30 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History for Friday, October 31, 2025

You’ll never guess which pro wrestler was also a schoolteacher!
30 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History for Friday, October 31, 2025
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Boy are you in for a real treat today. We just rounded up this stellar batch of pop-culture facts, so our eyes are still widened and our jaws are still on the floor. And when you see who almost played Joe Exotic in a Tiger King drama series, your jaw will surely join ours.

Don’t worry, though, we brought bandages and some ice for you. The pavement isn’t too kind to chins.

Eminem

AT A GLANCE EMINEM Eminem asked to be on Crank Yankers Не made 20 to 30 calls, but only three calls made it on air. CRACKED.COM

Ozzy Osbourne

IF YOU REVERSE THE FIRST FEW SECONDS OF OZZY OSBOURNE'S SONG 'BLOODBATH IN PARADISE' LOCAL CAUGHT Traditional SEA MAZE Fishmenges SHELLFISH FISH SPECIALITIES NO Coca-Cola SEA HAZE SEA HAZE delection of Welcome to Locally Kingston upon Hull COCKLES Cought WHELKS MUSSELS FRESH F PEARNES ALLIED EALS The Pioneering City SHE COUNTRY EDWARDS EXCELLENCE - TWINNED WITH YOUR DARKEST THOUGHT YOU WILL HEAR THE WORDS YOUR MOTHER SELLS WHELKS IN HULL. CRACKED COM

Game of Thrones

CRACKED.COM Game of Thrones MARGAERY TYRELL Unlike the show's scheming vamp and Cersei's rival, Margaery is a very minor character in George R. R. Martin's books, and we have yet to learn anything about what she thinks or wants.

The Tiger King

Roles Almost Played by Nicolas Cage JOE EXOTIC A role that seems to be someone pretending to be a Nicolas Cage character, Amazon dropped the drama, though a similar Joe vs. Carole series was greenlit. CRACKED.COM

Oprah’s Giveaways

What happens when you win a free car? On Oprah's iconic You get a car! episode, she gave away 276 cars valued at $7.7 million. However, each recipient (who all needed new cars) had to pay a gift tax of up to $7,000. CRACKED.COM

Bad Religion

Greg Graffin is a science teacher BAD RELIGION CRACKED.COM The authority-phobic punk rocker has a PhD in zoology, and has lectured at UCLA and Cornell. His dissertation was impressively on-brand: Evolution and Religion: Questioning the Beliefs of the World's Eminent Evolutionists.

Will Ferrell

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM WILL FERRELL HAD A RANDOM CAMEO ON THE CBS DRAMA THE GUARDIAN. My manager Jim, who was also a producer on it at the time, and we basically forced CBS to write a guest role for me which looks like I'm going to be a series regular, he said.

The Legend of Zelda

TRUTH + The theme song was an afterthought. THE LEGEND OF ZELDA ©1986 NINTENDO PUSH START BUTTON At the last moment, they realized the song they wanted to use wasn't in the public domain yet. So composer Koji Kondo pulled an all-nighter to crank out an iconic banger. CRACKED.COM

George ‘The Animal’ Steele

CRACKED.COM m GEORGE THE ANIMAL STEELE used to be a schoolteacher. If you are into wrestling, you knew The Animal as, well, an animal. But out of the ring, he had a master's degree and used to teach at a high school.

Malcolm in the Middle

Producers didn't let Aaron Paul audition for the role of Francis. MALC THe IN LM MIDDLE On Malcom in the Middle, Bryan Cranston and Paul could have been coworkers a lot sooner, but they rejected him even though he desperately wanted it. CRACKED.COM

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre declined his Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964. GRACKED COM Не said, a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution. Не consistently declined all other such official hon- ors people tried to grant him over the years.

My Name Is Earl

Catalina's Spanish rants actually break the fourth wall. MY NAME IS EARL When she is seemingly telling off Joy, she's actually addressing the audience and saying things like: With this we conclude our first Earl season. We are very grateful for your support and we look forward to seeing you next fall. CRACKED.COM

Robert De Niro

ROBERT DE NIRO's attorney said that at 79, he works to support his ex wife Grace Hightower. When does he get the opportunity to ... not work six-day weeks, 12-hour days, so he can keep pace with Ms. Hightower's thirst for Stella McCartney? CRACKED

South Park

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM SPIELBERG AND GEORGE LUCAS SOUTH PARK In the wake of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, South Park depicted Spielberg and Lucas as constantly uh... assaulting Indiana Jones. Assault is not something that's easy to write comedy for, and it is portrayed very graphically. Definitely a good episode to skip if your family is visiting.

