. The prize went to a person who picked 29 consecutive games correctly.

L.O.L. Surprise Dolls was found to have copied the looks and styles of the OMG Girlz, an R&B group created in part by T.I. and his wife Tameka Harris.

Steph Curry and Michelle Obama are dropping a new sports drink, called Plezi, which will be sold on Amazon. The opposition party wants to make sure you’re well hydrated for the revolution.

One of three original models used in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial is going up for auction, and it’s expected to go for just under $1 million.

A record store owner in Vancouver had what he believed to be a bootleg of some Beatles demos from the 1960s, but when he played the reel-to-reel tape, he became convinced that it may actually be their 1962 Decca Records audition tape (after which Decca infamously passed on the band).

Sound mixer Greg P. Russell has 17 nominations since 1990, and has yet to walk away with a win.

Songwriter Diane Warren is at 16 nominations, although she received an “Honorary” Oscar in 2022, so it’s not totally clear if she qualifies for this distinction anymore. Either way, Bradley Cooper is getting up there, with 12 nominations in 11 years.

The Oakland Athletics just unveiled the design of their fancy new 33,000-person stadium. It looks like if the Sydney Opera House was built out of Duplos, and has been nicknamed the “Spherical Armadillo.”

Warner Bros. has locked in a movie based on the r/nosleep creepypasta, “I pretended to be a missing girl so I could rob her family.” It’ll star Sydney Sweeney.

The current owner of the Boston Celtics bought the team in 2002 for $360 million, and just cut a deal to sell it for $6.1 billion.

Someone bought Dylan’s denim jacket at auction for £19,575, and it was recently revealed to be none other than Timothée Chalamet.