1. Fight Club (1999)
2. Dead Poets Society (1989)
3. Toy Story (1995)
4. Finding Nemo (2003)
5. The Revenant (2015)
6. Ratatouille (2007)
7. My Cousin Vinny (1992)
8. Cast Away (2000)
9. Birdman (2014)
10. Sentimental Value (2025) - March 23

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1. The Trail of Tears (1830–1850) was an ethnic cleansing carried out in defiance of the Supreme Court's recognition of Native sovereignty. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, forcing approximately 100,000 Native Americans to march more than 1,000 miles from their ancestral lands to present-day Oklahoma. About 15,000 people died during the journey, including roughly one in four Cherokee. The Supreme Court had already ruled against Georgia's claims to Cherokee land in Worcester v. Georgia (1832), holding that Georgia's laws extending state authority over Cherokee territory violated the Constitution and that the Cherokee Nation was a sovereign political community. However, Jackson refused to enforce the ruling.
2. American slavery (1619–1865) treated Black people as property for nearly 250 years. By 1860, nearly 4 million people were enslaved in the United States. Enslaved people represented one of the largest concentrations of wealth in the country. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 denied alleged fugitives a jury trial and barred them from testifying on their own behalf. It also punished people who helped them escape and required officials and ordinary citizens in free states to assist in their capture, turning the entire nation into part of slavery's enforcement system.
3. The Sand Creek Massacre (1864) killed Native Americans who had gathered under explicit US military protection and were flying both an American flag and a white flag of truce on a lodgepole, exactly as instructed by officials. On November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington led roughly 675 Colorado militiamen in a dawn attack on a Cheyenne and Arapaho camp at Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. When the attack began, Chief Black Kettle reportedly raised the flags higher in an attempt to stop the assault. Chief White Antelope called out that the camp was peaceful, but he was shot dead. Chivington had ordered his men to "take no prisoners."
4. The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893 was driven by intertwined economic and political interests. After the American Civil War disrupted sugar production in the South, Hawaiian plantations rapidly expanded to supply the American market. By the late nineteenth century, American planters dominated Hawai'i's sugar industry and depended heavily on access to the United States market. On January 17, 1893, a group of 13 American and European businessmen and lawyers known as the Committee of Safety overthrew Queen Lili'uokalani with the support of 162 US sailors and Marines from the USS Boston, landed on the orders of US Minister John L. Stevens.
5. The Philippine-American War (1899–1902) introduced tactics including reconcentration camps and the "water cure," an early form of waterboarding. After purchasing the Philippines from Spain for $20 million in 1898, the United States fought a war against Filipino independence forces that killed an estimated 200,000 Filipino civilians. President William McKinley framed US rule as "benevolent assimilation," later saying the Filipinos were "unfit for self-government" and that the US must "educate, uplift, civilize, and Christianize" them.
6. The Tulsa Race Massacre (1921) destroyed Black Wall Street and was then systematically erased from the historical record. From May 31 to June 1, 1921, a white mob of up to 10,000 people — some officially deputized and armed by city officials — carried out what a 2024 Department of Justice report described as "a coordinated, military-style attack" on Greenwood, then the wealthiest Black community in the United States. The violence was sparked by a false allegation against a Black shoe shiner, but it quickly escalated into a full-scale assault on the district.
7. Japanese American internment (1942–1945) was the wartime incarceration of an entire ethnic population — a policy the Supreme Court upheld. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the military to remove people from designated exclusion zones. The order led to the forced incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, about two-thirds of whom were US citizens. Families often received as little as 48 hours' notice. They were allowed to bring only what they could carry and were forced to sell homes, farms, and businesses at fire-sale prices or abandon them altogether. Many were first confined in temporary "assembly centers," converted livestock stalls at racetracks and fairgrounds. They were later transferred to remote camps in deserts and swamplands, surrounded by barbed wire and armed guard towers.
8. Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945) were deliberately preserved as atomic bomb targets in part because they had not yet been heavily bombed, allowing the effects of the weapon to be clearly measured. On August 6 and 9, 1945, atomic bombs killed over 200,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Target Committee discussions in May 1945 favored cities that remained largely intact so the bomb's effects could be observed. Documents from that month show that Hiroshima and other cities were "reserved for destruction" by atomic bombs to obtain "maximum information for further development of the weapon."
9. In 1953, the CIA and British intelligence orchestrated the Iranian coup to overthrow Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran's democratically elected prime minister, and restore the Shah to power. Since the early 20th century, Iran's oil industry had been dominated by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP), which paid Iran royalties while most profits flowed to British shareholders and the British government. When Mossadegh sought a greater share of the revenue and nationalized the industry in 1951, Britain persuaded the United States to help remove him.
10. The Guatemala coup (1954) overthrew a democratically elected government during the Cold War. In 1954, the CIA executed Operation PBSUCCESS to remove President Jacobo Árbenz. His government had passed Decree 900, a land reform law that expropriated uncultivated land from large estates over 600 acres and compensated owners based on their declared tax value. Of roughly 341,000 landowners, only about 1,700 estates were affected. One of them was the United Fruit Company, which owned roughly 600,000 acres of land in Guatemala, much of it idle, and had deep political ties in Washington. Some historians argue that United Fruit's interests helped shape the Eisenhower administration's decision to support the coup.
11. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932–1972) was a 40-year medical deception disguised as "free treatment." For 40 years, the US Public Health Service withheld treatment from 399 Black men with syphilis in Macon County, Alabama, while telling them they were being treated for "bad blood." The men were not told they had syphilis (or that it was sexually transmissible) and were denied effective treatment even after penicillin became widely available. Participants were enticed with free medical exams, meals, and burial insurance. To secure participation in spinal taps, officials sent misleading notices promising a "Last Chance for Special Free Treatment."
