• Big Show

    This Was The Other Sport Big Show Excelled At

    Big Show is actually a very well-rounded athlete. He started off with team sports back when he was still just Paul Wright. He played football and basketball in high school in South Carolina, and though you'd think he'd be perfect for the gridiron, where he truly excelled was on the basketball court.
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    Why There Were Plagiarism Allegations Against John Lennon

    As Rolling Stone recounts, Lennon said of "Come Together," "It wasn't a rip-off; it was a love-in." McCartney added, "We pinch as much from other people as they pinch from us." This may be true, but it didn't stop the Beatles from not only being accused of plagiarism, but getting sued over it.
  • Stewardesses

    The Bizarre Truth About Airline Stewardesses 50 Years Ago

    Most stewardesses began working around age 18-20. Seems young? You're right. Airlines preferred unmarried, childless stewardesses. The average age of tenured stewardesses was 32-35. The no-marriage rule was relaxed in 1957, though some airlines still required employees to be single and not pregnant.
  • Eike Batista

    How Billionaire Eike Batista Went Broke In Just One Year

    Batista was once seen as the perfect example of Brazil's status as a booming, successful country "that had seemed to successfully combine private enterprise with social justice and was riding high on surging commodities prices." How did Batista lose his entire $35 billion fortune in one year?
  • Meat Loaf

    The Time Meat Loaf Angered The Royals

    Over the years, Meat Loaf would get several bit parts in film and on television, including an appearance in the Brad Pitt-Edward Norton film Fight Club. In the midst of his fame, his Meat Loaf's celebrity status at an all-time high, the singer accomplished quite a bit. Like, upsetting the Royals.
  • A 'talking board'

    How A Ouija Board Was Connected To A Murder

    "Ouija" is actually a brand name for a type of game called a "talking board" that grew in popularity, along with a rise in interest in spiritualism, after the Civil War. In the years following a conflict full of death, strife, and acrimony, it's understandable that people wanted resolution.
  • Techno DJ

    Here's Why A German Judge Ruled 'Techno Is Music'

    Even the electronic genre's hardened sceptics -- those who think the genre is just a load of R2D2-style boop-boop noises -- would have a tough time arguing that the judge's ruling in this particular case is anything other than self-evident. Why did the court go through the trouble?
  • john denver, musician, aviator

    The Truth About John Denver's Aviation Skills

    The country crooner John Denver is primarily known for his musical skills -- recording about 300 songs, writing about two-thirds of them. He sold more than 33 million albums. Besides his musical accomplishments, he was also an aviator, and his death at 53 influenced experimental aircraft regulation.
  • Hacker image

    These Hackers Were Never Brought To Justice

    What the majority of people are referring to when they say "hacker" is a black hat hacker, the cyber villains who wreck stuff and steal things via digital means. White hat hackers are the tech people who typically work in cyber security. Grey hat hackers are content to mess around in their basement.
  • A recreation of an ancient family gathered together to eat meat

    The Weird Way Hunting Was Done In The Stone Age

    When Wisconsin University researchers examined a Stone-Age butchery site in Tanzania, they found that the site's animal remains indicated that those animals had been specifically targeted and killed by human hunters. Hunting is apparently far older than we realized.
  • Peter Ivers

    The Tragic Details About Peter Ivers's Death

    Despite his accomplishments, Ivers is probably best remembered for how he died, his life and career cut short at the age of 36, when his star was still rising. And even today, there are still no clues as to the reason for Ivers's sudden and shockingly tragic death.
  • Pete Rose

    How Pete Rose Ended Up Broke

    The documents alleged that Rose was pulling in at least $100,000 a month just signing autographs, but also revealed that he was blowing the vast majority of that income on high-stakes gambling, with huge debts to casinos as well as the IRS.
  • George "Bugs" Moran

    The Truth About Al Capone's Rival, Bugs Moran

    The Roaring Twenties roared in part because of the proliferation of organized crime, and Capone had his rivals back in the day, in more ways than one. We're talking about the crime boss George "Bugs" Moran, born Adelard Cunin, whose life intertwined with Capone's in dangerous ways.
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    The True Story That Inspired Moby Dick

    Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick is an essential part of American literature and popular culture. One of the most riveting things about the novel is that it's based on a lot of true events. Here are some true events that inspired Melville's Moby Dick.
  • meat loaf

    Inside The Time Meat Loaf Was A Softball Coach

    After knocking it out of the park as a musician in the 1970s, the rock star (born Marvin Lee Aday in 1947) began helping others knock it out of the park, too: as a softball coach. While he was living in Connecticut, Coach Meat (as players called him) coached a local girls' softball team.