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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Might Not Be True in a Parallel Dimension, How Lucky We Are to Live in This One

January 03, 2025

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Jameela Jamil

JAMEELA JAMIL was attacked by a swarm of bees? LIE! CRACKED.COM Jamil has a history of odd stories about the buzzkills, like the one in 2015 where she claims she and Mark Ronson were attacked by 500 bees. Ronson does not remember the incident that way, saying one or two individual bees approached slowly. — Source: Tell Me Sweet Little Lies: 13 Times Celebs Stretched the Truth Until It Broke

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How I Met Your Mother

BARNEY STINSON totally changed in one episode HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER CRACKED.COM In the reviled finale, HIMYM unravels its final season with the quickie divorce of Barney and Robin. The notorious womanizer gives up skirt chasing and settles down to fatherhood -- all in a few scenes pinned to the — Looper

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Simon Pegg

SIMON PEGG TRICKED HIS CO-STARS INTO USING A MADE-UP CREAM. While shooting Star Trek Into Darkness, Pegg convinced Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Sal — YouTube

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Spooks

Spooks writers: Prophets? Spooks The writers of BBC One's hit MI5 drama have an uncanny knack for predicting real-life events, from the 7/7 bombings to the global financial crisis, which has led to the show being nominated for a BAFTA award in its eighth series. CRACKED — Source

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Star Trek

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAS A BIG STAR TREK FAN. Не encouraged Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura, to stay on the show when she was considering quitting. CRACKED.COM — NPR

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Kurt Russell

One of Kurt Russell's most successful movies was one nobody knows he was in. R.J. MacReady was in Forrest Gump? Yup! Even though you didn't see him, you definitely heard him. When things didn't work out with the original Elvis impersonator, Russell was brought in to do the voice of The King as a favor to director Robert Zemeckis. Which surely was the less questionable solution than if they had brought in Nicolas Cage. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Al Pacino

PHONE FILMS 2007 88 MINUTES Al Pacino is a forensic psychiatrist who gets a phone call telling him that he has 88 minutes to live. The film's runtime is 108 minutes. You do the math. CRACKED.COM — IMDb

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Scream

CRACKED TOKFZA SCREAM INCLUDED A SOLID NOD TO THE EXORCIST. Director Wes Craven brought in The Exorcist star Linda Blair for a cameo as a reporter. It's a clear tribute to one of the best horror films of all time. — Source

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The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Shoutout to the Props Master CE AL سيد - il BACK ONCE MORE NTO DENA - - - - - LIONS LABRY HEMSWORTH - SLOWS IT MADE GAY PERELLO - - - ITIS Tahini reads from a tabloid magazine with an ad on the back for a book by Gay Perello, the Props Master on the show. The Good Place CRACKED.COM — Source

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The New York Mets

THE MIRACLE METS Mets Nets Mets 53 F 8 CRACKED.COM The N.Y Mets were last or 2nd last in the division for their 7 seasons, but in their 8th in 1969, they won the pennant and faced the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. The O's won 109 games that year (an AL record that remained unbroken until 1998) but the Mets won the series 4-1 in one of the most stunning upsets in sports history. — Source: thisgreatgame

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Titanic: The Legend Goes On

Awful Knock-Offs (2000) Titanic: The Legend Goes On We will never waste a chance to talk about the rapping dog from the Italian Titanic cartoon. Just watch it. Now. Not the Titanic rip-off itself, nobody cares about that, but just the scene. Watch it and ride those brain-destroying aneurysms like Jack and Rose on the front of the Titanic. CRACKED.COM — Source

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LeBron James

COMEDY DE NERD CRACKED.COM LEBRON JAMES PLAYED LEBRON JAMES In Trainwreck, LeBron plays LeBron, professional basketball pal of Bill Hader's Dr. Conners. He's essentially playing the Carrie Fisher part, the quirky best friend who doles out love advice while mooning over Cuyahoga sunsets. — New Yorker

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Kobe Bryant

The Clone Wars'K2-B4 is a nod to Kobe Bryant. Animators designed the droid to honor Bryant, who JAKER wore the number 24 on his purple and yellow Lake

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Futuristic Consoles

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Might Not Be True in a Parallel Dimension, How Lucky We Are to Live in This One

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The Last Crusade

The Berlin airport in The Last Crusade was actually a radioactive San Francisco island. ==========1 BERLIN FLUGHAFEN The man-made Treasure Island was where the U.S. Navy established its Nuclear War Academy - which conducted exercises such as spraying a ship with radioactive material, then cleaning it. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Bizarre Facts About Iconic Movie Scenes’ Filming Locations

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Finding Dory

PIXAR MOVIES FINDING DORY RECYCLED THE ORIGINAL FILM'S FLASHBACKS. Marlin's tragic story was at first going to be sprinkled in as flashbacks, but it was made into a prologue to make him more sympathetic. The idea was perfect for Dory's journey, though. CRACKED.COM — More: /Film

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The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

Being 112.5 feet tall and 37.5 feet wide, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters contains roughly 925, 000 GALLONS of marshmallow. The goo fr

23

Bratz

CRACKED.COM BRATZ BABYZ SHOW YOU'RE NEVER TOO YOUNG TO BE A MINX. - in These dolls went through the whole process of being conceived, designed, pitched, approved, manufactured, and distributed, and apparently no one along the line thought of saying, You know, maybe we really shouldn't sexualize babies. — Source

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Sesame Street

CRACKED C 123 SESAME STREET The show has won 189 Emmys. That's enough to give four to every US President in history.

