Did you know the entire second verse of Rihanna’s 2006 No. 1 hit “SOS” is made up of strung-together ’80s song titles? It includes “Take on Me,” “(I Just) Died in Your Arms,” “Head Over Heels,” You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” and “The Way You Make Me Feel.” Songwriter Evan Bogart shared this fact for what may be the first time on the Behind the Wall podcast.

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If you were born after 1998, Addison Rae likely needs no introduction. But for everyone else, this 24-year-old LSU dropout rose to fame alongside TikTok’s own rise in 2019. She became famous for viral dance videos and was soon the platform’s highest earner, making $5 million between June 2019 and June 2020 (now she reportedly earns ~$142,000 per TikTok). Her fame then reached the mainstream as she began appearing on Keeping Up With The Kardashians and went viral for an unfortunate TV appearance where she awkwardly taught TikTok dances to Jimmy Fallon—an incident which has since been scrubbed from Fallon’s channel.