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Shorty Award winners

  • ColdplayColdplay are a British rock band who, over roughly two decades, went from pressing 500 copies of a self-financed EP to becoming the first band in history to…
  • Lady GagaStefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on the 28th of March, 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She would grow up to sell an estimated 124…
  • Taylor SwiftTaylor Alison Swift was born on the 13th of December 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania, named after the singer-songwriter James Taylor by parents who chose…
  • Ian McKellenIan McKellen was nine years old when his main Christmas present arrived: a fold-away wood and bakelite Victorian theatre from Pollocks Toy Theatres, complete…
  • True BloodTrue Blood, the HBO fantasy horror series that premiered on the 7th of September 2008, opens with a world-shaking secret already out. Vampires exist.
  • Sesame StreetSesame Street premiered on the 10th of November 1969, and within a decade, nine million American children under the age of six were watching it every single…
  • AdeleAdele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on the 5th of May 1988 in Tottenham, London, and by the time she turned 23, she had already done something no solo artist…
  • Stephen CurryStephen Curry was born on the 14th of March, 1988, at Akron General Medical Center in Ohio, and grew up shooting baskets on a backyard court in Charlotte…
  • Neil GaimanNeil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman was born on the 10th of November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire, into a family whose name had been changed from Chaiman to…
  • Doctor WhoDoctor Who first reached British television screens at 17:16:20 GMT on the 23rd of November 1963 - eighty seconds later than scheduled, because BBC…
  • InstagramInstagram reached one billion registered users in June 2018 - a number that took Facebook four years longer to achieve. The platform launched for iOS in…
  • Justin BieberJustin Drew Bieber was born on the 1st of March 1994 at St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ontario, and he grew up in Stratford.
  • BTSBTS stepped onto a television stage on the 13th of June, 2013, performing their debut single "No More Dream" on M Countdown before a country that had barely…
  • Rooster TeethRooster Teeth Productions launched in April 2003 with a web series set in a box canyon, two squads of soldiers arguing about almost nothing.
  • Conan O'BrienConan Christopher O'Brien was born on the 18th of April 1963, in Brookline, Massachusetts, into a family defined by high achievers.
  • Rick and MortyRick and Morty began its life not in a writers' room but as a crude animated short too offensive to describe in polite company.
  • The NationThe Nation magazine opened its doors on the 6th of July 1865, at 130 Nassau Street in Manhattan. This date marked the end of William Lloyd Garrison's The…
  • Chris PrattChris Pratt was once homeless in Maui, Hawaii, living out of a van and a tent on the beach. He was working minimal hours, spending his money on gas, food…
  • Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg sat down on the pavement outside the Swedish parliament on the 20th of August 2018, holding a handmade sign that read Skolstrejk for klimatet.
  • New Orleans SaintsThe New Orleans Saints took the field for the first time on the 17th of September, 1967, at Tulane Stadium, and on the opening kickoff, receiver John Gilliam…
  • Goddard Space Flight CenterOn the 1st of May 1959, the center was renamed the Goddard Space Flight Center. This renaming honored Robert H. Goddard, an American rocket propulsion…