40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Will Take Over Your Brain Like an Invasive Species

Once they’re in there, there’s no getting them out
40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Will Take Over Your Brain Like an Invasive Species

Little Richard saw a Soviet satellite and thought it was God talking to him.

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Michael Fassbender

Michael Fassbender was in a bizarre music video. This 2003 music video for The Cooper Temple Clause song Blind Pilots sees Fassbender transform into

Curb Your Enthusiasm

CRACKED THE SCRIPTS FOR CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM ARE JUST SEVEN PAGES LONG. Each page represents a scene, with an outline but not much dialogue - most of the show is improvised.

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Bill Murray

Bill Murray smuggled 10 pounds of weed onto a plane CRACKED.COM When he was 20 years old, he was busted trying to sneak about $20k worth of weed onto an airplane as he was heading back to college. The arrest inspired him to... not get kicked out of college, SO he quit, and ultimately ended up pursuing comedy.

Saturday Night Live

CRACKED.COM SNL is a traumatizing gig. Sabotage, backstabbings, degradation, performers refusing scripts written by women/younger members, drug-fueled BS, even fistfights - those are the kinds of horror stories former SNL cast members often recount. Toxic working environment? Hell, this is the Chernobyl of comedy.

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Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst BEST KNOWN FOR ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY luutrated bw RAY CRUZ Viorst is a prolific poet, starting when she was seven-years-old writing a poem about her dead parents. Both her parents were alive and did not appreciate it.

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Major League Baseball

A baseball manager tried to get on the field in a comic book-level disguise. They ejected him from a game, so he got back with a mustache and fake glasses. Не was recognized right away. CRACKED.COM

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Lin Chunping

15 Stunning Frauds That Somehow Took People In - He became a financial celebrity— and landed a cushy position on a Chinese government advisory board—
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The Macarena

CRACKEDCO COM Macarena was the result of a sudden outburst. One night, Antonio Romero Monge of the duo Los del Rio watched a great performance from

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