Arising into creation as a synthesis of untrimmed wheat fields, trailer parks, and shattered Mich Ultra bottles, Kid Rock emerged into the nu-metal scene of the late '90s with his own, distinctive, Confederate take on the era's rock-rap surge.
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Marketed first through a series of late-night infomercials, pretty soon it seemed as though every house -- and office -- had a Magic Bullet. Its compact design allowed people to make a smoothie in their blender and then carry the whole tumbler with them to work.
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Queen Elizabeth I had to think very carefully about how she presented herself. She had to appear powerful in order to uphold her royal status and push back against the stereotype of a weak woman, alone and unfit to rule. This is the truth about Queen Elizabeth I's iconic look.
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Michael Jackson had a huge 1983. He sold millions of copies of his album Thriller and starred in one of the most popular, famous, and well-produced music videos of all time. This is the untold truth of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video.
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Everybody knows ShamWow. Either it's a product you use, or a word you find fun to say. What happened to it?
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You've heard about Helen Keller and how she managed to become a successful writer and activist despite being deaf and blind. Her life was challenging, but she never truly cared that society believed she wouldn't do well.
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In 2018, the good people at Lego teamed up with race car manufacturer Bugatti to bring you a rideable, driveable Bugatti Chiron.
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Oh, man. When it comes to peddling products, Billy Mays is one of the hardest verbal hitting pitchmen on the market. Here's the truth of his marquis product, OxiClean.
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While Charles M. Schulz is best known for his comic strip Peanuts, tales from his life aren't as well-known. This is the untold truth of the Peanuts creator.
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It would have been inconceivable in the '90s that just a couple of decades later, Blockbuster would be all but extinct. This is the untold truth of Blockbuster.
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The only thing scarier than a ghost is a child ghost.
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Two-player fighting video games were once the highlight of long weekend nights for any kid who craved friendly competition without all the bangs and bruises of fist fighting their friends. Hopefully, that includes everyone. Killer Instinct was a healthy alternative to friendly scuffles.
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It looked like Grohl was destined for music before he ever tried out for Nirvana. Or did it?
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You 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.
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When 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.
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Prince: celebrity, sex icon, crown prince of purple... devout Jehovah's Witness? Here's the bizarre way Prince tried to convert people to Jehovah's Witness.
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With a horror movie, you can always click the television off if you creep yourself out. You can't do that when the paranormal intrudes on the real world.
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Lister 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."
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He 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.
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Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby met in 1768 in Wicklow, Ireland, and lived together as a couple in Llangollen, Wales in a house known as Plas Newydd. Butler and Ponsonby appear to have considered their partnership a marriage. This is the untold truth of the Ladies of Llangollen.
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Despite decades of research and investigation into the whereabouts of the Nazis' renowned trove of gold bars, speculation remains about their "true" fate, which would equal billions upon billions of dollars. Even to this day, would-be prospectors and treasure hunters continue to search.
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His popularity and his nicknames came from his "vitamin injections," which got their kick from "30 to 50 milligrams of amphetamines..."
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There's nobody else quite like Rob Zombie, known as much for his horror films as his career as a heavy metal musician. This is the untold truth of Rob Zombie.
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Sightings of ghost pirates have been recorded all over the world. Ready to have your timbers shivered? Read on for some of the scariest pirate ghost stories.
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The Blue Hole at the edge of the Red Sea, also known as the "underwater cathedral," is a sinkhole around 100 meters deep. It's also known as the deadliest diving spot in the world and, despite the warning, divers continue to enter its water. This is the truth about the world's deadliest diving spot.
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The metal rod entered below his left cheekbone, destroyed a molar, slid behind his left eye, through "the underbelly of his brain's left frontal lobe," and through his skull, exiting out of the top of his head.
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Jessica Krug was a respected Black professor who then admitted that she had been lying about her racial identity. This is the bizarre story of Jessica Krug.
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