29 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Sunday, November 16, 2025

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29 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Sunday, November 16, 2025
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It: Chapter Two

Easter Eggs in stephen King Movies it: chapter TWO Young Ben from 1990'S It appears in the movie. Brandon Crane, who portrayed the bulky, shy child poet Ben in the miniseries, makes an appearance as an adult in It: Chapter Two, playing an employee of the grown-up Ben. CRACKED.COM

Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. learned to play tennis left-handed for Chaplin. I didn't have to, but it was an opportunity to really go for broke and nail the character as much as I could, he says. Plus, he started over learning tennis once he found out, while being trained as a right-handed player, that Chaplin was left-handed. CRACKED.COM

Lazenby as Bond

George Lazenby basically tried to be Sean Connery to get cast as Bond. Не not only got Sean Connery's haircut, he also bought one of Connery's old suits, all to make an impression. CRACKED.COM

Robbie Williams' House

Myths with real-life consequences Ghosts (the canine kind) Robbie Williams (yes, that Robbie Williams) sold his house because it was too haunted for his tastes. His daughter said she didn't like living there, and Williams himself says he saw his dog Trixie's ghost there. CRACKED

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Can’t Hardly Wait

Ethan Embry was SO stoned when he filmed Can't Hardly Wait. Не was the world's biggest stoner at the time, he says, and the director even asked him if he was altered. Which is pretty much all he remembers from the shoot. CRACKED.COM

The NYC Fork and Knife Scandal

In 2014, then-Mayor BILL de BLASIO was laughed at for using a knife and fork to eat pizza at a Staten Island pizzeria. (It's usually eaten with your hands in New York City, something you'd think the mayor would have known). CRACKED

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Terrible Predictions

50 THE INTERNET 5 DECEMBER 1995 CompuServe Internet Services AHENET - - The - Insurance - f - 1 - - Rystan WT - Maketing il iw - и MADE CRACKED.COM I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse. -Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet. Не said he'd eat his words if he were wrong. And so he did, sticking a magazine page in a blender then eating the goop with a spoon.

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Wonder Woman

TV shows we never got to see 2011 Wonder woman Dr. Phil cameoed in this show (by the creator of Ally McBeal) featuring torture, Pedro Pascal, and a terrible, Batman-like Wonder Woman. CRACKED.COM

1992 Nike Ads

CHARLES BARKLEY played one-on-one with GODZILLA. BUT NOW SIR CHARLES SNARG HAS THE BALL... SHOW YOU HOW WE DO IN THE WEST! An NBA star dribbling against a kaiju was a (pretty on-brand) ad for Nike in 1992 - and a rather less explicable spin-off comic the following year.

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James Cameron

James Cameron was stabbed in the face with a pen by a crew member. He was bleeding and laughing. CRACKED.COM

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog can't swim because Yuji Naka, the co-creator of Sonic, assumed that hedgehogs can't swim. IIME 4615 RINGS 1 33 N He's wrong.

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