12 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia They Refuse to Teach in High School Despite Our Repeated Lobbying

Hamm says someone crunched the numbers, and “in the pilot alone, I smoke 75 cigarettes.” Other actors insisted on smoking real cigarettes, but they didn’t last longer than three days.

Hopper was present when feds raided Larry Flynt’s home in 1983, which he learned by watching live TV news coverage of the raid. He asked one of Flynt’s bodyguards if he could do anything to help the situation, and the guy responded, “Put this grenade in your mouth and run the wall. Or go back to your room.” So Hopper went back to his room and did some more cocaine.

The 1960s were what Brando called his “fuck you years,” where he took work without any regard to the quality of the film or filmmaker. 1964’s Candy was probably the fuck-you-est: a “sex farce” that tried to skewer porn tropes by showing a high school girl endure a series of sexual encounters (often straight-up rapes) with people like a doctor and her uncle.

The documentary Lost to the Future will chronicle Gibson’s quest to find the guitar that Marty McFly plays in Back to the Future, which was lost or stolen at some point after production wrapped.

NBA teams have embraced the implementation of sponsored jersey patches, which s for an eight-percent increase in sponsorship revenue. The league hauled in $1.62 billion this year.

Martin published a blog promoting some of his many projects, but before he got into the stuff he was excited about, he wrote a long paragraph quoting all the criticisms he’s received from fans, like “I will never finish Winds... I am going to die soon anyway, because I am so old... I don’t give a shit about writing any longer, I just sit around and spend my money... You may hate everything else I have ever written.”

After two disastrous seasons with the New York Jets, the washed-up dork has reportedly signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

If you were ever active on StarWarsWeb.net, you may have been communicating with CIA agents and informants. Research has found that the CIA created this site, and similar ones in other fandoms, to communicate surreptitiously with foreign spies. It appears that the Iranian government eventually uncovered this network, and several informants were executed as a result.

Two Belgian men laid low inside a stadium bathroom for 27 hours leading up to the big game, at which point they emerged and watched the game for free.

The viral resurgence of the ‘80s hit has officially broken the one billion view mark on Spotify.

The 2020 movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is being adapted into a Broadway musical, written by Ferrell and Steele, who wrote the movie together.

As the Switch 2 finally hit shelves, multiple people reported that the staple used to attach the receipt to the box actually punctured the screen of the device. To their credit, GameStop seems very willing to replace the consoles they break.