40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Our Bumbling Henchmen Brought Back to Our Lair Instead of That Blasted Hero

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Our Bumbling Henchmen Brought Back to Our Lair Instead of That Blasted Hero

Faith Hill doesn’t know the first thing about centrifugal motion.

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Jason and the Argonauts

Amazing effects made without CGI Jason and the Argonauts The actors were filmed fighting alone, and then the skeleton warriors were animated following the footage frame by frame. Stop-motion genius Ray Harryhausen took over four months for this five minute scene. CRACKED.COM

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Phil LaMarr

John Travolta shot Hermes Conrad. CRACKED CO Despite his 5 seasons on MadTV, Phil LaMarr's biggest role was probably Marvin, the dude John Travolta accidentally shoots in the back of the car in Pulp Fiction. He'd already voiced the titular Mister T in the cartoon series, and would go on to

Boy Meets World

Bad boys with center parts and hearts of gold - they were everywhere. Rider Strong's Shawn was 11 at the beginning of Boy Meets World, really pushing the boy part of bad boy. CRACKED

Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name was the #1 Christmas single in 2009. cage against the machine GRAGKED.COM The song sold 500,000 copies, beating the 4 year run of X-factor winners, thanks to a couple from the UK starting a Facebook campaign. All proceeds went to homeless charities.

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Faith Hill

CRACKED IT'S CENTRIFUGAL MOTION FAITH HILL Centrifugal motion would actually propel these lovers away from each other, which would make it very difficult to kiss.

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Idiocracy

Wal-Mart was 1 of 2 companies that declined use of their brands. COFFEE STA RBUCKS 1/2 OFF GENTLEMAN'S LATTES All approved branding featured in the film were only submitted as back-ups just in case Starbucks said no. The mass approval was unexpected.

MC Hammer

MC Hammer tried to go head-to-head with Google. WIREDOO In 2011, he started the deep search engine Wiredoo. It was supposed to be more informative t

First Blood

First Blood originally ended with John Rambo shooting himself. However, after the scene was filmed, star Sylvester Stallone predicted that audiences w

Doctor Who

The first episode of Doctor Who premiered on the day between John F. Kennedy's assassination and the assassination of his assassin! DOCTOR WHO CRACKED

Comic Books

THOUGH COMIC BOOKS ARE CURRENTLY A CULTURAL INSTITUTION, POST- DEPRESSION AMERICATHOUGHT THEY WERE PURE EVIL, AND THE ROOT OF ALL JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

Beauty and the Beast

The original 'Beauty and the Beast' was meant to help girls accept arranged marriages. CRACKED.COM It was written in 1740 to encourage girls into forced marriages, for an alliance that required ef- facing their own desires and submitting to the will of a monster.

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Star Trek

Movie and TV Aliens Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Jadzia Dax is pansexual. According to actress Terry Farrell, Jadzia's romantic motivations are along the lines of, ...are you interesting to me and do I want to know more about you? rather than gender. CRACKED.COM

Hank Azaria

Moe Szyslak dated Phoebe. Hank Azaria tried to get an IRL acting career off the ground while he was already voicing a ton of characters on The Simpsons. He auditioned to play Joey on Friends, but ended up with a 5-episode arc as Phoebe's boyfriend instead.

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Our Bumbling Henchmen Brought Back to Our Lair Instead of That Blasted Hero

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