25 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Monday, December 22nd

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25 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History For Monday, December 22nd
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You know the average Joe these days has a better quality of life than most of history's kings? Just think about it –  we have access to clean drinking water, functioning sewage systems, anaesthesia, and food and spices from all over the world at all times of the year. We might take these things for granted now, but they were rare luxuries reserved only for the nobility for most of human history.

You may not have an army at your command or dozens of servants attening to your each and every need, but you do have something much better: this list of pop culture facts that no historical figure would have been able to dream up.

The Powerpuff Girls

THE POWERPUFF GIRLS BLOSSOM CLAIMS 7 DOESN'T HAVE A SQUARE ROOT! IT'S PRIME! BUT PRIME NUMBERS DO HAVE A SQUARE ROOT; THEY'RE JUST IRRATIONAL CRACKED.COM

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The Futurama Theorem

I CFi i II A 1-dt The Futurama Theorem. Created by Futurama writer Ken Keeler for the Season 6 episode The Prisoner of Benda, this states that regardless of how many mind switches between two bodies have been made, they can still all be restored to their original bodies using only two extra people. CRACKED

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Did I Do That?

Did I Do That? Before the audience went crazy for the iconic line, the writers tried to create other catchphrases for Urkel, including stealing I've fallen, and I can't get up. CRACKED.COM

They tried stealing a phrase from LifeAlert commercials instead of coming up with something on their own? That's a choice.

Entertainment Weekly

Emma Watson

Emma Watson dedicated her British Artist Of the Year award to her late on-set hamster. When her hamster died during the filming of Harry Potter, the s

New Caledonian Crows

New Caledonian Crows can catch prey hidden under leaves. They shape leaves with barbed edges into a tool for pulling out tasty bugs from underneath fallen leaves. CRACKED COM

Marilyn Monroe's White Dress

Marilyn Monroe's white subway dress is worth $4.6 million Actor Debbie Reynolds put the iconic Seven Year Itch dress, alongside other film memorabilia from Elizabeth Taylor, up for auction in 2011. CRACKED.COM

Source: BBC

Emma Stone and Farmville

Emma Stone was SO addicted to Farmville for a while, she had to quit Facebook. CV Farmville is an old-school Facebook game from 2009 that had 34.5 million active users (including celebs, apparently) at its highest point, in 2010. CRACKED.COM

Forget skinny jeans and pumpkin spice, this is the true mark of a Millennial.

Source: Vulture, The Guardian

Scarface

We think of Al Pacino as Scarface, but he was not the first one. Brian De Palma's movie was a remake, dedicated to Ben Hecht, one of the writers of th

The Ramones

LADY AMERICAY 60 BUEJACKEY Now recognized to be a punk rock masterpiece, the first RAMONES album was met with disgust. They had a hard time getting an

I Am Lord Voldemort

To anagram the letters for I am Lord Voldemort, the French translation changed his name from Tom Marvolo Riddle to Tom Elvis Jedusor.

Did French kids expect Voldemort to break out into song after this reveal?

Star Trek and Agriculture

Star Trek 20th-century sci-fi predicts 21st- century agriculture. In The Trouble with Tribbles, Quadrotriticale is a genetically- engineered hybrid grain, predicting GMO, and used in 2268 to attempt to develop Sherman's Planet as an agrarian colony. CRACKED

Did Star Trek predict this, or did real life scientists gets inspo from their favorite show?

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Taylor Swift and the number 13

TAYLOR SWIFT'S LUCKY NUMBER 13 THAT FEATURES IN HER VIDEO ALL TOO WELL: A SHORT FILM The film begins at the 0:13 mark with the woman asking, Are you for real? At the 13:00 mark, a scroll comes up that reads Written & Directed by Taylor Swift. CRACKED.COM

Source: Buzzfeed

Gremlins

The design of the Gremlins was based on Japanese Chin dogs. CRACKED.COM

And that's why they're so cute!

Source: Sun-Sentinel

101 Dalmations

107 Dalmatians was inspired by a real-life Cruella de Vil-type remark. DISNEY 1O1 DALMATIANS Writer Dodie Smith had nine Dalmatians, and a friend of hers once said Those dogs would make a lovely fur coat which ended up inspiring a novel (that later turned into a movie). CRACKED.COM

Source: Disney

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