Every McDonald's Location That Existed Before Ray Kroc
On April 14, 1955, Ray Kroc spent the night before his grand opening checking the temperature on his deep fryers in Des Plaines, Illinois. He was 52 years old and had just bet his... Read More →
Every Item on the Original McDonald's Bar-B-Q Menu
On May 15, 1940, two brothers from Manchester, New Hampshire opened a drive-in restaurant at the corner of 14th and E streets in San Bernardino, California. They served slow-cooked barbecue from a pit stocked... Read More →
Every Film That Got Both Best Actor and Best Actress Nominations and Lost Both
The 1937 film A Star Is Born received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor for Fredric March and Best Actress for Janet Gaynor. The 1954 musical remake received six nominations, including Best Actor... Read More →
Every Best Picture Oscar Winner That Won Best Picture and Nothing Else
There are 98 Best Picture winners in the history of the Academy Awards. They have collectively won 547 other Oscars across acting, directing, writing, technical, and craft categories – an average of about five... Read More →
Every Best Picture Oscar Winner That Won Without a Best Director Nomination
The Academy Award for Best Picture is voted on by every member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy Award for Best Director is nominated by the directors’ branch only.... Read More →
Every Best Picture Winner Directed by a Woman
Eighty-one years passed between the first Academy Awards ceremony and the first Best Picture winner directed by a woman. In that span, the Academy handed out the top prize to films directed by Cecil... Read More →
Every Best Picture Oscar Winner That Was a Western
The Western built American cinema. From the 1903 silent short The Great Train Robbery through John Wayne’s six-decade career, the genre was the medium’s signature export – its definitive image, its biggest stars, its... Read More →
Every Gym Leader in Pokemon Generation 9 (Paldea)
Most Pokemon games tell you exactly where to go. You beat Brock, then Misty, then you head north. The path is clear, the gyms are locked in order, and the whole thing unfolds like... Read More →
Every U.S. State Capital That Has Been Moved
Forty-eight times between 1777 and 1910, an American state moved its capital. The count is unsettling because most people assume capitals were settled fixtures, chosen at statehood and inherited from the territorial period, but... Read More →
Every Trial Captain and Island Kahuna in Pokemon Generation 7 (Alola)
When Game Freak released Pokemon Sun and Moon in November 2016, they did something they had never done in 20 years of mainline games: they scrapped the Gym. No more badge-hunting. No more eight... Read More →
