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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Pulled Out of a Pharaoh’s Nose and Stuffed Into Canopic Jars

May 31, 2025

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Robin Williams

J.K. Rowling stopped Robin Williams from playing Hagrid in the Harry Potter films. CRACKED.COM Williams wanted to play a role in the series, with Warner Bros. even pushing producers to cast as На- grid. It's hard to imagine the role being played by anyone but the incompara- ble Robbie Coltrane. — Source

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Ted Lasso

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM TED LASSO A recent darling of both critics and guys at your friend's birthday party, Ted Lasso is a modern sitcom with an old-school belief that you don't need to sacrifice jokes to carry emotion. Pretty good for what was originally a TV commercial to promote Premier League Soccer on NBC Sports. — The Original Promo

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Superbad

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS SUPERBAD Seth Rogen's real pop played the MAD DAD CRACKED.COM In his first- and last-ever screen role, Seth played the dad who chases SotWerding Evan through the suburban backyard. Nice throw, Mark Rogen. — ScreenRant

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The Oscars

what's the deal with the Oscars THE ACADEMY DOESN'T TEACH ANYONE CRACKED The AMPAS founded was by MGM founder Louis B. Mayer in 1927, to avoid having labor unions in Hollywood (it didn't work). — Source: AMPAS

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The Rock

TELL US NOW. The Rock AeabEl. Caly 84 aat hes av Brates ct. ov t GRAGKED Brian B says Connery doesn't get a : 'Sean Connery is tearing around town causing all kinds of damage and we're supposed to roOT for him as this bad-ass hero. People die in crashes

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Ian Fleming

Future James Bond author lan Fleming worked with Cand hated) Alan Turing. Fleming was in British naval intelligence during WWl, and he and Turing made

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Man of Steel

... TELL US NOW. EXCESSIVE ACTION SEQUENCES Robert C. says, An extended action sequence that's basically 45 minutes of nonstop explosions and screaming with no emotional beats to give it structure and purpose (see: Man of Steel, most of the Transformers movies). CRACKED.COM — Source

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The West Wing

MANDY HAMPTON WAS WHITE HOUSE meDIA hall a CONSULTANT university Elec on THE WEST WING. AND THen, SUDDENLY, she WASN'T. SHe DISAPPEARED. Mandy, played by Moira Kelly, was a pivotal character during the first season. She was a savvy political strategist and no-nonsense negotiator, said to have been based on real-life political media adviser Mandy Grunwald. Her disappearance from the show without explanation led fans to coin the phrase Mandyville for the destination of characters who were dropped from the series. CRACKED.COM http://westwing wikia .com/wikiMandy_Hampton — Source

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Myspace

CRACKED ОБЛЕН NECTI SOUTH AX JR HER #News Corporation boliet NEWS CORP. News Corp. sold Myspace for $35 million, a huge loss compared to the $580 million they paid for it in 2005. — Source

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Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav is a musical prodigy. GRAGKED.COM By the time he started performing with Public Enemy, he was proficient in 15 different instru- ments, from drums to oboe, and co-wrote their first album with Chuck D. — Source

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Alien

Aliens It took 14-16 people to operate the Alien Queen animatronic puppet. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mahershala Ali

Sport Celebrities Mahershala Ali played for St. Mary's on a basketball scholarship. Не would do a graduate program for acting at New York University after his college b-ball career was done. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brian Regan

Brian Regan CRACKED.COM The exact thought I have whenever I see a log truck now. I've never under- stood log trucks, sometimes you'll be out on the highway, you see two big giant trucks loaded up with logs, and they each other on the highway... I don't understand it. I mean, if they need logs over there... and they need 'em over there, you'd think a phone call would save 'em a whole lot of trouble. — Source

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Sylvester Stallone

In 1971, Sylvester Stallone sold his dog, Butkus, for $40 to buy food. After selling the script for Rocky, he bought him back for $15,000. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rihanna

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30 Rock

30 Rock has 7.44 jokes per minute on average Talib Visram calculated that the show had the most jokes per minute compared to other popular sitcoms. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Source

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Justin Bieber

They arrested Justin Bieber in Miami Beach for drag racing at 4 in the morning. Не was going 55 to 60 mph in a 30 mph area - the exact charges were DUI, resisting arrest, and having an expired driver's license. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stumptown

CRACKED Mark Webber wasn't handsome enough. After the pilot, he was replaced by Jake Johnson. Не said, Look, I'm a straight white male, so I know my journey has been way less painful in this warped industry, but I'm being recast in a network television show because I'm not 'handsome enough.' STUMPTOWN — Buzzfeed / Redbull

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Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong-un

SHADY TIES DENNIS RODMAN AND KIM JONG-UN Rodman has visited the North Korean dictator several times since 2013, calling Kim a friend for life. Не has even defended North Korea's infringement on human rights. CRACKED — Ulora/Shutterstock,
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Joel McHale

CRACKED JOEL MCHALE STARRED IN AN UNAIRED AMERICAN VERSION OF THE IT CROWD. While only one pilot was shot, NBC attempted to reboot the show three times. The first time they shot the pilot with McHale but never aired it. The second two times they tried to get the producers from Community on board but it never got off the ground. — Foreign Comedies Hollywood Won’t Stop Trying to Remake / TV Insider

