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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Kanye West has been at the "super into religion" stage of his career for a while now, and it looks like we're well past the stage where Sunday church and scripture are enough to tickle Yeezy's fancy. Now, it's all about silver robes, face paint and nativity scenes. In an opera. On a boat.
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Maurizio Cattelan's $120,000 installation called "Comedian" was literally just an ordinary banana duct taped to a wall. It's not the most bizarre thing found in a museum, but it's up there. One day, some guy just walked up and ate the delicious, delicious wall banana. And he's not sorry about it.
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The DeBarges are a big family. The musical group's biggest success was the 1985 hit "Rhythm of the Night," but the personal lives of the DeBarges have been defined by discord. Between their struggles with addiction, crime, and drama, the DeBarges have lived tragic lives.
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One of the biggest stops for celebrities who are promoting a new project is the talk show circuit. Sometimes, though, TV interviews with famous people go horribly off the rails. Celebrities have bad days at work too, but they have them on camera. Here are some celebs who lost it in TV interviews.
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Figuring out what is and isn't appropriate for TV is tricky, as standards change all the time. Still, sometimes audiences themselves decide a show went too far.
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At some point, we've all stared at the ceiling and thought to ourselves "I wonder how fast cars can go?" The answer, of course, depends on the car, and what your definition of "car" is. The point is, the world's fastest car is less of a car and more what you'd call a space shuttle on wheels.
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