28 Pop-Culture Trivia Nuggets We’re Considering Spinning Off Into A Breakfast Cereal

We’ve filled your brains, now it’s time to fill your tummies
28 Pop-Culture Trivia Nuggets We’re Considering Spinning Off Into A Breakfast Cereal
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Stuffing your brains full of high-quality pop-culture facts isn’t enough for us anymore. It’s time we start filling bellies, too. And since this specific batch is so nutrient-rich, we knew it could be mixed with some grains and a touch of sugar for a nice hearty belly-stuffing.

Givers gotta give, ya know?

Daniel Day-Lewis

METHOD MADNESS DANIEL DAY-LEWIS GANGS OF NEW YORK Не caught pneumonia after refusing to wear a coat between scenes (since those coats didn't exist in the 1860s). Не said, I will admit that I went mad, totally mad, and the role was, not so good for my physical or mental health. CRACKED

The Tonight Show

Joan Rivers THE TONIGHT SHOW CRACKED.COM Joan Rivers was a permanent guest host on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show... until she launched a competing show, The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, on FOX. Her ban lasted until Jimmy Fallon invited Rivers back on in 2014 to play Karaoke Pictionary or whatever.

The World’s End

Family members accidentally played the same role. THE WORLD'S END ORLD'S END CRACKED.COM Two actors who were cast as slightly different owners of identical pubs met on set, only to realize they were each other's cousins.

The Fifth Element

The Mangalore costumes in The Fifth Element had a little TV screen inside the head. The masks were so bulky, actors couldn't see out of them, so they had to have a camera on the costume and a TV screen. The screen was linked to the effects crew, too, who gave the actors commands like Walk, walk forward, shuffle, shuffle, for God's sake, STOP! CRACKED.COM

The McDonald’s Arches

In the '60s, McDonald's was going to abandon their famous arches but... McDonald's Restaurant McDonald's McDonald's DER KURLE WITH THE a design consultant told them to keep them as Freudian symbol of a pair of nourishing breasts. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Neil Gaiman

AT A GLANCE NEIL GAIMAN Не was offered a feature editor job at Penthouse ATIONAL MAGAZINE FOR Mbx RNATIONAL SPIRACY STELLO: OUNG DREAM Не was a freelance writer for the girly magazine, and even though he needed the steady income to support his family, he turned it down to pursue fiction. Не said, There's an alternative universe where I said yes, and I feel really sorry for him. CRACKED.COM

Source: Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously

Escape from New York

JOHN CARPENTER'S CRACKED COM ESCAPE FRoM nelll YORK The final scenes were shot at Sepulveda Dam, built in the 1940s -in Los Angeles.

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