The Truth About Queen's Infamous Album Release Party
On Halloween night, 1978, Freddie Mercury held a no-holds-barred album release party for Queen's new LP, Jazz. Since then, the night has become an urban legend in its own right.
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How Much Does Bill Gates Pay In Taxes?
Bill Gates exists on a level of wealth that makes most other billionaires pale in comparison. But does he pay his fair share of taxes to the government?
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Secret Passages You'll Find In Famous Landmarks
Here are secret passages you'll find in famous landmarks. You can visit many of these secret passages yourself if you know where to look.
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Most Insane Driver Stunts Of All Time
For most of us, a vehicle is something that gets us from point A to point B. However, not everyone uses their vehicles for such simple tasks.
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This Was Ray Kroc's Profession Before McDonald's
In 1960, Ray Kroc bought exclusive rights to McDonald's. Now that company is Kroc's claim to fame. But he had a decades-long career before that. What did Ray Kroc do for all those years?
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Who Was The Real Man In The Iron Mask?
Who was the Man in the Iron Mask? What was his crime? Did he really wear a skillet on his face for 30-plus years? Well, the answers to all those questions, in order, are ‘hard to say,’ ‘nobody's sure,’ and ‘probably not.’
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The Real Reason Monks Had That Haircut
There are few hairstyles as distinctive as the Christian monks' tonsure. When you see someone sporting the shaved head with the ring of hair, you know what they're probably doing the rest of their life. Here's the history behind the monks' iconic haircut.
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We Now Understand Why The Roman Empire Crumbled
Legend has it that twin brothers Romulus and Remus founded the city of Rome, per the Ancient History Encyclopedia. Descendants of the mythical founder of Italy, Aeneas, the double-myth twins were the sons of a Vestal Virgin named Rhea Silvia. Some accounts name Hercules as their father ...
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The Earliest Humans Living In England Didn't Look Like You Think
Life often plays the Ygritte to humanity's Jon Snow, and not just because life eventually screws people. Time and time again, life tells even the smartest and most knowledgeable individuals, "You know nothing." Facts are screwy things, after all, and just when you think ...
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The Dark History Of The American Beard
From America's founding historical moments, the beard choices of American men reveal deep-seated attitudes about the most basic stuff that makes a civilization tick. So grab a beard comb, and let's dive face first into the bristly, dark depths of the history of the American beard.
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Underwater Cities Found In Mysterious Places
Submerged cities are, by their very nature, baffling to behold, but sometimes these underwater towns are discovered under especially mystifying circumstances.
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The Reason You Weren't Supposed To Use The Phone During The 1918 Pandemic
Pandemics threaten people's lives and upend their way of life. In what might be described as unnatural selection, the illness enables some companies to thrive, while confronting others with catastrophe, by virtue of whatever goods and services do the most good for people seeking to avoid infection.
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The Best Players In Jeopardy! History
Only a few Jeopardy! contestants have had the juice to become household names. And with that said, the following article gives information on these notable people. Answer: Who are the best players in Jeopardy! history?
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The Truth About The Origins Of '4/20'
You would be amazed, just amazed, to find out about the improbable origins of colloquialisms, catch phrases, and turns of phrase. Like did you know that "4/20" was invented by some teenagers who liked to get high?
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Is There Actually A Difference Between Bigfoot And Sasquatch?
Bigfoot... Sasquatch... Are these two different mythical creatures or one and the same?
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What Is Pablo Escobar's Wife Doing Now?
Maria Henao and late husband Pablo Escobar had drastically different backgrounds. Henao recalls in her memoir, My Life and My Prison With Pablo Escobar, that she "came from an upstanding, traditional family." Escobar not only came from the wrong side of the tracks; he was a runaway train to hell.
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What Happened To Pablo Escobar's Money After He Died?
Medellin Cartel founder and Cocaine King of Colombia, Pablo Escobar, was by some accounts the wealthiest criminal in history. But what happened to his money once he died?
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Here's How You Can Avoid Germs At The Grocery Store
As we've all suddenly realized, your standard Aldi or Fred Meyer is basically a petting zoo for capitalism, with John Public rubbing his meathooks all over your next meal like he's learning new words from Anne Sullivan. It's important to take precautions to avoid germs are the store.
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What It Was Like To Be Marie Antoinette's Child
Marie Antoinette had four children, and despite their royal origins, none of their lives were cake.
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The Real Reason Why Pope Benedict XVI Resigned
Pope Benedict XVI, elected head of the Catholic Church in 2005, resigned in 2013. He isn't the first pope to do so, but he's the first in about 400 years. Longer than the United States has been in existence.
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How This Star Just Proved Einstein Was Right
"You were right." Surely one of the sweetest sentences in any language. It has to be even sweeter when applied to a theory that is eventually backed up by observable phenomena. Unfortunately, Albert Einstein, perhaps the most influential physicist who ever lived, isn't around to see this one.
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Why Ernest Hemingway Was Once Quarantined With His Wife And Mistress
But no matter how grating, exhausting, or awkward your government mandated anti-viral family time gets, it's unlikely that it will ever reach the heights of weirdness achieved by the Ernest Hemingway household in 1926.
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The Truth About The Smallest Dinosaur Ever Discovered
Roughly the size of a small hummingbird, this is the smallest dinosaur ever discovered.
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Here's How Many People Died During The Bombing Of Hiroshima
If you grew up in the United States, you're familiar with a certain elementary school narrative regarding World War II, about how the U.S. triumphantly "ended the war" by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The truth? Well, it's a bit more complex, as usual.
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Here's How The Black Plague Finally Ended
The Sedlec Ossuary houses chalices, ornate wall ornaments, and even a chandelier that are all built from the bones of more than 40,000 skeletons. About 30,000 of those skeletons belonged to people who succumbed to the Black Death.
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The Truth About King Tut's Health Problems
King Tut. The name captures the imagination. Just ask Steve Martin, who did a famous musical number about Tutankhamen for Saturday Night Live. Like a lot of history, though, the details often get lost in the translation ... until science steps in and gives the low-down.
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We Now Understand Why The Persian Empire Crumbled
The mighty Persian Empire was born in the cradle of civilization, ancient Mesopotamia. Also known as the Achaemenid Empire, it emerged as "the world's first superpower" in the 6th century B.C., and under the leadership of King Cyrus the Great, the Persians toppled Babylon, Media, and Lydia ...
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