32 Random Pop-Culture Trivia Tidbits That Do the Hustle and Mashed Potato With the Best of ‘Em

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32 Random Pop-Culture Trivia Tidbits That Do the Hustle and Mashed Potato With the Best of ‘Em
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Better wax that dance floor of a brain of yours, because these pop-culture tidbits are ready to cut a rug! And we fully understand that there isn’t a rug on this waxed dance floor (or there shouldn’t be anyway), but it’s a solid dancing term so we just went with it. Look it up, youngins. People used to say it a lot. 

We got a tad off-topic there, and we shouldn’t keep these facts waiting any longer. They’re itching to get on that shellacked brain of yours and boogie down with their bad selves.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

32 Random Pop-Culture Trivia Tidbits That Do the Hustle and Mashed Potato With the Best of ‘Em

Nancy Kerrigan on SNL

NANCY KERRIGAN MARCH 12, 1994 GRACKED.COM Time Magazine called Kerrigan's hosting gig a supremely awkward performance. At least she didn't get kneecapped.

Independence Day

32 Random Pop-Culture Trivia Tidbits That Do the Hustle and Mashed Potato With the Best of ‘Em

Floating McDonald’s

There was a futuristic floating McDonald's on a barge in Canada way back in 1986. It was set up for the 1986 World Expo in Vancouver, and orders were brought out on a conveyor belt. But after the Expo, it was left to rot for years. CRACKED.COM

The Avengers and Pacific Rim Similarities

A hero in a mechanized suit is willing to sacrifice himself to nuke aliens invading through a portal. Не succeeds and escapes-falling THE AVENGERS through the portal, back to Earth. PACIFIC RIM Heroes in a mechanized suit are CRACKED.COM willing to sacrifice themselves to nuke kaijus invading through a portal. They succeed and escape-falling through the portal, to the ocean floor.

Bulworth

BULWORTH Warren Beatty needed Cornel West's opinion before releasing the movie. Beatty was concerned about how the movie would be received by black audiences, and wanted its intended message heard, so he arranged a private screening for the professor and civil rights activist. West gave the film a thumbs up. CRACKED.COM

Batman

CRACKED.COM BATMAN (1989) Joe Dante and Ivan Reitman were considered as directors. Before Tim Burton was tapped to direct, several other big directors at the time were considered, including Gremlins' Dante and Ghostbusters' Reitman.

The Conqueror

THE CONQUEROR was the most carcinogenic set of all time They filmed so close to an atomic bomb test site that 91 out of the 220 cast and crew members got cancer later in life. 46 of those, including John Wayne, died from it. Radiologist Dr. Robert Pendleton said, Blame for their exposure on set would hold up in a court of law. CRACKED

Heelys

Adult Heelys should make a comeback. Who said we can't 046 have fun once we enter adulthood? GRAGKED.COM

Still Life With Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels

CRACKED Flemish artist Clara Peeters' Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels features another incredibly subtle self-portrait - Peeters painted with such accuracy that she included herself reflected in the rim of the jug.

CNN

The median age of people who watch cable news is more than 60 years old. CNN CENTER CRACKED.COM In 2017 CNN's me- dian age was 60, while the median age of the Fox News and MSNBC viewer was 65.

McDonald’s VR Headsets

CRACKED MCDONALD'S VR HEADSETS. Promoting it as a VR headset, McDonald's in Sweden had kids re-fold their Happy Meal box, put an iPhone inside of it, and view it with the kit's plastic lenses.

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The Cat in the Hat Movie

The Cat In The Hat THE CAT IN THE HAT By Dr. Seuss CRACKED.COM Dr. Seuss' widow, Audrey Geisel, was so scandalized that she refused to allow any more live-action adaptations of her husband's work.

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Benedict Cumberbatch

CRACKED.COM Benedict cumberbatch He's actually a redhead. While he's dark-haired in most of his well-known roles, his natural hair color is a darker shade of red.

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The Eisenberg Siblings

Siblings SI CRACKED.COM Did you know Jesse Eisenberg is the older brother of the Pepsi Girl? Hallie Eisenberg was child actress in the late 90s.

CNN

Fixed Game Shows

Herb Stempel, Charles Van Doren TWENTY-ONE M VA DORE ME. STEMPEL CRACKED 15 COM Stempel won for 6 straight weeks, before Van Doren dethroned him and w

The Empire Strikes Back

The Emperor was originally portayed by a woman... with chimpanzee eyes. 78-year-old Marjorie Eaton played the Sith lord in the original 1980 release o

Fox News

Fox News warned of an Antifa apocalypse on November 4, 2017, when the left would organize en masse and attempt to overthrow Trump. dirates ESS MILIC

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