The card at UFC 239 was stacked, but the fight between Jorge Masvidal and Ben Askren turned out to be all anyone could talk about after it produced the fastest knockout in UFC history. Here's the tale of the tape and the story behind the fastest knockout in UFC history.
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Woody Harrelson and his father, Charles, don't have a lot in common. Why is that? Well, probably because Charles Harrelson was a hitman.
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American moviegoers have standards, and it's most obvious when looking at the world's enthusiastic embrace of some of Lady Liberty's greatest film catastrophes.
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A zombie apocalypse could be fun, if it goes the way that TV shows and movies imagine it. But the thing about enjoying a zombie apocalypse is you'd have to survive the zombie apocalypse first. Here are a whole bunch of reasons you wouldn't survive a zombie apocalypse.
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His name was Joseph Merrick. He was talented, intelligent, and "a gentle, affectionate and lovable" person.
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As well-versed players know, the happy landscape can turn into a nightmare in a matter of seconds. Here are some of the creepiest things we found in Minecraft.
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Remember the thrill of opening a pack of trading cards and finding one with your favorite player on it? Well, you'd be a lot more thrilled if you were to open a dusty old box in someone's attic and find a pristine copy of one of these expensive trading cards.
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It took enterprising players recording their findings to prove these myths, so we owe it to them to talk about the wild stuff they found. Let's take a look at some of the downright weirdest proven myths in Grand Theft Auto.
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Cops may play the good guys in movies, but bold and brilliant outlaws seem heroic. These are some remarkable real-life capers that belong on the big screen.
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You don't have to be a Bible-thumper to know about the Twelve Apostles from the Bible. Called by Jesus to follow him, the Twelve Apostles were a dozen dudes who chilled with Jesus and asked lots of dumb questions so he could give understandable answers. Here's what we know about the Twelve Apostles.
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Chernobyl is one of the worst nuclear accidents ever, but the USA had its own mess-up: the 1979 nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island. Three Mile Island wasn't as bad as Chernobyl, but it was a big mess. Here are secrets they tried to hide about the nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island.
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Billionaire Ross Perot has died at age 89. What did the straight-talking Texan do with his time on Earth, aside from ruin George H.W. Bush's chances at a second term? Well, it turns out that Ross Perot didn't cost Bush the election in 1992. Here's that story and other facts about Ross Perot's life.
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California is earthquake country. It's only a matter of time before the Big One strikes. Here's what we know about California earthquakes.
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On July 7, 2019, it happened again: The U.S. women's national soccer team delighted its fans and thumbed its nose at the naysayers by winning their fourth World Cup in a feat of rarely seen sports dominance. Here's a deeper look at the USWNT.
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Royals tend to live way more dramatic lives than their subjects. History is filled with stories of monarchs living large from the moment they are born.
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A billion dollars is a lot of money. It's hard to imagine how people become billionaires, but even stranger is that some billionaires lose it all.
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Oceans are great, but they aren't always kind to ships. To survive out there, a ship needs to be remarkably tough and be captained well. But it also takes luck. Here are ships that mysteriously vanished.
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Brittany Murphy won the hearts and minds of movie lovers with her performances in such late '90s and early aughts classics as Clueless, 8 Mile, Riding in Cars with Boys, and Girl, Interrupted. But Brittany Murphy suddenly died in 2009, and her death is still a mystery.
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When P.T. Barnum's name comes up these days, it's mostly for one of two reasons. Either someone loved him in The Greatest Showman or someone really loves animal crackers. But in real life, P.T. Barnum was a pretty darn complicated person. Here's the messed up truth of P.T. Barnum.
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Freakshows. They're a weird thing, but here are some people who made performing in them their bread and butter.
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Put simply, death. Just a massive, horrifying amount of violent death occurred during this period of discussion, be it from war, famine, or more war. Go ahead and count your lucky stars that you weren't born in pre-modern China, a time when some seriously messed up things happened.
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There's nothing like getting on a plane for the first time. Sure, once you've flown a couple times, it's easy. But the first flight, the sudden rush of air as the airplane soars into the clouds -- that's something. It's also scary to think about your airplane disappearing, like these airplanes did.
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Fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe generally know what to expect when they go to catch the latest Marvel movie: a whole lot of entertainment and fun. But with all that fun has come a lot of sadness and tragedy. Here are the darkest Marvel movie moments.
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Let's face it: Hollywood is not great at keeping its based-on-a-true-story stories very accurate. Usually it's more like a Hollywood biopic might have gotten some of the names right. Maybe. Here are biopics that just lied to your face.
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High-speed rail in the USA hasn't made a lot of progress in the last 50 years. Here's why the U.S. doesn't have a high-speed rail network.
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Sharon Tate is better known for how she died than how she lived. In 1969 she was one of five people killed by members of Charles Manson's Family cult, an event reimagined in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Here are things you probably didn't know about Sharon Tate.
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It's really easy to identify an A-list actor. After all, we've seen them in dozens of films, on magazine covers, and all over the internet. But for some roles, the actors have to disappear. Here are actors who were completely unrecognizable in a movie.
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