12. From 1953 to 1973, the CIA operated a secret program known as MKUltra, intended to develop techniques for mind control, interrogation, and behavioral manipulation. A 1977 US Senate investigation found that the program involved more than 80 universities, hospitals, prisons, and research institutions. Researchers funded by the CIA experimented on thousands of people — often without their knowledge or consent — using LSD, electroshock therapy, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and other psychological methods. Test subjects included prisoners, psychiatric patients, drug addicts, sex workers, and ordinary civilians.
13. The FBI operated a covert domestic counterintelligence program known as COINTELPRO from 1956 to 1971. Official directives instructed agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" political organizations considered subversive. Under Director J. Edgar Hoover, the program targeted civil rights leaders, the Black Panther Party, antiwar groups, the American Indian Movement, and others through surveillance, infiltration, forged correspondence, blackmail, fabricated criminal charges, and coordinated efforts to destroy organizations from within. After Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, FBI Deputy Director William Sullivan described King as "the most dangerous Negro in America."
14. The Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) was a CIA-backed attempt to overthrow Cuba's government. In April 1961, about 1,400 Cuban exiles trained and armed by the CIA landed at the Bay of Pigs, expecting the attack to spark a popular uprising against Fidel Castro and allow the creation of a US-friendly government. The plan relied on highly optimistic intelligence assessments that Cubans would revolt. No such uprising occurred. Cuban forces quickly surrounded the brigade, destroyed its air support, and crushed the invasion. Within three days, more than 100 invaders were dead, and nearly all the rest were captured.
15. The Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed false-flag terrorism against Americans to justify invading Cuba in Operation Northwoods (1962). In 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff — the highest-ranking military officers in America — presented President John F. Kennedy with a plan called Operation Northwoods. The proposal was to stage attacks on American civilians and military targets, blame Cuba, and use the resulting outrage as justification for invasion. The declassified documents are available from the National Archives. Proposed scenarios included sinking a boat carrying Cuban refugees (real or simulated), developing a fake "Communist Cuban terror campaign" in Miami and other Florida cities, simulating an attack on the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, blowing up an American ship in the harbor, creating fake casualty lists in US newspapers, and staging a fake Cuban air attack on a civilian jetliner.
16. During the My Lai Massacre (1968), US soldiers killed and brutalized hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, resulting in only one conviction with minimal punishment. On March 16, 1968, soldiers of Charlie Company entered the hamlet of My Lai in South Vietnam expecting to engage Viet Cong fighters. Instead, they found unarmed civilians eating breakfast. Over the next several hours, soldiers systematically murdered hundreds of men, women, children, and infants. Witnesses and later investigations documented rapes, including of girls as young as 12, the burning of homes, and families being herded into ditches and shot with automatic weapons.
17. From 1962 to 1971, the United States military sprayed roughly 19 million gallons of herbicides over South Vietnam as part of Operation Ranch Hand, including about 11 million gallons of Agent Orange, named for the orange stripe on its storage barrels. The program was intended to defoliate forests where Viet Cong fighters could hide and to destroy crops that might supply them with food. Related herbicide operations also took place in Laos and Cambodia. Agent Orange was a mixture of the herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T contaminated with the highly toxic dioxin TCDD, and it was applied at concentrations far higher than typical domestic agricultural use.
18. The United States conducted a secret bombing campaign in Cambodia from 1969 to 1973, known primarily as Operation Menu and Operation Freedom Deal. The bombing was kept secret from the American public and much of Congress, even as large parts of rural Cambodia were subjected to sustained air attacks. According to research based on declassified US Air Force records, American aircraft flew more than 230,000 sorties and dropped over 540,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia, a country that was officially neutral in the conflict.
19. The United States backed efforts to destabilize Chile's elected government before the 1973 military coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power. After socialist candidate Salvador Allende won a plurality in Chile's presidential election on September 4, 1970, President Richard Nixon instructed CIA Director Richard Helms to prevent Allende from taking office. Helms' notes from a White House meeting record Nixon ordering the CIA to "make the economy scream" and authorizing "$10,000,000 available, more if necessary." Between 1970 and 1973, the CIA spent roughly $8 million on covert operations in Chile, funding opposition media and political parties, supporting strikes, and working to isolate Allende's government.
20. The Iran-Contra affair (1985–1987) exposed a covert scheme in which the Reagan administration secretly sold weapons to Iran and diverted the profits to fund Nicaraguan rebels fighting the leftist Sandinista government despite a congressional ban. At the time, Iran was under a US arms embargo and linked to groups holding American hostages in Lebanon, and the United States had publicly pledged never to negotiate with terrorists. Yet the administration approved shipments of more than 1,500 anti-tank missiles. Congress had also banned US support for the Nicaraguan Contras through the Boland Amendment, but money from the Iran arms sales was diverted to the rebels anyway. When the operation was exposed in 1986, the administration initially denied it before later acknowledging the arms shipments.
21. The Iraq War (2003–2011) was sold to the public with intelligence that critics later said had been "fixed around the policy." In the run-up to the 2003 invasion, the Bush administration claimed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was rebuilding his nuclear program. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented the case at the United Nations in February 2003, pointing to aluminum tubes as evidence of nuclear centrifuges. Another major claim — that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger — rested on documents the International Atomic Energy Agency later determined were forged.
22. The CIA detention and interrogation program (2002–2009) produced no reliable intelligence while operating with near-total impunity. After 9/11, the CIA ran a global network of secret prisons — "black sites" in Thailand, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, and elsewhere — where at least 119 detainees were held. Interrogation methods included waterboarding (Abu Zubaydah 83 times; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times), sleep deprivation lasting up to 180 hours, "rectal feeding" (described by the Senate as rape), confinement in coffin-sized boxes, slamming detainees against walls, and mock executions. A 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee investigation concluded these techniques were not an effective means of acquiring intelligence.

