An accident in his early childhood left him in the hospital for "six or seven months." In fact, despite rumors that the 29-year-old was shot in the eye, Wap actually attributes the loss of his left eye to a childhood disease, congenital glaucoma.
Read MoreMusic history is full of performers who were far too wasted to give the people what they paid to see, but Kenny wasn't one of them. Just like the card player of his most famous song, Rogers knew when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, and when it came to booze, he decided to just never ante up.
Read MoreStewart himself didn't address the wild story at all for many years. Maybe he figured his career was doing fine in spite of some people's beliefs about his leisure-time activities. And publicity is publicity, no matter what. Spell the name right, right?
Read MoreThey'd sing, play music, and go through a number of routines to keep the eyes looking their way. This would lead to a couple of stints in Hollywood before their death in the late 1960s. Unfortunately, the Hilton sisters didn't reach fame by living easy lives, and their deaths were equally tragic.
Read MoreThe president has continued to make the false claims and inspiring his supporters in Arizona and Michigan to gather in Phoenix and Detroit to chant opposing slogans. Trump's refusal to wait until all votes have been counted have some wondering how he would take the possible loss.
Read MoreSteiner sells real estate in Georgia. That's right: you can buy land in the Peach State from a world tag team champion. He's still got the goatee, but he kicked the spandex and his iconic headgear, usually opting for the classic dad look of a pastel polo shirt and jeans (every job has its uniform).
Read MoreIn 2014, actual Monkee Mickey Dolenz was a guest on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast and when the topic came up, he confessed, "I just made a joke. 'Everybody auditioned for the Monkees, Stephen Stills, Paul Williams and Charlie Manson!' And everybody took it as gospel. And now it's an urban myth!"
Read MoreNo one has pinpointed all four locations with certainty, but finding these waters have occupied the time of many scholars. It's not even certain that the Bible divulged the location correctly.
Read MoreReal ghostbusters -- sorry, "ghost hunters" -- stay within budget and don't filch the petty cash while phantasmagorically engaged. These ghost hunters, on their show Ghost Hunters, use some pretty low-tech tech to measure the movements of the unliving.
Read MoreRogers shared that he had been offered other endorsement deals, including commercials for cigarettes, beer, and liquor, but he'd turned them down, which is ironic, considering one of his signature songs, "The Gambler," features characters indulging in both whiskey and cigarettes.
Read MoreHarriet Tubman -- abolitionist, suffragist, and former slave -- is one of the most influential political activists in American history. In recent years, advocates have proposed commemorating her many achievements by putting her face on the $20 bill, which is coming due for a redesign.
Read MoreWhen he decided to branch out into the global luxury aviation business in 2007, he boasted in an interview after multiple tall glasses of scotch on the rocks, "I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that." He had just bought 50 Airbus planes in Paris, a $7 billion order.
Read MoreIn a post about the new music from SOAD's website, the band writes, "These two songs ... speak of a dire and serious war being perpetrated upon our cultural homelands of Artsakh and Armenia." They say that the "corrupt regimes" of Turkey and Azerbaijan are committing "genocidal acts with impunity."
Read MoreConjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were born in Brighton, England in 1908. Their mother was an unmarried barmaid named Kate Skinner; their father was unknown. Skinner soon handed over the twins to Mary Hilton, the woman who owned the pub where Skinner worked and had assisted at their birth.
Read Morethe presidency may be "the highest office in the land," but he is no autocrat, let alone dictator. After all, that's the kind of ruling class and non-egalitarian system of government that the United States' forefathers wanted to do away with.
Read MoreTubman lived in Canada from 1851-1861, bringing with her many of the formerly enslaved people she saved, to live a free life. In those times, Canada had already outlawed slavery and provided shelter and work for many escaping the United States.
Read MoreThe rockstar life was certainly thrilling at first. That amount of excitement took a massive toll after a while, driving O'Riordan to exhaustion. What few fans realize is that O'Riordan showed a preference for a slower pace, a more serene rural lifestyle, similar to the one she grew up with.
Read MoreTo add insult to injury, it's pretty likely that once a Stone Age man, woman, or child died, their surviving friends and family would mourn their loss while simultaneously celebrating a sudden bounty of food by eating the deceased.
Read MoreSnuka, whose real name was James Reiher, was born in Fiji, grew up in Hawaii, and also lived in Camden County, New Jersey. After a successful stint as a bodybuilder, he started as a professional wrestler in the 1970s and made his WWE debut in 1982, helping the organization on its skyrocket rise.
Read MoreThe end of the group would actually occur nearly two decades later, with the tragic death of rapper Phife Dawg, aged just 45, on March 22, 2016. At the time, the Tribe were working on their first album together in 18 years: We Got It from Here ... Thank You 4 Your Service, completed in his absence.
Read MoreThis version of A Star is Born has an interesting, and unexpected, connection to Pearl Jam lead singer, Eddie Vedder. Vedder, it seems, was the inspiration for Bradley Cooper's character, as stated on the AV Club. And while Cooper was making the film, Vedder had some very specific advice for him.
Read MoreCoal is formed through the fossilization of dead plant matter. Since land plants only emerged on Earth about 450 million years ago, coal itself dates back only 300 or 400 million years. This means that diamonds -- which are over a billion years old -- predate coal by hundreds of millions of years.
Read MoreConsidering Vince McMahon has harbored rivalries with everyone from Triple H (who would go on to be his son-in-law) to Bret "The Hitman" Hart to Randy Orton -- even with his own children Stephanie and Shane -- his actual childhood idol makes a lot more sense.
Read MoreThe many attractions of Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, include fairway rides, a reproduction of the two-room cabin in which Dolly grew up, an entire water park, and the Eagle Mountain Sanctuary, an enormous aviary measuring 30,000 square feet
Read MoreWe walked on the moon for the first time in 1969, and since then there's been a rarefied group of people who've set foot on our planetary satellite. The United States no longer sends people to the moon on missions, so the group remains small. (And no, there's no evidence we faked it.)
Read MoreIt was "Wind of Change" that has led some to believe that Scorpions were reaching beyond mere musical expression and into the realm of politics. It wasn't just a song about envisioning a free future for all people, as the lyrics say -- oh, no. It was CIA-created propaganda.
Read MoreGregg Allman was diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 2007, for which he received a liver transplant. In the following years, he would go on to suffer from liver cancer. The band continued to tour, but Gregg's worsening health problems would force them to stop in 2014.
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