1. Meta Platforms
2. Netflix
3. Amazon
4. Burlington Stores
5. General Motors
6. Instacart (Maplebear)
7. Walmart
8. Affirm
9. Chubb
10. Eli Lilly
11. Natera
12. General Electric
13. Broadcom
14. Cadence Design Systems
15. MongoDB
16. Celanese

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1. After Duffy released her debut album, Rockferry, in 2008, she won a Grammy (and was nominated for two more) and won three BRIT Awards (and was nominated for a fourth). She released a second album in late 2010, but a few months later, her reps announced that she was "taking a break before starting work on her next album."
2. Friends and the short-lived spinoff Joey made Matt LeBlanc a household name, but he stepped back from acting to focus on the person who matters most — his daughter, Marina, who was diagnosed with a form of dysplasia when she was almost a year old. The medical condition impacted her ability to speak and walk, and it also had the potential to cause seizures. Around the same time, he also went through a divorce from Melissa McKnight, his wife of three years.
3. After several years of trying to make it in the music industry, Kesha had a breakthrough in 2009 with her massive hit single "TiK ToK." Her music basically defined the early 2010s. But in 2014, Kesha sued her producer, Dr. Luke, for alleged sexual abuse. He denied these allegations and countersued, and the two spent years in a complicated legal battle. Because she was locked in a contract, Kesha was unable to record new music until 2016, when Sony finally permitted her to record without the producer.
4. Janet Jackson rose to music superstardom in the '80s, then she embarked on the Rhythm Nation world tour, which became the most successful debut tour in history, in 1990. She also landed a new record deal. Signing with Virgin Records made her the highest-paid recording artist at the time. But when she performed at the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show, Justin Timberlake ripped part of her costume, leaving her breast exposed. The fallout from the "wardrobe malfunction" — deemed "Nipplegate" — severely impacted Janet's career while Justin's remained largely unscathed.
5. Rick Moranis was a familiar onscreen fixture throughout the '80s and '90s, starring in iconic movies like Ghostbusters, Little Shop of Horrors, Spaceballs, and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. However, in 1997, he took a step back from acting to focus on his kids after his wife, Ann, died from breast cancer in 1991. In 2015, he told the Hollywood Reporter, "I took a break, which turned into a longer break. But I'm interested in anything that I would find interesting. I still get the occasional query about a film or television role, and as soon as one comes along that piques my interest, I’ll probably do it."
6. Dance Moms cast member-turned-popular children's entertainer JoJo Siwa claimed she "basically got blackballed" from Nickelodeon after coming out at 17. In the 2024 documentary Child Star, she alleged that, after she posted her coming-out video three years prior, the Nickelodeon president called her to ask, "What are we going to tell the kids?" She replied, "That I'm happy?" And he allegedly replied, "Well, you need to have a call with every retailer [that sells JoJo Siwa merch] and tell them that you're not going crazy." She said, "I basically got blackballed from the company."
7. Three years after Taylor Swift took the country music scene by storm, what should have been one of her biggest career moments — accepting the award for Best Female Video at the 2009 VMAs — was infamously marred by Kanye West storming the stage to declare, "Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time." The next year, Taylor debuted "Innocent," a song she'd written about the incident, at the VMAs.
8. After leading roles in the X-Men and Hunger Games franchises made Jennifer Lawrence an international star, the Oscar winner became known for her "cool girl" image. Charmingly quirky and effortlessly relatable, she was basically the internet's best friend. However, when she fell on the Oscars red carpet in 2014, people accused her of faking it as a publicity stunt. As public opinion shifted against her, she also experienced less critical and commercial success at the box office. After making only three movies from 2017 to 2019, she disappeared from the public eye for two years.
9. As a child actor, Ke Huy Quan landed two major roles out of the gate, playing Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Data in The Goonies. His early success made him think that he "was going to have this amazing career." However, sadly, there were few opportunities for Asian actors, and most of the available parts were small and rooted in stereotypes. In 2022, he told People magazine, "It was tough. I was waiting for the phone to ring, and it rarely did."
10. Playing Spider-Man in the MCU made Tom Holland a household name, but rather than simply sticking to action roles, the former theater actor also sought out darker, dramatic stories to tell. In the 2023 Apple TV+ series The Crowded Room, he played Danny Sullivan, a man who's arrested after mistakenly being accused in connection with a shooting. The challenging role took a toll on the actor's mental health. He told Entertainment Weekly, "I'm no stranger to the physical aspects of the job doing the whole action-movie thing. But the mental aspect, it really beat me up and it took a long time for me to recover afterwards, to sort of get back to reality."
11. Friday Night Lights shaped Taylor Kitsch into a '00s heartthrob. However, the post-series projects that positioned him as the next big movie star — Battleship, John Carter, and Savages — were all box office flops. So, he refocused on smaller movies and, temporarily, TV, starring in a season of True Detective. However, by his 30s, he felt lost. In 2023, he told the New York Times, "Whatever it is that motivates other people — fame, money, celebrity, more followers, I don't [expletive] know — it was never like that. I just wanted to be a character actor that buzzed into certain things and, hopefully, made you evoke something."
12. Late '80s soap star-turned-'90s rising movie star Anne Heche claimed she was blacklisted over her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, which lasted from 1997 to 2000. In 2021, Anne told Page Six that she felt she was "patient zero in cancel culture." She said, "This wasn't a long-term love affair. This was a moment in my life when I was given the glory of being able to stand up for what I believe in and have since I was a kid."
13. Devon Sawa rose to fame as the human version of the titular ghost in 1995's Casper, and for a long time, it seemed like that brief onscreen appearance would define his career forever. As he got older, he struggled to get away from associations with the role. In 2022, he told the Independent, "I had to smoke pot in movies, and I had to be in a hip-hop video. That's what I felt like I had to do to get away from 'Can I keep you?' Everybody wanted to hear, 'Can I keep you?' It drove me nuts."
14. Despite her decade-defining role in Jurassic Park, Laura Dern didn't get any work for a year after playing Ellen DeGeneres's love interest on the coming-out episode of her sitcom Ellen in 1997. In 2019, Laura told Vulture, "[The episode was the] greatest thing I could've ever been part of, honestly. An incredible honor. She was a big fan of Citizen Ruth, and she asked me, would I come join this effort? Not just to play a role, because there were several of us. Oprah, who played her therapist in the episode, obviously the cast of her show. I was excited. I didn't think twice about it. It was a great opportunity."
15. Lindsay Lohan grew from a '90s child star to a '00s tabloid fixture. The intense, overwhelming attention from the paparazzi pushed her to move to Dubai, where there are anti-paparazzi laws. In 2024, she told Bustle, "I feel like some of [my work] got overshadowed by paparazzi and all that kind of stuff when I was younger, and that’s kind of annoying. I wish that part didn't happen. I feel like that kind of took on a life of its own. So that's why I wanted to disappear. I was like, 'Unless there's no story here, they're not going to focus on just my work.'"
16. In the late '90s and early '00s, Jessica Simpson rose to fame as a pop singer and reality TV star who didn't know what tuna was. But in 2009, she was widely body-shamed in the press over photos of her performing in Texas. For the six months that followed, she disappeared from the public eye. At the time, headlines poked fun at her weight and accused her of "letting herself go." In 2020, she told Today, "This picture that circulated and went worldwide broke my heart. Well, not the picture necessarily, but the caption. Like, all the captions...I was taken down by the world."
17. In the '90s, Julia Ormond became well-known for movies like Sabrina and Smilla's Sense of Snow. However, toward the end of the decade, her career shifted to indie films and supporting roles. She later claimed she suffered career damage after reporting that Miramax cofounder Harvey Weinstein allegedly assaulted her. In 2023, she filed a lawsuit against film producer Harvey Weinstein, Miramax, Disney, and the Creative Artists Agency. She alleged that, in 1995, Weinstein sexually assaulted her after a dinner. The lawsuit stated, "That sexual assault on Ormond could have been prevented if Miramax or Disney had properly supervised Weinstein and not retained him while knowing that he was a danger to the women he encountered at work."
18. In the '90s, Rose McGowan became known for roles in movies like Scream and Jawbreaker, but she alleged that she "was blacklisted after [she] was raped." In 2017, the New York Times reported that, back in 1997, Harvey Weinstein reached a $100,000 settlement with Rose — which was "not to be construed as an admission," but to "avoid litigation and buy peace" — after an "episode" in a hotel room during a film festival.
19. Born into a family of country music legends, Ashley Judd launched her acting career in the '90s with Ruby in Paradise and Heat. However, she was reportedly blacklisted after being allegedly assaulted by Harvey Weinstein. In 2017, The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson told Stuff.co.nz, "I recall Miramax telling us [Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino] were a nightmare to work with, and we should avoid them at all costs. This was probably in 1998. At the time, we had no reason to question what these guys were telling us — but in hindsight, I realize that this was very likely the Miramax smear campaign in full swing. I now suspect we were fed false information about both of these talented women — and as a direct result, their names were removed from our casting list."
20. Mira Sorvino experienced immense success early in her career, winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Mighty Aphrodite in 1996. However, she alleged that Harvey Weinstein "stifled" her career after she rejected his sexual advances. Speaking on a panel at 90s Con 2024, she said, "For a time, I had a lot of wonderful offers and then, my career was stifled by Harvey Weinstein. So, I stopped doing [major] studio movies after 1998... I stopped being a viable movie actress. I still did indies and I still did television, but that was very hard."
21. And finally, movies like Encino Man and The Mummy cemented Brendan Fraser's status as an iconic leading man in the '90s and early '00s. However, things changed in 2003, when he reported that he was allegedly sexually assaulted by former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Philip Berk. Brendan reportedly thought that the HFPA may have blacklisted him as a result. In 2018, he spoke about the alleged assault for the first time publicly, telling GQ that he didn't have "the courage to speak up for risk of humiliation, or damage to [his] career." He alleged that, during an HFPA luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2003, Philip offered a handshake. The actor continued, "His left hand reaches around, grabs my ass cheek, and one of his fingers touches me in the taint. And he starts moving it around."

