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World record holders

  • The BeatlesIn November 1956, a sixteen-year-old John Lennon formed a skiffle group with friends from Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool.
  • Michael JacksonMichael Joseph Jackson entered the world on the 29th of August 1958 inside a two-bedroom house on Jackson Street in Gary, Indiana.
  • ColdplayChris Martin and Jonny Buckland met during their first week at University College London in September 1996. They began to write their first songs together in…
  • Elvis PresleyElvis Aaron Presley was born on the 8th of January 1935, in a small two-room house in Tupelo, Mississippi. His twin brother Jesse Garon had been stillborn…
  • MadonnaMadonna Louise Ciccone was born in Bay City, Michigan, on the 16th of August 1958. Her mother died of breast cancer when Madonna was five years old on the…
  • Avengers: EndgameIn October 2014, Marvel Studios announced a two-part sequel to Avengers: Age of Ultron. The plan was to film both parts back-to-back under the working title…
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)Walt Disney stood before his staff on the evening of the 30th of October 1934, and acted out an entire story for three hours.
  • Elon MuskElon Reeve Musk was born on the 28th of June 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. His mother Maye was a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  • Thriller (album)Michael Jackson stood alone in his room, crying. He said he walked around the neighborhood at night hoping to find someone to talk to.
  • Jaws (film)Principal photography began on the 2nd of May 1974, on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. The production team faced immediate logistical…
  • Lionel MessiOn the 14th of December 2000, a Barcelona official named Carles Rexach signed a contract for Lionel Messi on the back of a paper napkin.
  • BTSIn 2010, Big Hit Entertainment CEO Bang Si-hyuk gathered seven young men to form a new hip hop group. The project began with RM, an underground rapper…
  • Gone with the Wind (film)Selznick International Pictures spent two years delaying the start of filming until January 1939. The production was troubled from its inception, with…
  • Titanic (1997 film)James Cameron stared into the dark Atlantic in 1985 and saw a ghost. He had spent years studying shipwrecks, but the Titanic felt like Mount Everest to him.
  • Cristiano RonaldoCristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born on the 5th of February 1985 in the São Pedro parish of Funchal, the capital of the Portuguese island of Madeira.
  • The Birth of a NationD. W. Griffith began filming on the 4th of July 1914 and finished by October 1914. The production used approximately 150,000 feet of footage to create a…