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If you’ve seen one of Trixie Mattel’s doll-like looks, you might have wondered who is actually behind the wigs. The answer is Brian Michael Firkus, a performer from Milwaukee who turned a high-concept drag character into a music, cosmetics, and television business — and the verified record ends where the speculation begins. Born: August 23, … Read more

Rookies who shoot like veterans usually need a runway before the threes start falling. Kon Knueppel, the Charlotte Hornets’ first-year guard out of Duke, compressed that runway into a few months — long enough to set an NBA rookie record for made three-pointers, according to CBS Sports’ player page, a rookie story defined as much … Read more

Anyone who has stood at the 5th Station and looked up at Mount Fuji’s perfect cone has stood on a volcano that last erupted in 1707 (Nippon.com (Japan-based news publisher)). It is Japan’s highest mountain, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a place of deep spiritual meaning — yet it is also an active stratovolcano … Read more

Ariana Madix spent years as Tom Sandoval’s partner on Vanderpump Rules. Then a very public affair upended that script—and she answered by turning a reality-TV breakup into a multiplatform career that, as of 2025, includes a Broadway credit, a Dancing with the Stars finale, and the host chair on Love Island USA. Born: June 24, … Read more

Few television doctors made healthy eating feel like an experiment you can try at home, which is part of why the news from the Greek island of Symi in June 2024 landed with such force. Michael Mosley, 67, was found there after a four-day search, BBC News reported, but the verified facts of his final … Read more

Before Anthony Bourdain told millions where to eat, he spent years in the kitchens that restaurant guests never see. He trained at the Culinary Institute of America (culinary college) before writing the 2000 memoir Kitchen Confidential, which turned that hidden world into a bestseller and led to a television career that reached some of the … Read more

On a summer night in 1986, a 26-year-old nurse stepped off a train at Blacktown station and never made it home — her murder by five men became a defining case in Australian criminal justice, leading to a sentence of life without parole that has held for nearly four decades. This is the verified record, … Read more

Search for Georgie Tunny and a fair share of the questions people actually ask have little to do with her journalism. The ABC and Network 10 presenter has spent more than a decade in Australian newsrooms and now has a debut novel, Over to You, built from that experience. Across the public record the career … Read more

Few British leaders divided opinion as sharply as Margaret Thatcher, and the arguments over what she actually did have not faded with time. She became the United Kingdom’s first female prime minister in 1979 and held the office until 1990, a run that included three general-election victories (Margaret Thatcher Foundation (archival institution)). Prime ministerial term: … Read more

Anyone who has typed “Lana Wilkinson shoes” into Google has met the same wall: page after page of official brand imagery, an elegant About page, and an Instagram feed full of statement heels — but almost nothing about who actually stocks the shoes, what they cost, or who the woman behind the label is; the … Read more