29 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Saturday, November 1st

On this, the day of the fact
29 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Saturday, November 1st
Add Cracked to Google

Yes, it's Saturday, that best day of the weekend. Maybe you have nothing going tonight except a fridge full of beer and Slow Horses. That sounds like a fine night. Or maybe you're headed out. And that's where we can come in. 

What follows is a trip across the vast horizon of pop culture history. Even a brief persual will arm you with enough interesting trivia and factoids to drop in any conversation and spin the heads around of all particpating in it. It's your time to shine, and we're here to help you go supernova. 

Or maybe you'll just curl up in bed. This all works for that, too.

SNL

Fred Savage was the first person to host SNL who was born after its premiere. Не was 13 years old when he hosted in 1990. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

William Shatner has never watched an episode of Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation. CRACKED.COM

The Handmaid's Tale

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE WATERFORDS ARE MUCH OLDER IN THE BOOK. THE HANDMAID'S TALE In the book, Fred and Serena are described as an elderly couple with arthritis and gray hair. Showrunner Bruce Miller decided to make them younger because he wanted direct competition between Serena and Offred. CRACKED.COM

Three’s Company

CRACKED SUZANNE SOMERS & JOHN RITTER On Three's Company, she was paid $30,000 per episode to Ritter's $150,000. When she pushed for a raise, the show replaced her, and she said that Ritter shunned her. They briefly reconciled just before his passing.

28 Days Later

The highway scene in 28 Days Later required a rolling police roadblock. It was filmed on the M1 highway, and police slowed down cars coming in both directions. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

George Harrison

There was a Beatle in Monty Python's Life of Brian. George Harrison not only donated $3 million to get this movie made, but also founded a company to produce it. And what did he get in return? 15 seconds of screen time as a random dude who breaks the fourth wall with a Liverpudlian allo, then disappears. If only they had given him a bigger role; just imagine how famous he might have been. CRACKED COM

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST THE ACTORS LIVED IN THE PSYCHIATRIC WARD DURING SHOOTING. All of the actors who played patients actually stayed in the sleep quarters at the Oregon State Hospital, to get a sense of what it was like to be hospitalized. CRACKED.COM

Overstock.com

CORPORATE CRASH & BURN CATCHING THE IRE OF THE DEEP STATE Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock, stepped down in 2019 after he said weird stuff about the Deep State, which caused the company's stock to fall by 36%. Coincidence? CRACKED

Punk’d

Donald Faison made Zach Braff think his Porsche was being ruined (which led to a child getting assaulted). t A AT&T VU AT&T VULT ULTURE TURE A AT&T For an episode of Punk'd, he had a bunch of kids stand around Braff's Porsche so that it looked like they were spray-painting it. It worked too well, because when Braff saw them, he chased down one of them (a 12-year-old) and beat him up. CRACKED.COM

Bruce Forsyth

Bruce Forsyth was a Neopet TM The bow-tied British game host was one of the original Neopet options. His character eventually evolved into a penguin, still with a bow tie. CRACKED.COM

Source: WIred

Detroit-Style Pizza

Detroit-style pizza was created with stuff from a car factory. In 1946, one GuS Guerra put cooking oil in a square industrial pan used to move car parts around the factory floor and then made pizza in it thus was born Detroit-style pizza. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source: Jalopnik

Link's Parents

LIE Link DOES have parents. Everyone thinks Link grew up a street urchin, but canonically, his mother gave him to the Deku Tree, who then raised him.

Tags:

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

VIRAL ON CRACKED

A WEEKLY
NEWSLETTER OF
JOKES + TRIVIA

Forgot Password?