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The Toronto Raptors

Sports Reinvented in WE THE NORTH As the only Canadian team in the NBA, the Toronto Raptors slogan We the North unified Canadian fans in 2014. Even though they were far from Toronto, everyone got to enjoy the team's 2019 Championship. CRACKED — Toronto Raptors/YouTube

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NBA

Longest Time Not Really... Doing Anything NBA CRACKED.COM LA Lakers point guard Derek Fisher once spent 34 minutes without a single point, assist, or even a rebound. — Source: 15 Embarrassing Sports Records No One Wants To Break

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10 Things I Hate About You

Back to School Movies and Episodes 1999 10 Things I Hate About You This update of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew has a fun cast consisting of Julia Stiles, the late Heath Ledger, and more. Lots of parties, poems, high school tropes, dances, and romances. CRACKED.COM

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New Coke

CRACKED.COM NEW cc Conservatism played a big part in the failure of New Coke. desmark The backlash against the new recipe was particularly strong amongst Southern conservatives, who saw it as a new aggression from those damn Yankees. A University of Mississippi professor called it an intrusion on tradition that Southerners won't like, regardless of how it tastes. — Source: 15 Random Facts to Make Your Life More Factual and/or Random

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Nathan Fillion

celebrities who Are Into Magic: The Gathering Nathan Fillion Fillion has been trying to learn the rules-heavy card game. It's just mana, plus monsters, plus spells, plus counters, plus hey wait what does this word mean? During your upkeep, bars all artifacts and enchantments Card you can't take from him: Just shink of me as the storm before the cafes. -Gerrard of the Weatherlight serenity CITY Tem POR - CRACKED.COM — Source: Nathan Fillion/Twitter

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Dudley Do-Right

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Dudley Do-Right VIA Dudley Do-Wrong (too easy). The film debuted at ELEVENTH on its opening weekend and lost 65 million dollars. We miss you Brendan, we promise it won't happen again. — Source: The Numbers

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Patton Oswalt

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Patton Oswalt spies on the Justice League. DC JLA TOTTHE WELCOME SK US WORKING WEEK - و I Take OSWOLT GLKASTON Ths ON ALAM THWATCH A kid (obviously a stand-in for Oswalt) beams aboard the JLA satellite to escape an alien invasion and basically snoops on the League for a week. It's a fan's eye view of what it might be like to hang with the world's mightiest superheroes. — ComicVine

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Elvis

It turns out that Elvis never actually wrote any of the songs he performed. Не got the idea for All Shook Up, but even that one got written up by a friend - and that's it, really. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Facts To Make Us Sound Smarter And/Or More Informed

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The Shining

THE FINGER WIGGLING WAS DANNY LLOYD'S IDEA. THE SHiNiNG Lloyd came up with Tony's finger- talking during his audition, and Kubrick liked it enough to keep it. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Bone-Chilling Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'The Shining'

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Luis Tomlinson

One Direction singer Luis Tomlinson got a Scooby Doo Mystery Machine van. YAMAHA Plus, the customized van has not just a huge TV and gaming systems inside, but also lights, lasers, and a surround sound stereo system. CRACKED.COM — Source: E! Online

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Stan Lee

DID STAN'S WIFE WRITE THE EROTIC PLEASURE PALACE? Pleasure THE PALACE JOAN LEE CRACKED.co FOR ONCE. STAN LEE DIDN'T TAKE CREDIT FOR WRITING SOMETHING AND HE PROBABLY DID! ACCORDING TO SOURCES CLOSE TO THEM STAN LIKELY EITHER GHOSTWROTE OR GOT SOMEONE ELSE TO GHOSTWRITE AS AN EXPRESSION OF HIS LOVE AND DEVOTION. STEAMY! — True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, p. 218

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Newt Gingrich

My patriotism drove me to cheat on my dying wife! CRACKEDG After a pattern of cheating on wives when they were extremely ill and/or dying, Newt Gingrich explained that at times of my life, partially driven by how ionately I felt about this country, I worked far too hard and — Source: NPR

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Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein BEST KNOWN FOR THE GIVING TREE CRACKED COM Silverstein was a Grammy-award songwriter and Playboy cartoonist who reluctantly agreed to write children's books. — Source: Grammy and Biography Today

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Hot Fuzz

xt YTO WALKING HIRO TALL BAO BOYST SEACAL JUstide Mort NICXNOITE D6 CIUCK EL SILENT All the gas station DVDs in Hot Fuzz had to be legally cleared. Wh — Source: 6 Scenes In Famous Movies That Were Insanely Hard To Film

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The Revenant

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Transformers

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Ghostbusters

SXAV-CUIS AatALS In Dana's first encounter with ghosts in Ghostbusters, her eggs are ruined. And they're sitting on the counter right next to Stay-Puf

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The Witcher

TELL US NOW. Michael D. has no coins to toss to The Witcher. btasken a11. The special effects were not up to par with other fantasy shows, and the ti — Michael D.

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Jurassic Park

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Anna Kendrick

Even if you follow just one celebrity, make it ANNA KENDRICK. From dark-humored quips, Sometimes I feel like I could pull off the perfect murder. I'm — Link: Anna Kendrick's Twitter

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