All four members of The Who had significant moments of tragedy and tribulation throughout their lives, but guitarist and singer Pete Townshend's childhood had a series of particularly sad and disturbing moments.
Read MoreWhen we learn about Greek mythology in school, we hear a lot about the heroes. But it turns out that there's a lot of little details — and entire stories — that are super dark, and slip through the cracks of higher learning. Here are stories from Greek mythology they couldn't teach you in school.
Read MoreTheir personalities were just outrageous enough to enjoy each other. Mercury said of John, "The first time I met him he was wonderful, one of those people you can instantly get on with. He said he liked 'Killer Queen' and anyone who says that goes into my white book."
Read MoreAndre the Giant, whose real name was André René Roussimoff, was literally larger than life, humongous in person as well as in the hearts of his fans. Probably everyone. At least everyone who saw The Princess Bride.
Read MoreWhen Perry insisted that he doesn't sing his own songs because they're too high, it comes across as disingenuous. To a fan's breath-held delight, however, he also hinted at the possibility of a comeback.
Read Morethe road to Bob Ross' TV persona was paved through an institution that depended on quite the opposite: the military.
Read MoreConstruction began in 1173, and by 1178 it was obvious that the tower was not going to remain upright. The subsequent stories were built to compensate for the lean -- slightly taller on the leaning side of the tower to balance it out and try and keep the floors level -- but to no avail.
Read MoreIt didn't matter if their husbands hit them, belittled them, or cheated on them; women during that time had no recourse to leave a terrible marriages and be free. Tofana offered them a solution.
Read MoreGeorge Smith Patton Jr. -- a four-star general at the end of his career -- is arguably a prime example of the right man in the right place at the right time. Then again, maybe he just hit his head too often.
Read MoreThe musician Prince Rogers Nelson tragically died after an accidental overdose of fentanyl on April 21, 2016. In Prince's final 12 months, he started a memoir, advocated for the Black Lives Matter movement, signed with Tidal, and embarked on his intimate, improvised "Piano and a Microphone" tour.
Read MoreHalloween -- at least the way Halloween is celebrated -- is terrible for the planet. And it's not just because candy wrappers are made of plastic.
Read MoreJohn Wayne's dark side stayed fairly hidden from the general public for a long time until a Playboy interview from 1971 resurfaced in 2019. In the interview, Wayne lays out a side of him that many didn't know existed. A dark side that's as deeply rooted in American culture as apple pie.
Read MoreWith the soon-to-become-legendary Woodstock music festival completed the day prior, now was time to calculate the losses. And there were a lot.
Read MoreFolklore and fears aside, though, is there any hard data that demonstrates the potential for the existence of ghosts?
Read MoreIt may have started in a truly Christian way, as a haven for the downtrodden with nowhere to go, as described by the BBC, but it evolved into a medieval "healthcare facility," and eventually became one of the first institutions to focus on cordoning off the "mad" and "lunatic."
Read MoreTom Petty has a hidden talent that casual fans of the "I Won't Back Down" singer may not be aware of: the late rocker could easily ad-lib entire songs.
Read MoreSteve Jobs has been lionized for the effects that Apple's technologies have had on modern life, but his sleek image as some kind of tech guru star child ushering the world into a new era conceals a rather shady past.
Read MoreIf you grew up in the 2000s, you're sure to remember the SNL Ashlee Simpson lip-syncing incident that pop culture news outlets talked about for weeks afterward.
Read MoreThe Hippopotamus, or "water horse," as the Greeks called it, is the third-largest land mammal in the world. They're kind of cute and kind of funny-looking, and they use that cuteness to hide just how murderous they can be.
Read MoreHenry Morton Stanley, most famous for rescuing Dr. David Livingstone in present-day Tanzania in 1871, was a sailor, journalist, and colonial administrator who explored central Africa. Henry Morton Stanley also searched for the source of the Nile river and aided the Belgian occupation of the Congo.
Read More"Even if I don't win, I just want to prove I belong there." This line, an iconic moment in Rocky, is reportedly what Chuck Wepner told his wife before he faced Muhammad Ali.
Read MoreRose called Everly his "best friend" at times, while also saying that "Erin and I treated each other like crap ... Sometimes we treated each other great, because the children in us were best friends. But then there were other times when we just messed up each other's lives completely."
Read MoreSeal has managed to appeal to millions of fans for his melodious voice, and he's lived far from an ordinary life. Here are some facts you never knew about Seal.
Read MoreKuhn's speech was a hit with the 22,000 American Nazis in attendance at New York's Madison Square Garden, all of whom had no obvious qualms with the swastikas flanking the two-story-tall image of George Washington behind the stage.
Read MoreOne of the most memorable characters from the Little Rascals was Froggy, a cranky little boy with a croaking voice reminiscent of a frog.
Read MoreYou probably know King Tut's fancy gold mask, and you probably also know that he was a boy king and his tomb was cursed. But there's more than that — King Tut had a short and sordid life, a mysterious death, and some weird stuff going on with his family tree. This is the untold truth of King Tut.
Read MoreBoseman "spent the last four years undergoing chemotherapy and surgery to treat the illness." Even throughout his own treatment, he would visit hospitalized children who were also receiving chemotherapy. He never spoke publicly about his own health challenges.
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