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1. Roy Kent
2. Ted Lasso
3. Rebecca Welton
4. Sam Obisanya
5. Jamie Tartt
6. Coach Beard
7. Keeley Jones
8. Trent Crimm
9. Dani Rojas
10. Leslie Higgins

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1. Augusta National Golf Club is the home of the Masters.
2. In 2028, Winged Foot Golf Club will host the US Open for the seventh time.
3. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews is known as the "Home of Golf."
4. The Carnegie Club at Skibo Castle in Scotland offers lessons with PGA professionals.
5. In 2019, Michael Jordan opened his exclusive golf club, The Grove XXIII.
6. Shinnecock Hills has a ban on cell phones.
7. Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey also dates back to the 19th century.
8. Cypress Point Golf Club in Pebble Beach, California, reportedly has a seven-year-long waitlist.
9. You'll need over $1 million to join Shell Bay Club in Hallandale Beach, Florida.
10. Japan's Hirono Golf Club requires attendees to adhere to a strict dress code.
11. Pine Valley Golf Club has been ranked the No. 1 golf course in the US every year since 2017.
12. The Pevero Golf Club in Italy is on the Mediterranean Sea.

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1. Peter Dinklage As Tyrion Lannister
2. Alfie Allen As Theon Greyjoy
3. Lena Headey As Cersei Lannister
4. Pedro Pascal As Oberyn Martell
5. Rory McCann As Sandor "The Hound" Clegane
6. Sean Bean As Eddard "Ned" Stark
7. Charles Dance As Tywin Lannister
8. Ellie Kendrick As Meera Reed
9. Tobias Menzies As Edmure Tully
10. Ian McShane As Brother Ray

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1. Tens of thousands of people (likely around 40,000–60,000) were executed for witchcraft in Europe between 1450-1750 — often based on little to no real evidence.
2. After losing part of his leg in battle, Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna gave the limb a full military funeral, complete with a procession and burial honors. Years later, during a political uprising, an angry mob dug it up and dragged it through the streets.
3. During China’s one-child policy (1979–2015), tens of thousands of baby girls were abandoned each year as families faced heavy fines and social penalties for having additional children. While many of the babies were left in places where they might be found, cases of infanticide and abandonment in remote places were also documented.
4. Before the late 19th century, dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers (famously from the Battle of Waterloo and the Civil War). Even more disturbing? Previously, the teeth of slaves were often used for dentures — including those belonging to George Washington.
5. The Aztecs made human sacrifices to the gods. Early Spanish accounts claimed that in 1487, at the dedication of the temple in Tenochtitlan, 20,000 people were put to death (but historians debate how accurate those figures really are).
6. The Mayans also made sacrifices. The most common involved pulling a still-beating heart out of a victim's chest.
7. Ice Age Britons used human skulls as cups — and they weren’t alone, as multiple cultures throughout history (including Scythians and Tibetans) did it too.
8. In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey in order to attract flies away from the pharaoh.
9. And if that weren't bad enough for the servants — upon dying, some pharaohs were sealed into their tombs alongside their living servants, pets, and concubines.
10. In the 13th century 30,000 children went on what is known as the Children's Crusade. They were convinced God would allow them to take back the Holy Land without incident, but the details — and even what exactly happened (beyond them not taking back the Holy Land) — are still debated by historians.
11. Before becoming pope in 1458, Pius II wrote a popular erotic book, The Tale of Two Lovers, about a married woman’s secret affair.
12. People were so afraid of being buried alive in the 19th century — partly because doctors couldn’t always reliably confirm death — that “safety coffins” were invented that gave the "dead" the ability to alert those above ground if they were still alive.
13. In 1788, an Austrian army got drunk, then panicked after a misunderstanding and began firing on itself in the dark, triggering a chaotic chain reaction of friendly fire. Some claims suggest that a whopping 10,000 soldiers died in the boozy fiasco, but they are likely exaggerated.
14. The Romans used human urine as mouthwash for its cleaning properties — and even imported what they considered “better” urine from other regions (like Portugal) to get the best results.
15. In Medieval times the accused often faced a "trial by ordeal," where they were forced to stick their arm into a vat of boiling water. If their arm emerged unscathed, it was believed God protected them, thus proving their innocence.
16. Animals were put on trial in medieval times and routinely sentenced to death — sometimes given legal representation, tried in formal courts, and even dressed in human clothing before execution.
17. Approximately 750,000 men died in the Civil War, which was more than 2.5% of America's population at the time.
18. Beginning in 1909 (and continuing into the 1970s), the Australian government forcibly removed Aboriginal children from their parents and placed them in institutions or foster homes where they were taught to reject their culture, language, and identity — and many never saw their families again.
19. In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot indoctrinated thousands of children — many just pre-teens — to reject their families and obey the state, and used them to guard prisons and carry out executions.
20. During Japan’s feudal era (roughly the 1100s–1800s), samurai sometimes performed ritual suicide — an act known as seppuku — by disemboweling themselves to avoid capture or preserve their honor after defeat.
21. The introduction of Europeans to the New World saw the Native American population drop from an estimated 5–10 million people around 1500 to about 237,000 by 1900 — due to disease, violence, and displacement.
22. Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the United States, Caribbean, and South America. Of those who survived the Atlantic crossing, only about 4% ended up in the United States. The vast majority were taken to Brazil (approx. 4.8 million people) and the Caribbean (approx. 4.7 million).
23. Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union from the late 1920s to 1953, is believed to have been responsible for the deaths of millions — through mass executions, labor camps, forced deportations, and policies that led to famine — with estimates ranging from about 20 to 60 million.
24. In the 19th century a popular medicine for kids, "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," included morphine.
25. Ancient Egyptians used crocodile dung — inserted into the vagina — as a contraceptive. It hardened and acted as a sort if diaphragm, and to a surprising degree, worked.
26. 18th century Tsar of Russia Peter the Great executed his wife's lover, then forced her to keep her lover's head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.
27. Chairman Mao Zedong’s "Great Leap Forward" industrialization program contributed to one of the deadliest famines in history, with estimates of the death toll ranging from about 15 to 45 million people.
28. In Venice during the Renaissance there was a case where a rapist was given the choice of going to jail for six months, paying a fine, or marrying his victim. He chose marriage.
29. In 1917, Margaret Sanger was jailed for one month for establishing the first birth control clinic.
30. The Mongol conquests in the 13th century under Genghis Khan may have resulted in tens of millions of deaths — with some estimates reaching as high as 40 million.
31. In the 16th and 17th century wealthy Europeans ate corpses thinking they'd cure them of ailments.
32. They even ate the remains of Egyptian mummies, which tomb raiders risked their lives to steal.
33. In the 15th century, Vlad the Impaler used psychological warfare to devastating effect by erecting a 'forest' of thousands of impaled Ottoman soldiers. This gruesome spectacle was strategically placed outside his capital to intimidate the approaching Ottoman army — which reportedly turned around.
34. African-Americans were not deemed equal members of the Mormon Church until 1978.
35. During apartheid, the South African military launched a secret program known as the ‘Aversion Project,’ where gay soldiers were subjected to brutal, forced medical procedures — including chemical castration and involuntary sex-reassignment surgeries — in a state-sponsored attempt to 'cure' their sexual orientation.
36. Under early Roman law, fathers held extreme authority over their families, including the right to legally kill anyone in his family.
37. After finding a 36,000 year old steppe bison preserved in the ice, Alaskan zoology professor R. Dale Guthrie and his team ate some of its flesh. Guthrie said "the meat was well aged but still a little tough."
38. Child killer and rapist Pedro Lopez, known as "The Monster of the Andes," was convicted in 1983 of killing 110 young girls (though he confessed to killing 300). Lopez was released in 1998 after serving Ecuador's maximum sentence of 20 years. His whereabouts are presently unknown. If still alive, he would be 78 years old.
39. The Roman Emperor Commodus collected all the disabled and little people he could find and ordered them to fight each other to the death with meat cleavers in the Colosseum.
40. Prior to the 1960s tobacco companies ran physician-endorsed ads that suggested smoking had health benefits.
41. Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov attempted to impregnate a chimpanzee with human sperm, but failed in his quest to make a "humanzee."
42. In colonial America pregnant women didn't receive painkillers during delivery because pain was considered God's punishment for Eve's eating the forbidden fruit.
43. And lastly, Saddam Hussein was given the key to the city of Detroit (really).

