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38 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Paraded Sadly and Squeakily Through the Capital

June 22, 2025

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Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz fancies herself a bit of a prodigy: CRACKED.COM I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

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Chrissy Teigen

Cyberbullying got Chrissy Teigen dropped from Target. CRACKED COM In 2011, she tweeted My Friday fantasy: you. dirt nap. mmm baby, to then-16 year old Courtney Stodden. That, and offensive direct messages to Stodden, lost Teigen lucrative deals with Target, Bloomingdale's and Macy's.

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Tropic Thunder

Easter Eggs Tropic Thunder I don't drop character till I done a DVD commentary. Не doesn't. CRACKED.COM — Source

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David Letterman

GRACKED M David Letterman Letterman said that after hosting 6,028 episodes of the Late Show, he wished he had retired 10 years earlier so he could have used that time and energy to do something positive for people. — Cinemablend

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Michael Jordan

CRACKED MICHAEL JORDAN: STILL DUNKING, STILL GIVING. For his 60th birthday, Michael Jordan gave an amazing $10 million to Make-A-Wish, the biggest donation ever from one person. He's been granting wishes to kids around the world since 2008. NAME WAN 2020 adidas G — ESPN / CNN

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Loki

Doubles in MCU's Phase Four LOKI Too many Lokis is how the entire MCU began. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Ways the MCU's Phase Four is About Doubles

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Cat Girl Without Salad

April Fools's jokes that became real cat Girl without salad Game designer Wayforward once announced a multi-genre mash-up like none before, called Cat Girl Without Salad. And despite having the weirdest name ever, it was beloved enough Wayforward went ahead and made the damn thing. 1 0 1 1 1 1st 1 2nd 3rd CRACKED.COM DANCE!MOUE!! — Source: Engadget

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Stephen King

Stephen King hated the hype around Carrie. SO НЕ PUBLISHED SEVEN BOOKS USING A FAKE NAME. King hated the idea that his books were popular because of the hit movie, so he released seven books under the name Richard Bachman. Не instructed his publisher to treat them like the work of an unknown hack, which meant almost no publicity. One reviewer was so taken in that he called Thinner what Stephen King would write if Stephen King could write. https:/www. theatlantic com/entertainment/archive/2013/07/jk-rowling- GRACKED.COM was-robert-galbraith-stephen-king-was-richard-bachman/313311/ — Source: 15 Things Created As Revenge

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The Beatles

The Beatles' last live concert, in 1966, had thousands of unsold seats. Only 5,000 out of 42,500 tickets were sold - -nobody knew it would be their last concert (besides their unannounced 1969 rooftop performance). CRACKED.COM — Source: BeatlesBible

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Labyrinth

TELL US NOW. LABYRINTH Haley H. tells US of a fear of the Fireys, They could be completely cut out of the movie and the plot wouldn't change. Even the song gives me terror! I hear those first notes and I go into a full panic. And I'm 28 and

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Stephen Fry

V for Vendetta STEPHEN FRY likes characters who change throughout a story-but that's not the only reason why he took the role of Deitrich. I hadn't been beaten up in a movie before, and I was very excited by the idea of being clubbed to death. — Source: FilmFocus (archived)

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Superman 64

SUPERMAN 64 LUT HOR: IE YOU WANT TO SAVE YOUR FRIENDS. SOLVE my MAZE! LEXCORP CRACKEDc COM It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a mass of red and blue poly

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Knives Out

WTF Behind-The-Scenes Stories From Major Movie Sets - Rian Johnson fanboyed all over Christopher Plummer during Knives Out. — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Frozen

In Frozen, 13 years pass between the time we're introduced to Kristoff and Sven and the film's main events. The average life expectancy of a male rein

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Scrubs

CRACKED COM All right Doctor Cox. Ridiculous name by the way. This line coming from most characters would just be a joke about Dr. Cox's name sharing a pronunciation with a sexual organ. However this line is said by Dr. Maddox who is portrayed by Courtney COX.

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Star Trek

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

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Quantum Leap

CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Quantum Leap This sci-fi show has stood the test of time, which means every new generation gets frustrated with its ending. As the episode wasn't written as a finale and the producers found out the show wouldn't return after it was shot, they just slapped a final title card saying, Dr. Sam Becket never returned home. — Source

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Jason Hervey

The big brother from The Wonder Years used to be a PR shill. Jason Hervey (whom you might remember bullying Fred Savage) was in 2003 the head of PR at healthcare giant HealthSound. But when HealthSound got involved in a billion-dollar accounting scandal, Hervey sucked at his job of making the company look as good as possible. Не was eventually fired, so he sued them for $400,000. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fred Armisen

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN 2015, FRED ARMISEN DID AN NSNL SKETCH MOCKING A LEGALLY BLIND POLITICIAN. The politician in question was NY governor David Paterson, and Armisen did things like hold a chart upside down-which drew a lot of outrage. — Source

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McDonaldland

The McDonaldland characters aren't original -- they're just ripoffs. C McDonald's lifted everything from H.R. Pufnstuf, one of the most popular kids' TV programs in the '70s. It was so brazen, McDonald's got sued. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Incredible Hulk

