Practical Plants
This plant is the most common material used for chopsticks in the world
Bamboo
This influencer married a notorious influencer-boxer in a live pay-per-view stream in 2019, after less than a year of dating.
Tana Mongeau
Osama Bin Laden is killed by a team of US Navy Seals.
2011
Kanye steals the mic from Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs arguing this Houstonian deserved the award for best music video
Beyonce
This sweet treat is ironically famous for other origins such as Belgium or Switzerland
Cocoa / Chocolate
This plant is known for its rich extravagant dye used for centuries to color clothes
Indigo
This artist released his seventh and final studio album titled Viva Las Vengeance
Brendon Urie
The iTunes Store is introduced with music downloads for 99ยข a song, quickly becoming the largest online music service in the world
2003
This divisive Austrian artist, ex-con, and politician earns TIME Magazine's person of the year in 1938.
Adolf Hitler
This starch made its way to Russia, now used to make Vodka
Potatoes
This plant is a flowering succulent with many medicinal uses including being a natural laxative
Aloe (vera)
In one of the first ever reality TV Shows, this actor was arrested and labeled a "Lindsay Lohan Wanna-be" by Judge Damian Murray
Snooki / Nicole Elizabeth LaVelle
The United States' independence from Great Britain is internationally recognized for the first time
1777
This Seattle Rapper apologizes to Kendrick Lamar over text for winning a Grammy over him, then posts the text message on Instagram
Macklemore
Pizza is a relatively modern food because this ingredient was 'discovered' in the Americas during Spanish colonialism
Tomatoes
This alcohol friendly tree-bark can be used for floor tiles and insulation
Cork
This artist was the first woman to have a rap album designated gold, for 'Black Reign' in 1993
Queen Latifah
Thomas Edison makes the first incandescent light bulb
1879
This author was not awarded the Nobel Prize for literature due to political disagreements between Sweden and the Soviet Union
Leo Tolstoy
This crop, originally cultivated in Central America, lends its name to the color of Michigan University's logo
Maize
This Tree's wood is the most common wood used for Baseball Bats in the MLB.
Maple
This businessman is also known as Big Hoss, famed for his father's reality TV hit
Corey Harrison
Teddy Roosevelt becomes president on a camping trip in the Adirondack Mountains, while William McKinley dies after being shot
1901
This Zambian born female architect was snubbed of the Pritzker Prize in 1991 when the committee only recognized her husband and design partner, Robert Venturi
Denise Scott Brown
This tree's leaves initially used for the making of balls in South America
Rubber