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25 Pop Culture Trivia Tidbits To Percolate in Your Brain Kettle

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25 Pop Culture Trivia Tidbits To Percolate in Your Brain Kettle
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There’s no shortage of things to get our brains going in the morning. Coffee is the obvious and most popular choice, but we’ve seen some wild little fact finders bring in Monster energy drinks, B12 supplements, matcha, and those mushroom coffee alternatives or whatever you call them.

Call us old school, but nothing gets us goin’ like the facts. A good hearty batch of random pop culture trivia nuggets will perk up our brains like none of those other options ever have. Try it yourself. Whether you’ve just woken up or you want to bookmark this list for tomorrow morning, we suggest popping one or more of these fun facts in your brain right after rubbing that sleep out of your eyes.

25. The Doors

24. Friends

A mistake by David Schwimmer gave the Friends writers the perfect idea for a cliffhanger. During rehearsals for another scene in the Season 4 finale "The One with Ross' Wedding," Schwimmer accidentally said, "Rachel, the cab is downstairs" when he should have used Emily's name. This inspired the writers to have him say, "I, Ross, take thee Rachel" by mistake during his wedding vows. CRACKED.COM

23. Little Red Riding Hood

CRACKED LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD HAD A LOT MORE DISEMBOWELMENT. Disney's 1922 short did not include the wolf eating the grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood. It also didn't end with a hunter cutting open the wolf's stomach to let them out, then filling his stomach with stones.

22. Star Trek

Uhura STAR TREK CRACKED.COM Uhura's full name is Nyota Uhura, which is Swahili for "Star Freedom." You know, for a series that's meant to show the future, the creators really overestimated the beehive haircut's staying power.

21. Return of the Jedi

CRACKED.COM In Return of the Jedi, Luke has a blue light- saber in the posters, but a green one in the movie, because it had to be visible against Tatooine's blue sky. STARWARS RETURN OF JEDI - MARK HAMLE MARRISON FORD CARRE FISHER BLU DEL WILLIAMS -ANTHONY DANELS... - - - - DON'T ....ROHARD MARQUAND CHOWARD KAZANJAN SEOKO LUCAS -LAWRENCE KASDAN... GEORGE LUCAS GEORGE LECAS ...ON WILLIAMS - - H I I I i - -

20. Supernatural

The Supernatural writers put themselves into the show, then mocked themselves for it. In Supernatural, an in-universe author (whose pen name is a combination of two of the show's writers' names) writes about his visions, and they all really happen to the main characters - without his knowledge. At one point, he says, "Writing yourself into the story is one thing, but as a prophet? That's, like, M. Night-level douchiness." CRACKED.COM

19. The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty almost had a massive phonograph installed inside. That was Thomas Edison's idea, when the statue was still being planned - he wanted to broadcast speeches through the entire bay. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

18. Insidious

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2010 INSIDIOUS The crew would feel sick while filming hospital scenes. On other parts of the set that were not being used, strange noises would be heard, including a buzzer repeatedly sounding off from an empty room. CRACKED.COM

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17. The Godfather

Al Pacino nearly got fired from The Godfather. In the first couple of weeks, his performance totally baffled the filmmakers (except for Coppola, who supported him) and they wanted to replace him. They only changed their mind once they saw him in the restaurant scene -- if that scene hadn't worked, not even Coppola's support would have kept him in the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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16. Young Frankenstein

CRACKED.COM YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN USED THE LABORATORY FROM THE ORIGINAL FRANKENSTEIN. Mel Brooks' opus nailed the look and feel of the lab from 1931's Frankenstein-because it was the same lab. For authenticity, Brooks sought out Kenneth Strickfaden, who had designed the set of the original movie. As it turned out, Strickfaden had kept most of the props in his garage.

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15. Strange Toys

CRACKED G COM YOU CAN GO HIKING WITH KARL MARX AND HIS FRIENDS! MOUNTAIN RESEARCH Japanese toy maker Mountain Research released a foursome of surveyors modeled after Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, and Henry David Thoreau. There's no indication as to why two Communist dictators, the philosopher who inspired them, and an unrelated poet guy are hiking mountain trails.

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14. Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas appeared in more than 800 commercials Wendy's founder became a household name through the longest-running campaign. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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13. Fast Food

CRACKED A FAST FOOD CHAIN IS SUING A MALL FOR NOT TELLING THEM IT WAS MCDONALD'S TURF. Raising Cane's is suing shopping mall Crossings of Hobart, Indiana, alleging that the landlord tricked them into signing a long-term lease without disclosing that a previous owner had already granted McDonald's the exclusive right to sell chicken products there.

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12. Mick Jagger

In The Bank Job, Mick Jagger has a cameo as a bank employee. It shows him as he might look if the Rolling Stones didn't pan out t - he was a finance and accounting student at the London School of Economics. CRACKED.COM

Source: 12 Stealthy Celebrities Cameos In Films

11. Kal Penn

The Avengers was to be written by Kal Penn. Penn's script was all but thrown out when Joss Whedon came aboard. CRACKED.COM

Source: Thrillist

10. Harrison Ford

celebrities scouted in wild ways Harrison Ford was a (bad) carpenter. Ford cut a good silhouette but couldn't cut a good scrim. The carpenter turned out to be a bit better at acting than sawing. CRACKED.COM

More: 5 Huge Celebrities With Insane Secret Backstories

9. Anthrax

Dan Spitz is a watchmaker ANTHRAX CRACKED.COM The heavy metal guitarist said touring with Anthrax became "mundane, and more like a job." So he quit the band to pursue his lifelong love of tinkering with timepieces.

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8. Neil Diamond Songs

Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" is named after JFK's daughter. Diamond needed a three-syllable name to fit the song he was writing. Then he remembered a photo of 7-year-old Caroline Kennedy he had seen in a magazine. CRACKED.COM

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7. Movie Quotes in Movies

CRACKED.COM Whenever a character quotes another movie. THE DARK KNIGHT You complete me. Did The Joker just reference Jerry Maguire? Does that mean Tom Cruise exists in this universe?

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6. Back to the Future

Back to the Future CRACKED.COM A thankfully deleted scene features a homophobic spin on the Grandfather Paradox. Says Marty, "This is the kinda thing that could screw me up permanently... what if I go back to the future and I end up being... gay?" It was cut, we assume because they realized that this isn't something anybody wants on film.

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5. Movie Sets

The Shining and The Empire Strikes Back were shot in the same studio. They were shot at the same time, too and when The Shining had to stop using a stage after a fire, it borrowed a new one from Empire. CRACKED.COM

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4. Blade Runner 2049

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS THE ORIGINAL BLADE OPENING OF RUNNER 2049 THE FIRST FILM The opening scene with K and Sapper Morton was a homage to the original opening scene for the first movie that got cut. It would've seen Deckard do very much what K does in the sequel. CRACKED.COM

Source: Scified

3. Hilary Clinton

HILARY CLINTON has many. SNL doppelgangers CRACKED COM Hilary has been aped by Amy Poehler, Kate Mckinnon, and Jan Hooks. Who's best? "Amy's a friend of mine, and Kate's doing a great job," she says. "You're not going to get me to pick one ... I think I'm the best Hillary Clinton,

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2. Ikea

HOW MUcH WOOD DOES IKEA use? IKEA uses 1% of the world's lumber. It is unknown how much of that gets thrown away because someone refuses to read the i

1. The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water came about because six-year-old Guillermo del Toro didn't like a movie's ending. At six, del Toro saw the 1954 monster movie Creatu
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