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DC Comics

CRACKED ATI A series of DC figures known as Anti-Heroes NNF was pitched with Mad Max-esque and robotic versions of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, all of whom looked like they belonged in a Berlin sex dungeon. Superman had a tattoo. BUT HOW? — Source

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Neverland

Cribs of the rich and famous Michael Jackson's Neverland A ZOO. A train. An amusement park. Only for $200 million. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Simpsons

To keep the town's pollution contained, Springfield gets enclosed in a large glass dome. SMASONS the MOVIE The rest of the movie could have been avoid

18

Rodney Dangerfield

Rodney Dangerfield saves Tony Stark. WHAT? SOME CRACKED CONLESS Titanium Man almost caught Stark, who was supposed to be giving a speech at a Lion's Club, but found Dangerfield's punchable face instead. — Source

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Mars Attacks!

Fictional Presidents PRESIDENT Mars Attacks! James Dale Warren Beatty was considered for the role before Jack Nicholson got into the picture. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel cameo'd in Tokyo Drift just to get the rights to Riddick back. Universal didn't want to make more Riddick movies after Chronicles of Riddick because they weren't profitable enough, but they didn't just want to hand over the rights either. So, when they needed a cameo from Diesel, — Source: Yahoo

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Scarface

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Orson Welles

CRACKED ORSON WELLES: SLEEPY, NOT DRUNK. Welles wasn't drunk during that infamous Paul Masson wine commercial, he was just really tired from working all night and had taken a sleeping pill. — Source

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John DiMaggio

JOHN DIMAGGIO HAS A GOOFY VOICE THAT ALWAYS GETS A LAUGH. BAND OF WEIRDOS His gravelly tone can easily demonstrate strength, wisdom, sarcasm, or even

12

The Jetsons

Ever wondered why the Jetsons live in those sWeet stratospheric houses? The DC Comics reboot has the answer: It's because a meteor collided with the E

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Courage the Cowardly Dog

Courage the Cowardly Dog's pilot episode earned an Oscar nomination. It was titled The Chicken From Outer Space, and it lost to Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave. CRACKED — Source

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Wonder Woman

One early scene in Wonder Woman required months of preparation. It's the one where the Amazons fight German soldiers - it also took two weeks to shoot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Natalie Portman

CRACKED.COM To prepare for her role in Black Swan, Natalie Portman practiced for at least five hours a day. She sometimes started at 5 a.m. because she had other movies to film as well. She practiced SO hard for the role that she ended up with a dislocated rib. — 21 Celebs That Work Harder Than People Know

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50 Cent

50 CENT PARADED HIS WEALTH WHILE FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY. In 2016, a bankruptcy judge ordered the rapper to appear in court after he raised questions for posting pictures of himself with piles of cash despite filing for bankruptcy just a few months prior. He would go on to delete his Instagram and claim that the money was fake CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Head-Scratching Lies (Told By Famous Actors)

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The Barenaked Ladies

CRACKED THE BARENAKED LADIES HAD TO SUE EACH OTHER OVER MONEY. The Barenaked Ladies took legal action against each other because Steven Page, one of the original members, said he wasn't getting his fair share from the song they wrote for The Big Bang Theory. — Source

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Ride Along 2

Olivia Munn and Ken Jeong CRACKED.COM While promoting 2016's Ride Along 2, some jokester asked them whether, if a mass shooting erupted in a night club, they were morally clear to ditch the bill on their bottle service. Both were unamused. The same reporter asked Jeong to take a look at her tonsils. — Source: YouTube

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Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds DETECTIVE PIKACHU CRACKED.COM It'll be a few years before his 5-year-old can really appreciate Van Wilder, SO he said he was excited to do a film that my kids would love. — Source: CinemaBlend

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Jared Leto

Cis Portrayals of Trans Characters Dallas Buyers Club Jared Leto as Rayon Just like he did with the Joker or his stint as lead singer of 30 Seconds to Mars, Jared Leto brought everything to this role, and it was all mostly terrible. — Source: HuffPost

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Better.com

WEIRD WORLD The CEO of Better.com publicly attacked employees who'd just been fired. Не accused them of stealing by only working a total of two hours per day. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Speed

CRACKED Fire Extinguisher Speed is Die Hard on a bus, elevator and train, plus has Keanu Reeves. It's perfect - even better than Die Hard, but it couldn't exist without the original (on which director Jan De Bont was cinematographer). — People

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Alien: Covenant

Originally, David was supposed to do a Hitler-style kick while walking through the ship at the end of Alien: Covenant. Ridley Scott axed the idea, thinking it'd look ridiculous. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Way Different

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