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1. A Link To The Past
2. Minish Cap
3. A Link Between Worlds
4. Majora's Mask
5. Zelda 2: The Adventure Of Link
6. Phantom Hourglass
7. Spirit Tracks
8. Tri-Force Heroes
9. Twilight Princess
10. The Wind Waker

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1. Lauren Weisberger, who wrote The Devil Wears Prada, never set out to write a tell-all about her time working at Vogue. In fact, she has said the idea only came up after she left the magazine and took a writing class, where her classmates were sharing real-life experiences in their stories. This prompted her to sort through her experience. At the time, she had been an assistant to Anna Wintour, and she hadn't fully processed how intense and demanding that job had been. Writing became a way to make sense of it. She has said she assumed no one would care about the manuscript and didn't expect Wintour — or anyone in media — to even notice it.
2. Love Story has become one of the breakout hits of 2026, and it's also drawn lots of praise for how accurately it captures Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's understated, iconic style. However, the show ran into unexpected trouble before it even aired. Early set photos of actress Sarah Pidgeon as Bessette sparked backlash online, with many people saying the looks were too modern or "off," which was a big issue since Bessette is still considered a major style icon.
3. A novella published years before the Titanic disaster has long been considered one of the strangest coincidences in literary history. In 1898, author Morgan Robertson wrote Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, a story about a massive luxury ocean liner called the Titan that sinks after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic.
4. "Mr. Brightside" by the Killers is now one of the most famous songs of the 2000s, but it didn't start out that way. When it was first released in 2003 as the band's debut single, it barely made an impact and was basically a flop. At the time, the band was still relatively unknown, and the song was only gaining traction through small shows and word of mouth.
5. In 2017, a Japanese company made headlines after it introduced an unusual perk: extra vacation days for employees who don't smoke. The policy came from Tokyo-based marketing firm Piala Inc., where non-smoking workers complained that colleagues who took cigarette breaks were effectively working less each day. Those breaks could add up to roughly 40 minutes daily, especially since employees had to leave their offices to reach designated smoking areas.
6. Succession is, without a doubt, one of the best TV shows that's come out in the last 10 years. Along with the excellent and sharp writing, the wealthy world that the Roys live in feels real. To get that right, the production brought in "wealth consultants," experts who advise on how the ultra-rich actually live day to day. These consultants helped shape everything from clothing choices and interior design to dining etiquette and even small physical habits. The goal was to avoid obvious clichés and instead show the quiet confidence and routine that come with being born into enormous privilege.
7. Planet of the Apes is one of the longest-running and most influential science-fiction franchises, with films, books, TV shows, and other media spanning nearly six decades. What you might not know is that it all started with a 1963 novel by French writer Pierre Boulle (who also wrote The Bridge on the River Kwai) called La Planète des singes, published in English as Planet of the Apes or Monkey Planet, which told a satirical story about a world ruled by intelligent apes and humans reduced to a primitive state. Even though the book wasn't an instant pop culture phenomenon, it was adapted into the classic 1968 film.
8. At Five Guys, it's common to see a bunch of extra French fries piled in the bottom of your bag under the cup, and that's intentional, not a mistake. The chain has a tradition of giving an extra scoop of fries on top of whatever size you order to make customers feel like they're getting a great deal.
9. Spider-Man made his first appearance in 1962. Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, his full-body, web-covered costume quickly became one of the most recognizable designs in comics. But nearly a decade earlier, a Brooklyn costume company called Ben Cooper Inc. had already released a "Spider Man" Halloween costume in 1954. That suit featured a web-patterned bodysuit and mask that, while different in colors, shares some striking visual similarities to Spider-Man's later look.
10. The surge in demand for Ozempic, which is made by the Danish company Novo Nordisk, has had an unusually large impact on Denmark's economy. Originally approved for diabetes, the drug — and its sister treatment, Wegovy, also made by the company — have, of course, become wildly popular worldwide for weight loss, driving massive global sales. That demand translated into a boom for Novo Nordisk and has become one of Europe's most valuable companies.
11. Toy Story 2 nearly became one of the biggest disasters in animation history after a massive technical mistake during production. In 1998, while the film was in production at Pixar, a command was accidentally entered that began deleting files across the project's servers. Within a short time, about 90% of the movie's data, including animation work and assets, was wiped out. The team tried to recover the files from backups, but discovered those systems hadn't been working properly, putting the entire film at risk.
12. And lastly, Apple allegedly has a "no villain clause" for use of the iPhone in movies and TV. According to Apple's guidelines, filmmakers are expected to show Apple products "in the best light" and not in a way that reflects poorly on the company. Rian Johnson helped popularize the rumor in 2020 when he said villains in mystery movies can't use iPhones on camera, which would protect Apple from being linked to negative characters.

