Pop Culture Facts

In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

Oprah Winfrey makes $10 per second.

'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.

There's a Hello Kitty-themed hospital in Taiwan.

Queen Elizabeth II has a rubber duck in her private bath with an inflatable crown.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was invented for Montgomery Ward's Christmas promotion in 1939.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.

Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!

Brad Pitt has been smoking since the sixth grade!

Johnny Depp suffers from self-injury.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an 'Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.'"

Judge Judy makes $45 million a year.

Spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931.

Jon Bon Jovi has a restaurant that has no prices; guests pay whatever they can or volunteer in exchange for their meal.

Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.

The original South Park prototype was made with construction paper cutouts. The 1995 'Spirit of Christmas' short took creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone about 3 months to animate by hand.

Drew Carey once worked at a Denny's.

The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School

Evanston Township High School in Illinois played Justin Bieber's 'Baby' as a fundraiser between classes. Students had to pay to stop it. $1,000 was collected in 3 days.

Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.

Brazil has their own version of Miss America. Miss Bumbum Brazil pageant is an annual competition for the best butt in the country.

In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.