34 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Regret Writing in Our Best Friend’s Leather-Bound Birthday Book

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34 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Regret Writing in Our Best Friend’s Leather-Bound Birthday Book
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The Conqueror

THE CONQUEROR was the most carcinogenic set of all time They filmed so close to an atomic bomb test site that 91 out of the 220 cast and crew members got cancer later in life. 46 of those, including John Wayne, died from it. Radiologist Dr. Robert Pendleton said, Blame for their exposure on set would hold up in a court of law. CRACKED

Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin lost his mind when airline staff asked him to quit playing Words With Friends on his phone. TI USA 14.00 DL SAMSUNG 215 . I - ZAS . EN . - - DROID ، A G TL с CI A V a AR of Onzos O POURS SEA HARDO . WH IRL MAE O AW . . BOT by NO GED NOR I U U E E PLAY After the surliest and puffiest Baldwin brother boarded an American Airlines flight, he refused to turn off his cell phone after multiple requests by the crew. So he locked himself

The Big Bang Theory

The running gag the about Sheldon's discomfort with BiG BANG physical intimacy THEORY was in terrible taste. The whole joke was Look, it's a man who is asexual. That's not really a joke, it's just a character with a less-common sexuality. The existence of minority groups as a joke hasn't ever been funny, and just shows how out-of- touch this stupid show was. GRAGKED.COM

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Home Alone

One-Sided Fictional Rivalries Harry and Marv would have murdered that eight-year-old boy. Or just tied him up and stolen everything in the house. A Season 12 episode of Family Guy spells this out with Home Alone with Competent Robbers. It would've made for a much different Christmas movie, though. Home Alone CRACKED

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Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. buried the clothes that he wore in 1987's Less Than Zero in the backyard of his house. This was a symbolic attempt to bury his decadent 1980s Brat Pack image and begin a new phase of his life and career after film- ing 'Chaplin.' CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Jeff Gordon

Jeff Gordon didn't care for a blogger's criticism of his Pepsi ad. So he scared the hell out of him, NASCAR-style. In the ad, Gordon takes an unsuspecting used-car salesman on a terrifying test drive. Blogger Travis Okulski wasn't impressed, and wrote a scathing takedown of the commercial. So Gordon got his revenge by posing as an ex-con cab driver and taking Okulski on a pants-shittingly terrifying police chase through rural Charlotte, North Carolina. CRACKED.COM http:/jalopnik.com/how-jeff-gordon-scared-the-crap-out-of-me-1531016226

Lassie

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO... Lassie CRACKED.COM Lots of Collies played the part, but Pal was the first to really embody the fearlessness of the character. After he retired, five of his puppies went on to play the role.

The Fantastic Four

BACK IN THE 'GOS, THE FANTASTIC FOUR FACED THE HATE MONGER, A VILLAIN WHO SHOT HATE RAYS AND WHEN THE WORE A FOUR FINALLY UNMASKED HIM, PURPLE НЕ TURNED OUT TO BE A CLONE OF KLAN HOOD. ADOLF HITLER. AND THEN .AS THE CONCEALING BUT HE'S I CAN'T ADOLF HITLER!THE MAD HOOD IS LIFTED... BELIEVE IT!I SUPPOSED FEUHRER! THE MOST EVIL TO HAVE JUST CAN'T! HUMAN BEING THE WORLD IT AND YET, BEEN HAS EVER KNOWN! CAN'T IT FITS! KILLED BE !IT ITALL YEARS НЕ LOOKS TIES IN! JUST AGO! THE THE HATE-RAY MUST JUST LIKE AIN'T WHOLE HIS PICTURES! HAVE

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Pirates of the Caribbean

PIRATES Disney the of CHRIBBEAN CRACKED.COM Anamaria is a pirate who knew Jack Sparrow before the first movie, confronts him for stealing her ship, disguises herself as a man to join his crew and later takes control of the Black Pearl. She didn't appear again after the first film. Where is she now?

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Red Dead Redemption

A BIBLICAL FIGURE SPOILS THE HERO'S FATE IN RED DEAD REDEMPTION. CRACKED COM A mysterious man in a stovepipe hat, who many players consider to be God or another otherworldly presence, tells Marston that the unremarkable patch of grass they are standing on will make a fine spot. At the end of the game, this is where Marston is buried.

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Popeye

comic Book Movies Popeye This was Robin Williams' first film role after getting a boost in popularity from Mork and Mindy. Не would later go on to despise the film-which hey, fair. CRACKED.COM

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Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris could've been in That '70s Show. They wanted him to play Red Forman, but he said no because he couldn't make the schedule work. CRACKED.COM

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34 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Regret Writing in Our Best Friend’s Leather-Bound Birthday Book

Animation

ANIMATION DATES BACK TO THE PALEOLITHIC AGE. 21,000 years ago, artists drew rows of cave images that, when lit by flickering firelight, gave the illus

The Hunger Games

CRACKED COM In The Hunger Games, the villains are foppish, effete urbanites who dictate the rules for the majority. Our heroine is a brave, selfless g

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