26 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Thursday, November 26, 2025

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26 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Thursday, November 26, 2025
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You made it! Thanks so much for being here with us. There's a billion other places you could be right now, but you've decided to take in a big ol' batch of pop culture facts. To show our appreciation, we scrapped a lesser list we had ready to go and replaced it with the cream of the crop. 

What follows is a rocket ride across the long expanse of pop culture history. We've been at this a long time and have a real respository of facts for even the most discriminating pop culture fiends. So we hope you enjoy and come back tomorrow.

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron was offended by a proposed role in Wonder Woman. When she heard there was interest in her to be in the film, Theron says she assumed it was for the role of Wonder Woman. She soon found out they actually wanted her to play her mom, Hippolyta. The offer felt like a slap in the face to Theron-who's only ten years older than Gal Gadot. CRACKED.COM

The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES No one wore saturated red in the first season. 200 SKILL AO SALVA DEROT The costume designer revealed that they specifically cut bright red from the wardrobe to hide the fact that the place was actually filled with demons. Quite a bit of redheads, though. The Good Place CRACKED.COM

Dan Harmon

Dan Harmon moved to California because Oliver Stone had optioned his friend Rob Schrab's comic, Scud: The Disposable Assassin. The friends were so confident in their Hollywood prospects that they WILL packed up and moved into a house KILL FOR in Koreatown where they MONEY continued making comics and working as writers. YOUR S#!T RE ОСТО TOGETHER GET IT ALL TOGETHER AND PUT IT BI BACKPACK ALL YOUP SPIT CRACKED COM SO IT'O

Escape Rooms

In January 2019, 5 teenagers died after a fire in an escape room in Poland. CRACKED.COM Poland's interior minister then ordered fire safety in- spections at more than 1,000 escape room loca- tions across the country, which previously did not officially require them.

Aliens

Aliens It took 14-16 people to operate the Alien Queen animatronic puppet. CRACKED.COM

Sam Smith

Sam Smith sang Stay With Me all by himself -- no choir. Не got the choir effect by layering his voice (while standing in different spots) about 20 times, and what we hear is the finished demo. The song was written in 34 minutes and recorded in a single take, but it wasn't until he'd added the harmonies that he felt like the whole song suddenly made sense. CRACKED.COM

Ricardo Medina Jr.

CRACKED THE RED RANGER KILLED HIS ROOMMATE WITH A SWORD. Ricardo Medina Jr., best known for his role as the Red Ranger in the Power Rangers Wild Force series, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter of his roommate Joshua Sutter in 2015. ER RANGERS BA POWER MORPHIC DAI 20 POWER MO POWER MILA

Maroon 5

Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 It may seem like a relationship song, but it's actually about the band feeling suffocated by their record label who was making them write more songs. It paid off. CRACKED.COM

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Famous Relatives

Cousins CRACKEDO Al Roker is the second cousin of Lenny Kravitz. Their grandparents were cousins.

Source: TODAY

Pulp Fiction

CRACKED.COM VINCENT VEGA'S CAR FROM PULP FICTION WAS MISSING FOR 19 YEARS. 2X0J538 The 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu was stolen during the film's pro

Match.com

Match.com partnered with Amazon's Alexa, but they didn't quite think the programming through. People asked the device for dating advice, and it respon

Game of Thrones

GAME OF THRONES In 2012 HBO put up scale replicas of the Iron Throne for sale on their website. Coming in at 7 feet and 350 pounds of custom-made fibe

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