36 Pop-Culture Trivia Nuggets That Are Intellectual Currency in Conversation

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36 Pop-Culture Trivia Nuggets That Are Intellectual Currency in Conversation
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Sure, we’re struggling to pay our rent, but we’re rich in pop-culture trivia tidbits and that’s all that matters. It’s kind of like the singer of a band who makes next to nothing, but gets to tell everyone at a party that he sings in a band. The exchange rate on his social currency and rich folks’ monetary currency are basically worthless when traded for our intellectual currency.

Dropping these gems at parties is priceless. You’ll see.

Swiss Army Man

Swiss Army Man The movie was pitched as a joke. As Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert were pitching movie ideas, they jokingly tossed in the premise of a man befriending a dead body on a desert island. Then one producer told them to go ahead with it. CRACKED.COM

John Wayne

CRACKED JOHN WAYNE: FROM BODYSURFING INJURY TO HOLLYWOOD STARDOM. John Wayne's football career was cut short due to a bodysurfing injury, which led him to Hollywood and his eventual success as an actor.

Fantastic Four

Director Josh Trank almost fought Miles Teller on the set of 2015's Fantastic Four. Trank lobbied to get Teller onboard, then almost got into a fight with Teller - - they ended up chest to chest and almost punched each other. CRACKED.COM

Kingsman

Kingsman's tailor shop scenes are filmed at a real tailor shop. It's called Huntsman & Sons, and it inspired the franchise - - at an appointment there, creator Matthew Vaughn got the idea for a place like that being a spy headquarters. CRACKED.COM

Glenn Close

For Glenn Close Guardians of the Galaxy was a means to an end. She agreed to appear in the blockbuster in order to have financial security while she makes independent films. CRACKED.COM

Raiders of the Lost Ark

In the classroom scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, a student closes her eyes. I love you is written on her eyelids, and he loses concentration for a moment. Which is pretty big foreshadowing, since Indy and Marion survive the opening of the Ark by closing their eyes. CRACKED.COM

Biz Markie

Biz Markie never planned to sing the chorus on Just A Friend. He'd invited singers to the studio, but none of them showed up. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

License to Kill

In License to Kill, the villain brutally murders a guy by sabotaging a decompression chamber. SCARY And when that guy's head inflates like a balloon? Eh, not so much CRACKED.COM

Joe Russo

JOE RUSSO IS IN SEVERAL OF HIS MCU MOVIES. CRACKED.COM Russo played a doctor in The Winter Soldier, a corpse in Civil War, and one of the survivors attending Captain America's meeting group in Endgame.

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V for Vendetta

China's national TV channel aired V for Vendetta fully uncensored in 2012. CRACKED.COM Despite being known for its strict censoring of foreign films, the anarchist movie aired unedited. It includes the quote, People should not be afraid of their govern- ments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

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Can’t Hardly Wait

'90s Teen Rom-Coms This was Jason Segel's film debut. МИ Can't Hardly Wait Along with the distasteful but funny Dead Man on Campus, Can't Hardly Wait was Jason Segel's first role. Не would then become much more famous for Forgetting Sarah Marshall and How I Met Your Mother. CRACKED.COM

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET was inspired by Cambodia's Killing Fields and an unexplained death. Wes Craven said he'd read an article in the L.A. Times about a family who escaped the Killing Fields and fled to the U.S. Their youngest son then started having terrible nightmares. He told his parents he was afraid that if he slept, the thing chasing him would get him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time. When he finally fell asleep, his parents thought this crisis was over. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night. By the

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Star Wars

Star Wars $1 MILLION CRACKED CON The weekend A New Hope hit theaters, George Lucas fled to Hawaii to escape the avalanche of bad press he was anticipating. Instead, he hit a jackpot of $550 million in the first run alone.

Rugrats

RuGrats Chuckie Finster's look and characteristics are inspired by Devo keyboardist Mark Mothersbaugh, who also composed the show's opening theme. CRA

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