The Incredible Hulk TV show was too cheap to spend money on shooting planes and trucks. Footage from Steven Spielberg's Duel, used in S1E9 of The Incredible Hulk THE IMPROVISATION: They just picked up that footage from other movies. These were well-known films from just a few years before. The network owned the rights, and they didn't care that it was obvious. THE RESULT: An action-packed first season that made the show a hit from the start. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Milton Berle

MILTON BERLE CRACKED.COM Being the Thief of Bad Gag was part of Berle's schtick. Bob Hope claimed Berle never met a joke he didn't steal. Jack Benny often used Berle's wisecracks, forgivable because when you take a joke away from Milton Berle, it's not stealing, it's repossessing. — Source

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Stan Lee

CRACKED.COM Stan Lee created the infamous Marvel Method by accident. In the late 1940s, Lee would often commission art he didn't need, in part to keep his artist friends employed. It ended up backfiring - when his publisher found out, he promptly fired the artists, and had Lee turn all that surplus art into stories that could be published. — Source

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Freddie Mercury

GRACKED CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE Freddie Mercury came up with Crazy Little Thing Called Love, a song honoring Elvis Presley, while he was taking a bath. Не wrote it in just 10 minutes total. — NME / Rolling Stone

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A Beautiful Mind

CRACKED Basedona true story A BEAUTIFUL MIND The movie version of John Nash was simplified compared to the real person, leaving out details like his same-sex relationships, having an illegitimate child, and getting divorced. — Universal Pictures,
DreamWorks Pictures
Slate

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Bob Ross

Jocks playing dorks BOB ROSS was a drill sergeant in the Air Force for 20 years, and his experience in the military influenced his later career as a painter and television personality. Не chose to use a calm demeanor in his work, rather than the yelling he was used to. CRACKED — Bob Ross Incorporated
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Taylor Swift

SONG Ivy LYRICS All of them. These lyrics appear to be about a married woman who is pining after another married woman, but their sapphic relationship is doomed. Really! That's just a surface-level reading of the lyrics. It was also used (with Taylor's permission) during a lesbian sex scene in the TV show Dickinson. CRACKED COM — Read the full lyrics

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Grease

Underappreciated Sidekicks Grease Frenchy Frenchy gets Sandy into the Pink Ladies clique, offers lots of emotional support during the movie, and even has her own arc and musical number (with Frankie friggin' Avalon telling her to go back to high school). CRACKED.COM — Sources: Collider, JohnnyFrickinRico/YouTube

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Constantine

Alan Moore's Constantine was based on Sting. The artists who worked with Moore on Swamp Thing asked him to come up with a character based on Sting for the comic, so he obliged, and created a warlock who looked, well, just like Sting. CRACKED.COM — 9 Iconic Superheroes Who Were Based On Real People

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Dieter

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM AFTER AUSTIN POWERS BECAME A HIT, DIETER ALMOST DID, TOO. Based on Mike Myers' sketch about a West German TV show host, it was supposed to feature Will Ferrell - but it never got off the ground. — Source

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James Baldwin and Toni Morrison

James Baldwin & Toni Morrison The two writers met when Morrison was an editor at Random House. Although she was unsuccessful at acquiring a book deal for Baldwin, she did make a friend. She gave a eulogy at his funeral and after his death, she edited Baldwin's Early Novels & Stories and Collected Essays. CRACKED.COM — Source: Library of America

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Dave Grohl

Animal had a score to settle with DAVE GROHL THE MUPPETS CRACKED.COM Grohl: I've been waiting for this for years. Animal: Now we see who best. The epic percussion battle ends with both drum kits reduced to wreckage. Defeated, both Grohl and Animal sigh, you win. — CNN

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The Secret of NIMH

An original draft THE SECRET NIMH had an ambiguous ending. CRACKED.COM In one of the early drafts, the ending suggests that the rats were never there. The synopsis explained that we, the audience, and Frisby (later Brisby) as well, get the ambiguous feeling that the Rats of NIMH never existed; that perhaps they were all a self- improving ?hallucination. — Source

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The Dark Crystal

The Dark Crystal was hugely influenced by a Scientology -esque spiritual text. A SETH BOOK SETH SPEAKS DESK Serhdictates hiks hHe startling of the universe through channeler lane Roberts RKX KSTGAL JANE ROBERTS Creator Jim Henson was really into Seth Speaks, a book by sci-fi writer Jane Jacobs who claimed that Seth, — Source: Gizmodo

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Morgan Wallen

MORGAN WALLEN DECEMBER 5, 2020 CRACKED COM Country bro Wallen was uninvited to SNL after a viral video showed him partying without a mask. And because — CNN

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Janis Joplin

Jimmy Johnson was kind of a dick to Janis Joplin. 50 Wuso The former NFL coach attended Thomas Jefferson High School with the famous rock singer. Back

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Rambo

FIRST BLOOD War is terrible. Killing is wrong. I'm forever scarred from the things that I've seen. Just let me be. THE SEQUELS RAWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR C

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Titanic

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