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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are a Bit Overdressed for the Occasion

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are a Bit Overdressed for the Occasion

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Harry Houdini quite literally ghosted his wife for a decade.

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Watchmen

THE FIRST EPISODE OF WATCHMEN... HBO WATCHMEN DC has a reference to the LA AXX MIN - iconic bloodstained smiley face on the cover of the comic issue. CRACKED.COM

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The Simpsons

Comic Book Guy has a name Love you It's Jeffrey Jeff Albertson. Worst name ever? CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Blues Brothers

The Blues Brothers had a cocaine budget. It was used for rewards and for night stimulation, said Dan Aykroyd in an interview. According to him, cocaine was a common Hollywood currency at the time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Poltergeist

THERE'S A POSTER ON ROBBIE'S WALL IN POLTERGEIST FROM THE 1988 SUPERBOWL. An odd choice of SAMPLE - set decoration, considering the movie was released in 1982. And downright creepy when you realize that on SuperBowl Sunday in 1988, Heather O'Rourke, who played Carol Anne, became violently ill. She died the next day. She was 12 years old. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/au-QUyjOF7A — Source

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Laugh-In

In a 1969 episode of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, a sketch called News Of The Future accurately predicted Ronald Reagan would be President in 1988. Later that year, yet another News Of The Future segment foresaw the exact year the Berlin Wall would fall. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Power Rangers

Low-Effort Pop Culture Power Rangers For about 30 years, Power Rangers has been using scenes and footage from the Japanese show Super Sentai, cutting out any stuff that was too Japanese or violent or just strange, and using it to fill around a third of each episode. CRACKED — Saban Entertainment
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Ryan Reynolds

PHONE FILMS 2010 BURIED Ryan Reynolds is trapped in a coffin, with nothing but a lighter and a cell phone. Не has 90 minutes until he runs out of oxygen and dies of suffocation. If that's not an intriguing premise, we don't know what is. CRACKED.COM — IMDb

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The Princess Bride

CRACKED.COM THE PRINCESS BRIDE Wallace Shawn was inconceivably worried. Shawn's agent decided to tell him that he only got the role of Vizzini because Danny DeVito was unavailable. This got into Shawn's head, and he feared to be fired whenever he did a bad take. — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Game of Thrones

Deleted scenes that weren't going to be in the movie Game of Thrones The secret ending There was an ending to the show that no one is allowed to talk about, or say what happened in it. CRACKED.COM — Source: Showbiz CheatSheet

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Sherlock

SHERLOCK CRACKED.COM In the episode The Sign of Three, at the wedding of John and Mary, the song December 1963 (Oh What a Night) plays while everyone is on the dancefloor. The camera cuts to Mary after the lyric You know, I didn't even know her name, which alludes to the fact that Mary isn't using her real name. That is revealed in the following episode. — More: 23 Movies And Shows With Sneaky Foreshadowing

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Courage the Cowardly Dog

Eustace Bagge COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG CRACKED.COM In a fit of rage over failing to impregnate his wife during her childbearing years and effectively killing his lineage, this backwoods hillbilly intentionally traumatizes their small dog and then admonishes him for being cowardly. This is psychopathic behavior.

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Stacey Dash

Stacey Dash is, well, clueless CRACKED.COM The Clueless actress made headlines by calling for the abolition of Black History Month in 2016. At the oscars later that year, she ...joked? (citation needed) to the audience: Happy Black History Month!

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The Legend of Zelda

TLOZ was originally a dungeon builder. ELEA TT CRACKEDON It was originally conceived as a Mario Maker-esque game for Japan's Famicom system, where players could save their dungeons to floppy discs and share them.

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Spider-Man

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are a Bit Overdressed for the Occasion

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David Lynch

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are a Bit Overdressed for the Occasion

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Hannibal

Marilyn Manson bought some weird props from the cancelled TV series Hannibal. The items he bought at the show's auction include Hannibal's kill suit a

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MAS*H

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Reveng of the Sith

The lava on Mustafar was way less hot and way more sticky than you'd expect. During Obi-Wan and Anakin's final duel in Revenge Of The sith, the lava

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Michael B. Jordan

Michael B. Jordan got slammed by a hater on Twitter for being a short, anime fan who lives with his parents. He prepared a perfect response for him: M

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The Omen

THE CAST AND CREW OF THE OMENNARROWLY ESCAPED MULTIPLE PLANE DISASTERS. YOUARE ONE DAYCLOSER TOTHE END OF THE WORLD MEN Actor Gregory Peck, writer Dav

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Barbie

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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are a Bit Overdressed for the Occasion

