Comedy Central owes quite a debt of gratitude to the show South Park. The wild success of the animated series led to a 450 percent increase in the number of households that had Comedy Central within a single year of the show’s debut.

Broadway is the longest street in Manhattan, running from State Street at Bowling Green for 13 miles (21 kilometers) through the borough of Manhattan and 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) through the Bronx, where it exits the city.

Neither Columbus nor his contemporaries thought the Earth was flat; Greek scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians had proven that the Earth was a sphere as early as around 600 B.C., centuries before his voyage.