How Did Screaming Trees Get Their Name?
The band Screaming Trees lost a second member within less than a year in 2023. Here's how the group got its name.
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The band Screaming Trees lost a second member within less than a year in 2023. Here's how the group got its name.
Read MoreAngela Lansbury was made a dame in 2014, and here's how that honor came to be for the British-born American actor, whose career spanned eight decades.
Read MoreIn 2018, SpaceX announced it would send a manned spacecraft to circle the moon, crewed by artists rather than scientists. Here are the selected crewmembers.
Read MoreBob Ross made more than 1,000 paintings for his PBS show. But there were certainly more than that. Ross himself claimed he'd made 30,000 paintings in his lifetime, roughly 15 times as many as Vincent Van Gogh is known to have made. With that many to choose from, you should be able to buy one, right?
Read MoreThe Temptations were a defining part of the Motown brand, and kept going for decades after their '60s debut. But their lives were more tragic than you may know.
Read MoreArnold Schwarzenegger was one of the biggest movie stars in the world for a time, but before that, he was a successful bodybuilder in his own right.
Read MoreThere are 122 federal correctional institutions in the U.S. Here's how the Bureau of Prisons decides where to house prisoners.
Read MoreHe comes from the land down under, does Buddy Murphy. The Australian native, born Matthew Adams, originally wrestled in his home country under the name Matt Silva. Now he's climbing the ranks in the WWE.
Read MoreThe answer ranges from a matter of seconds to indefinitely, depending on their location, what's available to them, and what they're willing to do to survive.
Read MoreYou might be familiar with the broad strokes of the grisly events at Jonestown, but there are disturbing details that are often left out of the narrative.
Read MoreFish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and so do some human beings -- sometimes soaring to incredible heights, sometimes descending to extreme watery depths.
Read MoreIt doesn't matter who you are -- when your time is up, it's up ... unless you're like these people, who clearly didn't get the memo and just kept surviving
Read MoreIt's common to advise against speaking ill of the dead. Eulogies -- usually spoken, a message about someone who has died -- tend to be complimentary.
Read MoreA moment can be a minute, five minutes, an hour, or more. So is it really a specific period of time, and if so, how is it defined, exactly?
Read More3D technology has changed a bit over the last century, but the foundation of how 3D glasses really work still starts with the way the eyes function.
Read MoreThe Impossible Burger supposedly looks, tastes, and smells like meat, but isn't. Instead of glorious beef, it's made entirely out of plant-based materials.
Read MoreElectricity is one of the building blocks of modern society, touching every aspect of life. One of the scientists who plumbed its secrets was Michael Faraday.
Read MoreChanging the Avengers from brightly-colored comic characters to living, breathing, realistic (kind of) movie heroes wasn't entirely straightforward.
Read MoreHere's why it would suck to live on the Millennium Falcon in the Star Wars universe.
Read MoreImagine an apocalypse of some kind leaves a representative selection of 1,000 people behind. What would this new society look like? How would the world change?
Read MoreHells Angels are probably the most infamous motorcycle club in the world, but becoming a member takes serious dedication. Here's how to become a Hells Angel.
Read MoreThere are plenty of ways Rick could meet his maker on The Walking Dead, so here's a look at some of our favorite theories.
Read MoreIt seems that "Logan" will, in several ways, continue the X-Men cinematic universe's tradition of screwing up its timeline beyond repair.
Read MoreROYGBIV, of course, stands for red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet or the seven colors of a rainbow. It's the easiest way to remember colors, and it's also the least annoying way. But ROYGBIV may be incorrect. (Be careful when breaking this news to a little kid).
Read MoreGenghis Khan would eventually become known as one of the bloodiest warriors of all time and the first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.
Read MoreSome animals' biology allows them to see quite well in the dark -- certainly better than humans, who have to rely on creativity and tech to navigate the night.
Read MoreArea 51 is reportedly just another government facility sitting ominously in the middle of the Nevada desert, home to the usual government weirdness like military tests and secretive operations with code names like the Watertown Project and Skunk Works. How did it come to be associated with aliens?
Read MoreLike them or not, there are plenty of good reasons why the DC movies changed how its comic book heroes looked.
Read MorePerhaps it's no surprise that the history of various cocktails are a little fuzzy, with numerous origin stories that may or may not agree with one another.
Read MoreThe mob runs drug rackets and gambling rings, but it will get its hands on anything that will make it money. One such product was the jukebox.
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