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Minnesota Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings' U.S. Bank Stadium cost more than NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto. usbank stadium CRACKED.COM Stadium: $1.129 billion- New Horizons mission: $720 million. To be fair, the stadium brings in revenue, and all the NASA mission did was deepen our under- standing of our galaxy. Snore! — Source

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Jessica Walters

JESSICA WALTERS WAS SLOWASINEDS-3HL-ONIH39 YELLED AT ON THE SET OF ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. CRACKED.COM After Jeffrey Tambor went off script and was improvising in a take, Walters tried to reset the scene and take it from the top - her being a more traditional actress. Tambor went off on her and she apologized, but she was clearly shaken, later saying it was the first time she was yelled at like that on set. — Source

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Jonah Hill

JONAH HILL DON'T LOOK UP CRACKED.COM Jonah said the inspiration behind his character, Jason Orlean, in Don't Look Up was What if Fyre festival was a person, and that person had power in the White House? Maybe we should ask Ja-Rule. — Source

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Felicity Huffman

Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now FELICITY HUFFMAN can boast an Emmy and a Golden Globe. SHE CAN ALSO BOAST 14 DAYS IN PRISON for a college admission bribery scandal. Lori Loughlin was also involved, but Huffman is, you know, a much better actress- so her downfall actually darkens the movie industry, and not just Full House reboots. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Independence Day: Resurgence

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE LEAVES A GIANT HOLE IN THE ATLANTIC. Best-case, this leads to a massive, inescapable whirlpool and mega-tsunamis. Worst-case, a superheated wave will bring dangerous materials from the very bowels of our planet and spew them into the atmosphere. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Leslie Mann

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Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini CRACKED COM Before he died, the magician and his wife created a secret way to communicate to test whether seances were real. After his death, his wife held unsuccessful seances for a decade. — Source

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Billie Joe Armstrong

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong had a total meltdown on stage at a festival. When the band's time was about to end, he cried, I've been around since 19-f--ing-88! And you're gonna give me one minute? I'm not f---ing Justin Bieber, you mother---er! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Taylor Tomlinson

CRACKED TAYLOR TOMLINSON'S LOOK AT YOU. In her 2022 Netflix special, she discusses therapy and her bipolar disorder. I had friends say, 'I didn't like how antidepressants made me feel. I didn't feel like myself.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, me neither. It's the best! — Facebook / Forbes

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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie had to wear bra padding in the first Tomb Raider movie to match the video game character. CRACKED.COM Jolie wore considerably less or no padding in the sequel, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, as the decision was made to give Lara more realistic dimensions. — E Online

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The X-Files

The X-Files Actual scientists helped keep the show grounded. University of Maryland microbiologist Anne Simon joined in the first season and returned for the revival, and Chris Carter's MIT professor brother even patched up scientific jargon used in the pilot. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Paul Walker

Paul Walker, star of The Fast and Furious, who died in a car accident in 2013, once purchased an engagement ring for a soldier and his fiancee who couldn't afford it. CRACKED.COM Не overheard the cou- ple talking about the hefty price tag, then called over the jewelry store manager and said to Put it on his tab. — CBS

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Eternals

MCU Phase Four and Legacy GRACKED.COM ETERNALS The Eternals deal with the loss of a matriarch and rebel against their parents in this film (that covers same ground as Runaways, but with an actual budget).

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Blitzwing

Blitzwing First appearance The Transformers S2E3 Dinobot Island Pt. 1 (1985) Most recent appearance Bumblebee (2018) CRACKED.COM — Source: Neo Encyclopedia Wiki

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The Smurfs

The Smurfs were throwaway characters. The Belgian comic Johan and Peewit had been running for six years when the little blue fellas showed up as a part of a specific story. They ended SHIMES up becoming SO popular that Peyo, the comic's creator, reluctantly parked the main characters to focus on the Smurfs. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Big Characters Who Started Small

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Tim Curry

EASTER EGGSTRA I BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES THE TIM CURRY AUDIO TRACK FREAK sHOW CURRY WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO DO THE VOICE OF JOKER, BUT HE WAS REPLACED BY MARK HAMILL. BEFORE BEING REPLACED, HE DID SOME RECORDINGS FOR THE SHOW, AND ONE OF THEM MADE IT INTO THE EPISODE BE A CLOWN IN WHICH CURRY LAUGHS MANIACALLY AS A ROBOT CLOWN. CRACKED.COM — Screen Rant

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Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder devival my 19-19-10 CRACKED.COM She spent three years of her childhood, starting at age 7, living on the Rainbow Family Commune-- - a 300-acre plot with no electricity. She credits her mother secretly showing her movies in a barn for sparking her interest in acting. — Source: Parade

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John Travolta

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