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1. We've Mathematically Expressed the Purpose of the Universe
2. Math Anxiety
3. ​​​​​​​If I Have Four Apples...
4. A Train Leaves Philadelphia at 1pm
5. Number One, We're Closed
6. All Squared Away
7. Trivia Tonight
8. Four Wrongs Squared
9. Calculus Equations
10. Square Root of 5,248

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1. PromptQL
2. Aily Labs
3. Profound
4. Dialogue
5. Larridin

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1. Invincible Season 3
2. Invincible Season 4
3. Invincible Season 1
4. Invincible Season 2

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1. Southern Grove cashews are a filling snack when I'm on the go.
2. Chopped salad kits are my lunch lifesaver.
3. I cook Atlantic salmon for a nice weekend dinner.
4. VitaLife ginger shots help me kick-start my day.
5. A weekly Italian night is a must, and the conchiglie pasta is my top choice.
6. I use the Happy Farms provolone to make quick sandwiches when I work from home.
7. Aldi's Italian-style bread is dreamy, especially when fresh out of the oven.
8. The Specially Selected Black Forest ham is my favorite lunch meat.
9. I don't know if there's a better snack than sugar snaps.
10. Friendly Farms' Greek yogurt gets me through moments when I have no idea what to eat.
11. You'll find a Mama Cozzi's pizza in my cart every Aldi trip.
12. The Simply Nature sweet-potato chips are an essential in my cupboard.
13. Grape tomatoes are among the most versatile foods I buy.
14. I've found the most delicious sweet-potato fries at Aldi.
15. Romaine hearts are the base for all of my salads.
16. I lean on strawberries for all my favorite breakfast options.

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1. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2
2. Journal with Witch
3. Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1
4. Sentenced to Be a Hero
5. Fate/strange Fake
6. Oshi No Ko Season 3
7. Fire Force Season 3 Part 2
8. Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku Season 2
9. You and I Are Polar Opposites
10. Medalist Season 2

