31 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Monday, December 1, 2025
Everyone has slightly different hunger cues. Some people know that they're hungry because their stomachs start growling; others know it because they get a bit lightheaded or have difficulty concentrating. I, for one, turn into a terrible, hangry beast when I've gone even a bit too long without a proper meal, and I go right back to being my normal, pleasant self as soon as I get some sustenance.
Your mind gets hungry sometimes, too. That's how you end up watching a 4-hour YouTube video essay about trains or stalking your exes at 3 AM. There are better ways to feed your curiosity, though. Namely, by reading these interesting pop culture facts; they will surely satisfy that thirst for knowledge.
Ed Sheeran
Source: NME
The Singing Nun
Smells
Source: Live Science
Funny Ads
I make a mental note to avoid any products that are featured in incredibly long or loud ads on YouTube.
Source: Science Daily
High School Dating
The Shining
A wedding ring goes right on the Vein of Love.
Source: Visible Body
Bananas
Missed opportunity to say, “That's bananas!”
Human History
Anime
It's not even remotely as cool to run out of your house with rice dribbling out of your mouth…
Radioactive Foxes
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Wolverine
Burger King
Source: Yahoo!
Subservient Chicken
This was back in 2004; whoever was on their marketing team rseemed to have seen into the future.
The Secret of NIMH
Nelson. Barry Nelson.
TV Firsts
Miguel Ferrer
Garbage Pail Kids
Is this what started that era of gross-out toys for boys in the late 90s and early 2000s?
Beverly Hills, 90210
Space Jam
The Spice Girls
Nostalgia
The more I learn about early views on mental health, the more I am sure I'd have been put in one of those padded rooms from a very early age.
Childhood Sweethearts
Natalie Portman
Imagine slacking on your part of the group project with Natalie Portman…
Aaron Spelling
Angelina Jolie for Louis Vuitton
Penelope Cruz's Sister
Gerard Butler
This man is truly a real-life action hero.