Music & Song Lyrics
Dolly Parton's iconic anthem about the grueling daily work grind is named after these standard morning-to-evening corporate hours.
What is 9 to 5?
The title of Taylor Swift's studio album that features songs long "I knew you were trouble" and " We are never getting back together"
What is Red?
To prevent chaos and maintain order on the tracks, it is a law in Ohio that you must honk your horn every single time you pass another car.
What is real? (Ohio Revised Code 4511.27 technically states drivers must give an audible signal before overtaking another vehicle outside of a business or residential district).
What is rickrolling?
The entire global population of birds was secretly wiped out by the U.S. government between 1959 and 1971, and every bird seen today is actually a sophisticated, battery-powered surveillance drone designed to spy on citizens.
What is a conspiracy theory?
Journey’s "Don't Stop Believin'" famously kicks off by introducing a "city boy, born and raised" in this fictionalized geographical direction of a Michigan auto city.
What is South Detroit?
This massive streaming service hit set inside a women's federal prison was based on a memoir by Piper Kerman
What is Orange Is the New Black?
In 1825, the independent nation of Prussia officially declared war on an aggressive pack of stray dogs after they overrun Berlin and bit the Chancellor.
What is fake? (Prussia never declared an official state war on stray dogs).
This green corporate mascot became an internet darling for its unhinged TikTok campaign that jokingly threatened users who forgot to practice their foreign languages.
Who is the Duolingo Owl?
A secret, elite network of shape-shifting reptilian humanoids secretly rule the world from underground bunkers, taking on human form to control global politics and media.
What is a conspiracy theory?
The Killers kick off "Mr. Brightside" with the frantic lines, "Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine, gotta gotta be down because I want..."
What is "it all"?
This specific historical term refers to the rapid, mass migration of over 300,000 people to California following James W. Marshall's discovery at Sutter's Mill.
What is the California Gold Rush?
Beyoncé once rented out an entire luxury maternity hospital wing in New York City for $1.3 million, causing other parents to complain that security guards locked them out of the neonatal unit.
What is fake? (While she did give birth under heavy security at Lenox Hill Hospital, the hospital explicitly denied that she rented out an entire floor or that other patients were mistreated or locked out)
Hemerrhoids
A wealthy real estate developer dresses up as a phantom to haunt a local swamp, purely to scare a widow into selling her land for cheap so he can build an airport.
What is Scooby-Doo? (This is the classic plot of the villain "The Creeper," who turned out to be bank president Mr. Carswell).
While the Eurythmics sang "Sweet dreams are made of this," thousands of fans swear Annie Lennox is actually singing "sweet dream are made of ..."
What is cheese?
This specialized, highly localized financial panic occurred on September 24, 1869, when financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the U.S. bullion market.
What is Black Friday?
In the 18th century, it was a major status symbol among the wealthy elite of England to rent an older man to live on their estate as a "garden hermit," forcing him to grow his beard out and live in a makeshift cave.
What is real? (Ornamental hermits were highly fashionable, and wealthy landowners paid them to live in rustic follies to add a melancholic vibe to their gardens).
This popular travel company's theme jingle became a permanent "vocal stim" on TikTok, used as background audio for millions of chaotic vacation and summer videos
What is Jet2Holidays?
Denver International Airport was secretly designed to serve as the subterranean headquarters for a totalitarian global government, featuring hidden tunnels and apocalyptic artwork.
What is a conspiracy theory? (A massive, enduring modern myth fueled by the airport's unique architecture and murals).
In "Blank Space," Taylor Swift sings about a "long list of ex-lovers," which sounded so much like this coffee-loving chain of actors that even her own mother reportedly misheard it
What is Starbucks lovers?
This specific geographic body of water separates the Balkan Peninsula from Anatolia and is connected to the Mediterranean via the Bosporus Strait.
What is the Black Sea?
Pop icon Rihanna once sued her own father to stop him from using their shared last name, Fenty, to book entertainment gigs under a fraudulent business.
What is real? (Rihanna, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, filed a lawsuit against her father, Ronald Fenty, for using the trademarked name for his own talent firm).
What movie did this viral tik tok sound come from?
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An eccentric, bitter oceanographer creates a massive mechanical Loch Ness Monster to terrorize a coastal Scottish village, intending to scare locals away so he can safely salvage a sunken German submarine filled with WWI gold bullion.
What is Scooby-Doo? (This was the plot of the direct-to-video film Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster).