34 Wild Bits of Pop Culture Trivia We Tamed

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34 Wild Bits of Pop Culture Trivia We Tamed
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Bob Saget and Katie Couric

BOB SAGET KATIE COURIC GRACKED.COM Couric confessed to Howard Stern that she went out with the Full House dad. Couric reports that Saget was fun but she didn't think I did it for him. After their date, Saget never called her again.

Bebop and Rocksteady

CRACKED ВЕВОР AND ROCKSTEADY WERE CREATED SOLELY FOR TOY SALES. They didn't appear in the live action movies, but were created by Peter Laird as more characters for the cartoon's toy line. They weren't given much personality or backstory, just Shredder's henchmen for the Turtles to beat every time. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan is famous for his on-set injuries while doing his own stunts. ARMOUR of GOD 2 OPERATION CONDOR One such injury on the set of Armour of God II required him to get brain surgery, and left him with a metal plate inside his head. CRACKED.COM

Katanas

Katanas aren't really all that kick-ass. All the fastidious metal-folding by the swordsmith wasn't to make katanas awesome-it was to compensate for the low-quality steel available to forge them. CRACKED.COM

Peter Frampton

Peter Frampton stormed off during a concert when a cameraman ruined his solo. BR A At a concert in Minnesota, the musician known for Baby, I Love Your Way (and snatching cell phones out of fans' hands) took great offense when the overhead screen showed a woman in the crowd holding up his album Frampton Comes Alive while he was playing. And when the screen showed the same woman holding up his I'm In You album, he cursed into the camera, accosted the operator, and walked off mid-performance. CRACKED.COM

Elliot Page

ELLIOT PAGE REGRETS A SCENE IN JUNO. There's a line in the film where his character rejects the name Madison for the baby because it's a little gay. Page has regretted that line since, and even omitted it during a table read years later. It wasn't something I totally registered at the time, but, of course, now that I'm older I do. So many movies I loved as a kid are just rampant with homophobia and transphobia and biphobia, and I'm not excusing it by any means. CRACKED.COM

The Darling Children

Peter Pan The real Darling children were named Llewellyn Davies. J. M. Barrie got close to the kids, eventually adopting them. Rumors abound that, just like Peter, he stole the children from their nanny, though it's never been proven. CRACKED.COM

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Supreme Leader Snoke

Supreme Leader Snoke's design was partly based on Peter Cushing. Designed lvan Manzella was inspired by Cushing's cheekbones and profile (but he finds
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Lou Pearlman

THE BACKSTREET BOYS WERE FUNDED BY THE SCHEME FIRST After chartering a plane for New Kids on the Block, Pearlman decided to get into the boy band busi

Get Out

In GET OUT, Georgina, Walter, and Logan are only seen wearing either hats or a wig... Because they are all trying to hide their transplant surgery sca

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