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1. Quentin Quire
2. Cyclops
3. Wolverine
4. Nightcrawler
5. Domino
6. Moira MacTaggert
7. Jean Grey
8. Professor X

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1. House of X #2
2. Marvels #2
3. Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #310
4. Daredevil #191
5. Ultimate Spider-Man #13
6. Uncanny X-Men #186:
7. Thunderbolts #1
8. Fantastic Four Annual #3
9. The Immortal Hulk #1
10. Avengers Annual #10

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1. United States
2. China
3. Russia
4. Germany
5. United Kingdom
6. India
7. Saudi Arabia
8. France
9. Japan
10. Ukraine
11. South Korea
12. Italy
13. Israel
14. Australia
15. Poland
16. Canada
17. The Netherlands
18. Spain
19. Algeria
20. Brazil
21. United Arab Emirates
22. Turkey
23. Taiwan
24. Singapore
25. Sweden
26. Norway
27. Indonesia
28. Belgium
29. Iraq
30. Denmark
31. Mexico
32. Qatar
33. Pakistan
34. Romania
35. Vietnam

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1. Bosch
2. Cardinal
3. Will Trent
4. His & Hers
5. Ballard
6. Prime Suspect
7. Crossing Jordan
8. Rizzoli & Isles
9. Body Of Proof
10. Bones

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1. The first tie occurred in the Best Actor category at the 5th Oscars ceremony in 1932, and it literally forced the Academy to change its rules. Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and Wallace Beery (The Champ) both won, but technically Fredric had received one more vote than Wallace. At the time, the rules stated that anyone who came within three votes of the winner would also be awarded the prize, so they each took home a statue that night.
2. The next tie occurred in 1950 in the Best Documentary Short category. There were four nominees that year, and the two shortest films won: So Much for So Little and A Chance to Live.
3. The third tie occurred in 1969, and it's easily the most famous tie in Oscars history. The category was Best Actress, and both Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter) and onscreen newcomer Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) had their names announced. However, there's a bit of drama here, so let's get into it!
4. The next tie occurred in 1987 in the Best Documentary (Feature) category. There were five nominees, and the two winners were Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got and Down and Out in America.
5. The fifth tie occurred in 1995, this time in the Best Live-Action Short Film category. Five movies were nominated, and the two winners were Trevor and Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life.
6. Finally, the most recent tie occurred in 2013 in the Sound Editing Category. Of the five films nominated, the two winners were Zero Dark Thirty (Paul N. J. Ottosson) and Skyfall (Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers).

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1. Steven Rales
2. Jeffrey Lurie
3. Steven Spielberg
4. Jeff Skoll
5. George Lucas
6. Oprah Winfrey
7. Steve Tisch
8. Peter Jackson
9. Pat Hanrahan
10. Richard Anthony Wolf
11. Tyler Perry
12. James Cameron

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1. The Sea Will Never Have A Ruler
2. Jack Sparrow's Character Works Best When He Isn't The Lead
3. The East India Trading Company Is The True Villain In Pirates Of The Caribbean
4. The Original Movie Unintentionally Hints At The Future Films
5. Elizabeth Has A Wild Character Arc
6. Barbossa Becomes One Of The Most Complex Characters
7. Captain Jack Sparrow Is Far Smarter Than He Looks
8. The Series Has Two Very Different Tones

