The last song Janis Joplin ever recorded was about a car. Her voice was the engine powering the a capella masterpiece, "Mercedes Benz." Of course, according to the lyrics, her friends all drove Porsches, and according to reality, so did she. But whatever happened to Janis Joplin's famous Porsche?
Read MoreDogs: they're man's best friend. They're our loyal companions. They stand by our sides when times get tough, assuming that we keep feeding them our unfinished jerky sticks and scratching those hard-to-reach places. But which dog has the best sense of smell?
Read MoreJeffrey Dahmer said of his first murder victim, "The guy wanted to leave and I didn't want him to leave." But here's how Dahmer himself died.
Read MoreMargaret Tudor was the daughter of King Henry VII and older sister of King Henry VIII. She was promised in marriage to James IV of Scotland, part of the Treaty of Perpetual Peace between England and Scotland in 1502. But there's more to her story.
Read MoreLet's rip this Band-Aid off up front: Alexander the Great's horse was named Bucephalus, and no, his name didn't mean anything that you're imagining.
Read MoreIf you know one thing about Chernobyl, you probably know that it was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history. So it may not come as a surprise that weird, radiation-eating organisms have been discovered there.
Read MoreYou may think Ivan Pavlov discovered Pavlovian responses by conditioning dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell. But that wouldn't ring true to Pavlov, since everyone describes the iconic dog study incorrectly. Here's the fascinating and occasionally ugly truth about Ivan Pavlov and his dogs.
Read MoreBob Seger plugged away at music for more than 50 years. From his athletic background to the real reason he retired, here's the untold truth about Bob Seger.
Read MoreForget curing cancer, of finding a vaccine to prevent coronavirus. Science has finally put its money where its mouth really is by coming up with what must be the greatest discovery since Albert Einstein invented sliced bread. We're talking, of course, about a recipe for better soap bubbles.
Read MoreLate fees, man -- the clawing, creeping, unfortunate fact of the video rental age. But now that the great beast Blockbuster has been bound in the ancient tongue and imprisoned in a strip mall in Bend, Oregon, can we finally rest easy about our late fees?
Read MoreThere are many questions people ask themselves about Dan Bilzerian, such as "Why does he act like that all the time?" and "Will that beard eventually reach his eyebrows?" Money comes up a lot too.
Read MoreThe year is 1947. The Allies have slogged through years of bloody warfare, but in the end emerge triumphant over the powers of the Axis. The boys are home. The world is at peace. Nothin' but good times ahead. Right? Not for Elizabeth Short, also known as "The Black Dahlia."
Read MoreNo matter how overbooked a flight might be, one traveler that always lands a spot on the plane is latent regret. One of the times that feeling kicks in is when you realize how utterly dirty and disgusting a commercial aircraft can get.
Read MoreThere's no telling where Poppy might pop up, what she might do, and who she might be working with. But who is she, really? How did she come up with her peculiar character, and what's her endgame with all of this oddness? Let's take a look at the untold truth of Poppy.
Read MoreMarilyn Manson has spent decades crafting his legacy as a shock rocker, complete with all the attention, anger and accusations that come with this choice of profession. He collects weird stuff. He does weird things. But does he collect money?
Read MoreIf tales by his contemporaries are to be believed, Grigori Rasputin was a nigh-unkillable villain with lust in his loins, lunacy in his brain, and evil where his heart should have been. Here's the disturbing truth of his death.
Read MoreWhen Janis Joplin performed, she took a little piece of your heart and gave you her whole soul. But how whole was her bank account?
Read MoreWhale shark. Even the name conjures up some kind of Jurassic Park chimera, with Jeff Goldblum stuttering a warning about how teeth will find a way. But what do they eat?
Read MoreOne of the longest-running series on TV, The Simpsons premiered in 1989 and started off strong, but in recent years, it’s lost some of its luster. So today, we’re taking a look at this classic sitcom to find out why The Simpsons has become so repetitive.
Read MoreTurns out that the "Illuminati eye" has nothing to do with the Illuminati at all. What we think of as an Illuminati eye tattoo is actually something else.
Read MoreIf all you know about King Solomon is he once threatened to cut a baby in half and the most uncomfortably sexy book of the Bible is named after him, you've got a lot to learn. Climb up the robot lion steps of Solomon's mechanical throne to learn the splendiferous untold truth of King Solomon.
Read MoreWhen he wasn't churning out influential hits like "Great Balls of Fire," Jerry Lee Lewis' life was one full of scandal, tragedy, violence, and addiction.
Read MoreHenry VIII was a busy guy. He had six wives -- but how many other mistresses on the road to marital misery?
Read MoreExperts provide very different estimates of how long it would take before your burial to become timely. But how long can you really live if you've been buried alive?
Read MoreTo the victor goes the spoils, as they say, and Genghis Khan was nothing if not victorious. But how many children did he really have?
Read MoreAs reported by CNN, on February 6th, 2020, Jhon Jairo Velásquez died at Bogotá, Colombia's National Institute of Cancer. The 54-year old Colombian native had been receiving treatment there for stomach cancer since late December of 2019.
Read MoreIf life were fair, the worst thing you'd ever find in a public pool is the unwrapped Baby Ruth from Caddyshack or a shaved gopher wearing a bikini. But life is fairly terrible, and in real life, public swimming pools aren't scenes of chocolatey comedy but rather commode-themed tragedy.
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