33 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Aren’t Ruling Out a Run for the White House

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33 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Aren’t Ruling Out a Run for the White House
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In the original story, Aladdin is such a lazy loser that his dad died of disappointment.

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Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton isn't afraid of all antique furniture, just old mildewy stuff. Old dusty heavy drapes and big tables with lions' heads carved in it. Stuff that kings were around. The issue? It was too big to be functional. It creeps me out. CRACKED

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Jaxxon

Think Jar-Jar Binks is the worst possible Star Wars character? Have a look at Jaxxon. Jaxxon was a green, abbit-headed smuggler from the early Star Wa

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33 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Aren’t Ruling Out a Run for the White House

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33 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Aren’t Ruling Out a Run for the White House

Osmosis Jones

OSMOSIS The movie inspired the National Buffalo Wing Festival. The festival didn't exist in real life when Bill Murray's character wanted to attend in the movie. Buffalo native Drew Cerza made it a reality in 2002. CRACKED.COM

Disney’s Aladdin

Disney's Aladdin has a hero you can root for, unlike the original. In the most popular English translation of the original Arabian Nights story, Aladdin is lazy, selfish, and ruins his parents' lives. Не doesn't want to learn a trade, so his tired, old mother is forced to work to provide for both of them (his father died over grief at what a disappointment Aladdin was). CRACKED.COM

Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt wanted to trick his friends into some Y2K-related panic. So he cut the phone and power and had one of them arrested. Pitt and Fight Club director David Fincher rented a Mexican resort and filled it with their friends to celebrate New Year's Eve of 1999, when the paranoia about the so-called Y2K Bug was at a fever pitch. Then they bribed local officials to cut the power and phone lines right at the stroke of midnight. They also had one guy arrested on trumped-up drug charges. CRACKED.COM https://www.youtube.com/watch 7v=k6yZEauwdhU

Ralph Macchio

CRACKED.COM THE KARATE KID RALPH MACCHIO DIDN'T LIKE THE PRODUCT PLACEMENT. In one scene, he covered the Sprite logo with his hand as a form of protest. When told not to do that, he exposed the logo for as little time as he could.

The Gorn

... TELL US NOW. STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES ARENA Pete W. says the worst of Star Trek was the slow motion fight with the Gorn. Shatner throwing slow punches, then waiting for the Gorn to hit back. The Gorn moving slower than an old couple walking side by side in a supermarket aisle. CRACKED.COM

The Thirteenth Floor

VIRTUAL REALITY MOVIES THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR 1999 THE MOVIE ADAPTS AN EARLY FICTIONAL DEPICTION OF VIRTUAL REALITY. Despite coming out at a time that made it look like a cheap Matrix knockoff, the movie has genre cred, being a loose adaptation of Daniel F. Galouye's 1964 novel Simulacron-3 (which had been previously adapted as a 1973 German movie World on a Wire). CRACKED.COM

Matrix Reloaded

MARIR REDOADED At the moment where the computer program explains absence of free will with a needlessly deep interpretation of Newton's Third Law...

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