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Celebrity Couples

Finding your better half can be a tumultuous journey. In fact, in <a href="http://www.britannica.com/topic/Symposium-by-Plato" target="_blank">Plato&#39;s Symposium</a>, the philosopher theorizes all beings were once whole and then split in half, leaving us in search of our missing counterpart and hoping to be made complete.

But how do people choose their life partners? How do they know they&#39;ve found their perfect match? It turns out that people pick their mates for all kinds of reasons. These quotes from celebrities about their partners are telling&nbsp;though.&nbsp;There&#39;s not always a rhyme or reason to the laws of attraction,&nbsp;and famous people fall in love much like regular folks - it takes the perfect alchemy of timing, chemistry, and (in some cases) a&nbsp;willingness to eat crabs.

<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-couples-who-never-married/celebrity-lists" target="_blank">Not all celebs tie the knot</a> with their respective paramours, but their <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/most-surprising-hollywood-marriages/celebrity-lists" target="_blank">A-list unions are still impressive</a>.

Celebrities Reveal The Moment They Realized Their Significant Other Was 'The One'

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Government Secrets

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A quartet of winged nuclear war bunkers lies in wait for the worst. <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/02/the-presidents-secret-air-force-215091" target="_blank">The crews</a>&nbsp;call them&nbsp;&quot;Air Force One When It Counts,&quot; and pilots refer to them&nbsp;as &quot;doomsday planes&quot; - the deadliest aircraft in the US&nbsp;military&#39;s arsenal that you have never heard of before.

Since the 1980s, the president has had this fleet of specially equipped aircraft&nbsp;known as the E-4B Nightwatch. The doomsday plane can launch&nbsp;land-and-sea-based nuclear ballistic missiles from the air, and it&#39;s the go-to mode of transport for the president&nbsp;in <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/where-the-president-goes-during-an-attack/christopher-myers" target="_blank">the event of a nuclear&nbsp;apocalypse</a>, as the airship is reportedly&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/weirdest-features-of-air-force-one/jeffrichard" target="_blank">more secure than&nbsp;Air Force&nbsp;One</a>.

The plane&nbsp;might appear self-explanatory, but there is a myriad of unexpected things you don&#39;t know about&nbsp;the doomsday plane. It comes fashioned with an aerial command station designed to execute war plans of epic proportions. And it&#39;s&nbsp;titanic, weighing up to 800,000&nbsp;pounds, featuring&nbsp;three decks and&nbsp;a supposedly retro interior. In other words, it&#39;s not your average airliner.

The US Has Four Doomsday Planes And The Government Doesn't Like Talking About Them

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Doomsday Plane: Facts About The Secret US Aircraft

Graveyard Shift

The town of Nagoro, Japan, is inhabited by more dolls than people. Even in a world littered with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/weird-american-small-towns/noah-henry" target="_blank">bizarre&nbsp;small villages</a>&nbsp;and creepy locales, this&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/what-its-like-to-live-in-whittier-alaska/donn-saylor" target="_blank">town</a> stands out. Nagoro&nbsp;feels otherworldly, and it's all thanks to one devoted doll maker.&nbsp;Life-sized, handmade dolls populate&nbsp;Nagoro,&nbsp;each representing a former occupant. When it became clear the population was shrinking, Ayano Tsukimi decided to replace each lost person with a doppelg&auml;nger. There are over 300 of them, and to Tsukimi, they're “her children.” There are only 37 actual residents in the town, and they live among an entire community of puppets.You may dismiss Nagoro&nbsp;as nightmarish. Or perhaps you think it's sweet that this woman wants to depict how the town was&nbsp;before it lost the majority of its residents.

Inside Nagoro, The Spooky Japanese Village Filled With Life-Sized Dolls

"Clothes make a man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." - Mark Twain

Past Fashion

Fads

Teen bracelet fads are a bona fide rite of passage for youths. In particular middle school circles, they act as wearable social currency. Just as big game hunters have their taxidermied conquests, awkward teenagers keep friendship bracelets.While bracelets are an essential accessory for any teen's&nbsp;outfit, not all teen bracelets are equal. Some bracelets became popular enough to incite&nbsp;a movement, with a couple becoming banned from certain US states.&nbsp;Teenage jewelry trends&nbsp;are in a constant state of flux, but a few fads irrevocably impact&nbsp;the national dialogue. From Silly Bandz&nbsp;to <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/what-happened-to-livestrong-bracelets/donn-saylor" target="_blank">yellow&nbsp;Livestrong&nbsp;bracelets</a>,&nbsp;numerous crazy bracelet fads garnered attention from adults, which, of course, made them instantly uncool.&nbsp;

The History Of Every Teen Bracelet Fad

The History Of Every Teen Bracelet Fad From the '80s to Today

Fun facts and fascinating trivia about historical, bygone, and modern foods for people who love eating food.

