34 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Imagine As Plump, Juicy Turkey Roasts When We Grow Peckish

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34 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Imagine As Plump, Juicy Turkey Roasts When We Grow Peckish
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Lord of the Rings

A region of Middle-earth was partly inspired by WWI battlefields. Tolkien, who was in WWI, said that the Dead Marshes (on the path to Mordor) owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. CRACKED.COM

American Werewolf in London

American Werewolf in London didn't want any supernatural lawsuits. All characters and events in this film are fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living, dead, or undead, is purely coincidental. After insulting the Prince of Wales in the film, they give a shout-out to him and Princess Di in the credits. CRACKED.COM

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Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams

Celebrity tattoos HBO OT 07.08.09 Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams got matching tattoos on their arms reading 07.08.09, the date they were both cast on Game of Thrones. CRACKED.COM

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Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor had a mutation that gave her double eyelashes. The rare disorder is known medically as distichiasis, and eye specialists refer to it as an accessory row of eyelashes. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Sean Connery

3 strikes, and Sean Connery's out. THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN Connery had 3 big misses at the tail end of his career: turning down Gandalf in the LOTR trilogy, turning down a (mystery) role in The Matrix, and then accepting a role in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Eraserhead Fan Theory

ERASERHEAD ...is Henry Spencer's final dying dream in the electric chair, as he is executed for murdering his unplanned, disfigured newborn child. Hen

Midsommar

Midsommar is partly modelled on the 1981 breakup movie Modern Romance. Director Ari Aster was going through a bad breakup when they pitched Midsommar to him, and he wanted to make it partly a breakup movie. CRACKED.COM

Freddie Mercury and Dolly Parton

FREDDIE MERCURY AND DOLLY PARTON WERE BORN IN THE SAME YEAR The two music legends share a birth year, but the Queen frontman died from complications of AIDS too young at 45-years-old. CRACKED.COM

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit CRACKED SirAngusSteele's parents saved them a barrel full of trauma: We were allowed to watch it when we were too little to figure out what was happening, then not allowed once we were almost old enough to understand.

Robert Redford

Robert Redford He actually has taken a couple small cameo and VO roles since then, but he felt retirement calling after 2018's The Old Man & The Gun: I pretty well concluded that this would be it for me... I've been doing it since I was 21.

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The Nightmare Before Christmas

The studio wanted eyeballs on Jack. Some people at Disney suggested he should have eyeballs, but Selick and Burton just ignored them. Selick says, We

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Mike Myers

Mike Meyers GURU PITKA CRACKEDcO COM Meyers has made some massive hits, but even more extremely questionable duds. 2008's The Love Guru seems to have

Arnold Schwarzenegger

CRACKEDCO Arnold Schwarzenegger saved a man from drowning in Hawaii. During a vacation, Schwarzenegger saw a man clinging desperately to his Boogie Bo

How I Met Your Mother

When your favorite show throws away everything it was building towards, it's only fair to be pissed. how i met your mother In Last Forever- Part Two

Itchy & Scratchy

In '94, Fox asked The Simpsons to dump Itchy and Scratchy. SO THEY DEVOTED AN ENTIRE EPISODE TO THE PAIR. The writers of one of the most popular shows

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