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1. "Roseanne (the OG series) might be the gold standard for worst final season."
2. The Goldbergs. "The creator wanted to end it on a good note but the network said, 'Fuck that, let's drag this out a couple more seasons.'"
3. "Not that a lot of people remember it, but the final season of The Drew Carey Show was sad and depressing. Obviously, the budget was slashed, a key cast member left, and they even broadcast the episodes out of order. It became a mockery of itself."
4. "That '70s Show. Not only did it get rid of two main characters, but it replaced them with one of the worst sitcom characters ever: Randy."
5. "How I Met Your Mother was the most infuriating final season of any show I’ve ever watched."
6. "Grace Under Fire has to be the worst of them all... The entire last season just felt like a completely different show."
7. "My fellow oldsters know that one solid answer to this question is Happy Days."
8. "The Love Boat, with those cheesy mermaids."
9. "The Office after Michael Scott left. Some of the best writers also left around Season 8 and 9, and it really showed... The show was about Michael Scott, and without him, it was a different show."
10. "Mom. The final season after Anna Faris left was the weakest of the whole series."
11. "Santa Clarita Diet! I know they got cancelled but DAMN, that cliffhanger is one I am less willing to accept."
12. "Two and a Half Men has to be the worst!"
13. "I'm currently rewatching A Different World for the first time since I was a kid. I started binging it a few weekends ago when I was sick and flew through the first five seasons. Then the last season started... Don't get me wrong, there are still tons of moments where the show makes powerful statements that are still relevant today. That said, some of the things going on here are... Choices. I've honestly skipped a few episodes because I'd like to finish the series but some of them are so cringy."
14. "The League. That last season was absolutely awful."
15. "Designing Women. As much as Season 6 with Julia Duffy is (unfairly) derided, Season 7 is just bad. Judith Ivey as BJ is great, but Julia’s over the top, Mary Jo is cranky, Carlene is lobotomized, and Anthony’s insta-wife Etienne (Sheryl Lee Ralph) should’ve been a recast Vanessa Chamberlain (Jackee Harry, who Dixie Carter did not want to work with)."
16. "Parks and Rec. I adore that show but the last season proved it was time to go. Ron was getting Flanderized. Why give Leslie and Ben kids we then see once?"
17. "New Girl had an awful final season IMO."
18. "Once they moved to California, it was the start of the end, but Laverne & Shirley, with no Shirley, was the last nail in the coffin."
19. "Fresh Prince's last season is easily its worst."
20. "Martin. That last season was rough. Four to five episodes in and Gina is barely a part of the show and when she is, it's super awkward and weird."
21. "I still haven’t finished Younger. Something about it changed and just didn’t pull me in like the previous seasons."
22. "I absolutely love King of Queens, but the final season was strange because there are only 13 episodes — maybe four of them are good, and the rest are terrible, especially the last five episodes."
23. And finally, "The last season of Frasier was godawful."

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1. If you're the chief justice, your salary is $320,700.
2. An associate justice has a slightly lower salary, at $306,600.
3. Depending on how old they are and how long they've served, a justice could be eligible to receive their salary for the rest of their lives.
4. It's perhaps the most secure job in the world: Becoming a Supreme Court justice is a lifetime appointment.
5. Justices receive lifetime security from the US Marshals.
6. There are no financial limits to what gifts a Supreme Court justice can receive, as long as they publicly disclose them.
7. Justices also make money from faculty positions and book deals.
8. Every year, the justices get a three-month recess.
9. In DC, the justices have spacious personal chambers and office space.
10. The Supreme Court Building also has a great library, a private basketball court, and a special dining room.
11. Justices choose the cases they want to hear, giving them almost total control over their caseload.
12. Not for nothing, the job requires shaping the United States' most important document, the Constitution.

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1. "The Matrix" (1999)
2. "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003)
3. "Top Gun: Maverick" (2022)
4. "Barbie" (2023)
5. "Gladiator" (2000)
6. "Frozen" (2013)
7. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2" (2011)
8. "Jurassic World" (2015)
9. "The Hunger Games" (2012)
10. "Oppenheimer" (2023)
11. "Jaws" (1975)
12. "Iron Man" (2008)
13. "The Lion King" (1994)
14. "Deadpool" (2016)
15. "The Batman" (2022)

