It was the heyday of organized crime and celebrity gangsters with various levels of achievement and notoriety. John Dillinger had escaped custody yet again and driven a stolen vehicle across state lines, which qualified him for special attention from the feds. Hoover put Melvin Purvis on the case.
Read MorePretty much everyone would love to live a good, long life. However, the whole "not dying until you're really old" thing is a bit of a two-edged sword: Unless your brain manages to keep up with the rest of your body, your golden years probably won't be quite as cozy as you'd hope.
Read MoreLife is a journey, not a destination. But the band Journey always seemed destined to succeed with Steve Perry at the helm. Until they started paying him not to sing...
Read MoreSherlock Holmes, one of the most famous and brilliant fictional detectives of all time, wasn't entirely fictional. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most prominent creation was heavily based on a real person, Dr. Joseph Bell. Here's the incredible life of Joseph Bell, the real Sherlock Holmes.
Read MoreThe music industry has seen plenty of strife, not to mention a steady string of litigation, and here are some of the silliest lawsuits that band members have ever filed against each other.
Read MoreClyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, infamous thieves and murderers who cut a swath of violent crime across America in the 1930s, had lots of things in common. Including a limp.
Read MoreThrough the combined efforts of researchers at Rice University, Biola University, and the Texas A&M Health Science Center, the human race now possesses tiny, molecule-sized drills capable of destroying not just diseased cells, but entire multicellular microorganisms.
Read MoreBon Jovi is a household name. But the members of this group have suffered their fair share of setbacks. Here’s the tragic real-life story of Bon Jovi.
Read MoreDespite the objections of privacy advocates, the Los Lunas Police Department is now running beta tests for a new form of built-in body camera facial recognition, paving the way for a more RoboCop-ish future.
Read MoreFrom cowboys to bank robbers to noir detectives, those pieces of rapid firing machinery have been omnipresent in the country's culture since the 19th century. And we have one man to thank for that: Samuel Colt, the inventor of the revolver.
Read MoreOf the arachnids who do pose a real risk to humans few have garnered as much media attention as the Brazilian wandering spider, sometimes referred to as the banana spider.
Read MoreWhen you think of the word "obedient", all manner of examples come to mind. But it's a safe bet that none of those examples include the word "cat." But take heart, because there are indeed some breeds of cat that can be considered obedient. Even trainable.
Read MoreScience rules. Perhaps nobody knows this better than William Sanford Nye, born in Washington, D.C. in 1955, and known to generations of kids — literally — as the Science Guy.
Read MoreProfessional tennis superstar and five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova shocked the world on March 7th, 2016, when she announced that she had been suspended from professional play after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. Reaction to the revelation was swift.
Read MoreThe idealized image of Rome often portrayed in movies and TV shows was only known to the empire's richest citizens. For everyone else life was usually short and brutal.
Read MoreSeeing how the pope runs his own country, and has a lot of influence, it wouldn't be inaccurate to state that he lives anywhere he wants.
Read MoreYou'd be forgiven for not thinking that Winnie the Pooh (likes honey, dislikes bother) ever brushed up against the horrors of the Great War. But you'd also be incorrect.
Read MoreKurt Angle is one of the more successful wrestlers out there, both in the amateur circles and the world of pro wrestling. But winning nearly cost him everything.
Read MoreColombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is notorious for, among other things, amassing an illicit fortune larger than the gross domestic product of a small nation. And throughout his tenure as the most wanted man in the world, his older brother, Roberto Escobar, worked as his accountant.
Read MoreEven people who don't like Kung Fu movies like Jackie Chan. It's hard not to. As an actor and director, he's charming, beguiling, and boy howdy, can he ever perform a stunt. Where'd he learn all that stuff?
Read MoreEminem has lived one wild life. From his days in a trailer and struggling to get by, to being friends with Elton John and starring in superhero crossover comic books with the Punisher, he's one shining, potty-mouthed example of the American dream come true.
Read MoreGet ready to add some 1970s progressive rock to your summer concert list, because the latest once-defunct crew to load up their tour bus and get (most of) the band back together is effing Genesis.
Read MoreSometimes, stuff that should logically never be able to disappear will just up and vanish in quantities that are hard to describe. For our purposes, we'll use the quantifiers "a boatload," "a town-full," and "basically the entire wing of a museum."
Read MoreThe reign of ancient Egypt's final pharaoh, Cleopatra VII, is one of the most famous sagas in history. However, if you only know the parts of the story involving Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, you're missing out on some delicious family drama that played out between Cleopatra and her siblings.
Read MoreBorn in 1898 in Brooklyn, Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz (for such was his name) was identified early as a genuine musical prodigy. Here's how he died.
Read MoreIn a development sure to alarm both Sam Neill and Chris Pratt, researchers announced the recent discovery of what they believe to be actual dinosaur DNA. So, you know, start booking your theme park tickets to the Isla Sorna now.
Read MoreNo wrestler seemed more beautifully suited for a movie role than Andre the Giant as the charismatic Fezzik in The Princess Bride. So why'd he almost pass it up?
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