The Weird Reason We Almost Never Got A Ninja Turtles Movie
The 1990's live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was a huge success. And it almost didn't happen, thanks to George Lucas and a talking duck.
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Unexpected Things You Can't Bring To Disneyland And Disney World
Disneyland and Disney World parks ban some odd items. Some of the following items might seem a bit weird, but hey it's Disney's house, Disney's rules.
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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 Tragic Death Of Styx's John Panozzo
John Panozzo started drumming at age 8, tutored by an uncle who helped shape a style that eventually resulted in Styx, a legendary arena-rock band of the 1970s and '80s.
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The Dog Breed That Once Hunted Lions
You can teach dogs to sit and speak, but good luck trying to get them to play the piano. Some dogs are even great hunting companions, but it's not like you can just take them to hunt lions. Anymore.
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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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The Untold Truth Of Steven Seagal's Oldest Daughter, Ayako
Did you know that Seagal's first marriage to Miyako Fujitani also produced a daughter? This is the untold truth of Steven Seagal's oldest daughter, Ayako.
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The Tragic Death Of Waylon Jennings
Country music is about patriotism, small town values, cheatin' hearts, farms and dogs and -- Waylon Jennings, whose lifetime of substance abuse over the course of a remarkable music career pretty much guaranteed he'd die painfully, and probably much too soon.
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The Real Reason Vince And Linda McMahon Went Bankrupt
Lately, it's been pretty difficult to ignore the fact that Vince McMahon is a very, very rich man; and so is his wife, Linda. But at one point, things were so bad they had to declare bankruptcy.
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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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How Much Money Did The Dillinger Gang Actually Steal?
Author Ronald Kessler lauds FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's decision to declare John Dillinger "Public Enemy Number One" as "a stroke of public relations genius." Back when Hoover made that famous pronouncement in 1934, though, much of the public might have begged to differ ...
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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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The Stunning Amount Of Debt Marvin Gaye Had When He Died
Marvin Gaye gifted the world with so much in his short tenure on Earth. Most would say he owed us nothing else -- but maybe not the IRS.
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Where Else You've Seen The Cast Of NCIS
NCIS boasts some seriously impressive longevity — it still draws some impressive ratings and brings in huge guest stars. Much of the appeal comes from its impressive cast, as actors like Mark Harmon, David McCallum, and Pauley Perrette have done a great job of creating rounded, dynamic characters.
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Why Did Andrew Cunanan Kill Gianni Versace?
We live in a world that seems to equate fame and wealth with the worth of a person. Perhaps that's why, despite the fact that Andrew Cunanan murdered five people in a still-mysterious killing spree, he's primarily remembered for his final victim: world-renowned fashion designer Gianni Versace.
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What Bill Gates Said When Trump Asked Him To Be His Science Advisor
During the a meeting with Donald Trump, Bill Gates reportedly asked the commander in chief why he hadn't yet appointed a science advisor, and claims that Trump offered him the job on the spot.
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Here's How Big The Universe Actually Is
"Space," as it was expertly described by Douglas Adams, "is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
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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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The Truth About Alexander Hamilton's Affair
Alexander Hamilton. Brilliant, but also arrogant; witty, but also dismissive; married, and the father of seven, but also a cheater. Consensus is, it's this last part that kept him out of the White House himself.
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The Dog Breed That Once Hunted Wolves
Up until the 18th century, Ireland had itself a wolf problem. Their solution: make bigger wolves.
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Donnie Yen Vs Jackie Chan: Who Would Win?
Donnie Yen and Jackie Chan appeared together on screen, in 2003's pseudo-western comedy Shanghai Knights. But which of them would win in a fist and foot shootout?
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The Fastest Domestic Cat Breed In The World
Let's just say for the sake of argument that your cat will find itself in the position to be eaten by a bear. Could your cat outrun the bear? How fast would your cat have to be to avoid being eaten by a bear?
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This Is What Happens When A Zebra And A Donkey Have A Baby
Even Charles Darwin acknowledged that zebras have sexy stripes, and occasionally, donkeys can't hold their horses around those striped seducers. Love is blind, but it doesn't need to be when zebras are involved.
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The Truth About Bruce Lee's Sisters
Before the world knew Bruce Lee as the legend who raised the bar for martial arts movies to nigh unreachable heights, his siblings knew him as a little hellraiser named "Jun Fan." The father of Jeet Kune Do was the brother of four siblings: brothers Peter and Robert and sisters Phoebe and Agnes.
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The Truth About The Real-Life Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Disney has a knack for making bankable, kid-friendly animated movies based on seriously dark source material. However, Victor Hugo originally pulled an anti-Disney, by taking the life of a real person and turning it into a tear-soaked nightmare.
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The Untold Truth Of Jefferson Starship
The groovy Jefferson Airplane became the spacey Jefferson Starship, which became the overproduced Starship. But no matter what the group called itself, it was always stacked with rock legends. Here's a look back at the long, strange trip of Jefferson Starship (or whatever you want to call it).
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