40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Didn’t Realize We Were Mumbling Out Loud

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1970s:1980s Video games NINTENDO IS AS OLD AS THE EIFFEL TOWER. 1889 Playing cards

Technically, the Eiffel Tower is 5 months older as it was completed in March of 1889 and Nintendo Koppai was opened in September. That makes the Eiffel Tower a Pisces and Nintendo a Libra, by the way.

1990s Male Hair Trends

Men were 1994 1995 11 1992 1993 1994 bleaching their 1992 1990 hair in 9 the late '90s. for 1999 Bangs 1993 men 1995 were 1996 1997 also 1998 1997 big at that time, either 1994 1995 1993 flipped up or curtained. 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s CRACKED.COM

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Paramore

Paramore was an original member's mother's maiden name. When they learned the meaning of paramour, they took on the name, using the spelling of the ma

Always Be My Maybe

ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE Director Nahnatchka Khan said it was a super collaborative experience. ALWVAYS BE MY IX MAYBE It was never a thing where somebody was fighting to keep something out or to keep something in . I think the hardest part was just making sure we got everything, because

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Paul Rudd

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Didn’t Realize We Were Mumbling Out Loud

Anthony Michael Hall

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL WAS AN SNL CAST MEMBER IN THE MID-'80S. It didn't really work out for him, and he later said: I think the people that found the most success came from a stand-up background where they had their own material and they had that competitive nature.

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Charitable Donation

The showrunner and the cast of B99 donated $100,000 to help people make bail. The money went to the National Bail Fund Network, and the cast also suggested people donated to local bail funds in their area. CRACKED.COM

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Meghan McCain

Meghan McCain During the 2020 New York protests following the death of George Floyd, McCain tweeted that her neighborhood in Manhattan is eviscerated and looks like a war zone. Not only did her neighbor Kristen Bartlett debunk her rants to the outside world, but it turned out McCain wasn't even in New York at the time. CRACKED.COM

Lego

CRACKED SIX DOCTORS WITH TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS DECIDED TO SWALLOW LEGO HEADS. Six doctors swallowed Lego heads and timed how long it took to pass them, giving a Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score. They skipped people with past gut surgery, who couldn't swallow foreign objects, or who didn't want to look through poop.

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Eddie Van Halen

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Didn’t Realize We Were Mumbling Out Loud

Giancarlo Esposito

The Mandalorian Giancarlo Esposito kept breaking the Darksaber. Darksabers are fragile, it turns out. Esposito couldn't stop breaking the props on the set of The Mandalorian.

Source: Variety

Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves made a bunch of people millionaires THE MATRICES CRACKED.COM He negotiated to give about $75 million from his own paycheck to the costume design and special effects folks who made the films SO iconic. He also handed out a few Harleys to his stunt team.

Brad Pitt

Farts on and off-screen INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE BRAD PITT'S FART JOKES Pitt soothed his child vampire co-star Kirsten Dunst by telling fart jokes. Despite the movie's disturbing tone, it was a chiller place for everyone because of Pitt's gross sense of humor. CRACKED.COM

Source: CBR

Iron Maiden

Bruce Dickinson is my copilot IRON MAIDEN CRACKED.COM Dickinson has flown the band's jet while on tour on multiple occasions. He even became a pilot (and marketing director!?) of an airline that, bewilderingly, no longer exists.

Source: BBC

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