31 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History for Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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31 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History for Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus GRACKED.COM DESTINY HOPE CYRUS wanted to use a stage name when she began acting, so she went with a slight twist on her childhood moniker, Smiley. Honestly? Cute!

Troy Aikman

TROY AIKMAN has his own Super Bowl caricature booth 67 8 CRACKED.COM The Super Bowl champ-turned- broadcaster asks Ned if he likes dune buggies. Everyone likes dune buggies!

Evangeline Lilly

Evangeline Lilly acted in a phone sex ad. She was working as a stewardess for Air Canada when a scout for the Ford modeling agency spotted her. The phone sex gig was not what she had in mind, but it was an acting role, and it launched her career. CRACKED.COM

Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp is a big fan of wine. Не refuted his manager's claim that he spent flighway - $30,000 a month on wine ... I I despite having a financial crisis. According to the movie star, it was far more. CRACKED.COM

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft is full of invisible slave bunnies. Many video games use invisible non- player characters to perform certain tasks, as it's easier to repurpose those than to write entirely new scripts. World of Warcraft is inhabited by over 1,000 invisible bunnies slaving away for your entertainment. Were you hit by a laser turret? A bunny did it. CRACKED.COM

Britney Spears

CRACKED BRITNEY SPEARS WAS ORIGINALLY IN A GIRL GROUP CALLED INNOSENSE. The group formed in 1997 and stayed together through 2003. However Spears left the first year to pursue her solo career.

Lefties in Sports

CRACKED LEFT-HANDEDNESS IN SPORTS Lefties have a statistical advantage in sports that involve direct one-on-one interaction, like baseball, tennis, and boxing. This is because they are a bit of a surprise, since most opponents aren't used to facing someone who is left-handed.

Kirk Cameron

Kirk Cameron insists on only kissing his real-life wife. The kiss scene in FI ROOF Fireproof, had to be shot in silhouette in FI order to swap the actress in the film, OF Erin Bethea, for Cameron's wife, FI Chelsea Noble. CRACKED.COM

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley trolled its own hardcore fans. 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101000 01101111 01100010 01100010 01111001 00100000 01100110 11100100 00100110 TITTOTTO ttisette @@@@@@@@ 01001110 TITTOTTO 10100110 TODOOTTO 00000100 11001110 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01 00001 00100000 01100118 @@@@@fee TOUTTITO 01000110 01000110 IIIIOITO 00010118 01101111 01110010 00100000 01 11100100 00100110 TITTOITO 1110 EN 11001110 00000100 TROOTTIE 10100110 I 100 01110110 reetette 01100118 00 00 01 100001 00100000 01800TTe 11110110 BOOTETTE 110 01/11/1001 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 111 01101111 01100100 00100111 11001110 @@@@@@@@@ TROOTTTO 10100118 петета 100 In the fifth season's trailer, Gavin Belson speaks in front

The Simpsons

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM DISNEY+ MESSED UP THE ASPECT RATIO ON SIMPSONS EPISODES, CUTTING PLENTY OF JOKES. 45 ETH WITLERS For example, in S1E5, the cropping cuts out the box marked Hitler's Teeth in Herman's Military Antiques.

MTV

MTV had a very fitting first music video. At 12:01a.m. on August 1st, 1981, Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles became the very first music video on MTV. The video was released in 1979, so the band definitely saw the changing of the guard and capitalized. CRACKED

Tipping

Tipping at restaurants is a foreign concept to U.S. foreign visitors. Outside of the U.S., tipping is seen as unnecessary and in some cultures, particularly Asian, it's considered rude. CRACKED COM

Back to the Future II

CRACKED.COM Fake DeLorean Amazing effects made without CGI Back to the Future II That lamp post isn't random - it's there to hide the change from the flying fake DeLorean to a real car. The transition is seamless, with shadows and details perfectly matched. God damn, we love this trilogy. Real DeLorean

South Park

CRACKED.COM AD SOUTH PARK lost Chef when Isaac Hayes quit over an episode lambasting Scientology - or so was reported at the time. Hayes' son revealed years later that his father was incapacitated due to health issues, and someone in his Scientology circle quit South Park for him.

