Michael Jackson had a huge 1983. He sold millions of copies of his album Thriller and starred in one of the most popular, famous, and well-produced music videos of all time. This is the untold truth of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video.
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Here are some crazy true stories of politicians convicted of crimes.
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Hart Island has been host prisoners of war, quarantined city dwellers, convicts, the mentally ill, and more. And, almost always, it has been set aside for the burial of New York City's indigent and unclaimed dead. This is the messed up history of New York's Hart Island.
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Yellow fever has a history of plaguing humans for centuries. While today a vaccine can protect us, it had a history of affecting Panama Canal construction.
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Falling from any great height is terrifying. The feeling of plummeting toward earth in free-fall, sure, some people love it, but not others. So, what's the farthest someone's fallen, without the safety of a parachute, and lived to tell about? These are the highest falls that people have survived.
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The Kent State massacre was the killing of four and wounding of nine students at Kent State in Ohio on May 4, 1970 by National Guardsmen. Student protests had emerged on campus over conflict in Vietnam and Cambodia, and the Ohio National Guard shot unarmed students in the process.
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Yoko Ono looms large in most debates over the downfall of the Beatles, but a multitude of factors led to the Fab Four's split. This is the break up of the Beatles explained.
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There's nobody else quite like Rob Zombie, known as much for his horror films as his career as a heavy metal musician. This is the untold truth of Rob Zombie.
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These bloopers will make you love wrestling even more than you do already.
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Some facts about history you just wish you never knew, like that people used to sit in dead whales to cure arthritis or that human fat was an old cure for gout. These upsetting historical facts will make you question everything you knew about Bull Run, Peru, and Ivy League schools.
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Even the most skeptical among us can still be scared by an old, creepy-looking cemetery. Here are some of the most haunted cemeteries in the world.
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Marcus Wesson was an actual person who lived this demented story, and is still alive and hanging out on death row in San Quentin State Prison.
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Disco culture emerged from underground house parties which showcased the music of Black, LGBT, and Latino cultures in the early 1970s. The history of disco is full of tragedy, from Freddie Mercury's death, to the shuttering of Studio 54, and the riots of Disco Demolition Night.
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A photograph that's graced every American history book, the Migrant Mother features an exhausted, dirt-tussled woman, looking into the distance as her children huddle close. The photo did nothing to help the woman herself. Here's what happened to the Migrant Mother from the Great Depression.
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Laurel and Hardy were a comedy duo who rose to fame during the Classical Hollywood era. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's slapstick comedy dominated the 1930s, as they appeared in 107 films and earned an Academy Award. But behind the act were failed marriages, health problems, and financial ruin.
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A big-name newspaper one wrote, "Everyone in Hollywood has a Playboy Mansion story. Many are unprintable." Let's dig further and find out exactly what living in the Playboy Mansion was like.
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Tragically, feuds and shifting careers have led Simon & Garfunkel to reunite and break up many times over.
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When it comes to notorious serial killers, there's probably none higher on the list than Jack the Ripper, but what about the Yorkshire Ripper? This is the the untold truth of the Yorkshire Ripper.
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With centuries of student and teacher history, schools are one of the most common places for ghosts to haunt, from Ireland to Oklahoma.
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Astronauts living onboard the International Space Station 250 miles above Earth experience life a bit differently. On the space station, the effects of microgravity mean astronauts are strapped in while they eat, exercise, and use the toilet. Living on the space station can affect height and aging.
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Chester Bennington was best known for being the lead singer of Linkin Park. For much of his life, he struggled with drug abuse, alcoholism, and deepening depression. This is what the final 12 months of Chester Bennington's life was like.
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You might know NASA sent the first men to the Moon in 1969, but how much do you know about the events that caused NASA to be created?
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All serial killers are evil, but the Golden State Killer was particularly terrible. In early 2020, the four-decade-old case came to a close and it gave a lot of people a lot of hope — hope that there's always still a chance for justice. Here's how the Golden State Killer was finally caught.
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The United States has had a long, sad history of racial violence, and shockingly, few of these incidents are widely remembered. There are the U.S. race riots history forgot.
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The Conjuring and subsequent films in the franchise feature a doll which is supposedly possessed by a demonic spirit, and many have wondered about the actual Raggedy Ann said to have inspired it. This is the true story of the doll that inspired Annabelle.
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It was just another Friday night at a Burger Chef restaurant in Speedway, Indiana in 1978. Until something happened, four employees disappeared, and the place was robbed. The case was a disaster from the beginning, and murders went free. This is the untold truth of the Burger Chef murders.
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Before Black Sabbath, metal was barely a thing. After Sabbath, metal was a lifestyle. But all those sinister lyrics and all that heavy riffing came from a dark place. This is the tragic real-life story of Black Sabbath.
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