Now, there's a new hidden detail in Star Wars making its way across the internet, rounding out a galaxy far, far away just that much more. It regards Yoda's living situation, and friends? It's a stone cold bummer.
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The movie American Gangster includes a stunning sequence, wherein heroin was smuggled into the U.S. inside the coffins of fallen soldiers returning from the Vietnam War. Did this really happen?
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As documented by the U.S. State Department Office of the Historian, during a 1965 meeting at the White House, President Lyndon Johnson voiced "serious concerns" about whether westerners stood a chance, "in the absence of intelligence," of winning the Vietnam War.
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It might seem impossible, trying to nail down the realities of the Star Wars universe. The events described in the movies, books, and video games occurred, allegedly, far, far away, and not even recently. Still, the good folks at MythBusters never let a childish premise stop them.
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Fans of Star Wars have been trying to undo Lucas' litany of changes to the first three movies for decades. Some have even succeeded...
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Trenches were essentially an exercise in misery during World War I. Here's what life within them was really like for soldiers on both sides of the war.
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Muhammad Ali is arguably the world's most famous boxer, but for years, he was denied the right to fight and stripped of his titles. The reason? He refused to fight in the Vietnam War due to his beliefs.
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Life was a mixed bag for the U.S. soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War. Here's what they experienced.
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From a few weeks to a couple of minutes, here’s the tragic history of the world’s shortest wars.
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The life of a Civil War soldier was far from easy, and at times became very trying, even deadly. This is what life was really like for Civil War soldiers.
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A woman during the American Civil War had it pretty rough. Let's look back at the past to find out what life was really like for Civil War women.
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The droids are the heart and soul of the Star Wars saga. But there are a lot of misconceptions about the Star Wars droids. Let's correct a few.
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The Korean War is often remembered for being forgotten, sandwiched between WWII and the Vietnam War. But the deadly Cold War kerfuffle was immensely important.
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Listen, Solo: A Star Wars Story, was awesome. There's plenty to love in this fantastic standalone flick about Han Solo's early days, but it wasn't all Wookiee smiles and rainbows. Here are just a few dumb things everyone ignored in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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Star Wars is confusing, somehow most hated by the people who most love it. That all came to a head in 2017 with Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi. Episode VIII broke a lot of new ground and was quite a romp of a movie. That made it easy to ignore these dumb things in The Last Jedi.
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The Star Wars franchise is unlike anything else in pop culture history. While you can't deny just how massive Star Wars has been, it's not all sunshine and Ewoks. Star Wars has had plenty of negative effects on people. Here are lives destroyed by Star Wars.
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The facts of the Civil War are still hotly debated, as the war remains a contentious subject today. Here are some of the myths you always thought were true.
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These things we believed during the Cold War ended up being totally wrong. Despite the propaganda, Eastern Europe isn't a grim, gray wasteland.
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Some of the Star Wars saga's flaws are certainly hard to overlook (hi, Jar-Jar!), but others weren't quite as bad as we made them out to be.
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George Lucas's cross-pollinated success with Star Wars has wielded a plethora of tacky tie-ins and oddball officially licensed products.
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It would be easy to think all of Star Wars Jedi secrets have been gleaned from that galaxy far, far away. But here are some fake ones that slipped through.
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Some scientists and engineers aren't content on Star Wars stuff staying fictional, and have worked to create tech that resembles what we see in the movies.
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So many unfathomable difficulties occurred during the filming of the Star Wars movies, you would think they had some kind of curse placed on them.
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There's dozens of things in Star Wars that didn't come from George Lucas (or Mickey Mouse), but from the books, comics, and games of the old Extended Universe.
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