These misconceptions about The Matrix trilogy are well-known enough that you probably believed them. The Matrix was a box-office smash before it all came tumbling down in the ruins of Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions ... right? You'll have to read on to find out.
Read MoreThough you could never tell by just listening to the band's music, Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen famously plays with 25 percent less limbs than your average drummer, due to the unfortunate fact that he has no left arm. Here's how that all went down.
Read MoreNormally, it takes two miracles to qualify as a saint. But New Orleans Saint Tom Dempsey was canonized in the annals of football for a single miracle that put his team two points ahead of the Detroit Lions in 1970.
Read MoreThe Kingdom of Kush was an ancient civilization located in Northeast Africa, just south of Ancient Egypt. The Kushites were winners and losers; underdogs and overlords; aggressively expanding and defensively skulking into the historical shadows. This is the true history of the lost Kingdom of Kush.
Read MoreVideo games are at their core all about empowerment fantasy, and there are a couple of wish-fulfillment best case scenarios if you like the idea of smashing someone's fictional face into combo-vulnerable paste. The first is being Bruce Lee. The second is beating him up.
Read MoreJust weeks after Disney parks shuttered, reports are circulating and speculating about when they can ditch social distancing and resume making fire up above without coming under fire for it.
Read More"Basket Case." "Wake Me Up When September Ends." "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." "When I Come Around." Minority." Yes, it's Green Day, and no, they're not exactly short of hits. But there's one hit that almost never saw the light of day.
Read More"Mercury is in retrograde," comes the voice of every astrologer on social media, and just like that, it all makes sense: your computer didn't break because you went four years without cleaning the fans, it happened because Mercury was in retrograde. Is there any truth to this?
Read MoreWith her brightly colored hair, impressive in-ring talent and huge personality, Sasha Banks is undoubtedly one of the trailblazers of WWE's women's division, facing off with other pioneers such as the "anti-diva" Paige. That's why it was so strange that she suddenly took a hiatus.
Read MoreWas it galling, to be a 19th-century male married to a queen? With no real title or responsibilities of your own? That's one of the puzzles presented by the life of Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, or Prince Albert, who had the good fortune to marry Queen Victoria.
Read MoreThe Dalai Lama is a complicated, multifaceted guy, and there's lots of history to unpack if you're going to engage in a conversation about him. For all of his remarkable achievements, he's a controversial figure whose life, like everyone else's, is freckled with apparent contradictions.
Read MoreOzzy Osbourne has spent a long and storied career in the limelight. But has his lengthy tenure as the Prince of Darkness brought him fortune as well as fame? Let's take a look at how much Ozzy Osbourne is worth today.
Read MoreGuitarist-singer Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 may have been a successful musician, but over time, he started discovering other avenues of interest, and eventually quit to ... change the world.
Read MoreIt's arguable whether or not money can buy happiness, but massive, sudden amounts of the stuff does seem capable of picking up misery on a rent-to-own basis -- especially when it comes from winning the lottery.
Read MoreA president's pet can be a furry window into the POTUS's soul. But Donald Trump has no pets. What does that say about him?
Read MoreAcross the wilds of Africa, it is estimated that some 15,000 reticulated giraffes remain, galloping majestically across the Serengeti and expecting none of us to notice that they're just guys in factory reject horse costumes with stilts taped to their arms.
Read MoreBy some accounts, April 11th, 1954 was the most boring day in history.
Read More"White Boy Rick," real name Richard Wershe Jr., is not the fly white guy's child. He was, however, a child when he became an FBI informant.
Read MoreGod help you if you make the mistake of ordering absinthe. "That's not real absinthe," you'll be helpfully informed. "Real absinthe isn't even legal in the United States. It's too powerful. I drank it all the time when I spent a summer in France." And then, they'll keep going on about ...
Read MoreCan a pet really walk away with a paw full of money when their owner kicks the bucket?
Read MoreWho was the real Rosie the Riveter? The truth is... riveting.
Read MoreIn the Spring of 2020, the citizens of this fair planet found themselves in an unenviable position: humans had, collectively, run out of board games that didn't make them want to kill each other. Rounds of Risk ended invariably with one person stuck in Greenland, while the other ...
Read MoreIf someone were to name an animal after Johnny Cash, you might expect it to be the ostrich that beat him in a fight. But Cash's animal is a tarantula, and as crazy as it sounds, it's even more fitting than the music legend's feathered nemesis.
Read MoreIn 1981, Gates and a colleague, Neil Konzen, stayed up until 4 a.m. to write a simple game for the PC, making history in the process.
Read MoreQuentin Tarantino's latest masterpiece, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it got a "six-minute standing ovation." Here's the story behind Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Read MoreHere are the best cover songs that sound nothing like the original. They might as well be completely new tunes.
Read MoreDifficult as it is to believe, even Michael Jordan had off games during his professional career. Which one was the worst?
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