"It's important what we do here. That's what we keep saying. We're shaping the future. These are the people who not only can do it, but these are the only people who can." So enthused Robert Scott, one of the co-founders of Further Future, a three day festival that takes place in the Nevadan desert.
Read MoreYou probably expect that Disney parks' staff members deal with a lot of strange things. But there is one thing people have been doing in Disney World and Disneyland that's just not befitting the happiest place on Earth. Here's the strange thing that occurs at Disney World's Haunted Mansion.
Read MoreOne of the most iconic scenes in the film The Wizard of Oz involves a crazy tornado but many don't know the details behind the making of this legendary moment. It wasn't an easy task and needed a lot of ingenuity and patience. Here's what you didn't know about the tornado in The Wizard of Oz.
Read MoreWhen it comes to bizarre connections between celebrity deaths, there are few that are weirder and sadder than that of Prince on April 21, 2016 and his former love, collaborator, and muse, Denise "Vanity" Matthews, two months earlier. This is the bizarre connection between Prince and his ex's death.
Read MoreBefore Richard Branson was a knighted billionaire entrepreneur with a multi-national, multi-sector series of ventures, including space tourism outfit Virgin Galactic, he was a high school dropout. Then he started a record company. Here's how The Exorcist helped Richard Branson become a millionaire.
Read MoreOne of the most iconic execution methods in history would have to be the guillotine. The guillotine was famously used in France during the Revolutionary period, and continued to be used to execute criminals in that country until 1977. This is the truth about who actually created the guillotine.
Read MoreOn September 9, 1971, inmates seized and took control of the maximum security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York. They had demands and hostages, but within a few days, dozens of prisoners and hostages would be dead. This is the grim story behind the Attica prison uprising.
Read MoreThe era of zeppelins coming into their own as a luxurious and coveted form of air travel came to an end on May 6, 1937 when the Hindenburg burst into flames during its landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey. But the reasons it happened are pretty shocking. This is the rise and fall of the Hindenburg.
Read Moreit wasn't until 1923 that he would come forward to claim, in an interview with the Albany Telegram, "I have a deep conviction that highly intelligent beings exist on Mars." He recounted his story of developing a "wireless receiver of extraordinary sensitiveness."
Read MoreByrne brought the alleged yeti finger into India, where he met with Stewart and his wife, Gloria. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any information about the conversation that preceded the eventual agreement that the Stewarts would "smuggle the finger into the United Kingdom for research."
Read MoreAs you might expect, the two don't spend the weekends fishing or setting up model trains. Brandon grew up with a sex symbol mom and rocker dad who had a drinking problem. The parents had a pretty abusive relationship with each other.
Read MoreAccording to CNBC, Petty had a plan. He racked up over a half-million dollars in debt financing a new studio album on his own dime, then sat on it and declared bankruptcy to force MCA into voiding his contract. "If you're bankrupt, all contracts are void," Petty said later of the shrewd move.
Read MoreWhat started out as a rather interesting, if extreme, LARP transformed into an horrific display of humiliation, brutality, and subservience. What was originally planned to be a two-week study was cut short at six days.
Read MoreOne inevitable truth of life: many bands split. Whether it's from fighting between members, drug or alcohol abuse, or the ever-popular "artistic differences," bands come, and go, and sometimes come back again. But New Wave legend Blondie didn't split up in 1982 for any typical reason.
Read MoreMorrissey fully supports the far-right, anti-Muslim British political party UKIP. Despite the party leaders saying absolutely ridiculous hogwash like immigrants are to blame for the country's traffic problem, as The Guardian reports, Morrissey doesn't equate supporting such idiocy with being racist.
Read MoreYou might be a little sensitive, as well, if you'd been fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden before they went on to become global rock powerhouses. If, however, you ask Kurt or Chris (if you could), they might tell you that Everman was a bit too sensitive from the get-go.
Read MoreYou're beginning to wonder why your fingers aren't at their peak. They're stiff. They hurt. You might be thinking, "I'm getting too old for video games," but age doesn't have a lot to do with it. Chances are, you have Nintendoitis, a repetitive stress injury.
Read MoreLister explored her sexuality in her coded diaries, "unabashed in their emphasis on pleasure rather than shame," reports GLBTQ. In 1821 she noted (per HistoricEngland), "I love, & only love, the fairer sex & thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any other love than theirs."
Read MoreBeing the inspiration for a children's book probably feels a lot like being a child star: You don't really understand what's going on until you're much older, and by then, the damage has been done. That was what it felt like for Christopher Robin Milne.
Read MoreEngland has many famous queens, from its reigning monarch Elizabeth II, to Gloriana herself, Elizabeth I, to Victoria, the grandmother of Europe. But we don't often talk about the queen of ancient times who ruled England and fought back Viking invaders.
Read MoreSome sinkholes, such as those in Guatemala City, caved in after a week of strange sounds and left the landscape pockmarked with holes. One sinkhole, however, is so huge and stunning that it looks like a portal into another world, hewn into a mountainside.
Read MoreEveryone loves a chance encounter between two icons, and none captures the imagination more than the story of how Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett happened to meet the young -- though already massive -- Andre Rousimoff, later known as the famous wrestler Andre the Giant.
Read MoreHe knew more about the universe than most of us. Basically, we should take whatever Hawking believed with a sense of weight. Even when he suggested that aliens would kill us.
Read MoreReedus has a thing for collecting hair as keepsakes. Maybe not from every show or movie he's worked on, but we know he has more than one person's hair from The Walking Dead. We also know he's a bit of a weird dude.
Read MoreUltimately drugs put him in the violent situation that took his life. On November 20, 2012, the triple champion boxer was shot in the head outside of a bar in his hometown of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, in what appeared to have been a drug-related incident.
Read MoreAndrew Johnson was Abraham Lincoln's vice-president and assumed the United States presidency after John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln on April 15, 1865. Less than three years later, Johnson was facing impeachment. Here's the truth about the first president to be impeached.
Read MoreThis might come as a shock to all the cat lovers out there, but Fluffy isn't actually an adorable demon from hell. He's just smart because his brain is similar to ours.
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