30 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Tuesday, November 4th

You've seized the day, and now it's time to seize the facts!
30 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Tuesday, November 4th
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We always hear the term “carpe diem,” but we rarely ever hear “carpe facta.” That actually is “seize the fact” in latin, so no need to go Googling it. Would we lie to you? We've built a career on providing you with pure truths, and we're not about to throw that all away for some fun little opening line about day-seizing!

Anywho, when carpe facta clearly blows up and becomes as popular as carpe diem, you'll know that you heard it here first. They should enrich your mind and subsequently any conversation you might find yourself mired in that needs a little extra something.

 

The Tiger King TikTopera

WEIRD WORLD You can now watch a TikTopera based on Tiger King, if you want to. It's an actual opera that consists of 60-second TikToks, and the English National Opera provided the music. CRACKED.COM

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Deep Space 9

Andy Robinson kept an in character journal to get into the mindset of Garak from Deep Space 9. The background material he wrote for the character was

Hidden Jokes in 'Infinity War'

AVENCERS CRACKED cO MARVEL STUDIOS VENCERS INFINITY WAR That blue guy chilling in The Collector's display case? Don't mind him. That's just Tobias Fui

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 2019 Animated Feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Miles Morales was animated at half the frame rate to make him look jittery and off-beat, as he's still getting comfortable in his skin. CRACKED.COM

Hugh Grant

HUGH GRANT REGRETS TAKING so MANY ROMANTIC COMEDY PARTS. The actor-who has admittedly starred in a lot of rom-coms-said he regrets not thinking more carefully before taking on roles and getting typecast because of it. I took everything. The worse it was, the quicker I took it. I should have made interesting decisions and done different stuff. Instead, I repeated myself almost identically about 17 times in a row. CRACKED.COM

The Following

CRACKED.COM The Following was born from Scream. Kevin Williamson came up with The Following while working on Scream. Не also used ideas from his abandoned script for Scream 3.

I Love Lucy

RICKY NEVER TOLD LUCY YOU GOT SOME 'SPLAININ TO DO. Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo telling his wife Lucy You got some 'splainin to do! is one of the most famous lines in sitcom history. Only thing is, he never said it. While his tortured Cuban version of the word explain indeed shows up now and again, he never actually says the phrase that everyone associates with I Love Lucy. It's believed a journalist just sort of made it up, and everyone ran with it. CRACKED.COM

Office Space

Swingline didn't sell red staplers at the time. CRACKED.COM Mike Judge had to make his own prop stapler. Не even approached them about a product placement deal, but they didn't see any value in it. Three years after the film was released, they caved and began selling a Red Rio model.

Ripper

TV shows we never got to see Ripper This Buffy spin-off was due to focus on Giles and be a BBC production. Instead, Buffy went to a Season 12 in the comics. CRACKED.COM

Monty Python

Spam, in the online sense, comes from a classic Monty Python sketch. In the sketch, set in a cafeteria, the word spam starts to replace all others on the menu, and soon the dialogue is literally like spam spam spam and spam. CRACKED.COM

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The Walking Dead

CRACKED COM CAROL almost got killed in season three of The Walking Dead. Producer Greg Nicotero says the writers didn't know where to take her charact

Marilyn Monroe

The Monroe Six' were a group of teenagers that followed Marilyn Monroe paparazzi- style throughout New York City in the mid- 1950s. Instead Of shyin

Good way to get a loyal group of people that only publish your best pictures. 

Dave Chappelle

Dave Chappelle walked away from $50 million. Stressed out from the pressures of his hit show, he abruptly quit and went on a spiritual retreat to Afri

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