Chew on This

They say you must take the bitter with the sweet, but what about the toxic? We all have a few&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/real-halloween-candy-horror-stories/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">candy horror stories</a>, but some people's sweet trauma goes beyond eating a popcorn butter flavored Jelly Belly.&nbsp;Take <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/all-about-kinder-surprise-eggs/matt-manser" target="_blank">Kinder Eggs</a>, which have been banned in the US&nbsp;since the 1930s. The plastic toy hidden inside the candy has caused several children to choke (though everyone affected&nbsp;knowingly consumed the toys), and citizens who attempt&nbsp;to smuggle them into the States can be&nbsp;fined up to $2,500 per egg.While worldy&nbsp;sugar junkies can still pick up Kinder Eggs in other parts of the world, there are some candies you can't buy anymore, as they were <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/discontinued-foods-brought-back/anncasano" target="_blank">discontinued</a> for being too dangerous. Production was halted on the original Toxic Waste Nuclear Sludge Chew Bars after it was revealed that they contained&nbsp;high amounts of lead. Once you learn the truth about dangerous discontinued candy, you'll wonder how some of these products ever got approved.&nbsp;

Candies That Were Pulled For Being Too Dangerous

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12 Candies That Were Discontinued For Being Too Dangerous

Carrot Top

He calls himself the “wackiest comedian since I Love Lucy.” You may know him from his elaborate use of props, confetti canons, and fog machines. He brought the world <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7MsObn4Pds" target="_blank">Junk in the Trunk</a> and was the highest grossing touring comedian in the '90s. His real name may be&nbsp;Scott Thompson, but to the world&nbsp;he’s Carrot Top.&nbsp;We’ve all heard Carrot Top stories. Carrot Top’s flaming red locks graced the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnGWHj8ECAM" target="_blank">Tonight Show</a>, and the famous ginger even had his own series on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwHBK4wRH_U" target="_blank">Cartoon Network</a>. For a decade, Carrot Top’s career looked as bright as his mane&nbsp;of hair. But where is Carrot Top today?Is he underground, as his root-vegetable moniker might suggest? Is he spreading beta-carotene throughout America? Is he hiding in a compost heap somewhere? Where did Carrot Top go?&nbsp;According to him, he's at the top of the world! Today, Carrot Top is living his ginger-headed dreams: he’s hosting a long-term residency at the <a href="https://www.luxor.com/en/entertainment/carrot-top.html" target="_blank">Luxor Hotel</a> and Casino in Vegas. What's even more impressive is that before his current residency, he headlined a 16-year run at the MGM Grand. That’s a whole lot of stand-up. In fact, the &quot;King of Props&quot; performs over 300 shows a year in Las Vegas, with only Tuesdays off. In case you’re curious, here are some more things you probably didn’t know about Carrot Top.

What The Heck Is Carrot Top Up To These Days?

What was going on the year you were born? A look at the most popular things happening in entertainment, music, and even real world news while you were busy cycling through naps.

The Year You Were Born

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Were you <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/most-famous-actor-year-you-were-born/donn-saylor" target="_blank">born the same year</a> Meryl Streep&nbsp;cemented her legendary status by winning Best Supporting Actress&nbsp;in Best Picture winner Kramer v. Kramer?&nbsp;Or were you a child of the early '90s&nbsp;and born the same year Hannibal Lector changed the connotation of fava beans and chianti forever?Since 1929, the Oscar of Merit has been doled out to Hollywood's&nbsp;favored golden children. While the inaugural ceremony only lasted 15 minutes and had no more than 270 guests, today's Oscars are broadcast across the globe to over 100 million viewers. The award's significance&nbsp;transcends mere&nbsp;viewership, though. <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-academy-award-winners-for-best-picture" target="_blank">Best Picture winners</a> speak to the culture of an&nbsp;era, be it the post-Vietnam tensions&nbsp;depicted in&nbsp;The Deer Hunter&nbsp;or the&nbsp;suburban cynicism found in&nbsp;American Beauty.&nbsp;Check out these Oscar-winning movies by year&nbsp;and discover what film took home the gold when you entered the world. Perhaps you'll discover you were&nbsp;part of the collective consciousness that brought forth the bittersweet romance of Shakespeare in Love&nbsp;or epic heroism of Gladiator. What better way to discover the zeitgest that informed the very formation of your being than the Oscar-winning movie the year you were born? <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/life-imitating-art-photos/nathandavidson?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Life imitates art</a>, after all.&nbsp;&nbsp;

What Won Best Picture The Year You Were Born?

