15 Pop-Culture Realizations That Will Blow Your Mind

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Annie Colbert
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15 Pop-Culture Realizations That Will Blow Your Mind

Mind = blown. It's about to happen, so prepare your noggin.

Sure, you know oodles of random facts about pop culture and can rattle off Big Lebowski quotes, but that doesn't mean your brain has made every weird connection that's happened in movies, TV and music.

Luckily for fun-fact seekers, the Internet encourages the sharing of mind-blowing tidbits on places like Reddit and Imgur.

Take a scroll through 15 of the most astonishing pop-culture realizations ever shared on the tubes.

1. Dunder-Mifflin recruited from KVWN-TV Channel 4 Evening News

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/yFKMWXm.png" caption="" credit="" alt="How did I just realize this?"]

Image courtesy of Imgur, ishouldapickedsomethingshorter

2. Star Wars and The Lion King nearly got burned

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/swlcW.jpg" caption="" credit="" alt=""]

Image courtesy of Reddit, nomdeweb

3. Mario didn't last long

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/52KxZ.png?1" caption="" credit="" alt="Mario Dies on the Cover"]

Image courtesy of Reddit, thenowherekid

4. Chuckie is the twelfth doctor

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/73N0f.jpg" caption="" credit="" alt="...and Tommy always carried a screwdriver. Mind blown this morning."]

Image courtesy of Imgur, mindnoir

5. Pixar loves character Easter eggs

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/L90Ae.png" caption="" credit="" alt=""]

Image courtesy of Reddit, machpe

6. That future is nothing to 'ha-ha' about

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/zSF21.jpg" caption="" credit="" alt=""]

Image courtesy of Reddit

7. Walter White was once a dentist in NYC

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/cb9So.jpg" caption="" credit="" alt=""]

Image courtesy of Reddit, mrfresh5

8. Headlines never change

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/dEtig.jpg" caption="" credit="" alt=""]

Image courtesy of Reddit, mepper

(The story behind the recurring newspaper.)

9. Chipmunks are manlier than you remember

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/xy9PzTw.jpg" caption="" credit="" alt=""]

Image courtesy of DarwinGoneWild

10. Check your birth certificate, maybe?

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/YMGeh.png" caption="" credit="" alt="Mind blown."]

Image courtesy of Imgur, sevenofninetertiaryadjunctofunimatrixzeroone

11. Waldo's shirt is more than a fashion statement

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Credit:

Mashable composite. H/T Imgur. Image courtesy of silvery

12. Patrick -- is that you?!

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/UTIeX.jpg" caption="" credit="" alt="Mind=blown"]

Image courtesy of Imgur, InfinitelyImprobable

13. Jesse Pinkman blew it on The Price Is Right

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/Rz9t8tm.gif" caption="" credit="" alt="OH MY GLOB THIS HAPPENED! mind = blown"]

Image courtesy of Imgur, elviramoose

14. That Powerpuff Girl sounds familiar

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/bafLd.png" caption="" credit="" alt="My mind has just been blown. Like my ovaries. If I had ovaries."]

Image courtesy of Ecryb

15. Counting to 10 is easier for God

[img src="http://i.imgur.com/JATAx.jpg" caption="" credit="" alt=""]

Image courtesy of Reddit, AmusedMoosed

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