Harvey Weinstein

Cringey Cameos My Scene Goes Hollywood: The Movie Harvey Weinstein Seeing Weinstein act all cool and aloof while teenage girls swoon over him is the very definition of creepy. In fact, we could call it The Very Definition of Creepy: The Movie, which would make for a less clunky title. CRACKED.COM

Chucky

Tiffany Valentine's secret appearance in the first episode of CHUCKY During the yard sale scene there's a woman in a red coat with a scarf covering her head. That's Valentine, and it could possibly explain how Chucky made his way back to his hometown. GRACKED.COM

Spider-Man

CRACKED.COM spider Man Animated Green Goblin It was the third cartoon where Neil Ross voiced Norman Osborn - and yet, it was his first time playing the Green Goblin, who had a different voice actor in the previous shows.

David Bowie and Bing Crosby

DAVID BOWIE & BING CROSBY CRACKED.COM The Thin White Duke only agreed to a holiday duet because his mom was a Crosby fan. Still, he (rightly) hated the song choice, Little Drummer Boy. To save the gig, show producers whipped up a counterpart, Peace on Earth, that Bowie could sing instead. The rest is Christmas magic.

Avatar: The Last Air Bender

GRAGKED.COM AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER The Boulder, a character inspired by The Rock... ...was voiced by another WWE legend, Mick Foley aka Mankind.

24

CRACKED.COM Jack Bauer kills total of 309 a PEOPLE run of 24. over the whole Put in a different way, that is one kill every 40 minutes.

Dolce & Gabbana

CRACKED.COM To promote their upcoming runway show in Shanghai, Dolce& Gabbana released a series of videos which depicted a Chinese model struggling to eat Italian food with chopsticks. Many Chinese people interpreted the campaign as a mockery of their culture. The campaign cost D&G the Shanghai show and an undisclosed amount of money after their products were boycotted by multiple Chinese retailers.

Julio Torres

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM JULIO TORRES DID A VIRTUAL COMEDY SHOW TO RAISE MONEY FOR UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS. Не did My Sun in Aquarius in collaboration with the New York State Youth Leadership Council in 2020, and he was joined by Aidy Bryant, Fred Armisen, Natasha Lyonne and Nick Kroll.

Early Disney Shorts

CRACKED.COM HELP Pete не first appeared in Alice solves the Puzzle. This 1925 short was part of a series about a live- action girl running around an animated landscape.

Chris Farley

Cousins CRACKED.COM Chris Farley was the first cousin of Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motors.

Glee

The cast of Glee has had 207 SONGS on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. That's three times as many as the Beatles. CRACKED.COM

Don Vito

Don Vito JACKASS CRACKED.COM Vincent Margera was arrested for groping three very underage girls at an autograph signing event. After unsuccesfully arguing that he was simply playing the role of Don Vito, he stopped appearing on TV and then died.

Abbey Road

They repainted the Abbey Road crossing during lockdown. 27% HIGHWEY MINTENANCE LINE PAINTING ONWAY It's a very busy crossing, so the government took advantage of the drop in traffic to repaint the marking. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Silly Putty

CRACKED SILLY PUTTY WAS DEVELOPED AS A RUBBER SUBSTITUTE. It was originally thought to be useless until the scientists examining it whipped it out at parties, which were really boring in the 1940s.

J.K. Simmons

J.K. Simmons voices the Yellow M&M. m He's voiced the character for over two decades and, when he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2015, M&M's gave him a portrait of himself made only out of peanut and milk chocolate M&M's. CRACKED.COM

Snoop Dogg

AT A GLANCE SNOOP DOGG Snoop Dogg coaches youth football. 21 Snoop founded the Snoop Youth Football League to help youth avoid getting involved with gangs, like he was. CRACKED.COM

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