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Kellogg's ripped off the idea for Pop-Tarts from Post. Post announced they were going to be making a pastry for your toaster called Country Squares, so Kellogg's quickly developed their own version and got them out first in 1964.
The Backstreet Boys were named after an outdoor flea market in Orlando, Florida called the Backstreet Market. Teenagers would hang out there in the '80s and '90s.
The phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" is based on a real family with the last name Jones. They built a huge mansion in Rhinebeck, New York in the mid-1800s, and other rich families in the area remodeled their homes to try to match them.