32 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Thursday, November 20, 2025

Unruly facts that took forever to fall in line
32 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Thursday, November 20, 2025
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It's a good thing you got here when you did. If you showed up any earlier, these pop culture facts would have still be strewn all over the place. We put them in a nice orderly list like we always do, but when we turned around for one second, they scampered off like a bunch of toddlers. 

Ya know, it's hard enough to scour the globe for the best, most interesting pop culture tidbits, but now we even have to herd them here in the office?! We'd find more sluggish, boring facts for next time, but that wouldn't be fair to you, would it?

Hafpor Bjornsson in Game of Thrones

CRACKED HAFPÓR BJÖRNSSON WAS ASKED TO PLAY THE MOUNTAIN VIA FACEBOOK. GAME OF THRONES In 2014, producers sent him an unsolicited Facebook message. Не said, They asked me if I was strong enough to pick one of the guys up. I gave it a try, and they were surprised at how easily I lifted him overhead. Не was crowned The World's Strongest Man in 2018.

Elsa

In the early drafts of Frozen, Elsa was a villain. She wasn't Anna's sister, and she was a standard supervillain who raised an army of snow monsters. But that got changed because the team behind Frozen thought it was too derivative and unsatisfying. CRACKED.COM

Eddie Murphy and Michael Jackson

EDDIE MURPHY & MICHAEL JACKSON GRAGKED.COM They were both 80s icons but it's hard to imagine what else brought these two together. Watch for early greenscreen technology (is it raining Michael Jacksons?) and a handshake at the end, some kind of gentlemen's agreement that Whatzupwitu was a terrible, terrible idea.

Elon Musk

Cringey Cameos Iron Man 2 Elon Musk Musk appeared next to Tony and Pepper back when his façade as a visionary futurist was still minimally sustainable. Today we know that he would probably unban Thanos from Twitter for being a victim of intergalactic cancel culture, or something. CRACKED.COM

Grey’s Anatomy

GREY'S ANATOMY was almost Complications. ABC hated the show's title so much that they tried changing it several times. At first they wanted to either call it Doctors or Surgeons. Just two weeks before its premiere, they tried to rename it Complications. CRACKED.COM

Midnight Express

Midnight Express The story of Bily Hayes unbelevable courage happen THE dd A SPORTOR THAM Midnight Express CRACKED.COM Author Billy Hayes says the film completely changed the ending to his real-life story about spending years in a Turkish prison. It probably didn't help that Oliver Stone was reportedly high on coke, weed, and booze while Hayes was recounting his daring escape.

Watchmen

We almost got a Watchmen movie in the '90s. Terry Gilliam was supposed to direct, and they wanted Schwarzenegger for Doctor Manhattan, while David Bowie wanted to play Rorschach. But it turned out to be too expensive, and anyway, Gilliam later decided Watchmen was too big for one movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Scott Thompson

Scott Thompson was Yahoo's CEO. Не claimed a bachelor's in computer science. His B.S. degree turned out to be BS, as came out during a shareholder struggle over seats on the board. The college he cited didn't even offer a computer science major when he would have gone there. CRACKED.COM

When Harry Met Sally

The ending of When Harry Met Sally was actually mostly improvised. They were supposed to break up, and plans changed at the last minute, so Billy Crystal ad-libbed When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody ... CRACKED.COM

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Tangled

The most expensive animated film, ever, is Tangled. Fi That was partly because it was rewritten a bunch of times, and partly because Rapunzel's hair was stupidly difficult to animate. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe

Meg Ryan ALICE BOWMAN Meg Ryan and costar Russell Crowe began dating while filming 2002's Proof of Life. Their controversial relationship sucked up al

Chris Hemsworth

Chris Hemsworth lied about his height. CRACKED COM Back when he was merely impossibly handsome, and not yet famous, Hemsworth stole work from short ac

God of War

Kratos wore heavier armor. Still, the protagonist of God of War was always pretty much naked. Perhaps to impress monsters into submission with his pec

Marilyn Monroe

CRACKEDC COM Marilyn Monroe struggled with stuttering throughout her life.

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