Everyone was getting down to Outkast until -- poof -- they were gone, breaking up, seemingly out of nowhere. It seems like a pretty odd thing to do for a group with 16 Grammy nominations and 6 wins. But it's not like André 3000 and Big Boi fell off the planet. They just had other things to do.
Read MorePerhaps because he'd had a few too many drinks, he soon felt nature calling. Apparently, he had to urinate badly enough that he couldn't hold it long enough to find a restroom. Instead, he relieved his bladder directly onto the 60-foot-high Cenotaph monument in Alamo Plaza.
Read MoreFrom 1897 to 1962, the Grand Guignol brought unseemly subjects and stomach-turning gore to the Paris stage.
Read MoreThose with a strong religious nature tend to believe Ouija boards can contact the dead and serve as portals that allow evil to enter our world.
Read MoreEven if you consider yourself a Quentin Tarantino buff, it's impossible to know everything there is to know about a man who pretty breathes cinema.
Read MoreA Swanson salesman named Gerry Thomas came up with the idea of marketing meals as TV dinners. Thomas realized in 1953 that Swanson had a surplus of frozen turkey -- 260 tons of it, in fact, sitting inside refrigerated train cars. The company had no idea what to do with it.
Read MoreOzzy has secured himself as a household name across the world. There's only one problem: The metal behemoth known as "Ozzy Osbourne" isn't actually named "Ozzy." It's his stage name, a name he's been called for so long that people forget it's not the real thing.
Read MoreAfter playing shows during which the band often had to stop and let the audience sing, May and singer Freddie Mercury decided to write a song that specifically relied on audience participation. May's contribution was "We Will Rock You," while Mercury wrote its companion song, "We Are The Champions."
Read MoreAccording to the Abide in Christ website, the Ark wasn't just a box holding the Ten Commandments; it was also the Mercy Seat, where God would meet and judge souls. That's two holy objects smashed into one. It's holy enough to grant men power if they ever get their hands on it. Terrifying power.
Read MoreAlthough the Plan of San Diego didn't itself come to fruition, its consequences reverberate over 100 years later in America.
Read MoreMercury and Nitro won a trio of WWE Tag Team Titles in 2005, triumphing over other fierce competitors, such as Batista & Mysterio and the Legion of Doom.
Read MoreThere was one investigation. however, that had Hawes sitting on a staircase, afraid to move. In a recent interview on an episode of the Geico-ad-heavy SUS: Share Ur Scare YouTube show, Hawes dives into his most terrifying experience. It's seriously horrifying.
Read MoreBut wait. The United States has adopted the metric system, you say? Back in 1866, via the Metric Act, as Smithsonian Magazine relates. It remains unenforceable, however, and now people are confused because they can drink half-liter bottles of water while running a 5k, and then travel 2.3 miles home.
Read MoreOne former Pantera member is only known by the heaviest of metalheads, and that's Rex Brown. Brown was one of the co-founders. He rocked the deep notes in the rhythm section while he wailed on the bass guitar. And where Brown might not be as famous as some of the others, he has just as much talent.
Read MoreJerusalem is one of the holiest cities in the world and it has been a site of terrible violence and great tragedy in its millennia-long history.
Read MoreThe dream of commercial space travel will be a lot closer when SpaceX and NASA launch its module to the International Space Station (ISS). Planned for November 14, it will bring four astronauts to the ISS. SpaceX, owned by Tesla founder Elon Musk, partnered with NASA to take astronauts to the ISS.
Read MoreThe multi-talented singer and songwriter Kenny Rogers worked in the music business for over six decades, achieving international success with hits like "Lucille," "Islands In The Stream," and of course, his iconic single, "The Gambler." This is how Kenny Rogers' music career started.
Read MoreJericho isn't just a pro wrestler. His career has been punctuated by several breaks, during which he pursued projects in acting, music, and other disciplines.
Read MoreJoseph is just kind of hanging out there, being a pretty good dude. Nothing super special about him in the common mythos, except that he stuck around to raise Mary's child, knowing it wasn't his own. No, this was God's baby. The Holy Spirit had blessed Mary with a serious honor.
Read MoreKiss bassist and singer Gene "The Demon" Simmons' impressively long and limber tongue caused people once to think he had a cow's tongue.
Read MoreBy 1971, however, the Vietnam conflict still showed few signs of ending, and President Richard Nixon seemed more concerned with stopping Lennon's activism than stopping the war. Lennon became more involved with the anti-war movement.
Read MoreAuthor Deirdre Bair interviewed hundreds of people, including Capone's descendants, to show the complex persona behind the ruthless killer. "This is also the story of a loving son, husband, and father who described himself as a businessman whose job was to serve the people what they wanted."
Read MoreThough both of the fighters have different abilities, they actually have a lot in common. Neither Superman nor Goku are human. They're both aliens who crash landed on Earth after their respective home planets were destroyed. They also both find a group of superpowered friends on their new planet.
Read MoreIt's been common knowledge for quite some time that drunk driving is dangerous, but people do it anyway. These days, society looks down on the act while we try to reduce the number of casualties. But, as disturbing as it is, that's not how drunk driving was viewed 50 years ago. It was much worse.
Read MoreThe possible connection between one of the women who appeared in Mötley Crüe's racy videos over the years and a horrifying, gruesome murder is truly shocking.
Read MoreThe USPS is run like a private business, but it isn't owned like one. It's a semi-independent entity, established in 1792. Here's who owns the USPS.
Read MoreSantana told Rolling Stone that he had been holding back from recording, feeling like he had "a masterpiece of joy in [his] belly." His previous recording companies had tamped down his more experimental projects and even felt he was too old. But he knew he still had something to prove.
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