When people discuss Muhammad Ali, they often just focus on the positives. And there were a lot of positives: Muhammad Ali was a hero for the ages. But Muhammad Ali wasn't perfect by a long shot. This is about Ali's shortcomings and regrets. Here's the tragic real-life story of Muhammad Ali.
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Read MorePretty much everyone who grew up in the '90s knows who Pocahontas is. Disney Princess, love interest of the great explorer John Smith, Native American nobility. Yes, Disney taught us many things about the Powhatan heroine, and they're all wrong. Mostly. Here's the truth about Pocahontas.
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Read MoreWhen Howard Carter opened the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922, the world went nuts. Here's the true story of King Tut's curse.
Read MoreThe History Channel offers a lot of unique reality shows. Here are times the History Channel lied to you.
Read MoreStar 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.
Read MoreSpace is a pretty cool place. But we haven't been able to explore much of space because of the limits of the human body. Here's what space does to your body.
Read MoreDavid Bowie was an icon in music. But he was a complex and complicated man, having grown up under the shadow of mental illness and a tough home life.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreEazy-E changed the rap world. Seemingly nothing can touch the unassailable legacy of Eazy-E, the godfather of gangsta rap.
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Read MoreThe Industrial Revolution is widely remembered as a time of great innovation. New inventions changed the course of history, but at a high price — lots of people died during the Industrial Revolution. And many deaths were avoidable. Here are messed up things from the Industrial Revolution.
Read MoreThere's probably more to the Loch Ness Monster than you realize. Here's the truth about the Loch Ness Monster.
Read MoreCharlie's Angels was an instant smash. Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson, and Farrah Fawcett soon became household names. Here's the weird story of Charlie's Angels.
Read MoreFor all his celebrity, Jimi Hendrix lived a brief, tragic life. Here is that story.
Read MoreFor almost 1,500 years, the Roman Empire dominated, well, a lot of the world. And they weren't kind about it. Here are messed up things from the Roman Empire.
Read MoreWhen professional athletes die, there are a lot of questions about what happened. In these cases, we might not have all the answers.
Read MoreWe've thus far avoided a mass ape uprising and other horrible futuristic visions because movies aren't real. But sometimes, screenwriters get things right.
Read MoreTo say that some ancient leaders were really weird is probably a bit of an understatement. Being really weird was almost a prerequisite.
Read MoreNot all songwriters have a firm grasp of narrative, but some songwriters really do. And some don't believe in happy endings.
Read MoreLegendary Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd have persevered through more tragedy than many groups. Here's the tragic, real-life story of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Read MoreTo many, the Ancient Greeks' world was progressive, democratic, and peaceful, and there's a lot of truth to all that. But no society is perfect.
Read MoreThor: Ragnarok did something most people thought was impossible: It was a good movie about Thor. But there were some things in Thor: Ragnarok that didn't make sense. Here are dumb things in Thor: Ragnarok, a story of space gladiators and interstellar vikings battling on an alien garbage planet.
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