8. The End of Seinfield
Given the frequency of Seinfeld re-runs, it's easy to forget that the show actually came to an end 15 YEARS OLD. That's, like, a decade... plus five more years! Have Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer really been off the air for that long? Yep: the final episode aired May 14th 1998. What have the cast been up to for the last 15 years, then? Well, Seinfeld had Bee Movie, and, um, he's doing that web series where he drives around in expensive cars getting coffee... Jason Alexander is... uh, (we'll come back to him)... Michael Richards had that racism thing. Hm, none of that is super reassuring. Well, at least Julia Louis-Dreyfuss is doing okay. She's won two Emmys since, in fact. Props to you, Julia.
Obscure Fact: Kramer was so popular with members of the studio audience during the taping of episodes, that the producers had to ask them to stop clapping for so long whenever he entered the scene. Yeah, we know the feeling.
7. Half-Life
It's insane to think that Half-Life has been around for 15 years, having first arrived for Windows in 1998 (it was made available on the Playstation 2 in 2001). Playing as mild-mannered (and thoroughly silent) physicist Gordon Freeman, players were confined to an underground laboratory after an experiment gone wrong tears open a portal to another universe and lets a bunch of horrifying creatures through - gotta love those headcrabs, huh? The game became famous for its "real to life" atmosphere and that iconic crowbar. Its sequel, the arguably better Half-Life, turns 10-years-old next year. WHAT?
Obscure Fact: The original title for the game was "Quiver," which is... well, nowhere near as cool, if we're being honest. They went with Half-Life because it seemed to sum up the "theme" of the game, whilst also corresponding to the Greek alphabet's lower-case lambda symbol.