34 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History for Thursday, October 30, 2025

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34 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History for Thursday, October 30, 2025
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Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks' book Modelland is truly weird sci-fi YA fiction. TYRA BANKS Modelland It's about Tookie, a regular girl who somehow gets a SMIZE, an artifact that could get her to Modelland, a boarding school in the skies that trains young models. CRACKED.COM

The Flinstones

The Flintstones THE PEBBLES AND BAMM-BAMM SHOW CRACKED.COM As you can tell from Pebbles' hair bone and Bamm's turtle fedora, this show was all about putting hats on hats: beloved prehistoric babies, except they're in high school now, and also they're rockstars.

Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds almost died in a skydiving accident when he was 19. Young Reynolds was trying to get his skydiving licence, when his parachute failed to deploy properly. Не was sent spinning violently, but thankfully his reserve chute worked, landing him eight miles from his target. This incident has left him with a fear of flying ever since. CRACKED.COM

Pat Sajak

In 1969, Pat Sajak cut off Nixon to play Christmas music. Nixon made a very long pause in a Christmas speech to the troops in Vietnam, so Sajak cut off the broadcast and put on some music. When Nixon resumed talking, Sajak just left the music on, thinking soldiers would rather listen to that than the President. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Tiffany Haddish

COMEDY NERD When Tiffany Haddish bombed, she just decided to have drinks with her fans. Her jokes flopped, and she forgot some, in a set in Miami-when people started leaving, she wrapped things up and had vodka with those who stayed. CRACKED.COM

Zac Efron

so RELATABLE! ZAC EFRON's ill-timed gratitude Zac Efron Folige I'm grateful for a couple things today: Martin Luther King Jr & 10 million followers on IG #MLKDay LIMES 2,557 11.091 For MLK day, he posted that he was grateful for Martin Luther King Jr.-and also reaching 10 million followers on Instagram. With a pic of him in a convertible. CRACKED

Eric Carle

Eric Carle BEST KNOWN FOR THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR by Eric Carle CRACKED.COM Carle grew up in Nazi Germany. His father was conscripted to fight for the Germans and was taken as a POW. When Carle was 15-years-old, he had to dig trenches on the Siegfried line.

Moby Dick

A real-life whaling disaster inspired Moby Dick. MOBY DICK It was the sinking of a ship called the Essex, and Melville read about it in the Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. That gave Melville the idea for the end of Moby Dick, in which the whale sinks the Pequod. CRACKED.COM

Pepsi

Farmers in India used soda as a form of pesticide. schmack Geschmack Maximater Zucker Foro Maximalize Zero Zucker Geschmack Maximalar Zero Zucker Geschmack Maximaler Zero Zucker pepsi MAX pepsi Zero Maximaler Zucker Geschmack MAX pepsi Maximaler Zero Zucker Geschmack MAX C Maximaler Zero Zucker Geschmack In 2004, farmers in India used Pepsi CRACKED.COM M and Coca Cola instead of pesticides because they were cheaper and got the job done just as well.

Dial-Up Internet

Though it may be a blast from the past, some Americans are still using dial-up internet according to a study by the Pew Research Center. AMERICA Online Connected! GRACKED.COM The research found that 3% of people use telephone lines to get online at home while 70% have broadband access.

Winnie the Pooh

The USSR had its own, more hardass version of Winnie the Pooh. In the shameless ripoff Vinni Pukh, from 1969, comrade Pukh has a voice that sounds like a Soviet officer's, unlike the gentle tones of the Western original. СОЮЗМУЛЬТОМАМЫ ПРЕДСТАВЛЯЕТ: ВПЕРВЫЕ- ЛЕГЕНДАРНЫЕ МУЛЬТФИЛЬМЫ В КНИГАХ! ВИННИ- ПУХ И ДЕНЬ ЗАБОТ СКАЗКУ A.MMAHA The whole cartoon, and especially the crude backgrounds, looks like it was drawn by exhausted gulag prisoners at gunpoint. CRACKED.COM

Lena Dunham

Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now LENA DUNHAM was an up-and-coming Wunderkind of feminist indie media. AFTER A STRING OF CONTROVERSIES AND TONE-DEAF POSITIONS, her name became synonym with liberal hypocrisy and privileged white feminism. By the time she agreed to adapt a book about a Syrian refugee, she had become a parody of herself. CRACKED.COM

Wanda Sykes

Wanda Sykes - Wanda At Large CRACKED COM Wanda Sykes is a skilled co- median, actress, and writer but due to FOX's watering down of her brash-yet-love- able personality, her show, Wanda At Large, was can- celed halfway through its sec- ond season, leaving five epi- sodes unaired.

Natalie Portman

CRACKED Natalie Portman has serious science cred. As a student at Syosset High School on Long Island in the late 1990s, Portman made it to the semifinals of a very demanding research competition, while also carrying out an investigation into a new method of turning waste into useful forms of energy.

Mariah Carey

MIXED-ISH MARIAH CAREY mpter CRACKED.COM Lots of 80s vibes in the opening theme for Mixed-ish. As a biracial woman in the entertainment industry, Carey says, there was no way I did not want to be a part of , especially after seeing the pilot, which I loved.

