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Lists and lists of the things that make each US State unique, from the weirdest laws to the most popular drinks and dog breeds to the shows residents are streaming most on Netflix.

This Is America

By Place

What exactly is the most popular Netflix show in each state? The streaming service's&nbsp;vast library of TV shows has given American viewers&nbsp;so many options that search results tend to vary greatly. While Netflix has been stingy on giving out ratings data, some companies have tried to determine exactly which shows on Netflix are resonating. One great example is <a href="https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/most-popular-netflix-shows/" target="_blank">HighSpeedInternet.com</a>, which has figured out the top Netflix&nbsp;TV&nbsp;series by state in 2017, according to search results on Google.The results show some are obsessed with finding the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-streaming-netflix-tv-shows" target="_blank">best Netflix shows</a> out there, from Orange Is the New Black to American Vandal. Others are looking for shows that aren't even on the service, like&nbsp;Star Trek: Discovery. You tell a lot about a <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-popular-food-in-each-state/nathan-gibson" target="_blank">state</a> based on what they prefer to watch on Netflix.

What's The Most Popular Netflix Show In Each State?

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Lists about CBS's monumental reality game show that invites normal people to outwit, outplay, and outlast their competitors.

Survivor

Survivor&nbsp;has thrilled&nbsp;audiences since its sensational first season in 2000, and it remains one of the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-most-actually-watchable-reality-tv-shows" target="_blank">best reality shows on TV</a>. But how does a reality show of this sort keep running like a well-oiled machine? What goes on behind the scenes of&nbsp;Survivor?&nbsp;Turns out, there are many things you never knew about Survivor, including the&nbsp;elaborate challenge-testing process you don't get to see on TV.&nbsp;Survivor's producers&nbsp;are invested in making sure the game is engaging for the audience. Behind-the-scenes planning begins&nbsp;months before shooting in order to create compelling drama and keep the audience coming back week after week, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-season-of-survivor/reference" target="_blank">season after season</a>. And of course, a reality show can't go on this long without a few <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-survivor-scandals/kevin-jacobsen" target="_blank">scandals here and there</a>.&nbsp;

Behind-The-Scenes Stories From 'Survivor'

General

16 Crazy Behind-The-Scenes Stories From 'Survivor'

Lists of fun facts and differing opinions about Hollywood's biggest, most self-congratulatory night. 

The Oscars

Awards

Where do actors keep their Oscar statues after winning them? As <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-actors-with-more-than-one-oscar/ranker-film" target="_blank">winning an Oscar</a>&nbsp;is the highest honor you can achieve in the movie industry, it is one of the most coveted trophies. It can be tough to decide exactly what to do with the statue after the rush of winning wears off.&nbsp;While many display their Oscars&nbsp;proudly in their homes on the mantle or in a case, others have done some rather quirky things with their trophies.

Some of the&nbsp;weird things actors did with their Oscars include putting them&nbsp;in the refrigerator, a wine cabinet, and&nbsp;a pagoda. Other weird Oscar statue stories include an actor who left his trophy somewhere in Louisiana&nbsp;and another who had their statue cleaned only to have it go missing. While <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-performances-to-not-win-an-oscar/anncasano" target="_blank">Oscar winning performances</a>&nbsp;should be a source of pride, it&#39;s clear based on some stories that the little gold man is merely a hunk of metal, however nice the honor may be.

Here are 14&nbsp;actors with some truly weird Oscar statue stories.

Weird Things Academy Award Winning Actors Have Done With Their Oscar Statues

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Unscripted

Some movies are lucky to get an acting nomination at the Oscars, while others get nominations in multiple acting categories. But there are even fewer cases of costars nominated in the same category for the same film. While&nbsp;Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress are more likely than the two lead categories to have costars nominated for the same Academy Award, there are still 17 examples of leading stars achieving this.The scarcity&nbsp;of this can often be attributed to how rare it is for two stars of the same gender in the same movie to have true leading roles. And even when they do, one star typically competes in the Supporting category, to maximize potential to win (a.k.a.&nbsp;&quot;category fraud&quot;). After all, costars nominated in the same category guarantees&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-actors-who-have-never-won-an-oscar" target="_blank">at least one loss</a> unless there's the miniscule chance of a tie. However, the list of Oscar nominees for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Leading Role&nbsp;for the same movie is made up of some of history's greatest actors and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-actresses-in-film-history" target="_blank">actresses</a>, who wouldn't dare be caught dead in the measly supporting categories!Here are 17 instances of costars who got Oscar nominations for the same movie in the same lead acting category.

