26 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Saturday, November 8th, 2025

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26 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Saturday, November 8th, 2025
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Got here just in time, did ya? Well, these need to make way, but only because they've been displayed in this glass case since about 5am this morning. Actually, if you wait here for like 5 more minutes, we can give you this entire list. It's easier than lugging them all the way to the dumpster out back. And we hate throwing out very good facts that could nourish someone like yourself. It just wasteful, and we most certainly despise waste in all forms.

Here you go. Just throw them in the microwave for like 30 seconds when you get home. Enjoy!

Judge Judy

In 2010, a group of people made up a fake case just to get on Judge Judy. It involved smashed TV sets and a dead cat, and four roommates just made it up out of thin air. CRACKED.COM

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

celebrity Besties M The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants became real Amber Tamblyn + Blake Lively + America Ferrera + Alexis Bledel They all met on the set of the movie and stayed connected ever since (via text, not pants). All four have been to each others' weddings and celebrated their pregnancies as they have grown. CRACKED.COM

The Pine Tar Game

The Pine Tar Game Ro e CRACKED.COM In 1983, Royals legend George Brett dinged a go-ahead home run late in a game against the Yankees. But when a ref called it back because of an illegal amount of pine tar on the bat, Brett Naruto-charged out of the dugout to give him what-for.

Chanel's Boomerang

CC Chanel's 2017 pre-spring collection included a $1,384 boomerang. CRACKED.COM

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Whitewashing in Hollywood

HARRY POTTER Lavender Brown CRACKED COM KATHLEEN CAULEY/JENNIFER SMITH JESSIE CAVE The role was played by Cauley and Smith - two black actors - right up until she became Ron's love interest, when she suddenly became a white girl. It's magic!

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Daniel Roebuck

Hollywood's Problematic People On Screen THE LATE SHIFT The Late Shift tells the story of JAY LENO and DAVID LETTERMAN's battle to succeed Johnny Carson. Throughout that messy succession, actor Daniel Roebuck was always in Leno's corner, even before he was cast as the victor of The Tonight Show war in the movie version of Bill Carter's book. CRACKED

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Saddam Hussein

Somehow, Saddam Hussein authored a romance novel. Zabiba and the King by Its Author SADDAM HUSSEIN Zabiba and the King is set thousands of years ago, and it's about a romance between the Iraqi king and Zabiba, an ordinary villager. CRACKED.COM

Harley Quinn

Batman FIRST APPEARANCE Batman: The Animated Series Joker's Favor (1992) HARLEY QUINN The Clown Queen of Crime. LATEST APPEARANCE The Suicide Squad (2021) CRACKED.COM

Jamie Foxx: Hero

Jamie Foxx CRACKED.COM When he witnessed a car careen off the road and flip over multiple times, Foxx ran over and cut the driver out of his seatbelt, just before the car burst into flames. He told ABC News I'm not a hero - which sounds exactly like something a hero would say.

Zelda

The Triforce was originally made of microchips. CRACKED COM Miyamoto intended for the franchise to start out as a full-on sci-fi. The first game was supposed to involve collecting microchips and time travel, with the being the ~Linkplayer to the future.

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26 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Saturday, November 8th, 2025

Early Minions

Minions are carefully designed sources of irritation. It was a long process to pare the Minions down to the pill-shaped memes that populate Boomer Fac

George Clooney

CRACKEDCO COM Whenever George Clooney wants to just ride his motorcycle, he leaves the house by 5 AM to beat the paparazzi.

Krystian Zimerman

In 2002, the TSA decided that famous Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman's custom Steinway grand piano was probably a bomb, because its glue smelled like

X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class takes place during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. However, there's a bunch of Tomahawk missiles shown in the scene above. Tomaha

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