31 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Won’t Stop Whistling at Us From a Construction Site

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Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan GREMLINS 2 CRACKED.COM The future bane of web publishing tears off his tanktop and threatens to fight the gremsters before breaking the fourth wall and apologizing insincerely to the audience.

Ghostbusters

STRANGER THINGS INSPIRATIONS GHOSTBUSTERS The juvenile joke (and kickass climax) about crossing the streams wasn't in the script. Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd came up with the method to defeat Gozer at the last minute, and then changed earlier scenes to foreshadow it. CRACKED.COM

I Am Legend

Richard Matheson was apparently not impressed with any of the film versions of his book I Am Legend. WILL SMITH DO YOU DARE IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE UNE TO BE THE (AST MAN ON EARTH.OR THE LAST WOMAN? THE LAST MAN ON EARTH Alve among The lifeless - among the crawling creatures 15 NOT ALONE of will that make the night hidenun with their inhuman curing VINCENT PRICE The The Last last man alive... Man on is not alone! Earth CHARLTON HESTON THE OMEGA MAN - WORK - ZER REAL CKCA - adidas and - - - ! - LEGEND

Abercrombie & Fitch

It took a Supreme Court ruling to end Abercrombie & Fitch's tyrannical dress code. A&C notoriously refused to stock clothes bigger than Large - and yet, employees of all sizes were forced to wear them (among other draconian rules). All this ended when a Muslim woman sued them for firing her over her headscarf, and the case made it to the Supreme Court. CRACKED.COM

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The Shawshank Redemption

Easter Eggs in stephen King Movies 87927 The shawshank Redemption Andy Dufresne uses the name of a very bad guy. The adaptation changes Dufresne's fake identity from Peter Stevens to Randall Stevens, as a shout-out to Randall Flagg, a recurring villain in Stephen King's work. CRACKED.COM

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Dances with Wolves vs. Home Alone

WHEN THE KIDS CHOICE AWARDS CRACKED GOT IT MORE RIGHT THAN THE OSCARS KEVIN COSTNER DANCES WITH WOLVES BUT DONT WORRY... НЕ COOKS. НЕ CLEANS. НЕ KICKS SOME BUTT. nickelodeon DANCES WITH WOLVES HOME ALONE Dances With Wolves famously lost to Goodfellas, but we'd argue it's just as 1991 egregious it lost to the Christmas classic Home Alone.

Leslie Knope

LESLIE KNOPE'S WAFFLES FROM PARKS AND RECREATION We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third. CRACKED.COM

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Vera Peterson

Vera Peterson CHEERS CRACKED.COM Norm's horrid wife is, apparently, the reason he's at Cheers every waking moment. She's a perennial punching bag, but actor George Wendt's actual wife, Bernadette Birkett, was gracious enough to appear as Vera's voice and body on occasion.

Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson collects porcelain pigs She said she started her collection because she always wanted a hobby, and just sort of... randomly landed on pigs. But she soon came to regret it: everyone started giving them to me. I had hundreds of pigs.

Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas survived suicide thanks to one tooth. In 1996, after a stroke that left him unable to talk, he tried to kill himself by firing a gun in h

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier

31 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Won’t Stop Whistling at Us From a Construction Site

Babar

BABAR As a child, the Elephant King witnesses his mother get shot to death by a hunter. CRACKEDCON

Dr. Dre

In 2011, Dr. Dre earned approximately $175 million when HTC bought a 51 percent stake in his headphone company, Beats Electronics. Just a year later D

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