30 Pop Culture History Trivia Nuggets That People Besides Your Cool Uncle Should Know

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30 Pop Culture History Trivia Nuggets That People Besides Your Cool Uncle Should Know
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Since you cool cats probably know a whole bunch of other cool cats, we thought you'd be the perfect people to show these to. After all, that cool uncle of yours probably showed you plenty of cool stuff. And now it's time to pass it on, and for us to be the cool uncle. Your Cool Uncle Cracked. As the kids say, “real recognize real,” so by that logic, we're guessing that cool recognize cool as well.

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Westworld

CRACKED.COM Luke Hemsworth got his biceps injured a couple days before shooting a fight scene for WESTWORLD. The scene was rewritten so Stubbs gets shot in the arm and has to fight one-handed.

Seinfeld

George & Susan CRACKED CON Jason Alexander says he had trouble syncing up his tone and timing with Heidi Swedberg's over her roughly 5-season arc on the show. It was only when Susan started sharing more screen time with Jerry and Elaine that other actors understood the difficulty, and they collectively

Inspiration for 'Scarface'

CRACKED COR TONY MONTANA IS JAY GATSBY -First he gets the money. Then he gets the power. Then he gets the woman. -The he gets shot and dies in a pool.

David Spade

David Spade's Hollywood Minute Puppet In a response to Eddie Murphy's backlash to a Hollywood minute joke, Spade stopped doing the seg- ment. However, a smaller, wooden version of himself, carried on the re- sponsibility. Spade (with little pup- pet voice): Bobby Brown recently spent five days in jail. Two for drunk driving and three for his new al- bum. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Batwoman Returns

Sean Young got sued by James Woods for stalking. Which included her leaving a decapitated doll at his doorstep and mailing him gory images. Later, when she was passed up for the role of Catwoman in Batman Returns, she showed up unannounced at the studio lot in a makeshift Catwoman outfit. Tim Burton CRACKED.COM hid from her in the bathroom.

The Goonies

The Goonies house THE GOONIES CRACKED.COM The owner of the Goonies house built a landscaping wall and tarped up the windows and doors, in an effort to ward off the hundreds of thousands of Truffle Shuffling pilgrims she's forced to witness.

Margot Robbie

CRACKED COM days Conste Margot Robbie has given 100 tattoos to different people in her free time.

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Who is to blame for painful screams of KELLY CLARKSON! Ameri 2 NIGHT FIN TOMOR CRACKED.COM Clarkson confronted Judd Apatow on her TV show and he promptly passed the buck. I'm going to blame Seth Rogen. We had a piece of paper with all the curses for Steve to scream when he gets waxed. And on the side with the clean curses, it says 'Kelly Clarkson' in Seth's handwriting.

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Early Drafts of Movies

Early drafts of movies Terminator: Salvation The ending had a John Connor-Terminator hybrid. In John Brancato and Michael Ferris' dark original ending, John Connor died and his skin was grafted onto Marcus' cybernetic skeleton. The new Marcus- Connor Terminator then killed all the heroes, and the machines ended up winning. CRACKED.COM

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Effects Without CGI

Amazing effects made without CGI Alien The rest of the cast was taken aside while John Hurt's head and arms was fitted with a fake chest, while his body was hidden under the table. Then they returned to shoot the scene, and boom! Free trauma. CRACKED.COM

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Jaws

When John Williams shared his idea for the Jaws score, Spielberg laughed. AFL It was just two notes, so Spielberg thought it was a joke. He played it until I stopped laughing. CRACKED.COM

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Segways

Segway investor dies on a Segway. 2010 POLIS CRACKED CON British entrepreneur Jimi Heselden purchased the goofy gyrobike company, and that same year,

The Legend of Zelda

TELTH There's an enemy in The Legend of Zelda that can be beaten by yelling at it. LEVEL-S 183 B -LIFE- The Famicom controller has a built-in micropho

Super Mario Bros.

CRACKED.COM WALL JUMPING STARTED AS A GLITCH. 00000 00000 00000 rrrerncac eoeneoerereeoroeeoeeorrkorr 00000 00000 In the original Super Mario Bros, if

Josie and The Pussycats

Josie and The Pussycats was critically panned because of its blatant product placements. According to directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, that'

John Heard

JOHN HEARD best known for HOME ALONE died in July. 2017. His estranged son MAX died seven months earlier. Max's mother (John's ex-wife) wrote Max's ob

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