Post Malone

Post Malone saw a UFO at 16, when he was staying with his aunt and uncle. MF annationa P It was in upstate NY, and he and his cousin looked out the window-and saw a light that just hung there before suddenly leaving. CRACKED.COM

Avatar Napkins

GRACKED.COM I / JAMES CAMEROS AVATAR There're Avatar napkin sets for sale. This is despite the fact that Avatar is an environmental movie and paper napkins are wasteful and unrecyclable.

Tom Hiddleston

Tom Hiddleston MULTIVITAMINS CRACKED C COM If your fetish is prolonged eye contact with Loki as he makes you a nice breakfast, reminds you to take your meds, then apologizes for being a workaholic... then have we got a Chinese commercial for you!

The Great Gatsby

West Egg THE GREAT GATSBY CRACKED.COM Author F. Scott Fitzgerald lived for about two years in Great Neck, New York that served as the muse for the fictional location.

Paul McCartney

In 1980, Paul McCartney was arrested for bringing marijuana into Japan. Не spent nine days in jail. Не was carrying a half pound bag, an amount large enough to warrant a smuggling charge. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Superman

Richard Donner was never told what the budget for Superman was. It's a miracle Donner managed to make such a beloved movie, as the producers for some reason wouldn't let him know how much money he had to work with. They'd just tell him, You can't do that, without further guidance. Не didn't even get to see the final cut until the premiere. CRACKED.COM

Julia Child

JULIA CHILD WAS A SPY BEFORE SHE WAS A WORLD FAMOUS COOK. In 1942, Child joined OSS, the precursor to the CIA. During her time there, she created a shark repellent recipe. She also worked in Ceylon and China, but her missions remain, unsurprisingly, classified. CRACKED.COM

Marvel

CRACKED.COM Marvel published a Dazzler/ Galactus romance. For a while in the '80s, Marvel tried to jam disco-themed Dazzler into a bunch of comics - including a What If? story where she becomes Galactus' herald, and they fall in love. The Big G (as she calls him) spares a planet of sentient plants at one point, because Dazzler has touched his heart.

Thor

CRACKED.COM THOR WAS A FROG FOR A SPELL. In a 1986 storyline, the god of thunder became an actual, honest-to-the-Aesir frog, and *AFROG! joined his fellow amphibians in RIBBIT!! I VE BECOME RIBBIT*!! AFROG!** New York City in a war against the rats. Years later, a frog he met in that adventure used a sliver of his hammer to become a froggy Thor.

Paul Rudd

PAUL RUDD hates his approachable, Everyman looks CRACKED.COM It's that common-man appeal that allows shlubs like Comic Book Guy to approach him with inane fan questions. If you had access to an Avengers-style quantum time loop, would you go back in time and not be in Dinner for Schmucks?

The Expanse

easter eggstra meanings and references THE Tattoos EXPANSE The production team incorporated Oksana and Josep's tattoos on each other to show how close they are. CRACKED.COM

Demi Moore

CRACKED.COM DEMI MOORE owns so many dolls, she hired a curator to maintain the collection. The actress owns thousands of dolls by NIADA artists, as well as thousands of GI Joes and Babies. Ex-husband Ashton Kutcher said he encouraged Moore to open a museum, joking that the dolls were going to start giving him nightmares.

Mario and Luigi

L M Originally, Mario and Luigi were identical twins When Luigi was introduced in Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. his character was just the same as Mario, but green. The Luigi we all love exists only because of the Super Mario Bros. 2 U.S. release, which was actually a reskin of an Arabian-inspired game called Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic. Luigi was redesigned to replace the tall, lightfooted Mama character from the original Japanese title. GRACKED.COM

The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES The stolen signs DANGER OPEN PIT COMBESTIBLE Donkey Doug's apartment is filled with stolen signs from around Jacksonville. Among these, one from Parks and Recreation that reads, Danger: Open Pit. The Good Place CRACKED.COM

Overwatch

GRACKED.COM Overwatch sound designer Paul Lackey wanted the game's hit confirmation sound effect to be satisfying to hear but couldn't find one, until he opened a bottle of beer one night. Не then reversed the sound and programmed it into the game. TECATE

Boy Band v. Airline

Boy band sticks it to an airline REWIND Follow @rewind_music For everyone asking James is ok Не is being looked after in hospital now back home safe in Glasgow Не sends you all his love 7 5.22 PM - 8 Jul 2015 t7 39 * 65 CRACKED.COM James McElvar of Rewind once chose to wear every article of clothing he'd packed, rather than pay the $45 baggage fee. Не did collapse from heat exhaustion halfway through the flight... but he saved nearly half a hundred dollars!

Krusty the Clown’s Inspiration

Rusty Nails was the real-life inspiration behind Krusty The Portland entertainer was a very sweet clown, says Matt Groening, who would have grown up watching him. CRACKED.COM

The Ramones

THE RAMONES LIFTED PAUL McCARTNEY'S ALIAS. At the height of The Beatles' fame, Paul McCartney used to check into hotels under the name Paul Ramon in order to remain anonymous. Apparently vocalist/bassist Douglas Colvin liked the idea so much that he started going by Dee Dee Ramone, and the rest of the band followed suit. CRACKED.COM https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2014/apr/30/ramones-at-40-punk-in-pictures

Star Trek

Scotty's ashes were smuggled aboard the International Space Station. Richard Garriott, a civilian who visited the ISS in 2008, managed to hide a laminated card containing James Doohan's ashes in the station. For 12 years, only Garriott and Doohan's family knew about this. CRACKED.COM

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