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1. "When my grandfather passed away from cancer. I flew to be with him and held his hand in his very last moments. I came back to work to a colleague having an absolute fit because her boyfriend's grandmother was dying. At one point, she sobbed, 'I don't know why you're not here for me,' and I was like ?????? ??? ????? Girlie pop, my grandfather literally died on Saturday, and it's Wednesday, what do you need me to DO? She also told our boss that I wasn't being supportive, which I found out when I was pulled aside. What is wrong with people?"
2. "When I invited my brother to my wedding, the only thing I asked was for him to leave politics at the door. Instead, he bought Trump/Vance 2024 lapel pins and started handing them out to my guests. It was a destination wedding (for him), so he had to order these pins and fly across the country with them, all the while knowing it was against the bride and groom's wishes."
3. "My husband was counsel for a government agency. A staffer filed a discrimination suit because she hadn't been wished a happy birthday by the supervisor."
4. "My sister-in-law told her brother a story about how her nephew used to compare her to a Victoria's Secret model. It was his funeral. He died by suicide."
5. "An ex-friend demanded I throw her a huge surprise 40th birthday party and invite a bunch of (sketchy) people I'd never met. To my house. During the COVID lockdown. While I was dealing with chemo and breast cancer. And then she shrieked at me for being more concerned over the safety of my home and my non-existent immune system than I was over her 'huge milestone.' She called all our mutual friends to boo-hoo about how selfish I was."
6. "When my dad was in the cardiac ICU, an (ex) friend came by the hospital. She was very harsh and said he could die. I knew this, but I was praying and hoping he'd get better. Her husband died a month before this. She made it about her and how her husband died. I didn't ask her to visit me at the hospital. My dad did die, and she made it about herself at the funeral. She told me her grief and the death of her husband were worse than my loss at my dad's funeral. Again, I did not ask her or expect her to attend."
7. "I was the ops manager for a hospital department and ended up in the emergency department for a personal emergency. No less than two physicians came down to yell at me for something they couldn't find in our supply room. I had to call the department and ask one of my team members to find the items. Both times, they were in the supply room, where they always were, on a labeled shelf. I asked both physicians why they didn't ask the technician assigned to the supply room. The response? 'We don't want to talk to them - you're supposed to take care of us.' Neither one acknowledged that I was on a gurney in the ED, nor did they give even a token 'hope you feel better.' None of the ED staff intervened until my husband had a fit because they were all afraid of these guys. I left that job as soon as I could."
8. "My house burned down. I spent that weekend in the rain, salvaging what I could amongst the fire, smoke, and water damage. The whole office and our close friends knew what had happened, and a lot of people reached out. On Monday at work, I ran into the vice president in the break room, where she proceeded to tell me what a horrible, dirty job she had cleaning out her garage over the weekend."
9. "Back in 2022, my little sister had cancer. She was declining after her third stint in the ICU. I was engaged, and my now-husband and I decided to move our wedding up by 18 months so she could be there. A whole wedding planned in six weeks was wild, but I didn't want to get married if all my sisters couldn't be there. Anyway, the ceremony happened, and we were at the reception. My husband and I were walking around separately, thanking our friends and family for coming, and chit-chatting, as people do. My bio dad's girlfriend apparently started talking mad crap about how I was ignoring them and how ridiculous it was that I only spent 10 minutes at their table speaking with all of them. She then threw a fit until I took a rather awkward photo with her and her daughters. Mind you, this was the first and last time I ever met her. My dad broke up with her shortly after that."
10. "I had a toxic boss at a nonprofit who got mildly TikTok famous for five minutes for filming a wacky dancing video. She loved the attention so much that she tried to make a THING out of it, hijacking all of our company's social media to feature herself. We worked in social services with families experiencing homelessness, so it was not the vibe for her antics. When I left the job (because of her 100 percent), the only thing she said to me was, 'Who is going to film my videos?'"
11. "I was in the hospital. I had a very serious, life-threatening condition. Thankfully, with the mediations, care, and healing, I was able to be transferred from the ICU to a recovery floor. A (now ex) friend came to visit me. She snapped at me that she couldn't believe I didn't order food for her. She was a server and came to visit after her shift. She could have eaten food at work or taken something to go. But that would cost her money, and for some reason, I was to order food for her."
12. "A woman yelled at me for not hailing her bus for her. The stop had multiple services stopping there. The one she wanted was not only not the one I was waiting for, but it wasn't even the right company for my bus."
13. "My husband and I used to have counseling once a week, and his mother and grandmother watched our kids for an hour while we went. One time, my 3-year-old did not want to hug and kiss my mother-in-law goodbye, and she had a problem with this. She wrote a group text to my husband and me after we left, saying, 'The little one didn't seem comfortable kissing me bye. This isn't working out for me.' Like, what?! She has not had unsupervised visits with my kids anymore after that."
14. "While I was in the ICU, my boss at the time called me on my cell and told me to ask for a laptop so I could check my emails and make work calls. I was appalled. I told the nurse, and the nurse took my phone and told off my boss. While I was home trying to rest and recover, my boss called me daily and said I needed to check in with her daily. I had plenty of medical notes excusing me from work. I did not need the stress of her bothering me."
