What do All About Eve and Titanic have in common? They're both Fox movies that share the record for most Oscar nominations for a single film.
Cash-strapped consumers are not splurging on pizza and chicken, and that’s hurting sales at restaurant company Yum Brands. Shares of Yum brands were down by nearly 5% in early hours, trading at $135, after the company reported a decrease in sales for its Pizza Hut and KFC divisions. The Louisville, Kentucky-based company missed Wall Street’s expectations, having generated $1.6 billion in revenue — about $1.15 earnings per share — in the first quarter. Analysts had predicted it would make...
The Billboard Hot 100 chart has been refreshed for the first time since Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department stormed into the world, and—surprise, surprise—it’s not looking great for anyone not named Taylor Swift. Actually, it’s not looking like anything at all unless you’re Post Malone and Florence Welch, who were smart enough to collaborate with Swift on her chart bulldozer of a project. Billboard announced today that Swift had exclusively claimed not just slots one through ten on the...
A record number of people have run in the London Marathon, including celebrities, politicians and people in costume.
Temperatures in many parts of the country are expected to hit 43 deg C over
Six people have been charged after police raided an illegal cannabis grow-op in Niagara Falls and seized marijuana plants worth an estimated $8 million. The OPP-led Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team launched an investigation after it became aware of a strong cannabis odour coming from what was believed to be an abandoned warehouse on Don Murie Street. On April 17, police executed a search warrant and seized more than 2,500 clone cannabis plants and more than 13,000...
Another Taylor Swift album cycle, another barrage of broken records for music’s conquering titan. According to Variety, Swift has already sold 700,000 vinyl copies of The Tortured Poets Department, breaking the record for weekly vinyl sales in just three days. By the time the week is out, she’ll have broken the previous record of 693,000 copies set by Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version), which toppled the previous record of 570,000 set by Taylor Swift’s Midnights. These sales figures are...
A record number of people ran in the London Marathon on Sunday, including politicians, actors in character and amateurs in costume.
The members of RoLUG (Romanian LEGO® Users Group), with support from LEGO Romania, have built the largest LEGO® brick diorama in the world. The record was adjudicated by Guinness World Records™ at the East European Comic Con, 2024 The diorama is an over 1-million LEGO bricks ode to the Star Wars™ universe, tying main events […]
With our gardens, the pickleball courts and picnic blankets calling us outdoors these days, thanks to the stunning spring weather we’ve been having, it’s a reminder that it’s also time to think about sun exposure and ways to keep ourselves protected. Aside from seeking shade, slathering on sunscreen and wearing a hat, if you’re among […]
Ghanaian environmental activist and forestry student currently pursuing his master’s at Auburn University in the United States, has set a new world record for the most trees hugged in one hour. 29-year-old Abubakar Tahiru hugged a total of 1,123 trees, averaging almost 19 per minute to have his name in the Guinness World Record (GWR). […]
A teenage gunman wounded 10 people when he opened fire early Sunday after fighting broke out during a private event at a Florida party venue.