30 Trivia Nuggets That Will Not Take A Back Seat in Pop-Culture History

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30 Trivia Nuggets That Will Not Take A Back Seat in Pop-Culture History
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Without us here to tell their story, these pop-culture tidbits could easily get lost in time. Not because they’re forgettable, but since so much happens daily in the world of pop culture, they just get buried like the first grains of falling sand in an hour glass. 

Today, we got out our kids’ little plastic beach shovels and got to digging. No fact is getting left behind on our watch. 

Dumb and Dumber

COMEDY NERD Nicolas Cage and Gary Oldman nearly got cast as the leads in Dumb and Dumber. They were the Farrelly brothers' first choice for the two leads, but things just didn't work out. CRACKED.COM

South Park

The South Park pilot was accidentally included on the Tiger Woods PGA Tour '99 game. New Ition The game had to be re- called because the entire South Park pilot was used as dummy data on the disc and players could watch the episode by simply put- ting the game disc into a PC. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Guardians of the Galaxy

After filming Guardians of the Galaxy, they had to melt down the Kyln set and sell off the steel. That was the only way to make the budget for the Kyln scenes work. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Doctor Sleep

Easter Eggs in stephen King Movies Doctor sleep The original Danny Torrance makes an appearance. Danny Lloyd, who played the kid The Shining, is all grown up and can be spotted as a sports spectator in the, breaking a 37-year retirement from acting. CRACKED.COM

Tom Hanks

celebrity Hobbies Tom Hanks collects vintage typewriters. Hanks enjoys collecting, refurbishing, and using MS Word's mechanical grandaddies. Не often writes letters to friends and fans with them. CRACKED.COM

Scream

SCREAM ПАПА URUN and the SANTA ROSA DOUBLETREE HOTEL SHEREE GREEN and the SONOMA COUNTY FILM COMMISSION FILM FINANCES, INC. THE SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER MARCO, KARIN AND NICHOLAS AT CA'BIANCA LES PERRY NO THANKS WHATSOEVER TO THE SANTA ROSA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT GOVERNING BOARD A high school revoked permission to film at the last second, and Wes Craven called them out big time in the credits. CRACKED.COM

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple was investigated by the Vatican CRACKED.COM There was a rumor going around Europe that she was too good at acting to be a child, and had to be a full grown adult of short stature. So the Vatican sent a representative to, somehow, verify that she was indeed a child.

M*A*S*H

M*A'*S'H W*A*L*T*E*R CRACKED COM Technically, this is a spinoff of a spinoff (the doomed, season AfterMash). They took the popular character Radar, st

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30 Trivia Nuggets That Will Not Take A Back Seat in Pop-Culture History

Interstellar

Remember the wormhole scene in Interstellar? That wasn't CGI. The Tesseract, artificial that an construct depicts time as a physical dimension, was an

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