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29 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Sunday, December 14, 2025

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Everyone has their preferred method of eating Skittles. Many just pour a bit into their hand and offer themselves the candy like a timid child at a petting zoo. Others put the bag to their lips, tilt their head back, and throw the rainbow straight down their gullet. Some people pour the Skittles out, arrange them by color into small piles, and then eat them from worst flavor to best flavor. Oh, wait; that's just me? Well, if you're curious, the order is purple, orange, green, yellow, and finally red.

We're not here to offer you candy like a creep in a van. Instead, we have a rainbow of interesting facts from all across pop culture. Tasty!

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Nickelback

NICKELBACK IS NAMED AFTER CHANGE FOR COFFEE. UNION INTERNATIONAL GLUTINO MONTICH.RU STATES FLUE CANTS ORANGE Lead singer Chad Kroeger was having trouble coming up with a name, so he approached his brother, who worked at a Starbucks. Coffee was $1.95, which meant every customer who paid two bucks got a nickel back. CRACKED.COM http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/nickelback — Source

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Dogs and Music

Like humans, dogs have their own music preferences. Research shows that most dogs prefer listening to reggae and soft rock than to pop or classical music. CRACKED.COM — Animals That (Eerily) Demonstrate Human-Like Behavior

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John Mayer

AT A GLANCE JOHN MAYER John Mayer was inspired to be a musician: by Back to the Future TTL LA M Bey B AN STARLIGHTERS As a kid, Johin Mayer started taking guitar lessons after seeing Marty McFly's version of Johnny B. Goode. CRACKED COM — Source: LA Times

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Catherine Zeta Jones

Chicago CATHERINE ZETA-JONES really wanted to sing All That Jazz, the song that opens the musical. She wanted it SO badly that she turned down the lead role for the chance. — Source: Yahoo Entertainment

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Beauty and the Beast

ThE iconic song Beauty and the Beast was originally a rock ballad. When the songwriters sent the demo to Angela Lansbury asking her to sing it, she

24

Book Publishing

Iceland has the world's highest count of books read and books published per capita. Icelanders are so into books, 10% of them publish one. CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

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Final Fantasy

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Prisons

A reduced jail CRACKED COM time in exchange ORDENY for reading is possible in Brazil. For each book a prisoner reads, they must submit a report, and i

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Reading Aloud

READING ALOUD helps you remember what you read up to 25% better. X m H g Reading something out loud will significantly help your ability to remember i

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Pizza Hut

A woman being held hostage used the Pizza Hut app in order to receive help. 50.00 THANKS FOR YOUR ORDER TOWN TODAY - and DELIVERY TRACKER C WE'RE MAKING YOUR ORDER - MIC et 2004 MAKES BASK When her captor let her use a phone to order a pizza, she included Please help. Get 911 to me in the comments. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fast Food Facts (Fresh Out Of The Fryer)

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Gibbons

JAPANESE SCIENTISTS GAVE A GIBBON A BUNCH OF HELIUM. SURE ENOUGH, THE GIBBON'S VOICE TURNED SQUEAKY. The team wanted to find how gibbons make their noises. It appears that gibbons consciously control their vocal system, much like humans do, except that they specialize in singing rather than speech. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chocolate Science

Historical Pranks PUBLICIZING A FAKE SCIENTIFIC STUDY A science journalist made up a study in 2015 that said eating chocolate could help you lose weight faster, and sent it to an open access academic journal. Then he sent out a press release to get media attention, and the media swallowed the bait. CRACKED — Source

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Star Wars VI

Faster-than-light travel would not be streaks of light. STAR WARS RETURN DE THE FED According to physicists at Leicester University, space travelers would see a central disc of bright light. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Annoying Ways Movies Keep Getting Science Wrong

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Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters got its name almost accidentally. Columbia couldn't get the rights to the name from Universal, since there was an old TV show called The — Source: Esquire

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First Man

13 Little-Known Facts About Movies, History, And Science - In First Man, they recorded the sound of Ryan Gosling's breathing with a real lunar helmet. — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Tongue Rolling

MYTH: ROLLING YOUR TONGUE IS A GENETIC TRAIT. FAGT8 TONGUE ROLLING IS SOmeTHING yoU LEARN. Elementary school science teachers like to use tongue rolli

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Taste

WHY PEOPLE TASTE ? THINGS DIFFERENTLY THE ANSWERS VARY WILDLY AND SCIENTISTS ARE STILL TRYING TO UNVEIL ALL THE MYSTERIES BEHIND FOOD AND TASTE REASON

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Play Doh

Play Doh was originally invented to clean wallpaper in the 30s. ULEN 8 Play-Do Play-Doh Since it was turned into a toy in 1956, over 3 billion cans of the stuff have been sold. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Teddy Bears

Institution from CASTA A 1883 It contains The Teddy bear is Washington to Pier to honor the pres visible for future 8 named after Teddy Roosevelt. e uis Marx Wiley as American Presidents in Ministure ARX 5 CO The story goes that Teddy Roosevelt was on a bear hunting trip where he was failing to catch any bears. His assistant caught a bear and tied it up for Teddy to shoot- only for Teddy to refuse because he thought it was unsportsmanlike. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Breakfast Club

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES - The Breakfast Club CARL THE JANITOR WENT TO THE MOVIE'S HIGH SCHOOL. At the beginning of the movie, viewers can see pictures of the school's past Man of the Year award winners. One of these pictures is of a young John Kapelos, the actor who plays Carl. KEV TOREX CRACKED COM CARL REED JOEL PRIMOGA des - — Source

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The Beastie Boys

The Beastie Boys used to open for themselves in the '80s. They were a heavy metal band called Triphammer. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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THAT '80S SHOW

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM AFTER THAT'70S SHOW, THEY MADE, WELL, THAT '80S SHOW. 2 It wasn't quite as good, though - it was basically just a hodge-podge of '80s cultural references, and that was pretty much that. — Source

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Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais was an 80s pop star. He was part of the duo Seona Dancing and their song More to Lose was a one-hit wonder in the Philippines. CRACKED.COM — Source: Time Magazine

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Cobra

COBRA IS HYDRA. When Marvel was commissioned for a G.I. Joe comic in the early '80s, they recycled an old pitch about elite S.H.I.E.L.D. soldiers figh

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La La Land

LA LA LAND The dance scene at the Hollywood Hills was shot in an hour. Well, technically it was two 30-minute shots on different days, so the cinematographer could get the action during the magic hour when the sky looks softer. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds regrets making the movie that earned him an Academy Award nomination. Reynolds hated making Boogie Nights with the then 26-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson, who the actor described as young and full of himself. Не even turned down the director's next film, Magnolia. CRACKED.COM — 21 Roles Famous Actors Wish They Could Delete From History

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Blade Runner 2049

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS RACHAEL'S BLADE RUNNER EYE COLOR 2049 While the actress Sean Young has brown eyes, there's scene in the first film a where her eyes appear green when she's taking the test. Ridley Scott himself suggested they add the line her eyes were green to the sequel. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Charlie Chaplin

TIME FIFTEEN CENTS The Weekly News-Magazine CHARLIE CHAPLIN was the first actor to appear on the cover of Time magazine. The magazine was first published in 1923. Chaplin made it onto the cover in 1925. CRACKED.COM — INFOTONLINE

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Good goin', Gilda

GILDA RADNER was the very first hire for Saturday Night Live. The actress was the first to be cast in SNL in 1975. She stayed for five years. CRACKED.COM — Glamour

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