Bob Marley sang his life on stage and enriched the lives of millions. To quote Rolling Stone, "Marley wasn't singing about how peace could come easily to the world but rather about how hell on earth comes too easily to too many." Here's the truth about his death.
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Donnie Yen's name might not quite make the list of martial arts actors everyone automatically knows about, like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li. However, that's simply because the world hasn't been paying attention. Here's how much Donnie Yen is actually worth.
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In 1984, a 42-year-old Muhammad Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, according to The Guardian. By then, he no longer floated like a butterfly. But the sting felt by seeing him in his later years was lessened by the fact of his success. Here's how much he was worth when he died.
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There are few more dramatic moments than beloved characters dying before our eyes. The awesome TV series that kept us riveted throughout the 2010s often employed the device of making us wonder just which bucket would be kicked. Here are the TV deaths from the past decade we're still mourning.
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George Foreman, who packed "one of the most powerful right hands in boxing history," had zero desire to have Mike Tyson all up in his grill. "I call him Mike 'Nightmare' Tyson," said Foreman. "I didn't want to have anything to do with that guy." How powerful was Iron Mike's punch?
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Football. The sweet science. America's pastime. The long awaited answer to the question "how hard do you think we could get those big guys to run into each other?" For decades, American football players were paid on a low, per-game basis, but that's all changed. Who's the highest paid player now?
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If you've ever seen a Red Hot Chili Peppers gig, you might have wondered why Will Ferrell is sitting behind the drums. The RHCP drummer Chad Smith and comedy legend Ferrell share an uncanny resemblance. Are Ferrell and Smith related? Identical twins? Here's the story behind their relationship.
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Roger Ebert was a national treasure, and his death in 2013 left a smoking crater in the world of film criticism. Roger Ebert genuinely loved movies, and seemed to take bad filmmaking as a personal affront. Here are Roger Ebert's most hardcore disses and most brutal movie reviews of all time.
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Schadenfreude is watching a filmmaker fail spectacularly at crafting a movie they thought was just the best. The result is often unintentional comedy gold.
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The UFC was purchased in 2016 for $4.025 billion, and if you believe the UFC president Dana White, its value has only gone up: In 2018, White stated it was worth no less than $7 billion. With that kind of money floating around, it makes sense that White is also making himself a pretty penny, right?
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The atlas moth is sort of the Andre the Giant of the moth community. It's a remarkable species with a wingspan that can reach nearly thirty centimeters, or large enough to make anyone shudder when imagining what it would feel like to have one crawl across their face. Here is its tragic life's tale.
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Back in 1992, as most people tell it, a woman ordered a hot coffee at McDonald's, spilled it, and suffered some minor burns — only to turn around, sue the popular chain restaurant, and get rich. In reality? That is the version of the story that the McDonald's PR team has taught you.
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Sometimes a musician's downfall can be traced back to a single, catastrophic incident that burns all of their bridges at once.
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Freediving is a competitive sport with different variations on the theme of going dangerously deep underwater without oxygen. "No limits" freediving is the discipline where the record for the deepest free dive ever done by a human was set, and boy was it deep.
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The Purge is kind of a goofy concept, but hey, enough of the movie-watching public has bought into the concept (in movie form, at least) that we're several movies and a TV series deep. But c'mon ... let's use our brains here. Here are dumb things in the Purge movies people just ignored.
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Paige was the WWE's "Anti-Diva:" A pale, skinny goth girl whose rocker garb and unassuming attitude challenged the company's long-standing tradition of buxom, glittery female wrestlers who looked like cheerleaders. What made Paige quit her sport? What made her retire from the WWE?
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Put on your helmet and get ready for some football as we explain the longest suspensions in the NFL - a league that forgives but never forgets.
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Trying to imagine a fight between Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson is kind of like asking, "What would happen if a lightning-fast Dr. Seuss got into a fistfight with an incredibly dexterous Rottweiler?" Who would have won a trash talk war between these two?
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When you watch pro wrestling as a kid, every performer seems immortal, 1991 saw the Undertaker undefeated. No one realized it at the time, but that streak would eventually bring an end to Shawn Michaels' career. Here's the real reason he retired.
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He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. We're talking of course, about the Elf on the Shelf, the most thinly veiled wolf in sheep's clothing that money can buy. But Elf on the Shelf breaks rules too, in ways only adults will understand. Here's proof.
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WWE superstar Paige retired from the WWE ring in 2018 because her neck had taken too much punishment to continue her occupation. Never one to be underrated, the WWE star is still very much a name on everyone's lips. Let's take a look at what Paige has been doing since retiring from wrestling.
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At this point, it's probably safe to say that everybody knows Andre the Giant. He was larger than life, but that complicates the task of putting Andre's life into definable terms. How many of the esteemed strong man's feats were an act, and how much was actual, almost supernatural physical strength?
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Regardless of your opinion about billionaires in general, you could probably find plenty worse than business magnate and Berkshire Hathaway big dog Warren Buffett, who has promised to give away over 99% of his fortune. How much, would you think, he'd have to give away every day to achieve this?
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The time: 75 million years ago. The setting: outer space. According to Hubbard, Xenu was troubled by the potentially disastrous levels of overpopulation in his interstellar kingdom. Here's the truth about this totally real, not made up dude.
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Warren Buffett is not someone you'd call poor. The Berkshire Hathaway chief's fortune of over $87 billion qualifies him as the third wealthiest man in the world. Can you imagine the house a man of such wealth must live in? Let's take a look at what must be the luxurious dwelling of Warren Buffett.
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The four hundred dollars you spent renting a party bus on a whim is a drop in the water compared to the absolutely gargantuan one day loss suffered by one of the richest men in history. It's all about perspective. Mention that to your landlord when you ask for an extension on this month's rent.
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It's a common fantasy: If you suddenly became rich, what would be the first thing you'd buy? Even someone like Bill Gates, who now has more money than some countries, once wrestled with that particular situation. What was the first thing he bought when he got rich?
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