40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Bounce Between Movies, TV, And Hollywood Hijiinks

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Bounce Between Movies, TV, And Hollywood Hijiinks

24 Ridiculous Rules People Were Forced to Follow at Someone Else’s Home

24 Ridiculous Rules People Were Forced to Follow at Someone Else’s Home

40 Pieces Of Pop-Culture Trivia That Missed Out On A Chair In That Stunty 'Avengers Doomsday' Trailer

40 Pieces Of Pop-Culture Trivia That Missed Out On A Chair In That Stunty 'Avengers Doomsday' Trailer

15 Trivia Tidbits That Cover Movies, Pop Culture and History They Didn’t Teach

15 Trivia Tidbits That Cover Movies, Pop Culture and History They Didn’t Teach

40 Origin Stories Of Favorite Characters From Movies, TV And Video Games

40 Origin Stories Of Favorite Characters From Movies, TV And Video Games

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Mars

Martian sunsets are blue, thanks to dust. CRACKED.COM Curiosity team scientist Mark Lemmon explained, The colors come from the fact that the very fine dust is the right size so that blue light penetrates the atmosphere slightly more efficiently. — Source

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Video Games

MAKING A TWO-PLAYER GAME WAS ESSENTIALLY A BUSINESS DECISION. FIGHT! BATTLE 11 STREET FIGHTER It didn't just mean you could play with a friend - it also meant twice the money, making the game attractive to arcade operators. They had to heavily advertise the idea, though, as players didn't seem to get it at first and just played solo. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Bible

CRACKED THE SHORTEST VERSE IN THE BIBLE IS JESUS WEPT. It can be found in the Gospel of John, chapter 11, verse 35. Ente said Jesus wept Then — Source

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9/11

The National September 11 Memorial is always carefully heated and cooled. ALAN // RICHARD /. GUADAGNO CHH MARTINEZ MARK BINGHAM It was designed so that people could always touch it, so an elaborate system of copper tubes heats or cools it as necessary at all times. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pogs

Pogs were a rip-off of the Japanese game Menko. Menko's been popular since the 1600s, travelling to Hawaii when Japanese people imigrated in the early 20th century. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Charles Dickens

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol just to quickly make some cash. £ £ £ In the fall of 1843, Dickens was in debt, his wife had just given birth to their fifth child, and the family had moved into an expensive new house. To get a quick injection of cash, Dickens decided to whip up a Christmas book in six weeks. The result was probably the most famous Christmas story ever written. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Commercials

The first television commercial in 1941 aired during a Dodgers game. BULOVA Ambassador 31 AUTOMATIC CRACKED.COM The ad, a silhouette of the continental United States, over which a watch face pops up and a voiceover says, Amer- ica runs on Bulova time, cost $9. — Source

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Swimming

An Olympic swimmer had never seen an olympic sized pool before competing. MYUNI SU IDMANI SARAYI Eric Moussambani record- ed the slowest time in 100m freestyle history, but won his heat as all other competitors false started. Не is now the head swim- ming coach of Equatorial Guinea. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Fort Peck

The Hoover Dam isn't stuffed with bodies (but another dam is). CRACKED.COM Fort Peck Dam in Montana broke in 1938, and the debris swept away eight people who had been sent to inspect it. Two of their bodies were recovered, but when the debris was recycled to make a replacement dam, the other six were almost definitely in there. — Source

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Dead Space

The corpses in Dead Space are medically accurate. After the producer deemed the initial designs for the corpses not scary enough, the developing team modeled them using photos of actual car crash victims and war casualties. CRACKED COM — Source

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McDonald’s in Africa

McDonald's is only in four African countries ماكدونالدر McDonald's M بالدوبالت McDonald's If you find yourself in Africa craving a Big Mac, you'll have to go to Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, or Tunisia. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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James Bond

