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

Fill your next awkward silence with one of these fun facts.
26 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Sunday, December 14, 2025
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How do you fill an awkward silence? Honestly, I kind of like them, or at least I generally don’t mind a little quiet between conversations. But what if you really want to talk to that person? Well, you could try remarking on the weather, complimenting their clothes, or asking them questions about their life. 

You could also hit them with a fun fact! Not sure what kind of trivia tidbit would intrigue your conversation partner? Don’t fret, this list has a little bit of everytjing from all facets of pop culture. From celebs, to science, to history, there’s a little something for everyone.

Fried Rice

Retain the chewy texture of your fried rice by letting the rice cool off ahead of time. Cooking with hot, fresh rice will only make it soggy.

Potatoes

MYTH8 ACCIDENTALLY used TOO MUCH SALT? ADD A POTATO! FAGT8 POTATOES AREN'T MAGICALSALT-SUCKERS. Potatoes added to overly salted soup will taste salty,

I can confirm that this is a myth; I've tried it before and I ended up with salty potato soup instead of salty normal soup.

Sideshow Bob & Cecil

CRACKED.COM Frasier The cranes are family even across universes. David Hyde Pierce and John Mahoney played Kelsey Grammer's brother and father in both Frasier and The Simpsons.

Source: IMDb

Navy's Controlers

THE NAVY REPLACED A SUB'S CONTROLS WITH AN XBOX CONTROLLER. CRACKED.COM The Navy uses photonics masts in their subs, which are like periscopes but using digital imagery rather than direct ne-of-sight. Since these masts could be controlled electronically from anywhere in the sub, Navy personnel suggested that the heavy and clunky mast controls be reconfigured. A device to generate analogue signals to precisely rotate a virtual camera had already been invented, and most of the crew was already familiar with it: the XBox 360 controller.

I would have been the one guy begging for a PS2 controller.

Mercernaries 2

CRACKEDC COM To promote Mercenaries 2 in the U.K., EA gave away $30,000 worth of gas... LVE XBOX 360 MERCENARIES2 WUEDTZRANES EXIFO1 A ...and started

Matthew Perry and Julia Roberts

Matthew Perry got Julia Roberts to guest-star in Friends by writing a paper on quantum physics. Perry asked her to come on the show, and she said she'd do it only if he wrote her a paper on quantum physics. Apparently, a day later, he wrote one and faxed it to her. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source

Dune

Dune grew out of an article Frank Herbert was assigned to write. It was about the largest swathe of coastal dunes in the U.S., the Oregon Dunes but he never finished it. He just kept researching the topic, and wrote a science fiction novel inspired by it years later.

Source: TIME

The Sun

26 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Sunday, December 14, 2025
Source: NASA

Star Trek: Into Darkness

J.J. Abrams kept paparazzi away from Star TREk: Into Darkness with a wall. NC2D 887834 4201 WAGR ME TIRE UET CAP Abrams's wall He barricaded the movie

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones directors shot fake scenes to keep the final season a secret. ol 1GE 5 1 Fans and paparazzi were so intent on getting Season 8 spoiler

Is there any chance the finale we did get was an accidentally-released fake? No? Okay.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data holds his palette with the paints facing away, but that's totally wrong. You need to support the palette with

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