The 1975

The 1975 was named after a journal entry. Matty Healy found an old book in a yard sale that had an entry dated 1st June, The 1975. CRACKED.COM

Futurama

31 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History for Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Dorian Elizabeth Leigh

One of the first supermodels was a mechanical engineer who designed airplane wings during WWII. CRACKED.COM Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker quit her engineering job after being passed over for a promotion and began writing copy for в movies, where she was encouraged to go into modeling.

John Krasinski and Jimmy Kimmel

John Krasinski loves to prank Jimmy Kimmel at Christmastime. So Kimmel took his revenge with a yard sale. After four years of naked Santas, fake snow, and pooping reindeer, Kimmel decided it was time for Krasinski to have a yard sale. So he made up over 200 fliers printed with Krasinski's home address, advertising memorabilia, sex toys, appliances, and autographed items and posted them all over Los Angeles. The start time for the sale was 6 AM. CRACKED.COM http://www.rollingstone. .com/tv/news/watch-john-krasinski- kimmels-outlandish-christmas-prank-war-20151216

Goldwyn vs. Mayer

Sick burns by distinguished people Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn quipped about his nemesis Louis B.Mayer, The only reason so many people attended his funeral was they wanted to make sure he was dead. CRACKED

Jason Alexander

Is that a young Jack Black? NOPE. It's Jason Alexander. CRACKED.COM

Spotify

Spotify® . When the co-founders were brainstorming names, one of them misheard the other say Spotify and they went with it. CRACKED.COM

The Ambiguously Gay Duo

Milestone Steve Carell Performances Saturday Night Live A The Ambiguously Gay Duo Paired with Stephen Colbert, Carell captured his inner Burt Ward-as-Robin. Sure, the cartoon was a dated, one-note gay panic joke, but it helped push Carell to better things later in his career. CRACKED.COM

Avatar: The Last Airbender

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS AANG WAS GOING TO HAVE A FULL HERD OF SKY BISON. the AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER Bryan Konietzko pictured Aang as shepherding 20 bison. But then his partner Mike DiMartino said, Where are we going to put all of these giant creatures in every episode? CRACKED.COM

Friends

CRACKED FRIENDS In the early 1990s, David Crane and Marta Kauffman's seven-page pitch was titled Insomnia Café. After NBC bought the pilot, they toyed with Friends Like Us, Across the Hall, and Six of One before landing on Friends.

Bob Dylan

CRACKED COM Bob Dylan made Self-Portrait just to clear out his fanbase. Не was tired of being worshiped by hippies, so he made an intentionally godawful double album to get them to stop listening to him and get a new pop idol.

Ashton Kutcher and January Jones

Ashton Kutcher and January Jones used to be in a relationship. Peabody They dated in the late '90s, and were living together in 2000 - there's not a lot of details, though (somehow, there was way less celeb gossip back then). CRACKED.COM

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

BROOKLYN NINE-NINE LE POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS The sixth season of the show has more swearing and nudity than previous seasons. That's because the show moved from FOX to NBC which has fewer restrictions on those things. CRACKED.COM

The Kardashians

You don't really act, you don't sing, you don't dance, Barbara Walters jabbed at the Kardashians. 1 You don't have any talent But we're still entertaining people, Khloé candidly replied. And... she's got a point, doesn't she? It's not like Walters would interview them if they bored her audience. CRACKED.COM

Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves CRACKED.COM That's actually his real name! And it's Hawaiian for cool breeze! The wild part is that his agent once tried to get him to change his name, to... CHUCK SPADINA

Diana Ross

When Diana Ross sang I'm Coming Out she had no idea what it meant to closeted people. When she found out, she accused her studio of trying to ruin her career. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

PlayStation 2

A PlayStation 2 disc was believed to be cursed - and it was (kind of). It was an internet myth for years: Kids who played some PS2 demo disc freaked out when disturbing images appeared on screen. The disc was finally identified in October 2020, containing for some unknown reason a trailer for the Japanese horror film Tetsuo: The Iron Man. PlayStation SELECT START ANALOG CRACKED.COM

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