CRACKED EMERGENCY Schedule Doctor isembowel Kenny Chumsky actice golf swing Petracco All Employe Colon surgery Varma must wash ectal surgery Turdiman KB Bond No before surg SOUTH PARK GIVES A NOD TO A CLASSIC BOND VILLAIN. In South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, when Kenny is rushed to the hospital, there's a board with the doctors' schedules on it. At the bottom, Dr. No's schedule is to kill Bond. — Metro

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Frank Underwood

GRACKED KEVIN SPACEY- CHANNELING A PSYCHOPATH ON CHRISTMAS (?!?) On Christmas Eve 2019, Kevin Spacey posted a weird video, like the year before, where he acted like his House of Cards character Frank Underwood, talking about the sexual assault allegations against him. A slightly mystifying choice. — Variety / NBC

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Rats

CRACKED THE ANIMAL: Trained rats can detect Tuberculosis in 7 minutes, while it takes their scientist trainers a full day. THE PITCH: SEVEN MINUTES OR HEAVEN In a Contagion-esque film, these rats stop a worldwide Tuberculosis outbreak. — BBC / Nat Geo

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A Serbian Zoo

A German Shepherd saved a ZOO employee by fighting an escaped jaguar in a Belgrade Zoo. CRACKED COM The security dog Gabi fought the jaguar through- out the zoo, giving police enough time to try and cap- ture it, and in failing that, to shoot it. Gabi was nursed back to health and contin- ued working at the zoo. — Dogs in History / Unsplash

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Fantasy Football

FANTASY FOOTBALL CRACKED.COM Drug lords Pablo Escobar and El Mexicano hand-picked a dream team of pro soccer players and flew them to Escobar's private field. Today, fans of every sport play in virtual fantasy leagues, and many believe this was the very first Fantasy game ever played. — Source: 15 Embarrassingly Kooky Details From The World Of Organized Crime

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The Aztecs

The Aztecs used obsidian weapons which were capable of decapitating horses with just one swing. CRACKED.COM The macuahuitl was a wooden club embedded with a ring of obsidian blades. The weapon was so effective and fearsome that Spanish conquista- dors would faint from what they saw on the battlefield. — Famsi

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Bowling Lessons

The Big Lebowski The cast got bowling lessons. The gang was taught how to bowl like pros by an actual pro-bowler called Barry Asher, who also worked as the movie's bowling advisor and even made a cameo. Asher also taught them the mindset of a pro-bowler: not to get too in their heads, but instead just get up and throw the f-king ball. CRACKED.COM — CBC, Wikipedia

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Tourists

Tourists in France mistook the tide for a consequence of global warming. CRACKED.COM When asked how the fami- ly got stranded on rocks 1,600 feet from the shore, the father told rescuers that they had walked there when the tide was low, thinking the water receded due to the drought. — Le Telegramme

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Carmen Sandiego

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego was made to pick up the slack from American public schools. WHERE IN WORLD IS ANDIEGO? CRACKED.COM The 1990s PBS game show was created in response to a National Geographic sur- vey stating that 1 in 4 Americans could not lo- cate the Soviet Union or The Pacific Ocean. — NY Times

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Oreos

Double Stuf Oreos are only 1.86 times larger than classic Oreos. CRACKED.COM The total amount of cookies per package was also reduced from 45 to 39 in the early 2010s, but the price stayed the same. — Source: Business Insider

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Hawkeye

Turns out, Hawkeye is inspired by, uh... Hallmark Christmas movies. I couldn't say they did not inform the Christmas of the show, a little bit. In the same way that those movies are comforting, I was reading those comics so many times, said head writer Jonathan Igla. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Twins

Twins can be conceived up to 24 days apart. It's called superfetation, and it's extremely rare. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 18 Facts About Twins That'll Make You Double-Take

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Anthrax

Dan Spitz is a watchmaker ANTHRAX CRACKED.COM The heavy metal guitarist said touring with Anthrax became mundane, and more like a job. So he quit the band to pursue his lifelong love of tinkering with timepieces. — Source: 15 Famous Musicians Who Quit The Scene For (Relatively) Normal Jobs

