35 Pop-Culture Trivia Nuggets Whose Hobbies Include Making New Friends

Is your brain in the market for new friends?
35 Pop-Culture Trivia Nuggets Whose Hobbies Include Making New Friends
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Since friendship is a two-way street, these facts can have their friend-making hobby all they want, but they’ll still need some reciprocation from your brain. Would you say your brain is a friendly one, or is it more of a loner?

No judgment either way. And hey, these pop-culture nuggets are knocking at its door now, so we can just see for ourselves.

Return of the Jedi

Making Jabba the Hutt for Return of the Jedi took three months. The puppet cost half a million dollars to build, and weighed one ton. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

CHOOSING THE NEXT RULER OF WESTEROS PRODUCTION GAME OF IS A TOUGH JOB... THRONES 200 00 ROL so the Stark kids needed to take a break during filming. We can't believe they decided the guy wearing no pants should be king. CRACKED.COM

Taking on Tyson

CRACKED TAKING ON TYSON 2011 Remember when Mike Tyson starred in an Animal Planet reality show about competitive pigeon racing?! Mike loves pigeons, but audiences and PETA (clearly) felt that training them for competition was exploitative.

Michael Keaton

MICHAEL KEATON BIRDMAN CRACKED.COM 80s and 90s kids agreed on Beetlejuice, Batman, and everything Michael Keaton until we got (literally) too much of him in 1996's Multiplicity. It's all bit parts until 2014's Birdman got him an Oscar nom and, just like the plot of Birdman, sparked a serious comeback. Oh I get it now!

Basilica of St. Francis

CRACKED Giotto's 13th century frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi had a hidden secret for centuries - nobody could get up high enough to spot a side-on portrait of Satan hidden in the clouds.

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The Adventures of Champion

The Adventures of Champion 1955 CRACKED.COM The first TV show spin-off was based on The Gene Autry Show, with the titular Champion being Gene Autry's horse.

The Blair Witch Project

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS People thought The Blair Witch Project was real, and that the people in the movie actually died. CRACKED.co Due to the marketing around The Blair Witch Project, which described the unknown actors as missing, presumed dead, many viewers thought they were really watching the final days of the people on the screen. The mother of actress Heather DOnahue actually received sympathy cards from concerned audience members.

Rihanna and Katy Perry

Rihanna threw Katy Perry a bachelorette party. When Perry married Russell Brand, Rihanna was unable to attend due to scheduling issues, but still performed the maid of honor duty of bachelorette party planner. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source: MTV

Kyle Chandler

Kyle Chandler binge-watched 30 movies for Godzilla: King of the Monsters. To prepare for his role, he performed the near-superhuman feat of watching every single Godzilla movie ever made (covering a span of 65 years), over just two days. CRACKED.COM

Source: SyFy

Chadwick Boseman

A soap opera gave Chadwick Boseman the boot. ALL MY CHILDREN When Boseman mentioned that his character - a fatherless gang member perhaps -- was a lazy and hollow stereotype, they fired him (and replaced him with Michael B. Jordan).

Source: Insider

Alex Jones

ALEX JONES IS KNOWN FOR BEING A POPULAR CONSPIRACY THEORIST... BUT BEFORE INFOWARS AND FAKE DIET SUPPLEMENTS, HE DEVOTED MOST OF HIS TIME TO GETTING R

Tipping

CRACKEDCO COM Tipped workers are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty as untipped workers. This could be because the base pay for tipped workers

Battlestar Galactica

The producer of the new Battlestar Galactica heckled himself (sort of). In a CSI episode, a dark, gritty reimagining of the fictional sci-fi series As

L’Oreal

In 2017, L'Oreal partnered with model Munroe Bergdorf. That partnership ended in mere days. L'Oreal chose Bergdorf as part of a diversity initiative,

Tom Hanks

TOM HANKS LOVES TYPEWRITERS SO MUCH THAT HE WROTE A BOOK OF TYPEWRITER-CENTRIC FICTION. UNCOMMON TYPE is a collection of stories where typewriters pla

Back to the Future

35 Pop-Culture Trivia Nuggets Whose Hobbies Include Making New Friends

Poltergeist

The original roltergeist was startlingly gcary. And four of its cast members have died. Heather O'Rourke, who played Carol Anne, died in the hospital

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