With such a monumental record, it's no wonder that fans of Andre the Giant's colossal legacy are still scratching their heads as to what happened when he fought Japanese wrestler Akira Maeda in 1986. In the video of the match, Andre is seen taking down Maeda by simply falling on top of him.
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the success of Damn The Torpedoes made MCA want Hard Promises to be part of their new marketing program, in which records expected to sell particularly well would be priced a dollar more. "Superstar pricing" meant that Hard Promises would sell for $9.98 instead of the then-standard $8.98.
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The story of Mac Miller is one we've heard too many times in too many different ways. A young talent finds fast fame and fortune, only to die young. It's a sad tale in some ways, and a story of accomplishment in others. In Mac Miller's 26 years on this Earth, he got a great a deal done.
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The band has been up and down and traveled some rocky roads, but all that time, bassist Cliff Williams stuck it out. Until that time he didn't in 2016, anyway. Why, after everything the band had gone through, did Williams decide to step away from the gig? He had his reasons, and it wasn't easy.
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You'd think with the level of fame Lee amassed in geek and mainstream culture, the end of his life would've been pretty grand. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. His last days were filled with tragedy.
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Boybands come and go, but while they're around, there's always intense debate about them. What's their best song? Who's the best singer? Who's the hottest member? At the risk of inciting a throng of angry millennial fangirls, people even fight about the least popular members.
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After he graduated, he taught high school for three years. "First day, I'd tell the class all I knew," he told The Saturday Evening Post, "and there was nothin' left to say for the rest o' the semester." He was born to perform, though, and he created a road show with his wife, Barbara Edwards.
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In a career filled with legendary performances, Michael Jordan's "flu game" is one of his most well-known and well-loved. During Game 5 of the 1997 NBA finals, Jordan was sick to his stomach and reported feeling "really tired and very weak," and asked coach Phil Jackson to use him "in spurts."
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In the early morning hours of February 4, 2018, Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson asked his Uber driver to pull over. He wasn't feeling well and needed to get some air. In a tragic turn, Jackson and driver Jeffery Monroe were struck by a drunk driver who had swerved onto the shoulder.
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Speaking to StarWars.com, Hyneman said he researched possible new careers and made a list of his interests. And he didn't just make a pros and cons list; he actually went to a library and studied up on what these different jobs entailed. He landed on special effects, particularly animatronics.
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Irwin got his start early. At six, he received a 12-foot scrub python as a pet. He named it Fred. Strange gift? Not really, since both his parents, Lyn and Bob Irwin, were naturalists, and the Crocodile Hunter spent lots of time with them looking at wildlife as he grew up.
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one former Broncos staffer called the holier-than-thou persona "the most self-centered humble guy I've ever met." This attitude quickly turned his teammates and coaching staff against him. Tebow was so full of himself that he began to charge $50,000 to speak at churches.
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Upon leaving the military Hendrix performed as a session musician under the name Jimmy James, but it was while fronting his own group, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames in 1966 in New York, that Hendrix had a fortunate meeting that would forever change the course of his musical career.
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Rudy isn't the only man in history to use his name -- which inspired a classic football film -- to sell merchandise, though it does fall rather nicely into the category of American hero, transformed into a brand, like Walt Disney
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While we rightly celebrate Einstein as the foremost practitioner of modern physics, we must also acknowledge that he's a human being who's done some terrible things. Although a genius, he was not a good husband who may have contributed to a system that denied his wife respect as a scientist.
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Bruce Lee was more than a martial arts figure. He had hidden depths, such as his love for poetry and philosophy. And when you think about it, poetry and philosophy shaped much of his fighting style.
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Quite a bit has changed in the NFL over the decades. For example, as journalist Bryan Armen Graham tweeted in 2014, players at the first Super Bowl were photographed chugging Fresca and smoking cigs like a bunch of cool kids.
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For many, the image of John Lydon –- or as he is often better known, Johnny Rotten –- will forever be tied to his opening lines on The Sex Pistols' "Anarchy In The UK."
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As with any historically based drama, the new Netflix film from screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7, has audiences asking how accurate it is, and how much was cooked up for entertainment purposes.
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Bruce Lee was one of the most famous human beings of the 20th century. As a result, the story of his parents is often overshadowed by the successes and scandals of Lee's life, but they were each fascinating people in their own right.
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Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco, and he grew up in Hong Kong … so why is he buried in Seattle?
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By the time that blues rock band Cream marked its third year as a band, the three-piece had basically already broken up -- in November of 1968.
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McGuinness has also used his clout to call for increased hepatitis vaccinations in the ring and put an end to purposeful bleeding -- wrestlers secretly cutting themselves or opponents ("blading," per The Ringer) to produce blood during a match and, presumably, make the match more exciting.
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The 2010s were full of brutal, gruesome movies. But not all of them got the attention they deserved. From psychologically disturbing dramas to gory horror flicks, these are the darkest movies of the past decade that nobody is talking about.
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Ozzy Osbourne has lived a life so unbelievable that many bonkers stories about him are indeed real. But a lot of common knowledge about the man is just plain wrong. Here are the false facts about Ozzy Osbourne that you always thought were true.
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John Belushi lived a short but eventful life filled with both overwhelming success and heartbreaking tragedy. This is the tragic real-life story of John Belushi.
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After more than 45 years of earning his money by duck walking, dropping to the floor for sick guitar solos, miming devil horns on his own head, and running around stadium stages in a schoolboy uniform, it's a fair question: Just how much is AC/DC's Angus Young really worth?
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