32 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History for Monday, October 27, 2025

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32 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History for Monday, October 27, 2025
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Brad Pitt

CRACKED.COM Celebrity Stoners Brad Pitt smoked weed to escape fame. Pitt admitted that he spent most of the '90s hiding out and smoking pot, I was too uncomfortable with all the attention.

Sonny Bono

SONNY BONO IS THE ONLY CONGRESSMAN TO HAVE A NO. 1 SINGLE. The Republican Congressman is better known for his part in Sonny & Cher's Billboard-charting I Got You Babe. CRACKED.COM

Christopher Walken

CRACKED CHRISTOPHER WALKEN ONCE TRAINED TO BE A LION TAMER. When he was 16, Walken spent one summer as a lion tamer trainee. His takeaway from the experience? I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company.

Kanye West and Taylor Swift

Kanye's I'mma let you finish moment at the 2009 VMAs came after he tried to let himself finish a bottle of Hennessey cognac. Не Не later observed, IfI wasn't drunk, I would have been on stage longer. CRACKED.COM

Grand Theft Auto

GRAND THEFT AUTO Grand Theft Auto was inspired by a bug in + another game. Race'n'Chase Game Design Version 1.05 March 22. 1995 1995 DMA Design Lat Rockstar released a driving game called Race'n'Chase, and early testers panned it until they found a glitch. It + was a bug that caused the police to try to run players off the road. So instead of running missions, players screwed around while the police tried to run them off the road. And GTA was born. CRACKED.COM

Jennifer Aniston

Celebrities' Favorite Foods Jennifer Aniston Nachos The Friends star likes to fry the chips up herself with coconut oil. She claims that she enjoys them so much that she'd probably still eat them if they were spilled on the floor. CRACKED.COM

Brad Pitt

If a woman's favorite movie is the 1991 Madonna documentary Truth or Dare, run. That's Brad Pitt's advice. CRACKED.COM

M*A*S*H

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM M*A*S*H M*A*S *S*H M*A*S*H's final episode aired in 1983. It remained the most-watched US TV broadcast until 2010, only ever beaten by SOME Super Bowls (and not the last 4). The show was so outrageously successful, the fact that it was a spin-off of a 1970 feature film of the same name sometimes goes forgotten.

Shaq

Shaq promoted bracelets that claimed to make people better at sports. Power Balance bracelets hilariously purported to use holographic technology to resonate with and respond to the natural energy field of the body. ELTOS POWER 36 The makers shelled out enough cash to convince elite athletes like Shaquille O'Neal (and Robert De Niro?) to wear them. After a lawsuit exposed the silliness, the company admitted that there is no credible scientific evidence that supports our claims and therefore we engaged in misleading conduct. CRACKED.COM

Nettle Eating Championships

CRACKED MARINER FACE ntel WORLD NETTLE EATING CHAMPIONSHIPS Competitors gather yearly in the village of Marshwood in Dorset, England to eat as many stinging nettles as possible in one hour.

Octavia E. Butler

AT A GLANCE OCTAVIA E. BUTLER She was inspired to start writing sci-fi after watching a bad movie. DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS When she was 12, she saw Devil Girl From Mars and decided she could write something better than that. CRACKED.COM

Truman Capote

Sick burns by distinguished people After a woman asked Truman Capote to autograph a napkin, her enraged husband told him to autograph his dick. Capote told the man, I don't know if I can autograph it, but perhaps I can initial it. CRACKED

Tijuana Bibles

Tijuana Bibles were your grandad's Rule 34. There wasn't an internet in the 1930s, but that doesn't mean no one was drawing Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck going at it with each other. Tijuana Bibles were small, crudely- printed NSFW comics, featuring cartoon characters, celebrities, politicians, and the like. MICKEY MOUSE AND DONALD GRACKED.COM RMA

Ben-Hur

ELEVEN BEST PICTURE ACADEMY IN 1960. AWARDS Hugh Griffith won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1960. for playing rich Arab stereotype and doing blackface. CRACKED.COM

Andy Kaufman

Andy Kaufman's robot pilot didn't stick around CRACKED.COM A year before Taxi, Andy starred as Andy, a malfunctioning android butler for a family in the year 2055. Android Andy's vocal patterns may sound a little familiar--he was clearly programmed by Latka Gravas.