Every Time Film Costars Were Both Nominated For Leading Role Oscars

Every Time Film Costars Were Nominated For The Same Oscar

Hacks, facts, insider secrets, and horror stories from your favorite retail stores, product lines, and places to shop.

SSHHH! Company Secrets

Customer Service & Retail

Navigating which foods to buy at the grocery store <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/grocery-store-secrets-tricks/ashley-reign" target="_blank">can be a real hassle</a>, especially when you're already trying to stick to a <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/weird-diet-trends-and-fads-from-history/lea-rose-emery" target="_blank">healthy diet</a> and trying to avoid the latest item in recall.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Food and Drug Administration&nbsp;may recall grocery items&nbsp;for a variety of reasons, including&nbsp;bacteria contamination (listeria, salmonella and E. coli) or traces of plastic or metal in the product. Sometimes&nbsp;companies will voluntarily pull larger samples of products even if there's a suspected contained contamination.&nbsp;But while&nbsp;recalls happen for any number of different foods, have&nbsp;you ever noticed that some foods tend to cause outbreaks more than others?Recalls&nbsp;are nothing new, but&nbsp;it is remarkable that basic products like&nbsp;milk, chicken and nuts are among top foods recalled from grocery stores in modern times. Yet people don't stop buying them. These are considered staple food&nbsp;items, at least in the US, that have been <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/photos-of-grocery-stores-then-and-now/kellen-perry" target="_blank">purchased over and over</a> for decades. Unlike some of the shocking stories you hear on the news about <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/gross-things-found-in-packaged-food/ashley-reign" target="_blank">people finding odd things</a> in their food, many recalls are conducted because they have the potential to contain&nbsp;untraceable problems.&nbsp;In other words, you wouldn't necessarily know that the flour you just bought was contaminated with E.&nbsp;coli.Here are the most commonly recalled foods found in your local grocery store that will either make you want to stick to farmers' markets or will that you'll just keeping buying anyway.&nbsp;

The Most Commonly Recalled Foods From Grocery Stores (That You Keep Buying Anyway)

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Lists about the itty bitty piano-playing funky-shod meat-clad powerhouse-piped songwriter & art pop star known around the entire world as Lady Gaga.

The Lady Known as Gaga

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga has transitioned from being&nbsp;one of the most mysterious, enigmatic performers of her generation to an open book ready to talk about her pain and struggles. In her new Netflix documentary,&nbsp;Gaga: Five Foot Two, the hit-making&nbsp;singer opens up about her past, her family, her battles with fame, her personal relationships, and her fibromyalgia, providing numerous eye-opening revelations about her life.The public <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/lady-gaga-facts/jessica-defino" target="_blank">has learned</a> about her passion for piano,&nbsp;LGBT rights and eccentric outfits before, but there has never been such an open look into Gaga's life before this. Even her biggest fans who obsess over every interview&nbsp;and public event she does have not had this kind of access before. The documentary tells the story of a woman on top of the world about to perform on the biggest stage of her career, the Super Bowl Halftime Show, while also dealing with some of the most intense personal struggles of her life. We also see her releasing her latest studio album,&nbsp;Joanne, a departure from the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-lady-gaga-songs/voteable" target="_blank">EDM bangers</a>&nbsp;we've come to recognize as pure Gaga.Here are the most eye-opening things we learned about the pop superstar in&nbsp;Gaga: Five Foot Two.

The Most Eye-Opening Things We Learned About Lady Gaga From Her Netflix Documentary

Ranking the best reality & competition shows and exploring the attention-starved monsters we create and feed when we watch them participate. 

Escape to Reality

The Swan

In the annals of reality TV history,&nbsp;The Swan&nbsp;has cemented itself as one of the most unethical and inhumane. You can debate the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-dumbest-reality-shows-of-all-time" target="_blank">worst reality shows ever</a>, but few can argue that&nbsp;The Swan&nbsp;was uniquely horrible. A show that took women described as &quot;ugly ducklings&quot; and turns them into beautiful &quot;swans,&quot; the series generated plenty of controversy. Fox aired two seasons in 2004 before quickly axing the misbegotten project.While the cameras rolled, doctors nipped, tucked, and&nbsp;sculpted the women until they became enhanced versions of themselves. That typically meant the same <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/these-people-turned-themselves-into-real-life-barbie-dolls/mariel-loveland?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">plastic Barbie doll</a> version of beauty, with very little input from the contestants themselves.&nbsp;The Swan also included a competition element. Two women per episode were judged against each other, and the contestant determined to have made the most progress went on to compete in &quot;the pageant,&quot; the season finale in which &quot;the Swan&quot; was officially crowned.After the show, there were all kinds of problems for the women who participated, both physically and in their personal lives. And it's clear that the morally bankrupt capitalists who produced the show didn't care; they had made their money. Here are just some of the reasons why The Swan is the most inhuman&nbsp;reality competition show ever.

