Marilyn Manson has spent decades crafting his legacy as a shock rocker, complete with all the attention, anger and accusations that come with this choice of profession. He collects weird stuff. He does weird things. But does he collect money?
Read MoreIf tales by his contemporaries are to be believed, Grigori Rasputin was a nigh-unkillable villain with lust in his loins, lunacy in his brain, and evil where his heart should have been. Here's the disturbing truth of his death.
Read MoreWhen Janis Joplin performed, she took a little piece of your heart and gave you her whole soul. But how whole was her bank account?
Read MoreWhale shark. Even the name conjures up some kind of Jurassic Park chimera, with Jeff Goldblum stuttering a warning about how teeth will find a way. But what do they eat?
Read MoreOne of the longest-running series on TV, The Simpsons premiered in 1989 and started off strong, but in recent years, it’s lost some of its luster. So today, we’re taking a look at this classic sitcom to find out why The Simpsons has become so repetitive.
Read MoreTurns out that the "Illuminati eye" has nothing to do with the Illuminati at all. What we think of as an Illuminati eye tattoo is actually something else.
Read MoreIf all you know about King Solomon is he once threatened to cut a baby in half and the most uncomfortably sexy book of the Bible is named after him, you've got a lot to learn. Climb up the robot lion steps of Solomon's mechanical throne to learn the splendiferous untold truth of King Solomon.
Read MoreWhen he wasn't churning out influential hits like "Great Balls of Fire," Jerry Lee Lewis' life was one full of scandal, tragedy, violence, and addiction.
Read MoreHenry VIII was a busy guy. He had six wives -- but how many other mistresses on the road to marital misery?
Read MoreExperts provide very different estimates of how long it would take before your burial to become timely. But how long can you really live if you've been buried alive?
Read MoreTo the victor goes the spoils, as they say, and Genghis Khan was nothing if not victorious. But how many children did he really have?
Read MoreAs reported by CNN, on February 6th, 2020, Jhon Jairo Velásquez died at Bogotá, Colombia's National Institute of Cancer. The 54-year old Colombian native had been receiving treatment there for stomach cancer since late December of 2019.
Read MoreIf life were fair, the worst thing you'd ever find in a public pool is the unwrapped Baby Ruth from Caddyshack or a shaved gopher wearing a bikini. But life is fairly terrible, and in real life, public swimming pools aren't scenes of chocolatey comedy but rather commode-themed tragedy.
Read MoreThere are some weird dogs that don't seem to shed at all, while others drop piles of hair everywhere they go. What's the reason for this?
Read MoreAl Capone moved to Chicago in 1919 made his mark as a bigtime bootlegger, per History. He found himself going from house to house and state to state.
Read MoreSteven Seagal is sort of a glitch in the Matrix, a Penrose triangle stuffed into a life with tassels made out of the word "what?" dangling from its every paradoxical side. And so far, he's had four wives.
Read MoreGreat news, people of the paranormal persuasion: According to Live Science, the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense is finally feeding the world's collective curiosity by releasing its collection of UFO sighting reports.
Read MoreNo one likes to receive a student loan statement in the mail, but Dan Cain's family just might take the cake in this particular regard. Cain was just going about his day when suddenly, the mail arrived like the vengeance of several pantheons of gods from ancient religions.
Read MoreQueen Victoria had nine children. Every single one of her progeny managed to make it to adulthood. It's what happened after that wasn't always great news.
Read MoreFew people want to go through all the bother of digging up a backyard, but these people got more than they bargained for when they dug up these weird things.
Read MoreFor that reason, astrobiologists spend most of their time examining the most extreme environments here on Earth in an effort to extrapolate potential habitats in the universe beyond. One such environment was recently uncovered in a new study of a substance known as "flammable ice".
Read MoreJohn Denver was an Air Force brat, named Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., the son of an extremely accomplished career pilot. Here's how he died.
Read MoreEven the most joyous drug can come with side effects, and Viagra is no exception. The "more common" problems include nosebleeds, nausea, vomiting, and a runny nose, and an erection that lasts way too long. 2020 saw an even freakier addition to the list: "intensely blue-colored vision."
Read MoreAlbert Einstein is often quoted as saying, "If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years to live." A new study says signs are pointing to a bee extinction.
Read MoreIn news that will have Jeff Goldblum just livid, scientists at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Israel have resurrected a group of long-dead plants using seeds uncovered at three archaeological sites in the Judean desert. And yeah, these things are incredibly old.
Read MoreWarren Earp is probably best remembered as "Warren who?" Compared to other celebrated Wild West gunfighters like his older brother Wyatt Earp, Warren sounds like a minor historical footnote. But he had an exciting life ... and death. Here's the truth about Wyatt Earp's brother, Warren Earp.
Read MoreIn many ways, Henry VIII was a messed up guy who did messed up things. But was he always like that? Did he jump out of the womb as a spring-loaded ball of supervillainy, or did something happen to make him the oddball tyrant we all know and ... know?
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