As counterintuitive as the words "cheap Scotch" may seem, there is a whole world of excellent value-driven Scotch whisky out there for you to consume if you know where to look.

Thanks to a growing lot of industry devotees, rum is finally breaking free from its syrupy past and popping up on respected backbars across the country, from funky tiki spots to refined cocktail lounges.

This year commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a series of demonstrations by members of the LGBTQ+ community in 1969 against a police raid that led to the birth of the modern gay rights movement.

Trident’s been super-useful since 1960 by helping fight against cavities, but gum’s been around since at least 5000 BC, the date archaeologists pinned to a glob of chewable Neolithic bark-tar they found in the Finnish municipality of Yli-li -- which is impossible to say while chewing gum.