Statistics Saturday: Things You Forgot Happened This Year

1. The guy who directed Batman And Robin died.
2. We were sharing pictures of people cutting open stuff to reveal it’s cake inside.
3. “At this point I ran out of magnets.”
4. Series finale of Steven Universe.
5. The impeachment trial.
6. “A large boulder the size of a small boulder.”
7. The failure Fyre Festival amused and delighted the world.
8. The death of David Bowie shocked the world.
9. “Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom SNAKE.”
10. Woodstock ’99.
11. The Canter and Siegel Green Card spam on Usenet introduced the Internet to mass unsolicited commercial advertising.
12. The Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 2,000 points for the first time.
13. The world’s longest Monopoly game reached into four days, with Parker Brothers sending emergency supplies of cash to keep the game going (despite the game rules specifying that the bank shall issue scrip when the official cash runs out).
14. A scandal in salad-oil inventory storage endangered the American Express corporation.
15. A giant panda was brought into the United States for the first time.
16. W.C.Fields made his screen debut in the silent comedy shorts Pool Sharks and His Lordship’s Dilemma.

Reference: The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television, David Weinstein.