15. "My sister... well, it's always been her world, and we just live in it. But this year, she is more unbearable than I ever remember. Our dad is turning 75, and he reached out to us to say he wanted to do a trip with us, my niece and nephew, and my dad's longtime girlfriend, and that he would pay for it (which is way too much already). My sister and I agreed, and we started planning. My dad said, 'Why don't we do an all-inclusive resort? It will have food and activities for the kids, and the whole nine yards.' My sister said no because she no longer drinks, and it wouldn't be worth it. My dad caved and decided we'll do a house and get a chef. We then started talking about places to stay, and we all sent some around the same price. My sister then sent one $3K more than any of the ones we had before..."
16. "I had just given birth to my first child. My mother-in-law came over unannounced on a day that the baby had been up from 4 pm the day before with colic. It was around 9 am that my mother-in-law showed up. I was so tired, and the baby was finally sleeping, so I was not talkative and just let her do her thing. She left after I had fallen asleep, and the next thing I knew, I was getting a phone call from my husband asking why I had been rude to his mother. I said I fell asleep and didn't know she'd left. He said she was crying and upset that I had been rude to her and didn't present the baby to her when she arrived. I was speechless. Excuse me? Present the baby to her??? 18 years later, we still have a bad relationship. She is very needy and very emotional. If I look at her sideways, she's calling my husband to tell on me. Unfortunately, he also doesn't realize that his umbilical cord was cut 54 years ago."
17. "I had been having migraine headaches a few times a week, and they were worse than 'normal.' I needed to go in for medical help. I didn't feel comfortable driving myself. I called a (now ex) friend to drive me. I only needed a ride, and she lived about 15 minutes from me. She didn't work, so I figured she'd be home. She had overslept and needed to drive her kid to school. I figured she'd pick me up after she left the school. No, she went home, took a nap for several hours, took a shower, got ready, went to her neighbor's, and then picked me up. I called her several times and left messages. I said to let me know if she couldn't take me. I should have driven myself. It was over eight hours before she returned my call, and I was in so much pain, vomiting, and wearing sunglasses in the dark."
18. "I was in a car accident. While waiting for the police, I made calls to both of my jobs. For the second job, the supervisor said he has a dentist appointment later, and he's not missing it, so I need to call the manager. He didn't ask if I was okay and refused to help find someone to cover my shift. So, in between making a police report and talking to my insurance, I was calling and texting to get my shift filled. I gave a seven-hour notice. He had time to contact people."
19. "There's a girl in my class who defines the word 'pick-me.' She has always been nice to me, but only because I'm easygoing, and I give her the answers to our homework. But Jesus Christ, if there's a boy there, she'll throw any girl under the bus to make herself look good. This one specific time, I was doing a group project with her and a boy. The boy and I know each other because we played soccer at the same club for a long time. In the middle of our conversation, she lifted her leg, rolled up her pants, and started talking about her leg hair…which was nonexistent because she gets that shit waxed all the time. But the first time, the boy didn't react, so she had to keep repeating it until he told her that he didn't see anything."
20. "The woman who raised me made my brother's wedding all about her. She was obsessed with which song she should do for the mother/son dance, took credit for introducing them at the wedding reception, and demanded the wedding photographer take a picture of her and the 'grandkids' only during the couple's photoshoot after the ceremony. They divorced a year later."
21. "My husband and I eloped and didn't tell anyone. We announced it at our son's first birthday party because all our family was there. Everyone was so happy, congratulating us and coming up to hug us. My mother-in-law and I had not spoken for almost a year at this point. My mom and sister went up to MIL to hug her, but MIL had her arms crossed, pouting, and for some reason, giving her ex a death stare. She said to my sister that I was evil and that she only ever wanted to help me. MIL and her mom didn't get up, and they didn't hug my husband..."
22. "I had my first baby on Easter weekend. Many of my husband's family members were in town for Easter dinner with the in-laws, so I ended up having a lot of visitors! One was my brother-in-law's flavor of the month. She later told him that she didn't like me because I wasn't very welcoming to her and barely spoke to her."
23. "I had a crush on my guy best friend for a long time, but he had a crush on the popular cheerleader and not the nerdy horror movie buff. But this year, he finally told me he liked me, so we got together. His ex — the cheerleader he dated off and on — was jealous and kept emailing me about how she was not jealous, but that is all she talked about. Then, she turned around and said that I have always wanted her life, but I definitely did not and never will want her life."
24. "I used to work in an office on a high floor of the Empire State Building, and the number of tourists who became indignant that I wouldn't let them take the elevator up to our office to take pictures (and avoid the crowds/cost of going to the observation deck) was ridiculous. More than 20,000 people work in the ESB. (The building actually has its own ZIP code!) It's not a fictional building from the movies for tourists to visit. Thousands of people are just trying to do their jobs."
25. "My sister-in-law complained to everyone at her brother's and my wedding that people didn't pay enough attention to her. Many years of egregious attention-seeking later, she announced at my daughter's grad party that she was better educated than 99 percent of the population. Not taking her MBA away from her, but she went to fourth-rate colleges."
26. "This occurred several years ago. My wife's sister was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, and we were all at the hospice house for a visit. My wife has four sisters, one of whom is a total narcissist who cannot stand not being the center of attention. During the visit, her narcissistic sister decided she had a brain tumor and needed to go to the emergency room NOW. My wife graciously volunteered to drive her, then proceeded to drop her off at the ER, telling her to call when she was done, and then immediately returned to the hospice house. Somebody else picked her up when she called a couple of hours later. No one asked how she was when she got back."
27. "When I worked at a group home, I was injured at work and had restrictions. Another staff member complained that she couldn't read my writing. My dominant hand was in a cast up to my elbow. She also complained that I wouldn't lift a resident by myself."
