30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That All Ominously Died in Their Cage in the Coal Mine

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30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That All Ominously Died in Their Cage in the Coal Mine
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In a very real way, Ents are the result of J.R.R. Tolkien writing William Shakespeare fanfiction.

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Hail, Caesar

Channing Tatum learned to tap dance for Hail, Caesar! Despite his role in Step Up, he had to train for three months to perform the six-minute dance sequence in this film. CRACKED.COM

Star Wars Merch

CRACKED COM STAR WARS In 2016, $262.9 billion worth of Star Wars merchandise was sold. The most popular item is the lightsaber. More than 10 million are sold every year.

2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey HAL cheats at chess. HAL's moves aren't totally legit when he beats Frank Poole. Given that Kubrick was an avid chess player (and a stickler for detail), this is less likely to be a mistake than a subtle foreshadowing that HAL isn't above deception. HAL 9000 I CRACKED.COM

Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL DROPPED 19 YEARS AFTER THE TRILOGY. CRACKED Spielberg felt it was done after 1989's Last Crusade but George Lucas started working on the alien-themed 4th movie right away. Spielberg didn't want to make another alien movie, but in 2000, his kids pressured him to do it, and Crystal Skull was released in '08.

Lord of the Rings

CRACKED.COM The Ents in THE LORD OF THE RINGS were inspired by Shakespeare. No, there aren't talking, walking trees in Macbeth - and that pissed off a young J. R. R. Tolkien, who expected that the prophecy about the woods coming against Macbeth's castle became literally true. So years later, he wrote that into his own book.

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

CRACKED.COM Keith Richards literally composed (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction in his sleep. Richards woke up in the middle of the night, recorded about 30 seconds of the song on a tape recorder, and then fell back asleep. In the morning he didn't remember any of it, until he played the recording.

The Boston Bruins

The Bruins team up on a Rangers fan CRACKED.COM When a spectator reached over the glass and whapped a Bruins player with a rolled up magazine, the entire team retaliated. They hopped the barrier one by one and beat the tar out of the magazine guy and anyone who came to his aid.

Beavis and Butt-Head

Beavis And Butt-Head CRACKED.COM The boys got their first taste of televised idiocy with a series of shorts on MTV's Liquid Television, a collection of animations from indie producers. Their first short is about them brutally murdering increasingly larger defenseless animals.

The Game

Rapper The Game put a police number out of commission for two hours. Не told his 580,000 Twitter followers that they should call a number if they want to score an internship with him, but that was the number of an L.A. police station. After the line went down for two hours from all the calls, police captain Mike Parker tweeted at The Game to just stop, which apparently worked. CRACKED.COM

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Masterfully Subverted Tropes The uptight principal Two years after Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Robert Downey Jr. continued the trope subversion by playing Principal Gardner in this teen dramedy. Unlike, say, Dean Rooney in Ferris Bueller, Gardner is not a bitter villain, but a nuanced principal clearly going through some stuff. And indeed, RDJ gives this kind of character an unusual depth. Charlie Bartlett CO d CRACKED.COM

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Hilary Swank

METHOD MADNESS HILARY SWANK's near death experience MILLION DOLLAR BABY ORNADOS She months, and gained days 19 pounds of pure trained six week for three a muscle. A huge blister on her foot developed a Staph infection that doctors said was mere hours from reaching her heart. CRACKED

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Hawkeye

Wild Superhero Deaths NOT LIKE THIS!! LIKE THIS!! HAWKEYE!!! Avengers: Disassembled HAWKEYE SACRIFICED HIS LIFE FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON. A Kree soldier shot Hawkeye in the back, igniting some explosive arrows in his quiver. Knowing he was going to blow up, he launched himself into a Kree warship to blow it up with himself. Instead of, you know, just removing the quiver. CRACKED.COM

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