40 Pieces of Pop-Culture Trivia to Pestle Into Your Brain Mortar

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40 Pieces of Pop-Culture Trivia to Pestle Into Your Brain Mortar

The Chipmunks are posers and a stain on the punk community. If you see them at a show, make sure they know they’re not welcome.

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Freaked

In the 1993 comedy Freaked, Keanu Reeves plays, uh, Ortiz the Dog Boy. The movie was directed by Alex Winter, AKA Bill in Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure. Keanu was uncredited, but the movie was greenlit because Winter said Keanu would be in it -- the studio thought it'd be like Bill and Ted (it wasn't). CRACKED.COM

The Batman Effect

The Batman Effect This phenomenom refers to adopting an alter-ego to boost confidence. Researchers notice that it allows ourselves to step back from our feelings and respond to situations with less anxiety and more determination. CRACKED.COM

Source: BBC

Scandal

SCANDAL'S OLIVIA pope IS BASED on CRISIS MANAGEMENT GURU JUDY SMITH...MOSTLY. Smith, who worked as deputy press secretary to President George H W. Bush, is quick to point out that Pope's steamy affair with the leader of the free world is a complete work of fiction. CRACKED.COM

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The Matrix

THE MATRIX They put a coat and tie on the camera to camouflage it in the doorbell shot.

Evil Dead 2

CRACKEDCON Workers spent months building the castle facade on a quarry for the final shot in Evil Dead 2. FL MD2. The setpiece saw a total of twenty s

Chris Brown

Chris Brown THE О.С. CRACKED.COM Before his parallel careers in music and domestic battery, he had a three-episode stint on The О.С. as Will Tutt, Kaitlin's good guy boyfriend.

Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld can't cook for himself or make his own bed. When the Chanel fashion designer was younger, he never learned basic daily tasks, because his mother taught him to depend on people, giving him more time to be successful. Now Lagerfeld has an entire staff to do the boring stuff for him. CRACKED.COM

Twitter

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Dude, Where’s My Car?

CRACKED.COM Dude, Where's My Car? Brent Spiner thinks his cameo might be his best work ever. The Star Trek actor regrets having his name removed from the credits, as that short cameo may be my finest effort. Не also thinks the movie represents its time better than almost any film.

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Annette Kellermann

The first full frontal nudity. 1916 CRACKED.COM Annette Kellermann was an Australian swimmer who broke barriers by wearing a scandalous one-piece bathing suit (instead of pantaloons). She later had a robust, nautical-themed film career, including her nude turn in A Daughter of the Gods.

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Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan led directly to the Medal of Honor games. MEDAL OF HONOR The movie was R-rated and unsuitable for kids, so Spielberg wanted to make a video game that would give kids a sense of what being in the European theater of WWII was like -- that became the first Medal of Honor game. CRACKED.COM

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The Chipmunks

UN-PUNK PUNK MOMENTS ALVIN, SIMON, AND THEODORE GO PUNK! The Chipmunks have always been known for their hardcore punk roots, but their 1980 album Chipmunk Punk didn't actually feature any punk songs. They simply punkified Tom Petty's hit Refugee and Blondie's Call Me. Unpunk to the max. A CRACKED For ДЕН

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Esquire

Romantic Comedies

Ways you're destroying your relationships Watching romantic comedies. You're the most romantic person you know. Hell, you have The Notebook on repeat in the background 24/7. So why are you so miserable? It turns out those rom-coms may be giving you unrealistic expectations. CRACKED

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BBC

The Rock

Michael Bay and his movies The Rock Studios didn't see Nicolas Cage as an action star. Apparently, Cage took up the leading role in The Rock precisely because he was told he wouldn't be able to pull it off. Then came Con Air and Face/ Off, and Cage was a bonafide action star. CRACKED.COM

Source: Screen Rant
Image Credit: Buena Vista Pictures

Summer of Soul

SUMMER OF SOUL The film was directed by Questlove, and its Oscar is one of the first South Asian Oscar wins of all time. CRACKED.COM

Source: Variety

LEGO

LEGO is an abbreviation of the Danish phrase leg godt. GRACKED.COM The phrase means play well.The company was originally called Billund Maskinsnedkeri.

Source: LEGO

Matilda

Matilda's Ms. Trunchbull hates children with a passion. 1 2 1 So why on Earth did she become principal of an elementary school?? CRACKED COM

Disney

DISNEY CRACKED.COM Imagineers use a color they call Go Away Green for things in their parks they want to hide in plain sight: Buildings Speakers And

Isaac Asimov

ISAAC ASIMOV WAS SO GOOD AT WRITING HE USUALLY HAD THREE TYPEWRITERS GOING JUST SO HE COULD WORK ON SEVERAL BOOKS AT ONCE. HE WROTE OVER 500 BOOKS DUR

Marlon Brando

For THE GODFATHER, MARLON BRANDO INVENTED MOST OF DON VITO COrLEONE's ICONIC LOOK AND TALKING STYLE ON HIS OWN. BEFORE AND AFTER MAKEUP Brando came up

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