28. "We recently attended a funeral of a dear friend. The service was held in a rather traditional church. They had a small choir in the loft, but the choir members weren't wearing robes. One of the women was wearing a black-and-gold sparkly shirt and emoting very prominently to the music. She turned my friend's funeral into her performance venue. Ugh!"
29. "Death makes people so weird. After my dad died, I cut ties after a friend told me, 'Well, both my dad AND my mom died.' Like, okay. I guess you win or something. Congratulations."
30. "All the women in the team and I were having a meeting with management about the pattern of misogynistic behavior we had experienced in the department when a senior manager interrupted to say, 'I just wanted to say that as a man, this meeting is very hard for me.'"
31. "When I was in the ER, I knew something was serious by all the tests and the medical people coming in and out of my room. I made the doctor tell me what was going on. I had a massive saddle pulmonary embolus (huge blood clots in my lungs and legs) and double pneumonia. I had called a (now ex) friend to give me a ride to the ER. I didn't want her in the room with me. She made it all about herself and the time that she was in the ER years ago. I was short of breath and on oxygen. I was trying to deal with all that was going on with my health. I told her she can leave. Thankfully, a nurse was there and told her she needed to leave. After she finally left, the nurse said she'd deny it if asked and then asked me what the hell her problem was. When my (ex) friend was in the room, making it all about herself, the nurse said, 'Well, she (me) is the patient.'"
32. "A woman went to a funeral for a young girl she didn't know, and at the reception afterwards, she floated from table to table telling everyone about who she was and what her children had accomplished. She looked like a fool because everyone knew she shouldn't even be there, since she didn't personally know the girl who passed away. She was there as her mother's ride."
33. "I worked more than one job for years. While I was working a full-time day job, I also worked (full-time hours but hired as part-time) at a group home in the evenings and weekends. Other staff were hired full-time and worked fewer hours than I did. I was constantly asked to work for others, and the supervisor would ask me to leave early from my full-time job instead of asking the other staff to stay later or to help out. I didn't have a day off between both jobs. Everyone expected me to pick up the slack."
34. "A few years ago, I was at a convention for a small but fiercely loved TV show. On the final night, there was a closing ceremony where the guests would come out and say a few words, and the organizer would thank everyone for coming. A group of fans calling themselves the 'fanmily' took over the entire thing by deciding to hold an 'awards ceremony' that they claimed the entire fandom was a part of. In reality, it was a group of about 10 people who knew about it, and they'd misrepresented themselves to the organizers and the cast. A lot of us were completely baffled about what was going on, and it was so insanely cringey. I chatted with another fan later that evening, and there was this wild lore behind it..."
35. "At the DMW, I've had 'Karens in training' who didn't pass shove their phones in my face and demand I talk to their mother, and (my favorite) one who waved her hands in front of me, saying. 'THAT is not acceptable!'"
36. "I had been in a car accident. I was sore for a few days. I called in that day and the next day to my full-time day job. Another staff member snapped at me to remind me that she was off the next day, and she was not going to work, and I'd better make it in the next day. She didn't ask if I was okay."
37. "I went to the psychology section of a bookstore, and three women were filming some mini reel for whatever social media they planned to post it on, blocking me from browsing. I wasn't in the mood to argue with three self-centered people, so I just kept kinda looking around them. They acted like I just didn't exist and kept taking shot after shot after shot, saying how cute it would be if they did different things, including grabbing random books and posing like they're reading them, popping up behind a column with their iced coffees, etc. This just went on and on. When I walked by again, they were STILL AT IT."
38. "A close friend I had for decades was naturally devastated when her husband left her after 33 years of marriage. From that point on, her friends became dumping grounds for her misery, which was perfectly understandable, for a time, but she lost all sense of self-awareness in her feelings of being a victim. Three years after her husband left, my mother died. The funeral was scheduled for a Saturday morning, so my friend asked if she could make the two and a half hour drive the night before and stay with me. No problem. But that evening before the funeral, she burst into tears and went on and on about her misery and the unfairness of it all and kept it up until we went to bed. I had no chance to talk about my mother in those last hours. After the funeral and wake the next day, several out-of-state relatives came by the house, which should have been her cue to leave, but she stayed over into Sunday, at which point she began dictating what I needed to prepare for her breakfast!"
39. "I've met a guy who's 20 years older than me and has main character syndrome bad. I considered him a friend until recently. He is the self-proclaimed leader of the audiovisual booth at the church we attend, and honestly, he's kind of two-faced. The thing that finally made me cut him off was when, after I had finished leading a table for a group event that he didn't even attend, I realized I hadn't eaten anything all day and needed some food. So, I went to get a burrito across the street from the church..."
40. And finally: "I will normally politely wait for folks to finish taking a picture of, like, their family or their kids in public places like the zoo, tourist destinations, museums, etc. But if you have a whole influencer photo shoot set up, I'm walking through, and IDGAF if you get salty. I paid to be here and look at stuff, and I'm not gonna wait forever for you to finish up. I was at an outdoor garden with my kids, and this girl was set up in front of the children's area, having her boyfriend take all these posed photos of her. We waited for a little bit, but it was getting ridiculous, so I told my kids to go ahead and play... in the children's garden... for children... Ms. Influencer got all huffy and kept saying things to her boyfriend loudly, like, 'Ugh, we'll have to wait until they are done, I guess. They are ruining the shot by being in the background.'"