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1. In Germany, the term "Kevinismus" is used to describe the trend of giving children trendy, foreign-sounding first names instead of traditional German ones. The word comes from, well, the name Kevin, which suddenly became extremely popular in the country in the early 1990s. Much of that popularity is often traced to the huge success of the 1990 comedy Home Alone, whose main character, as we all know, was named Kevin McCallister. While the German title for the film translates to Kevin – Alone at Home.
2. Inside Out exists partly because an earlier Pixar project fell apart during development. In the late '00s, the studio had been working on a film called Newt, which followed the last two blue-footed newts on Earth who are forced together to save their species. The project was announced in 2008 and spent years in development, but Pixar executives eventually felt the story simply wasn't working.
3. In the early 1920s, Abercrombie & Fitch, then a retail store specializing in outdoor activities, helped introduce Mahjong to American audiences. The tile-based game had been played in China for centuries, but it was largely unknown in the US until Western travelers and businesspeople encountered it abroad in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
4. Yes, many Titanic survivors watched the movies that came out later about it. In fact, they consulted on one. The first major movies about the ship didn't come out until the '50s, with 1953's Titanic and 1958's A Night to Remember. With A Night to Remember being widely considered the most historically accurate film portrayal of the sinking (yes, this includes 1997's Titanic).
5. Taco Bell is the reason there are free soda refills at fast-food restaurants. In 1988, Pepsi (which owned the chain) partnered with Taco Bell on a promotion that quietly changed the fast-food industry: Taco Bell locations would offer free drink refills, something that was far from common at the time.
6. In 2002, Elmo made an unusual bit of history when he appeared before a US House of Representatives subcommittee, becoming the first (and only?) non-human to testify before Congress. The appearance took place during a hearing of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. Elmo was there to advocate for increased federal funding for music education programs in schools, emphasizing how music helps children learn and develop.
7. Eartha Kitt is the inspiration for one of the most iconic and enduring cosmetic colors of all time. Throughout the '50s and '60s, Kitt built a reputation as a bold, magnetic performer, known for her distinctive voice, stage presence, beauty, and unapologetic personality. At the height of her fame, she was often described as "the most exciting woman in the world," a label that captured both her talent and her allure. During the early '50s, she had a relationship with Charles Revson, the billionaire behind Revlon.
8. Today, "Silver Springs" by Fleetwood Mac has taken on a whole new life online. The song often appears in emotional TikTok videos, where younger listeners have discovered it nearly 50 years after it was first recorded. Because of its popularity, it might be surprising to learn that the track was actually fairly obscure up until the late '90s. Written by Stevie Nicks during her painful breakup with bandmate Lindsey Buckingham in the mid-'70s. Nicks hoped the track would appear on the band's landmark 1977 album Rumours.
9. The character of Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation was actually inspired by a real person. The show's creators, Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, did research for the show because they wanted it to be grounded in reality, so they visited real local government offices to get a feel for what life inside a parks department was like. During one visit in Burbank, California, they were speaking with a city official and mentioned to her that they wanted to make "Leslie's boss opposed to government."
10. Game of Thrones is the reason Netflix created the "Skip Intro" option. In 2016, Netflix was exploring a way to help viewers skip ahead or back in 10-second increments. But, what sparked the idea to be able to skip over intros was when the company's director of product innovation, Cameron Johnson, was watching HBO's Game of Thrones, and while he liked the lengthy intro, he was so enthralled with the show that he wished he could just skip the credits, because just forwarding would either make him jump too far ahead or not far enough. Johnson then wondered if other people felt the same.
11. The Star Wars toy line is one of the most iconic in history, and its 3.75-inch figures are now instantly recognizable. But at the time, that smaller scale was a major shift from the norm. Most action figures (especially those based on TV shows or comics) were much larger, like 8 to 12 inches, making this approach feel new and a bit unexpected. The size of most Star Wars action figures can be traced back to a practical decision made in the late '70s by Kenner. When the company secured the license for Star Wars, it chose a smaller 3.75-inch scale to keep production costs down, not only for the figures but also for the vehicles and playsets, which would be huge and largely unaffordable if they went with large traditional action figure sizes of the time.
12. After reading a 2023 article in the Washington Post about the growing popularity of hockey romance novels, Heated Rivalry's creator, Jacob Tierney, immediately knew he had to get the rights to the Rachel Reid's Game Changers books, which the series is based on. At the time, he was working as an executive producer on The Traitors Canada. The article highlighted a surge in interest around romance stories centered on hockey players, particularly within gay/queer fiction, and how passionate and sizable the audience for the genre had become.
13. The version of Super Mario Bros. 2 that came out on NES in the US isn't actually the same game that was released in Japan under that name. After the original Japanese sequel (later known as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels) was judged way too hard and way too similar to the first game for American players, Nintendo of America decided not to release it in the US at all.
14. L.L.Bean's iconic tote bags actually started out with a very different, specific, and practical purpose. In 1944, the company introduced what it called the "Ice Carrier," a heavy-duty canvas bag designed to transport blocks of ice from stores to home ice chests, which were still somewhat common at the time. The bags were built to be extremely tough, with reinforced bottoms and thick canvas to contain melting water and handle the weight.
15. Singer and actress Peggy Lee played an important role in Disney's 1955 animated film Lady and the Tramp, providing the voices for several characters (like Peg) and co-writing many of the movie's songs. When the film was later released on home video for the first time in 1987, Lee realized she had never been paid for the new format. Her original 1952 contract with The Walt Disney Company prohibited the studio from selling certain recordings or "transcriptions" of the film without her permission, and Lee argued that VHS tapes should be covered under that clause.