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Easy and clever ways to cut corners for a more enriching life experience.

Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

Tips

On the surface, food containers are somewhat underwhelming. Be it Tupperware&nbsp;or Tic Tac Boxes, the storage containers we put our food in seem self-explanatory: not much to discover there.&nbsp;But, are&nbsp;there more to food containers than meets the eye? These&nbsp;mind blowing food container tips will get you looking at your soda lids in a whole new light.&nbsp;

While many of these food container tricks have been pioneered by geniuses while eating, some of the below food container hacks were built into the product design itself. Did you know that Mott&#39;s juice boxes have side tabs, so kids don&#39;t have to&nbsp;baptize themselves in apple juice while squeezing the box?&nbsp;Move over, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/elon-musk-computer-simulation/jacob-shelton?ref=nodelyrel&amp;pos=1&amp;a=0&amp;l=931418&amp;ltype=n&amp;g=1" target="_blank">Elon Musk</a>;&nbsp;that&#39;s next-level innovation.

Then there&#39;s <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/ketchup-brands/werner-brandes" target="_blank">ketchup</a> cups. Yes, ketchup cups: the kind stacked in any fast food establishment worth its salt.&nbsp;Turns out, ketchup cups&nbsp;have a lot more going on than you may have originally given them credit for. The little white cups can be expanded to create perfect dipping bowls, ideal&nbsp;for sharing.

Are you freaking out yet? The truth is that ketchup cups are just&nbsp;one of several food containers you&#39;ve been using wrong since forever. Let&#39;s not even talk about Oreo containers. The middle divider of Oreo packs has major potential that could change&nbsp;your life if you let it.

Here&#39;s the tragedy: while we trudge through our mundane weeks, we oft&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/things-that-people-use-incorrectly/ashley-reign" target="_blank">use everyday items incorrectly</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/food-you-have-been-eating-wrong/donn-saylor" target="_blank">eat things the wrong way</a>, and miss the great purposefulness of everyday objects.&nbsp;Here, discover the extraordinary hiding in the commonplace. These are the Clark Kents of&nbsp;food containers: they may appear ordinary, but they have hidden powers.

Food Containers You've Been Using Wrong Your Entire Life

11 Food Containers You've Been Using Wrong Your Entire Life

Celebrities

They say fortune favors the bold. If that's the case, these famous people had to be really bold to succeed in life because they had birth names that would make the average person's self-confidence shrivel. &nbsp;Consider the cases of Medal-of-Honor recipient and war hero Dick Bong or self-made billionaire Anurag Dikshit. How did they get&nbsp;through middle school?&nbsp;Shakespeare's&nbsp;Juliet may have insisted that&nbsp;“a&nbsp;rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” but tell that to Olympic Swimmer Misty Hyman. Then there’s the case of Tokyo Sexwale: a South African politician, business magnate, and self-made millionaire whose name has Tokyo, Sex and the homophone for “whale” in it. And don’t forget about the current Republican Majority Floor Leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives,&nbsp;whose last name is just&nbsp;“Butt.” No, these aren't <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/stories-behind-famous-stage-names/hugh-landman" target="_blank">celebrity stage names</a>, they're legal monikers bestowed by presumably doting parents.So next time you think your name’s boring or wishing your name was Olivia Wilde, contemplate&nbsp;the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/funniest-real-names-of-celebrities/carlybobarly" target="_blank">funniest&nbsp;celebrity names</a> you wouldn't&nbsp;want to have (that may or may not include Dick, Sh*t, and Bong — sometimes grouped together). Also, realize that Olivia Wilde’s r<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/celebrities-with-stage-names/celebrity-lists" target="_blank">eal name</a> was Olivia Jane Cockburn. Ouch!&nbsp;After asking yourself, “But where were their mothers?” meet the magnates, politicians, scientists and celebs that somehow won at life, all while having the most unfortunate names ever.

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