24 Trivia Facts That We Used A Border Collie To Herd Into A Real Pop Culture Flock

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24 Trivia Facts That We Used A Border Collie To Herd Into A Real Pop Culture Flock

When taking our fact-finding oath, the Cracked higher-ups remind us of an old parable where a farmer leaves his 99 sheep to search for the one that has strayed. It's a creepy ceremony that takes place in the building's unfinished basement, but our walk back up into the light feels like a rebirth of sorts.

We now see the importance of each one of these pop culture facts, and vow to never leave one astray. Feel free to shear them for their fact-wool. It's definitely non-itchy and once you have the perfect sweater made from it's essence you'll never be cold or without conversation fodder again.

Boy Meets World

Cory & Topanga BOY MEETS WORLD Danielle Fishel confirmed that she and Ben Savage went on one sorta date when they were 16 to see if they had off-screen chemistry. They decided they were more like family, but hey, as TGIF fanatics, we're counting it. CRACKED.COM

The Rescuers

CRACKED.COM During the first on-screen appearance of Orville the Albatross in The Rescuers, the melody playing in the background is Wild Blue Yonder, the anthem of the U.S. Air Force.

The Ring

The earliest adaptation of The Ring was ridiculously pornographic. In the TV movie Ring: Kanzenban, the ghost is an adult woman who appears naked and glowing. CRACKED.COM

Ferrero's Terrible Ad

In Germany, chocolate company Ferrero ran a white-nationalist-like ad. YES WEISS BAN E V Their ad for a new white chocolate spoofed an Obama rally, with the slogan Yes weiss can! (Yes white can!) And the slogan the ad wrapped up with was Germany votes white. Germany having the history it does, this didn't go over too well. CRACKED.COM

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Wendy’s Chocolate Frosties

Wendy's chocolate Frosty is actually half chocolate and half vanilla. CRACKED.COM Owner Dave Thomas thought full chocolate would be too over- powering a flavor paired with their burger and fries meal.

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Organ Donations in Movies

Movies scare people out of donating their organs. Organ donation in the U.S. is highly regulated-which doesn't stop movies and TV shows from portraying it as a shady business, when not straight horror. These bullcrap clichés have scared a lot of people from becoming organ donors. GRAGKED.COM

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Martha Stewart

CRACKED MARTHA STEWART Martha Stewart was born in '41 to a working-class Polish family in New Jersey. Her dad pushed her to succeed and she showed it from the age of three, pulling all the weeds from the cobblestone path.

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Star Trek

Leonard Nimoy came up with Spock's nerve pinch. STAR TREK The original script had Spock KO the evil Captain Kirk double. Nimoy felt that didn't fit th

I Know What You Did Last Summer

lois Duncan dislikes the flm adaptation of her teen novel, 1 KnOW What You Did Last Summer, for trivializing violence and making murder seem like a g

Red Eye in Pictures

Red eye ruining all your pictures? Red eye occurs when a camera captures light reflecting from the retina at the back of your subject's eye when a fla

Movie Locations

TRANSFORMERS HAVE SET FOOT ON ALNWICK CASTLE, ALSO KNOWN TO HARRY POTTER AS HOGWARTS. CRACKED COM

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