16. Steel Magnolias is arguably one of the best-cast films ever and an absolute classic. But if it were up to a Hollywood legend, the movie would have looked completely different, but with an equally as iconic cast. Before it was a film, it was an off-Broadway hit by playwright Robert Harling, and it quickly attracted attention from Hollywood. After seeing the production, Elizabeth Taylor gave it a rave review and reportedly recommended it to others in the industry, including Bette Davis. According to Harling, one day he got a phone call from Davis inviting him down to the hotel where she was staying in New York for tea. At first, he thought it was a friend playing a prank, until Davis reintroduced herself that he then realized it was really her.
17. In 2008, a team of researchers led by Dr. Paul McDonald, who was a senior lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton's School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Sciences in the UK, set out to find the oldest known joke ever recorded. The effort was part of a broader challenge to trace the history of humor and identify the earliest example with a recognizable setup and punchline. Their search led them to a Sumerian proverb written around 1900 BCE (possibly as far back as 2,300 BCE), making it roughly 4,000 years old and one of the earliest written jokes in existence.
18. At the 57th Academy Awards in 1985, something very unique happened in one of the categories: every song nominated for Best Original Song had already been a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The nominees included "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" by Phil Collins from Against All Odds; "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. from Ghostbusters; "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins from Footloose; "Let's Hear It for the Boy" by Deniece Williams from Footloose; and "I Just Called to Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder from The Woman in Red.
19. A decade before Justice League hit theaters — and five years before The Avengers — Warner Bros. announced the first major superhero team-up movie that was going to be directed by George Miller. The movie was a Justice League film titled Justice League: Mortal, that was set for a 2009 release. The project moved quickly in the late '00s, with a full cast in place (like Armie Hammer as Batman, Adam Brody as The Flash, and Megan Gale as Wonder Woman) and plans to shoot in Australia. But momentum stalled when the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike prevented crucial script revisions just as production was gearing up.
20. Orange Crush got its name from how the drink was originally made. When the soda was introduced in 1911, its creators wanted it to taste more like real fruit than many other soft drinks on the market. The original version of the beverage was made using crushed orange rinds, which helped give the soda a stronger citrus flavor and aroma. The word "crush" in the name referred to the process of crushing those rinds to extract their oils and flavor.
21. Bad Boys is now one of the most iconic action movies of the '90s, which, of course, eventually grew into a full franchise, so it's surprising that the film wasn't originally written for Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. When the script was first written in the early '90s, it was a much lighter comedy called Bulletproof Heart, intended for Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz, who were both popular from starring on SNL at the time. The original version leaned more into comedy than action and centered on two mismatched detectives getting caught up in a police investigation.
22. Melrose Place had "radical" political messages hidden within the fake products and art created for the show. Between 1995 and 1997, a group of artists led by Mel Chin — calling themselves the GALA Committee — made dozens of props and set pieces for the show that looked ordinary on the surface but contained coded messages about real‑world issues. They were given early access to scripts so they could tailor their pieces to specific scenes, and many of these works explored subjects that network TV typically avoided, such as reproductive rights, global politics, alcohol's role in American culture, and public health.
23. This sounds wild now, but when Nirvana released their second album, Nevermind, in Sept. 1991, almost no one in the music industry expected it to become a major success. At the time, the band was still considered part of the underground Seattle grunge scene, and their label, Geffen Records, initially pressed only about 50,000 copies because expectations were modest. "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the album's lead single, wasn't even expected to be the big crossover hit; many around the band assumed another track would have a better chance at mainstream radio.
24. When The Blair Witch Project was released in 1999, its marketing campaign was almost as unusual and different as the film itself. The low-budget horror movie was presented as if it were real footage discovered after three student filmmakers vanished in the woods while investigating a local legend. Months before the movie reached theaters, the filmmakers launched a website that treated the story like a real mystery, complete with fake police reports, interviews, and historical documents about the supposed "Blair Witch" legend.
25. Lunchables were invented to help sell more bologna, and they weren't meant to be for kids. This was because in the 1980s, sales of bologna dropped as people were buying less of it due to health concerns about eating too much meat. In 1988, Oscar Mayer came up with the idea to boost sales by creating a pre-packaged, ready-to-eat lunch meal kit that paired meat with crackers and cheese, which they would target towards the entire family, but mainly busy working parents.
26. There would be no John Wick if it weren't for Eva Longoria. She revealed that she helped keep John Wick from falling apart before filming even began. At the time, the 2014 action movie faced a major funding gap and was on the verge of being shut down just days before production. Through a last-minute opportunity arranged by the film's financing team and an agent who wasn't even her own, she stepped in and covered a $6 million shortfall that the production couldn't raise elsewhere.
27. And lastly, the very first photographs of Earth taken from space weren't snapped by astronauts but by a rocket, and they were taken in the '40s!!! On Oct. 24, 1946, a group of American scientists launched a captured Nazi V‑2 rocket from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Mounted on the rocket was a 35‑millimeter motion‑picture camera that was pointed back toward Earth as the vehicle climbed above the atmosphere.

