Editor’s Note: We here at Pop Kult Boom are all for giving fair credit where credit is due. Peter King (one of our favs) writes a weekly NFL column for Sports Illustrated. He concludes each column with “10 Things I Think I Think”. We here at PKB are just a little bit more sure of ourselves. 

I was buried under a mountain of freelance work this week, and I’m nowhere close to where I should be on my pop culture antics for this weekly column. So, I’m gonna try something new and throw out 10 completely useless facts your way. Sad to say that my brain is full of them and I hope that you can get more use out of them than I have. After all, they’re still 10 things I know.  

1) Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch 

2) Never use pineapple in your Jell-O mold, the acid in that particular fruit won’t allow the mold to set right. 

3) If you ever find yourself being chased by an alligator, run away from it in a serpentine fashion. Alligators are so quick that they will chase you down in a straight line. 

4) “Sesame Street”’s resident game show host Guy Smiley is really just a stage name. His official name before the switch was Bernie Liederkrantz. 

5) Wesley Snipes auditioned for the role of Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” but lost out to LeVar Burton. 

6) The funniest thing you can say to a guy in the urinal stall next to you is – “Nice watch.” Just think about it J 

7) On “Gilligan’s Island”, Jonas Grumby was better known as The Skipper. 

8) The Capitol Records Tower in Los Angeles perpetually taps out HOLLYWOOD in Morse Code. 

9) “Annie Hall” originally included a murder subplot that was edited out of the final cut. Rumors persist to this day that director Woody Allen still has the unseen footage, but no one else has ever seen it. The original running time of that film was nearly three hours. 

10) If “Mad Men” and “Modern Family” don’t win for Best Drama and Best Comedy (respectively) at this weekend’s Emmys – you will have one upset blogger on your hands. 

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