Most of the world has locked down due to coronavirus. But not every country has been on board. The world's Scandanavian meatball mecca, Sweden, has refused to play ball, opting not to lock down parts of the country. Why aren't the Swedes sweating coronavirus as much as some other places?
Read MoreIn many ways, dogs are just like us. They love a long walk in the sun, they want to eat cats, and they can spend hours every day screaming at small animals outside the living room window. And they, like us, smell terrible.
Read MoreWhat if you were Henry VIII's kid? Would life be all strawberries and high fashion as the child of England's most notorious ladykiller?
Read MoreWith the rise of the coronavirus, what's left of the mall experience is often shuttered as part of the nation working together to stop the spread. Classic mall stores such as Sears, among others, may not survive the pandemic.
Read MoreAnyone even cursorily familiar with the WWE is probably aware of Roman Reigns. Less known is that he used to be a football player with professional dreams.
Read MoreRegardess of everything else Lennon was (and he was a lot), there's one thing he certainly was: Filthy rich.
Read MoreSix years isn't such an age gap in a relationship, married or otherwise, ahead or behind. It maybe gets a little more problematic when the groom is 21 and the bride is 15. Somehow, Loretta Webb and Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn made it work.
Read MoreIn good news for both fans hoping to see a season two of Chernobyl and radioactive fire monster enthusiasts, radiation levels in the area surrounding the site of the infamous 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident began spiking on Saturday, April 4th.
Read MoreAn estimated 50,000 women died there between 1938 and 1945. This place was relentlessly inhumane. Yet the horrors of Ravensbrück went overlooked for decades.
Read MoreBiography says this of Edward Theodore Gein: He "wasn't actually a serial killer — he only admitted to killing two women." So there you go. That's all. Not such a bad guy. Especially if you're a Hollywood writer.
Read MoreScott Weiland was a charismatic frontman who played a huge part in the Stone Temple Pilots' success, but eventually parted ways with his most famous band. What could have prompted him to do so? What was the real reason Scott Weiland left Stone Temple Pilots? Let's find out!
Read MoreWhen you think about Agatha Christie, what springs to mind? Subterfuge. Conspiracy. Occasionally, it was just as evident in her real life as it was in her books.
Read MoreIf you've been living in a cave the last few months (and that's not unusual) you've probably revisited Pikotaro and his ubiquitous "Pen Pineapple Pen" (PPAP) song. Here's his story.
Read MoreLife experiences are subjective, so a lot of this is guess work, but from the information available, owning a big cat sounds terrifying to the point of unscheduled trouser irrigation.
Read MoreJudy Garland, born Frances Gumm on June 10, 1922, grew to 4'11" but never really grew up. One thing that did grow, unfortunately, was her financial debt.
Read MoreBonnie and Clyde are consistently credited with killing 13 people, nine of them law enforcement personnel. But there's more to the story.
Read MoreA few months ago, times were simpler -- largely because Tiger King hadn't yet premiered. But now that it has, with its puzzling cast of characters, we have names like Bhagavan 'Doc' Antle, and equally puzzling financial situations. With his money in mind -- how did the tiger earn its stripes?
Read MoreJason David Frank has been known by many names. To some, he is Tommy Oliver, the Green Ranger, of children's TV fame, wielding a classic dagger/flute combination and commanding the mighty Dragonzord. To more mature viewers, he is the White Ranger ...
Read MoreVirgil was Wyatt Earp's older brother, but it's Wyatt who gets all the attention these days. The same argument could be made for Jesse and Frank James.
Read MoreYou know how the best part of some video games are those first ten minutes, where you drag all of the sliders on the character creator to one side, or the other, and see what kind of genetic monstrosity you can make? Human beings have been doing that with dog breeds for millennia.
Read MoreThere are many takes on what happened at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, on October 26, 1881. Some say the Earp brothers and dentist friend Doc Holliday tried to restore order to a lawless town, while others claim three unarmed men were brutally murdered.
Read MoreQueen Elizabeth I had her pick of the litter in terms of recreational activities. Some of them got pretty gross. Here's what she did for fun.
Read MoreAccording to the Bureau of Prisons, Alcatraz as federal penitentiary saw 14 escape attempts, starting in 1936, when Joe Bowers tried to climb a chain link fence. But only one attempt was (possibly) successful.
Read MoreIn the early days of the UFC, the mixed martial arts organization touted itself as boxing's cool uncle, the one who always has beer and won't mention anything to your parents. Rules were lax. Matches would be decided by "knockout, submission, doctor's intervention, or death."
Read MoreEverybody has known that one couple, maybe from high school: They're together, they broke up, they made up, they broke up ... Maybe we kind of expect it with, well, art people. Like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
Read MoreIt takes a pretty singular criminal act for a parole board to deny a person their freedom on the basis of fear for the perpetrator's safety, but that was one of the reasons given when, in the summer of 2018, Mark David Chapman was denied release for the tenth consecutive time.
Read MoreMonarchies being what they are, provisions must be made for who takes over when the present occupant of the throne kicks the royal bucket. The whole megillah gets infinitely more complicated if the monarch in question didn't marry, and had, as part of her public image, the title "Virgin Queen."
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