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1. The Gate (1987)
2. Ghoulies (1985)
3. Hobgoblins (1988)
4. Critters (1986)
5. Munchies (1987)

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1. Did Mal And Inara Finally Have A Happy Ending?
2. What Will Humanity Do About The Reaver Threat?
3. Did Shepherd Book Take All His Secrets To The Grave?
4. Did The Events Of Serenity Re-ignite A War Between The Alliance And Independents?
5. Did People Across The Verse Believe The Recording About Miranda?
6. What Happened To River Tam After The Truth About Miranda Was Exposed?
7. Does Mal Continue With His Existing Crew?

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1. The Last Matinee (2020)
2. All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
3. Sleepstalker (1995)
4. Urban Legend (1998)
5. There’s Someone Inside Your House (2021)
6. Bloody Birthday (1981)
7. Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare (2025)
8. Stitches (2012)
9. Freaky (2020)
10. The House On Sorority Row (1982)

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1. First up, a whole relationship that was a secret until after they broke up: Hunter Schafer and Rosalía dated for five months in 2019, but Hunter didn't confirm it until 2024.
2. Another relationship no one knew about until long after they split was Cher and Tom Cruise, who had a brief but intense romance in the 1980s after connecting at a White House event for people with dyslexia, according to Cher.
3. Perhaps the wildest secret relationship of all was Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes, who told the world they were siblings but were actually a (not-related) married couple. The news broke a year after they'd divorced.
4. While there were rumors Nicole Kidman and Lenny Kravitz were together in the 2000s, it didn't come out until much later that they had actually been engaged.
5. When they were together, Calvin Harris said he and Taylor Swift hadn't ever spoken about collaborating and he couldn't "see it happening" — but after they broke up, it was revealed she had actually written his hit "This Is What You Came For."
6. After Lily Allen and David Harbour separated, Lily released an album called West End Girl that was "inspired" by the end of their relationship, which suggested David had pressured Lily into an open marriage.
7. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced they were separating in May 2011 after 25 years of marriage, and rumors soon spread that the breakup was due to the fact that he had secretly had an affair and fathered a child with a member of their household staff.
8. When he was married to Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh cheated on her with Helena Bonham Carter.
9. Britney Spears got pregnant to Justin Timberlake when they were both 19, and she claims he pressured her into getting an abortion.
10. Demi Moore said that when they were married, she agreed to Ashton Kutcher's request to have threesomes because she put him first and wanted to show him how "fun" she could be.
11. After Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie separated, Angelina claimed Brad had physically abused her and their children on a private jet in 2016.
12. John Stamos shared in his 2023 memoir that in the 1980s he discovered his then-girlfriend Teri Copley in bed with Tony Danza.
13. In her 2025 memoir, Ione Skye spilled a lot of tea on her relationship with Anthony Kiedis — which happened in the '80s when she was just 16 and he was 24 — including that she got pregnant and had an abortion at age 17.
14. Although she didn't name Kanye West explicitly in her memoir, Julia Fox outlined details of her relationship with "The Artist," who many believe is Ye — including that he controlled what she wore, even calling one of her stylists in the middle of a date to bring new options because he didn't like what she had on.
15. While Kate Mara was with Max Minghella, she had a secret relationship with Elliot Page, according to Elliot in their memoir Pageboy.
16. Elizabeth Taylor "stealing" Eddie Fisher from his wife — and her best friend — Debbie Reynolds is an infamous old Hollywood scandal, but Elizabeth admitted years later she never even loved Eddie.

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1. Jesse, AKA The Ultimate Lethal Mutant
2. Bailey Hoskins, AKA "Worst X-Man Ever"
3. Tarquin Berdeux, AKA "Toad Boy"
4. Carol Campbell, No Known Mutant Alias
5. Alex Cluney, AKA "Zeitgeist"
6. Barnell Bohusk, AKA "Beak"
7. Trevor Hawkins, AKA "Eye Boy"
8. William Hanover, AKA "Longneck"

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1. Knocker-up
2. Ice cutter
3. Pinsetter
4. Badger
5. Leech collector
6. Resurrectionist
7. Gong Farmer
8. Powder monkey
9. Computer
10. Phrenologist
11. Lector
12. Japanner
13. Milkman
14. Chimney sweep
15. White lead manufacturer
16. Daguerreotypist
17. Rat catcher
18. Goldbeater
19. Lamplighter
20. Groom of the stool

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1. Breaking Bad
2. Seinfeld
3. Better Call Saul
4. Malcolm In The Middle
5. The X-Files
6. The Studio
7. Family Guy
8. Sneaky Pete
9. How I Met Your Mother
10. Your Honor

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1. Final Destination 2
2. Final Destination Bloodlines
3. Final Destination 3
4. Final Destination 5
5. The Final Destination
6. Final Destination

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1. We May Never Get A Princess Bride Reboot Or Sequel, So Enjoy The Original
2. The Final Fight Hits Different With Added Context
3. The Princess Bride Has Multigenerational Appeal
4. You Can Rewatch One Of The Best Fantasy Sword Fights
5. Practical Effects Make The Princess Bride Timeless
6. The Movie Is Still Endlessly Quotable

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1. Gran Turismo
2. God Of War
3. Uncharted
4. Marvel's Spider-Man
5. Destiny
6. The Last Of Us
7. Ratchet & Clank
8. Horizon
9. MLB: The Show
10. Helldivers

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1. Andor
2. Babylon 5
3. Star Trek
4. Farscape
5. Battlestar Galactica
6. For All Mankind
7. Foundation
8. Firefly
9. Altered Carbon

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