
21 Little-Known Historical Events That Made Great Movies
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- By Amanda Mannen
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20 of the Most Unhinged Things People Did Out of Anger
‘I started a 15-on-15 man brawl’
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Who’s Going to Leave ‘Saturday Night Live,’ From Mostly Likely to No Way
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- By Matt Solomon
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Country Music’s Most Wholesome Song Is Truly Psychotic
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- By Ryan Menezes
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20 Audacious Incidents That Made People Just Walk Out on Jobs
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- By Amanda Mannen
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27 God-Awful TV Finales for the Hall of Shame
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- By Cracked Writers, Jay Wells L'Ecuyer
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‘The Simpsons’ Confirms That Marge Is Still Thirsty for This Beatle
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- By JM McNab
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‘The Simpsons’ Parody of ‘Smiling Friends’ Isn’t Going Over Well With Fans
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- By JM McNab
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All the Ways ‘The Simpsons’ Foreshadowed Moe’s Tragic Death
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- By JM McNab
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Sarah McLachlan Just Helped ‘The Simpsons’ Recreate the Saddest Moment in Animation History
We’re not crying, you’re crying!
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- By JM McNab
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12 Pieces of Pop-Culture Trivia We’ll Be Screaming From Horseback at the Start of the Next American Revolution
The MLB says Pete Rose is too dead to be embarrassing. Do you agree?
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- By Jesse
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22 Plot-Driven Bits of Movie Trivia That’ll Have Your Mom Asking, ‘Wait, What’s Going On? I Thought He Was the Good Guy!’
You might need two or three runs through this list to fully understand it
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- By Jay Wells L'Ecuyer, Cracked Writers
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40 Pieces of Pop-Culture Trivia to Plug Up Your Ears When Someone Tries to Tell You a Boring Fact or Inconvenient Truth
You shouldn’t have to learn something you don’t want to learn
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- By Cracked Writers, Jesse
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26 Awkward Conversations Interpreters Had to Translate
‘I had to interpret their insults to her’
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- By Eli Yudin
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21 of the Worst Plot Twists in Movie History
The monsters were fake???
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Ways ‘Saturday Night Live’ Missed the Moment in Historic Season 50
You blew it, Lorne
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- By Matt Solomon
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The NASA Scientists Working on Top of the ‘Seinfeld’ Diner Are Being Evicted
They are sadly not masters of their domain
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- By JM McNab
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22 of the Worst Things the CIA Has Done
‘Hire literal Nazis to help ‘fight communists’’
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Real-Life Villains Hiding in the Background of Blockbuster Movies
Some of them turn out to be real monsters, even — especially — if they were only lurking in the background
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- By Amanda Mannen
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57 of the Funniest Tweets from the Week of May 12, 2025
Well, does he?
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- By Alyson Lewis
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40 Radioactive Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Bit Us and Turned Us Into Super Dorks
We have yet to save a single life
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- By Jesse, Cracked Writers
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27 Random Bits of Trivia We’ve Been Sitting on Like a Giant Brooding Bird
Be gentle with our little tidbit hatchlings. We’re very protective!
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- By Cracked Writers, Jay Wells L'Ecuyer
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Scarlett Johansson Joins Michael Che and Colin Jost for Brutal Weekend Update Joke Swap
Che ‘apologizes’ amid embarrassing admissions
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- By Matt Solomon
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Twitter Seems to Think Sarah Sherman Is Really Leaving ‘SNL’
Scarlett Johansson’s monologue gave Sherman a (probably fake) pink slip
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- By Matt Solomon
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40 Pieces of Pop-Culture Trivia to Pestle Into Your Brain Mortar
Don’t be afraid to really get in there good
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- By Jesse, Cracked Writers
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15 Trivia Tidbits for Saturday, May 17, 2025
If you come at Nic Cage, you might end up on the ground
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- By Ryan Menezes
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27 Bits of Movie Trivia We Got Together for One Last Heist
We brought these salty old facts out of retirement
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- By Jay Wells L'Ecuyer, Cracked Writers
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40 Pieces of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Like DLC for Your Brain
It’s not very good, but it’s free
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- By Jesse, Cracked Writers
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27 Dating ‘Icks’ That Made Someone Lose Interest
‘Told me about his gambling problem. Only told me because he was losing his house’
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- By Eli Yudin
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