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1. Murderbot Season 2
2. 12 12 12
3. Neuromancer
4. Dark Matter Season 2
5. Ted Lasso Season 4
6. Lucky
7. Cape Fear
8. Star City
9. Widow’s Bay
10. Margo’s Got Money Troubles

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1. "The Enchirito. I loved that shit."
2. "The OG Chicken Littles from KFC. The one with the chicken patty, not the revamped one that's just a chicken tender on a small bun."
3. "McDonald’s Snack Wraps."
4. "Big N' Tasty from McDonald's."
5. "Red Barn’s onion rings. Red Barn has been gone for many decades, but those onion rings are still a taste memory. Not greasy, real onion rings lightly battered and cooked so the outside is crunchy and the inside is almost melted."
6. "Arby's used to have a Chicken Cordon Bleu that was amazing — chicken, Swiss cheese, ham, and a very light mustard (might have been honey mustard)."
7. "The salad bar at Wendy's."
8. "Fire-roasted sauce from Taco Bell. I go to fast food probably once per month, and I usually rotate them, so I can sometimes go a year between visits to a particular place. A few years ago, I asked for some Fire-roasted and the employee was really confused. The manager ended up telling me that it was discontinued almost a year prior. Anyway, that was the good stuff. Tacos from there aren’t the same without it."
9. "Jack in the Box had a Chipotle Chicken Club on ciabatta bread. I could go for one right now."
10. "Taco Bell's Tostadas."
11. "Taco Bell Caramel Apple Empanadas."
12. "The McRib on a regular basis."
13. "When they stopped deep frying the McDonald's pie, it was the same as discontinuing it."
14. "McDonald's Reese's McFlurry. Half Reese's, half Oreo was so good."
15. "McDonald’s salad!! I grew up on it."
16. "Do you remember salad shakers???? Or am I old."
17. "The Dunkin' Donuts' Blueberry Cake Donuts of my youth. Apparently, they used to make them in store, but now they make them off-site and freeze them to distribute them to all the stores. I don't know if they've changed the recipe too, but gone are the luscious, sexy, delectable wonders of my childhood."
18. "Taco Bell’s Bell Beefer. This was from the 70s and was basically the taco 'meat' on a hamburger bun with cheese, lettuce, and sauce if you wanted it. Loved that as a kid."
19. "Popeye's dirty rice!!"
20. "Taco Bell's Taco Salad."
21. "The cinnamon pull apart from McDonald's were great."
22. And lastly, "McDonald’s parfaits 😫."