The Swan Was The Most Inhumane Reality Television Competition Ever Made

Disney Channel

If you grew up in the '90s, you probably devoured <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-disney-channel-original-movies-of-all-time/ranker-tv?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Disney Channel original movies</a>. You may have thought most (if not all) were classics, but in reality,&nbsp;Disney Channel original movie stars have gone on to varying degrees of success since the release of their films. What happened to DCOM stars? Some went on to big screen careers, like Shia LaBeouf and Zac Efron. Others faded away, and seemingly haven't appeared in anything since their time at the House of Mouse.You're probably already familiar with the current careers of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/disney-stars-then-and-now/coy-jandreau" target="_blank">onetime Disney stars</a> like LaBeouf, Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, and&nbsp;Raven-Symon&eacute;. They've successfully moved past the point where they can be considered&nbsp;simply DCOM actors. Instead, it's time to delve into the lives and careers of lesser-known actors and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/disney-channel-supporting-actors-where-are-they-now/elle-tharp" target="_blank">supporting stars</a>.Have you ever wondered what happened to the Cheetah Girls, or Christy Carlson Romano, or the stars of Brink!&nbsp;and Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century&nbsp;and The Luck of the Irish? Where are the other actors in&nbsp;High School Musical now? The answers might surprise you.

Disney Channel Original Movie Stars: What Are They Doing Today?

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Disney Channel Original Movie Stars: Where Are They Now?

Survivor&nbsp;may have a reputation as&nbsp;being one of the more legitimate <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-current-reality-shows/ranker-tv?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">reality TV shows</a>, but it hasn&#39;t been without its&nbsp;share of scandals. The show&nbsp;is as guilty as any of having&nbsp;juicy <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/reality-tv-scandals/ranker-tv" target="_blank">reality TV scandals</a>&nbsp;on camera and&nbsp;off. Some&nbsp;of the biggest&nbsp;Survivor&nbsp;scandals have come to the forefront through stories from past contestants, while others unfolded right before your eyes, on the show itself.

Contestants have lied about passed&nbsp;relatives, made vicious personal attacks, promised favors after the show in exchange for jury votes, and more. One contestant almost passed while performing in a challenge, resulting in questions about how producers could have let this happen.&nbsp;The show also narrowly avoided a possible series-ending&nbsp;scandal in its first season. For a chance to win $1 million, even the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-survivor-players-ever/analise.dubner" target="_blank">best Survivor&nbsp;players</a>&nbsp;will do and say just about anything to get ahead;&nbsp;most of the craziest Survivor scandals revolve around greed and desperation.

Let&#39;s take a deeper look at the most notorious moments in the show&#39;s history, the&nbsp;behind-the-scenes reality TV drama you didn&#39;t know, the biggest, most insane&nbsp;Survivor&nbsp;scandals of all time.

18 Survivor Scandals That Rocked The Island And Almost Tore The Show Apart

The 18 Biggest And Most Scandalous 'Survivor' Scandals

Lists that rank the greatest performers to hit the large and small screens.

The Best Actors and Actresses

The <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/why-2004-2005-was-tvs-best-season/evan-lambert" target="_blank">second Golden Age of Television</a> has created such a glut of talent on television, many of the medium&#39;s best talents are taken for granted, and go unrewarded for superlative work. The biggest Emmy losers of all time are hardly losers; many of them are among the most recognized faces, and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-tv-actors-of-all-time" target="_blank">most respected talents</a>, in the industry.

The Primetime Emmys has&nbsp;a reputation of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/modern-family-emmy-nomination-bad-show-2017-7" target="_blank">rewarding the same shows and people</a> year after year, the reverse side of which is, given the repetitive nature of the nominations, some actors, writers, directors, and producers have had the cruel fate of losing year after year, and hold the ignominious&nbsp;distinction of people with the most Emmy losses. Emmys&nbsp;history is littered with actors who have gone unjustly unrewarded. Here are 12&nbsp;notable celebrities with the&nbsp;most Emmy nominations with no wins.

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