The most infamous buccaneer of the Golden Age of Piracy, Blackbeard, got his start as a privateer during Queen Anne's War. This is how the fearsome Blackbeard commandeered his notorious ship, built a reputation based purely on appearance, and evaded capture until his 1718 beheading.
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ABBA has been a steady presence in the pop culture pantheon for decades, but there are plenty of unexpected twists and turns in their story.
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Even for a trio of young, 90's punk misfits, Krist Novoselic stood out as the oddball in Nirvana.
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When the news of Blink-182's second falling apart, due to Tom DeLonge's lack of interest, started to spread in 2015, people nodded in an understanding manner. However, in 2016, he told Mic that he primarily broke from Blink-182 to form a new company that would focus on UFOs.
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The Viking figure of Ragnar Lodbrok from the Icelandic sagas may not have existed, but there are plenty of legends. This is the untold truth of Ragnar Lodbrok.
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Masahiko Kimura's glossy catalog of muscles and skill made him scary. But his attitude made him terrifying.
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Villa is seen either as a revolutionary, fighting for justice on behalf of the poor, or he's a bloodthirsty, borderline psychotic killer.
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Famous authors have pseudonyms when they publish something racy. Then there are revolutionary heroes who take on pen names out of spite. That's what happened when Benjamin Franklin couldn't get his work published in his brother's newspaper.
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It might be easy to envision staying lip-locked to a lover for hours, but how about ... 59 hours?
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In the vast, seemingly endless ocean of weirdness available on the internet, Japanese game shows stand head and shoulders above the rest.
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Freemasonry has a murky history, but it's several centuries old, and it claims to be even older than that. Here's what life is really like as a Freemason.
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Ever watched a tennis match, seen the players lob balls back and forth, and think, "Wow, this could go on forever." Well, one match almost did.
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The increasing prevalence of conspiratorial thinking is a huge problem that deserves a deeper look, especially in our current sociopolitical climate.
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Sure the, Garden of Eden was a stone's throw of the old Tigris and Euprhates. But who needs it? There is a "Garden of Eden" right here in the U.S. Specifically, in Lucas, Kansas.
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It's a celebrity deathmatch for the ages. In one corner, you have Steven Seagal. In the other, John Leguizamo. Or, Luigi, if you prefer.
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Newsflash: UFOs swarm the Brazilian island of Colares! Here's what happened.
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Singer, producer and Top 40 hitmaker Shaggy hit a home run in 2000 with "It Wasn't Me", a catchy dancehall-pop crossover track with verses contributed by rapper Rikrok. Here's how it came to be.
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The parents of the Weird Al Yankovic were found dead in their quiet home in November 2004, both victims of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Al's seventh birthday was auspicious -- or more precisely, the day before, because that's the day that a door-to-door salesman stopped by their house in Lynwood, California, just south of Los Angeles. He was shilling for a music school that offered lessons in guitar and accordion.
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There are a lot of weird things you don't know about The Smurfs. Prepare to question your most basic assumptions about these mushroom-fixated arboreal ingenues.
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A young man from Brixton, David Bowie, had seen a photograph of a girl with red spiky hair, which struck his imagination. The photographer was Kansai Yamamoto.
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Who was Davy Jones? And why did he keep a locker if his work kept him out at sea so often? Wouldn't a storage unit be a more realistic option? Skim a few websites for historical societies and you'll notice that the answers are varied, evocative, and bizarre.
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Eight members of the Sutton family poured into the police station and reportedly uttered words that would, in decades since, inspire a deluge of delightfully corny B-grade science-fiction classics: "We need help. We've been fighting them for nearly four hours."
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Sumner Redstone became the CEO of National Amusements, Inc. in 1967, and their already prominent hold on the entertainment industry got some extra oomph thanks to his belief that, basically, content providers would come and go, but the content itself would always be in demand.
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It's a story that seems more at home in a psychological horror film than in the real world, and first hand accounts of the events involved feel unsettlingly removed from reality. But the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons are a matter of record. Weird, weird record.
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Sonic Youth members Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore took rock romance a step further by having the band completely break up due to a messy divorce.
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If there's one piece of music everyone can recognize, it's the drum fill in Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight. But what is the rest of the song about?
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