30 Random Pop-Culture Facts That Are Generally Around 93 Octane

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Rocky

ROCKY CRACKED.COM Rocky was based on Chuck Wepner, liquor salesman by day and boxer by night. Не got the same deal as Rocky: a fight which, if he won, would make him the champion of the world. Instead of Apollo Creed, Wepner simply had to face one of the best boxers in history, Muhammad Ali.

Rob McElhenney

Rob McElhenney loved his wife's commitment. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia In Season 4's Who Pooped the Bed, McElhenney's now-wife Kaitlin Olson actually rammed her head into a car door. (The car was a rental, and not meant to be returned with a head-sized dent.) CRACKED

Mr. Burns

tHe SIMPSONS Every time Mr. Burns answers the phone, he says Ahoy-hoy. C.M.BURNS АНОУ-НОУ? This is a reference to his age. Ahoy-hoy was the greeting Alexander Graham Bell used when the telephone was first invented, predatinghello. CRACKED.COM

Metal Gear

METAL GEAR Metal Gear is a stealth game because it started + out on a slow system. It was originally designed to run on a computer called an MSX2, which could only support a few characters (and bullets) at a time without crashing. CRACKED.COM

Olivia Munn and Ken Jeong

Olivia Munn and Ken Jeong CRACKED.COM While promoting 2016's Ride Along 2, some jokester asked them whether, if a mass shooting erupted in a night club, they were morally clear to ditch the bill on their bottle service. Both were unamused. The same reporter asked Jeong to take a look at her tonsils.

Ghostbusters

CRACKED.COM Ghostbusters (1984) was conceived and written for Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. ح Belushi's untimely death forced massive rewrites and recasting.

The Beach Boys and Charles Manson

The Beach Boys' Never Learn Not to Love was written by Charles Manson. Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson was close with Manson, until the band reworked and recorded one of his songs without crediting him. Manson was furious. Considering the Family's victims were murdered over much less that that, the Boys got off easy. CRACKED.COM

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Trainspotting

Rock songs in movies Trainspotting The movie states TO its intent very clearly as it starts. Choose life? Screw life, that is for normies. Even better are, well, drugs we don't really condone, but we do condone the film's use of Iggy Pop's LUST FOR LIFE - enthusiastically. Choose Iggy Pop, kids. CRACKED.COM

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The Matrix-John Wick Connection

NOSTALGIA SEQUELS The Matrix Resurrections TRINITY'S HUSBAND IS THE JOHN WICK DIRECTOR. Chad, Trinity's (fake) husband inside the Matrix, is played by Chad Stahelski, who was Keanu Reeves' stunt double in the first Matrix film and then directed him in the movies about the dog-avenging assassin. CRACKED.COM

Source: Screen Rant

The Lord of the Rings

Roles Almost Played by Nicolas Cage ARAGORN The Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson wanted Nicolas Cage as Aragorn, but Cage couldn't see himself spending three years away from home, so he had to turn it down. CRACKED.COM

Source: Newsweek

The Big Bang Theory

Penny & Leonard CRACKEDcO Kaley Cuoco took her role as the one hot person amongst a sea of nerds to heart. As their collective star rose, Cuoco mistook that for personal success, and reportedly became a bit of a diva. She lost her biggest champion, costar Johnny Gilecki, after she

Bane

BANE became Batman's enemy BECAUSE HE USED TO DREAM OF A BAT. CONQUER THE FEAR IN YOUR HEART AND you MAY HAVE ANYTHING THAT YOU DESIRE. YOU WILL BE SE

Mike Tyson

MIKETYSON bought Bengal tigers. At one time Mike Tyson owned Bengal tigers, which require five acres of fenced roaming space, lots of fresh meat, and

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