Tenet

The plane wreck in Tenet was filmed by wrecking an actual Boeing 747. Turns out that option was cheaper than CGI or miniatures. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Gary Sinise and George Wallace

CRACKED SEPTEMBER 15: ACTOR WINS AWARD FOR PLAYING A MAN WHO DIES THE SAME DAY On September 15th, 1996, Gary Sinise was given an Emmy Award for his acting in a movie about George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama. Wallace passed away on the same day.

DeLoreans

WEIRD WORLD It looks like the Taliban want to start making brand new DeLoreans. T DMC B1 ES770 Ty DeLorean, who says he's John DeLorean's son, says the new Afghan government reached out to him with an offer to start producing DeLorean cars. CRACKED.COM

South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The Chinpokomon reference. BEST MERO FECH FUPPORT BUY Chinpokomon was an episode in season 3 that dealt with the Pokémon craze of the '90s. All the kids in South Park had to have a Chinpokomon doll. In season 10's episode, Nezum Make Love, Not Warcraft, you can spot the kids Chinpokomon Gerbibod merch throughout the show. CRACKED.COM

DiGiorno Pizza

DiGiorno jumped on a domestic abuse hashtag DIGIORNO DiGiorno Pizza @DiGiornoPizza #WhyIStayed You had pizza. 9/8/14, 11:11 PM GRAGKED.COM The social media person or DiGiorno clearly didn't do their research before tweeting out a joke on a trending hashtag. The hashtag was in defense of domestic abuse victims.

The Walking Dead

PUBLISHERS IN 2003 WEREN'T INTERESTED IN A COMIC BOOK SERIES ABOUT ZOMBIES. ROBERT KIRKMAN So creator Robert Kirkman told them The Walking Dead was about an alien invasion. CRACKED.COM

Jeff Gannon

Jeff Gannon was known for tossing George W. Bush softball questions. Then nude photos of him on gay escort sites surfaced. When the White House took a closer look at him, they found he lacked any journalistic background, aside from his high school newspaper. Yet he'd been granted a daily pass to briefings for two years. CRACKED.COM

Superman: The Animated Series

Clancy Brown AUDITIONED FOR Clark Kent SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES CRACKED.COM Brown first auditioned for the Man of Steel, but the role was man-of-stolen by Tim Daly. Brown had to settle for being the go-to voice of Lex Luthor in all things animated.

Jay-Z and Chris Martin

celebrity Besties RAMMY S An eclectic playlist of a friendship Jay-Z + chris Martin On paper, a rapper and the frontman of a sadboy rock band don't look like they'd mesh well, but the two became friends over their mutual love of football, and because their wives are also best friends with each other. MY A CRACKED.COM

Thunderbirds

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS There's no Team America without THUNDERBIRDS TEAM AMERICA GRACKED.COM The movie's look was heavily influenced by 1960s kids TV show Thunderbirds. Its creators invented supermarionation, combining marionette puppetry with scale-model special effects. Trey and Matt dubbed their version supercrappymation.

Shopping

Stores have obnoxious fluorescent lights and terrible music for a reason. Bright lights and annoying music keep you from making good shopping decisions. CRACKED.COM

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Celebrity names everyone says wrong Chiwetel Ejiofor Chew-it-tell Edge-ee-oh-four Chiwetel Ejiofor, being a non-white name, is near impossible for most Americans to wrap their heads around. Despite that, the Doctor Strange star has an incredibly easy to pronounce name - it's just Chew-it-tell Edge-ee-oh-Four. CRACKED.COM

Chris D’Elia

Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now Stand-up comedian CHRIS D'ELIA portrayed characters such as a child molester and a sexual predator. PLOT TWIST: НЕ WAS ACCUSED OF BEING EXACTLY THAT. His agency dropped him and he lost a bunch of gigs, including a role in Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead (which actually sounds like a win for him, but whatever). CRACKED.COM

The Oldest Fart Joke

The oldest known joke is about farts. It's a 3,900-year-old Sumerian joke that goes Something which has never occurred since time immemorial - a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Frasier

FRASIER CRACKED COM Frasier aired its series finale on May 13, 2004, after 11 seasons. The episode finds him getting off a plane in Chicago with 33.7 million viewers - its biggest audience since October 2000.

JFK

The last film John F. Kennedy ever saw was an early print of From Russia, With Love. JFK was a huge James Bond fan, so he got an early look at the film at the White House on No- vember 21st, 1963. Не was killed the next day in Dallas. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks wrote Landslide when she was 27. The song is about growing older, even though the songwriter wasn't even 30. Nicks explains, You can feel really old at 27. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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