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Betty White

AT A GLANCE BETTY WHITE She met the love of her life on Password. When game show host Allen Ludden proposed, she turned him down because she didn't want to move to New York. Не wore the engagement ring on a chain around his neck for a year before she accepted. They were married until his death in 1981. CRACKED.COM — Source: Betty White: First Lady of Hollywood

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Actors

Brandon Crane, who played young Ben in the 1990 IT miniseries, plays a business associate of the new Ben (Jay Ryan) in IT: CHAPTER 2. CRACKED COM — Bloody Disgusting

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Tom Hardy

Tom Hardy was one of the stormtroopers in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. onto He showed up next to John Boyega (who revealed the cameo on a radio show, along with Gary Barlow's, Prince William's, and Prince Harry's cameos). CRACKED.COM — Comicbook.com

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Inadvertent Porncast

WEIRD WORLD In Spokane, WA, porn interrupted a weather forecast for about 10 seconds. It wasn't immediately clear how that managed to happen, and the police special victims unit was dispatched to investigate matters. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Soccer

Shortest Career PREMIERE LEAGUE FOOTBALL CRACKED.COM Joe Sheerin was called up from Chelsea's bench at the literal last minute. He was subbed in with less than 60 seconds remaining in their 1997 win over Wimbledon (and never played in another game). — 15 Embarrassing Sports Records No One Wants To Break

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BBC

WEIRD WORLD Anti-vax protesters tried to storm BBC HQ, but got the wrong building. BBG They marched on Television Centre in West London to protest the BBC for promoting vaccines, but didn't realize the BBC moved out of it years ago. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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Walk Hard

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS JENNA FISCHER GOT THE ROLE THANKS TO JOHN C. REILLY. WALK HARD Fischer says that while the two were working together on The Promotion, Reilly approached her about playing his wife in Walk Hard. Based on her recommendation Judd Apatow ended up inviting her to read for the role. CRACKED.COM — The Ringer

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Sleep

SLEEP JAWBON 775 7.5 49 Women 7hours 11 minutes of sleep Men 6hous 52 minutes of sleep 725 Difference Women get 19 minutes more sleep (HRS) 7 6.75 SLEEP 6.5 6.25 AVG. 6 5.75 For reasons yet unknown, women tend to sleep more than men. This pattern occurs regardless of — Source: American Sociological Review

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Scream

The Scream mask was a random find in an old lady's house. The Scream designers' initial ideas for the killer's mask looked like something that belonge

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Iggy Azalea

CRACKED COM When Iggy Azalea unexpectedly cancelled her entire Great Escape tour in 2015, she blamed it on having a creative change of heart and pra

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Jack Daniel’s

The U.S Military HaS been the largest Jack Daniel's barrel buyer since its launch in 1998. UANIFIS O1d JACK NO.7Z N07 Oid NO.Z uessee SKEY Jernessee W

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Condoms

Weavers in India use condoms to lubricate their looms. They're cheap, easily accessible, and, importantly, their lubricant doesn't stain silk fabrics.

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Face/Off

Castor Troy Is the Face/off villain the good guy eventually impales with a spear gun. The same thing happened to the original Castor. In Greek mytholo

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Fish

THE BARRELEYE FISH HAS A TRANSPARENT SKULL. The green globs visible through its skull are actually eyeballs, gazing upward. CRACKED COM htp:/lwww.ourb

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Insects

THE SHOCKING PINK DRAGON IS A MILLIPEDE. Scientists figure its bright pink color is there to warn predators about its toxicity. htolhesaatlenaloeoorao

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Terrorism

CRACKED coMT ARE YOU AFRAID OF BEING ONE OF THE VICTIMS IN A TERROR ATTACK? CHILL. YOU ARE 1860 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE HIT BY A WORLD-ENDING ASTEROID

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