30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Chewed Us to the Bone the Moment We Fell Into the River

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30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Chewed Us to the Bone the Moment We Fell Into the River
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Boy Meets World

BOY MEETS WORLD Morgan LILY NICKSAY LINDSAY RIDGEWAY Nicksay left after season 2, on good terms. One of Ridgeway's first lines credited the change in

The Lion King

VILLAIN: The Hyenas MOVIE: The Lion King VILLAINY: Henchmen to Scar, the king's brother, who stages a bloody coup. BUT WAIT! The king banished the hye

Schitt’s Creek

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREEK Don't Worry, It's His Sister. When Alexis walks David down the aisle wearing a wedding dress, it's a callback to the third episode of the first season titled, Don't Worry, It's His Sister, which was a referral to the town's hilarious sign. Welcome la SCHITT'S CREEK DON'T WORRY. IT'S HIS SISTER!

The Ten Commandments

The set for 1923's The Ten Commandments was truly epic. Cecil В. DeMille didn't want painted backdrops, so 1,500 carpenters built an Egyptian city in the desert. After three weeks of filming, DeMille blew the entire set up with dynamite, unwilling to leave the expensive set for other filmmakers. But dunes covering the remains have done an excellent job of preserving them for almost 100 years. CRACKED.COM

Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse Ronan, who had never played the piano, mastered a ludicrously difficult Beethoven piano sonata for Byzantium. She pulled it off in 12 weeks, which her teacher found miraculous. One section alone, which requires crossing the right hand with the left, is hard to master even for a piano player with years of experience. CRACKED.COM

Plaxico Burress

Plaxico Burress UNTIL НЕ LEARNED HIS LESSON GRAGKED.COM Burress, famously, shot himself in the leg when he brought a gun to a nightclub, nestled securely in his wasteband. Не spent 2 years in jail, and was... somewhat performatively banned by the NFL during that time. Не got right back to work after he got out.

Leave It to Beaver

Leave It to Beaver 1957 CRACKED.COM Although not quite the first show to feature a toilet (it was edited out for being too scandalous), it was the first show to show a toilet tank and certainly one of the first to even include a bathroom.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

It's a great reveal at the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them when Percival Graves says his actions are for the greater good, signaling

Nathan Fillion

Nathan Fillion played a big blue creep in Guardians of the Galaxy. When Peter Quill and the gang arrive at the Kyln, they're threatened by a big alien

The New York Times

In 1878 the New York Times published an editorial that called Thomas Edison's invention, the phonograph, a depraved ingenuity. They claimed that the

John Swartzwelder

The weirdest and most reclusive Simpsons writer is a patient at Calmwood Mental Hospital. John Swartzwelder, the writer responsible for some of the gr

The Simpsons

simpsons FANS Know ABOUTT FAmOUS AGTION HERO MeBAin. The o Schwarzenegocosue actori is named Wolfcastle. BUT DID YOU Know THERE'S A COmPLETE HIDDeN Mo

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