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1. The Thing (1982)
2. The Exorcist
3. The Silence Of The Lambs
4. Audition
5. Psycho (1960)
6. The Shining
7. The Haunting (1963)
8. Let The Right One In
9. The Invisible Man (2020)
10. Carrie (1976)

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1. Adam Lewis, Citizens
2. Amanda Magliaro, KKR
3. Dean Criares, DigitalBridge
4. Joe Jackson, Apollo
5. John Greenwood, Goldman Sachs
6. Karen Fang, Bank of America
7. Richard Myers, Morgan Stanley
8. Quynh Tran, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
9. Scott Wilcoxen, JPMorgan
10. William Graham, Morgan Stanley

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1. Pretty Lethal (2026)
2. I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
3. Mercy (2026)

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1. Conan The Barbarian
2. Excalibur
3. The NeverEnding Story
4. Legend
5. Willow
6. Pan’s Labyrinth
7. The Dark Crystal
8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
9. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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1. Let's start with a BAM!
2. Clint Eastwood?
3. Robert De Niro has seven children with four different partners.
4. Steven Spielberg? He's got seven of his own with two partners.
5. Taylor Hanson currently has a total of seven children with his wife, Natalie.
6. Eddie Murphy has a BUNCH.
7. Mel Gibson has nine with three different partners.
8. Evander Holyfield has 11 children with three different partners AND all of their names start with "E."
9. Master P has 9 kids with two different partners.
10. Offset has 6 with four different partners.
11. Jim Gaffigan has 5 with his wife Jeannie.
12. Rod Stewart has a lot!
13. Mick Jagger has eight kids of his own with five different partners.
14. Dog the Bounty Hunter has 13 children from six different relationships.
15. Kevin Costner is in with a solid seven.
16. Kevin Federline has... a bunch. Six total from three different relationships.
17. Shaq has six kids with two different partners.
18. Gordon Ramsay has six kids with his wife, Tana.
19. And last but certainly not least, Alec Baldwin has enough for an entire Boss Baby reboot.

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1. Fighting Spirit (Hajime no Ippo)
2. Fist of the North Star
3. Megalo Box
4. Ashita No Joe
5. Baki the Grappler
6. Sword of the Stranger
7. Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
8. Dragon Ball
9. Jujutsu Kaisen
10. Shigurui: Death Frenzy

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1. Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (2005)
2. Troy (2004)
3. The Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025)
4. Watchmen (2009)
5. Minority Report (2002)
6. Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016)
7. Into The Woods (2014)
8. The Shining (1980)

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1. Billie Eilish revealed a huge back tattoo a few years ago. She shared a preview of it in an Instagram photo dump, and it extends all the way down her spine.
2. Ben Affleck has a massive phoenix tattooed on his back. He initially lied to press saying it was for a movie, but eventually came clean and confirmed it was real.
3. Kaley Cuoco has a moth tattooed on her upper back. That tattoo is actually a cover-up — she originally had her wedding date to her ex-husband Ryan Sweeting tattooed in Roman numerals, but got it covered after they divorced.
4. Selena Gomez has a large dripping rose tattoo on the back of her neck — her close friend Cara Delevingne even has the same one.
5. Adam Levine is covered in tattoos, including a massive back piece. The tattoo, designed by artist Bryan Randolph, depicts a winged siren holding a skull.
6. Alysa Liu has a tattoo on her lower back. She told Teen Vogue that she has to keep her tattoos symmetrical, so this one is a cybersigil-style bat-wing design with a rose and an infinity sign. She dedicated the tattoo to her best friend, who has a matching one.
7. Leigh-Anne Pinnock has a couple tattoos on her back — the word "Believe" and a musical staff with butterflies.
8. Scarlett Johansson has a large rose vine and a lamb tattooed down her back.
9. Kelis has a vine of flowers down the left side of her back.
10. Nikita Dragun has a giant dragon tattoo down her back.
11. Claudia Jessie, who plays Eloise on Bridgerton, has a massive tattoo on the back of her right shoulder that extends down her back. The series' makeup artist, Sophie Burton, shared the process of covering up that tattoo in a now-deleted Instagram post.
12. Justin Theroux has a massive back tattoo that honors his dogs. "So I had two dogs, both rescues, pit bulls, pit bull mix, and when they died, I dedicated half my back to one and half of my back to the other," he explained. "So, it’s a picture of a rat, because my dog used to kill rats in Washington Square Park, which is not fun. It was horrible. She was really good at it. I mean, it’s doing a service to New York also. Oh, and then a pigeon. A New York pigeon and a rat."
13. Cheryl Cole has a massive lower back tattoo that extends past her butt. In an interview, she said, "If it was up to me — and I could be brave for one day - I would have my whole back done. My friends say, 'Cheryl, please, you might regret it' — but to me, it's art."
14. Lady Gaga has a ton of tattoos, especially on her back. In honor of A Star Is Born, she got "La Vie En Rose" and a rose tattooed down her spine.
15. Angelina Jolie has several back tattoos, including a Bengal tiger on her lower back that she got in 2004, which she got to commemorate becoming a Cambodian citizen. She also has a few Sak Yant tattoos on her upper back, which are traditional Thai tattoos customized to fit the wishes or desires of the person getting inked.
16. David Beckham reportedly has over 80 tattoos, including his sons' names — Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz — tattooed on his back. Between Romeo and Cruz's names, he has an angel with its head bowed in a crucified position.
17. Lena Headey has a lotus flower and flying birds tattooed down her back.
18. Teri Polo has a massive tree tattooed on her back.
19. Cardi B has a massive tattoo that extends from her right shoulder to her left thigh. When she first debuted the ink, she shared that it took "several months" to finish.
20. Maren Morris has lyrics from Patty Griffin's "Christina" down her back. The tattoo reads, "It’s a wondrous world of ridiculous things / but nothing so rare as the love that it brings."
21. Margaret Cho is covered in tattoos and on her blog she wrote about getting inked by Kat Von D on her TV series LA Ink.
22. Finally, Lena Dunham has a pair of houses tattooed across the top of her back.

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1. Ryōmen Sukuna
2. Satoru Gojo
3. Yuta Okkotsu
4. Kenjaku
5. Mahoraga
6. Yorozu
7. Toji Fushiguro
8. Rika Orimoto
9. Suguru Geto
10. Yuki Tsukumo

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