How The Rolling Stones Almost Burnt Down The Original Playboy Mansion
The sentence "the Rolling Stones almost burned down the Playboy Mansion" is somehow less than the sum of its parts. But it's true.
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How Are The Rich Preparing For Coronavirus?
The novel coronavirus spreading out of Wuhan, China and causing the potentially severe respiratory infection COVID-19 is concerning up and down the socioeconomic ladder. Viruses don't care if you're rich or poor. A global pandemic knows no borders and abides no prejudice. Unless you're rich.
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How Earthquakes Create Gold From Water
"Earthquakes have the Midas touch," at least according to a 2013 study published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Here's how earthquakes create gold from water.
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How Long Can A Human Really Go Without Sleeping?
A minimum wage worker would need to work three full time jobs to afford a two bedroom apartment. With this in mind, you have to ask yourself "how much sleep do I need if I don't want to die?" Here's how long a human can really go without sleeping.
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How Many Black Belts Does Jackie Chan Really Have?
Jackie Chan has dished out acrobatic beatdowns with punches, kicks and the occasional stepladder in over 140 movies, so it makes sense to assume that the man knows his way around a Kung Fu fight. Let's look at the ultimate tale of the tape: How many black belts does Jackie Chan have?
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How Much Money Would Nicky Barnes Be Worth Today?
Federal judge and former special narcotics prosecutor Sterling Johnson, Jr, said of Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, "He had charisma. Have you been in the presence of Bill Clinton when he walks down the street? That was Nicky Barnes." Not a great look for Bill, but Barnes was quite the drug dealer.
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Here's How Free Bird Became A Concert Tradition
If you've ever been to a concert and in between a song break or a lull in the show, heard someone shout from the back of the crowd, "Free Bird!", there's actually a fascinating history behind it.
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Here's How Much Money Randy Savage Was Worth When He Died
Oooh yeah! Randy Savage was one of the true greats of the pro wrestling circle -- a talented performer with an arena-sized personality and enough charisma to actually use "Pomp and Circumstance" as his entrance theme and get away with it. Here's how much he was worth when he died.
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Here's How The Three Stooges Fought Back Against Hitler
But stepping up to the plate before either Bogart or Chaplin were the world's most famous knuckleheads: The Three Stooges -- three Jewish men, former vaudevillians, not generally recognized for their political commentary.
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Can You Kill A Tardigrade?
More endearingly known as "water bears" and "moss piglets," tardigrades are water-dwelling micro-cuties that usually measure less than a half a millimeter long. And they're very hard to kill.
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A Detailed Look At The Tragic Death Of Ritchie Valens
No one who died in the 1959 plane crash, that day the music died, was an old man. The pilot, Roger Peterson, was just 21. Buddy Holly was 22; J.P. Richardson, "The Big Bopper," was the old man on the plane, at 28. Youngest of all was a rising star of Chicano rock -- Ritchie Valens. He was 17.
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These Are The Most Venomous Creatures In The World
What are the most venomous animals on the planet? Which creatures could murder you in minutes with just a simple sting or a tiny bite? Well, from sea-dwelling beasts to eight-legged arachnids, these are some of the most venomous creatures in the world.
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The Most Messed Up Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Some people think that the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm are as dark as a Friday the 13th movie. Well, most of them aren’t … but some of them definitely are. Here are the most messed up Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
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How Bohemian Rhapsody Got Freddie Mercury And Mary Austin's Relationship Wrong
Freddie Mercury is well known for his romantic and sexual relationships with men, but one of his most enduring relationships was with a woman: Mary Austin.
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The Unexpected Inspiration For Batman's Arkham Asylum
From unspectacular beginnings as a relatively nondescript medical facility, Arkham Asylum (originally Arkham Hospital) expanded, warped, and eventually became the gothic labyrinth of villainy you know today. But did you know that a real life mental institution inspired it?
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How Gangster Whitey Bulger Chased Dana White Out Of Boston
UFC president Dana White is a pretty powerful dude these days. However, everyone has to start somewhere ... and his start came while running away from the Winter Hill Gang, a gangster outfit led by none other than Whitey Bulger, the notorious gangster.
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Here's How Walt Disney Came Up With Mickey Mouse
If you give a mouse a cookie, it will ask for a glass of milk. So, one might logically conclude that if you give a mouse a house, it will ask for a magic kingdom. When the Walt Disney Company became the House of Mouse, its resident rodent helped build an empire.
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The Untold Truth Of The Stonewall Riots
After a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, patrons took up whatever they could find and fought back against their oppressors, and amid the chaos, the Gay Rights movement was born. This is the untold truth of the Stonewall Riots.
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The Untold Story Of Heroic Frontier Peace Officer Elfego Baca
All by his lonesome, Elfego Baca took on over 80 outlaws and dodged hundreds of bullets in a clash that lasted more than 33 hours.
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Patty Duke's Tragic Real-Life Story
Patty Duke's colorful career in acting spanned across seven decades, earned herself 13 awards, and even won herself an Oscar for The Miracle Worker. As Patty Duke struggled with bipolar disorder, addiction, and personal loss, she became a strong mental health advocate and a powerful memoirist.
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The Dark Truth About Roald Dahl
The author was not only accomplished, he lived an insane and exciting life, including, per Biography, marriage to an Academy Award-winning actress, Patricia Neal. And on top of all that, he was a pretty awful dude who said some pretty awful stuff.
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The Tragic Death Of Olympic Fencer Vladimir Smirnov
Although it's a sport that involves two highly athletic competitors going at each other with swords, fencing is actually much safer than many other popular sports. A five-year study by sports science professor Dr. Peter Harmer found that it is especially safe for children and youth.
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The Unsolved Murders Of Mary Ashford And Barbara Forrest
the case came to a close. The 1817 case came to a close. Or it would have, if it weren't for the fact that the whole thing happened again 157 years later. In a series of eerie coincidences, Barbara Forrest met her astonishingly similar and tragic end in 1974.
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Would Stone Cold Steve Austin Ever Return To Wrestling?
Steve Austin retired from competition in March of 2003 after losing to The Rock in WrestleMania 19, but there has been chatter -- often spouted by the Stone Cold wrestler himself -- that he would come out of retirement to give the new generation of contenders a beer-soaked lesson in respect.
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Why This Is The Most Unusual Flag In The World
While every other nation in the world has a rectangular or square flag, Nepal's flag instead follows a double-pennant design, and has done so for centuries. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, this makes Nepal the only modern country with a non-quadrilateral flag.
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How Ancient Is The Safety Pin?
The very first pins for clothing showed up around the 14th century BCE. It was called a fibula (plural: fibulae) and was mostly used by the Mycenaeans. The Fashion Institute of Technology explained fibulae functioned like a clasp to fasten garments.
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54% Of People Agree That This Was The Best Hip-Hop Artist Of The 90s
Generations have given rap their own spin, evolving their techniques and the sound of the music in the process. Can it really be fair to compare the early innovators to those more technically advanced who emerged decades later, thanks to the influence of those that came before them?
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