25 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Wednesday, December 3, 2025

No crazy mental gymanstics required to believe these facts.
25 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Wednesday, December 3, 2025
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Being good at gymnastics and being good at mental gynastics are two incredibly different skills. The former means that you are probably incredibly strong, coordinated, and flexible. Your body is probably in pretty good shape, and you could totally join the Cirque du Soleil if you wanted to. But the latter means that you are able to gaslight yourself into believing just about anything. It's also impressive, but also not the best attribuate to have as a human being in this day and age. Or ever, really. 

But don't worry, you don't have to warp or bend reality to believe these trivia nuggets. Some facts might seem a little bit out there, but they are all true! Promise. 

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25 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Source: Vice

Ancient Romans

ANCIENT ROMANS LOVED THEIR FAST FOOD. Over 2000 years ago, Romans had thermopolia, take-out counters where hot food was served. In Pompeii alone, ther

Did they have drive-thru? 

The Doors

The Doors CRACKED.COM FIRST SHOW: Guitarist Robby Krieger says their first gig was as a jazz cover band at their keyboardist's mom's office holiday party: We had to play jazz standards and stuff like that. It was fun!

The Scopitone

Music videos are 20 years older than MTV. u-zie-- 5O They were made for the 1960s fad Scopitone, a jukebox that could play video. CRACKED.GOM

Nickelback

Nickelback is widely mocked and ridiculed but they continue to rock on and sell millions of albums! That's inspiring. Also, their music video for Som

Clueless

Clueless 1996-99 CRACKED COM The movie Clueless was initially imagined as a TV show, but the TV show was based on the movie, with several of the main actors reprising their roles.

Katy Perry

Katy Perry changed her name from Katy Hudson to avoid being confused with actress Kate Hudson. ? ? But Kate Hudson's father had changed his name from

Sitting Close to the TV

MYTH: SITTING CLOSE TO THE TV HURTS YOUR eyes! FACT: THERE'S no science TO BACK THAT UP. If there is a correlation between bad eyesight and sitting too close to the TV set, it's the other way around: People who sit close to the set do so because they already have poor vision. Staring at a screen for long periods of time can make your eyes tired and irritated, but that's because when you focus super hard, you forget to blink. CRACKED.COM https://www.aao.org/eyecare-america

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Australians

WHAT'S UP WITH SCIENCE? CRACKED.COM The first Australians ate giant birds' huge eggs Using protein from a prehistoric eggshell, scientists confirmed that people 50,000 years ago ate the 3-pound eggs of the 500-pound flightless Thunderbird, perhaps leading to their extinction.

Eating a giant scrambled egg is literally my dream.

Source: ScienceDaily

Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig lost his two front teeth while filming Casino Royale. CRACKED.COM While filming a fight scene in Prague, an actor accidentally punched Craig harder than expected, and his teeth were instantly knocked out.

Source: Esquire 

Shreked

Animators who had fallen out of favor working on the Dreamworks project The Prince of Egypt were punished by being banished to work on Shrek. Shreked was the term used. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

A blessing in diguise!

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The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty sways a little during a strong wind-up to 3 inches. That happens in 50 mph winds, and the torch alone swings up to 6 inches. But considering the statue is over 151 feet high, that's imperceptible from the ground. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The Mandalorian

The Mandalorian literally couldn't have been made without fans. The crew ran out of Stormtrooper costumes for a Season 1 scene, SO they got in touch with the local members of the 501st legion, a group of fans who wear and make super-accurate Stormtrooper costumes. The legionnaires showed up, in

Source: CBR

Dinosaur Tail

In 2016, they found a dinosaur tail preserved in amber. And it was covered in feathers, which made it the first direct, unambiguous piece of evidence

If Jurassic Park had never been made at all until then, maybe birdlike dinosaurs would dominate pop culture instead of the usual lizards. 

Source: National Geographic

Cereology

Cereology That's the actual name of the science that studies the crop circle phenomena. CRACKED.COM

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