What's Really Happening To Your Body When Your Stomach Growls
When you haven't moved from your desk (or couch) for hours since breakfast, you'll suddenly hear a low rumbling sound -- your stomach growling.
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The Surprising Amount Of Money Kenny Rogers Got To Star In Dole Commercials
Rogers shared that he had been offered other endorsement deals, including commercials for cigarettes, beer, and liquor, but he'd turned them down, which is ironic, considering one of his signature songs, "The Gambler," features characters indulging in both whiskey and cigarettes.
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Will Harriet Tubman Appear On The $20 Bill?
Harriet Tubman -- abolitionist, suffragist, and former slave -- is one of the most influential political activists in American history. In recent years, advocates have proposed commemorating her many achievements by putting her face on the $20 bill, which is coming due for a redesign.
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What Happens If A Sitting President Refuses To Concede An Election
The president has continued to make the false claims and inspiring his supporters in Arizona and Michigan to gather in Phoenix and Detroit to chant opposing slogans. Trump's refusal to wait until all votes have been counted have some wondering how he would take the possible loss.
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The Reason Billionaire Vijay Mallya Lost His Money
When he decided to branch out into the global luxury aviation business in 2007, he boasted in an interview after multiple tall glasses of scotch on the rocks, "I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that." He had just bought 50 Airbus planes in Paris, a $7 billion order.
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System Of A Down's Protect The Land Lyrics Explained
In a post about the new music from SOAD's website, the band writes, "These two songs ... speak of a dire and serious war being perpetrated upon our cultural homelands of Artsakh and Armenia." They say that the "corrupt regimes" of Turkey and Azerbaijan are committing "genocidal acts with impunity."
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The Awful Thing The Hilton Sisters' Mother Did
Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were born in Brighton, England in 1908. Their mother was an unmarried barmaid named Kate Skinner; their father was unknown. Skinner soon handed over the twins to Mary Hilton, the woman who owned the pub where Skinner worked and had assisted at their birth.
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These Are The 5 Things Presidents Can't Do
the presidency may be "the highest office in the land," but he is no autocrat, let alone dictator. After all, that's the kind of ruling class and non-egalitarian system of government that the United States' forefathers wanted to do away with.
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The Untold Truth Of The Unsinkable Molly Brown
As an American folk hero, Molly Brown has become larger than life. But she was a fascinating woman. This is the untold truth of The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
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The Truth About Harriet Tubman's Connection To Canada
Tubman lived in Canada from 1851-1861, bringing with her many of the formerly enslaved people she saved, to live a free life. In those times, Canada had already outlawed slavery and provided shelter and work for many escaping the United States.
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The Link Between The Ark Of The Covenant And Alexander The Great
The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony, held relics for the Israeli people and acted as a mobile sanctuary.
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The Dangerous Truth Of Aqua Dots
Apparently forgetting that children, especially very young children, will put anything and everything they can in their mouths, they came up with Aqua Dots.
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This Is What Dolores O'Riordan Preferred Over The Rock-Star Lifestyle
The rockstar life was certainly thrilling at first. That amount of excitement took a massive toll after a while, driving O'Riordan to exhaustion. What few fans realize is that O'Riordan showed a preference for a slower pace, a more serene rural lifestyle, similar to the one she grew up with.
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Why The Food From The Middle Ages Was Dangerous
One of the everyday dangers of life in the Middle Ages was something that should have helped prolong life but often didn't. Their food could kill them.
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The Disturbing Thing That People Ate During The Stone Age
To add insult to injury, it's pretty likely that once a Stone Age man, woman, or child died, their surviving friends and family would mourn their loss while simultaneously celebrating a sudden bounty of food by eating the deceased.
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The Truth About The Absolute Silence In Alcatraz
Perhaps the harshest rule Warden Johnston implemented was the mandate of almost total silence throughout the prison.
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The Tragic Details About Jimmy Snuka
Snuka, whose real name was James Reiher, was born in Fiji, grew up in Hawaii, and also lived in Camden County, New Jersey. After a successful stint as a bodybuilder, he started as a professional wrestler in the 1970s and made his WWE debut in 1982, helping the organization on its skyrocket rise.
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A Tribe Called Quest: The Reason They Broke Up
The end of the group would actually occur nearly two decades later, with the tragic death of rapper Phife Dawg, aged just 45, on March 22, 2016. At the time, the Tribe were working on their first album together in 18 years: We Got It from Here ... Thank You 4 Your Service, completed in his absence.
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This Was Eddie Vedder's Advice For Bradley Cooper Before A Star Is Born
This version of A Star is Born has an interesting, and unexpected, connection to Pearl Jam lead singer, Eddie Vedder. Vedder, it seems, was the inspiration for Bradley Cooper's character, as stated on the AV Club. And while Cooper was making the film, Vedder had some very specific advice for him.
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Diamonds Aren't Made Of Coal. Here's What They're Really Made Of
Coal is formed through the fossilization of dead plant matter. Since land plants only emerged on Earth about 450 million years ago, coal itself dates back only 300 or 400 million years. This means that diamonds -- which are over a billion years old -- predate coal by hundreds of millions of years.
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This Was Vince McMahon's Childhood Idol
Considering Vince McMahon has harbored rivalries with everyone from Triple H (who would go on to be his son-in-law) to Bret "The Hitman" Hart to Randy Orton -- even with his own children Stephanie and Shane -- his actual childhood idol makes a lot more sense.
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Here's Why Dollywood Has A Connection To Eagles
The many attractions of Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, include fairway rides, a reproduction of the two-room cabin in which Dolly grew up, an entire water park, and the Eagle Mountain Sanctuary, an enormous aviary measuring 30,000 square feet
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The Sad Truth About Karen Carpenter's Marriage
As Karen Carpenter struggled to overcome her eating disorders, she found love -- or so she thought.
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Who Are The Men Who Have Walked On The Moon?
We walked on the moon for the first time in 1969, and since then there's been a rarefied group of people who've set foot on our planetary satellite. The United States no longer sends people to the moon on missions, so the group remains small. (And no, there's no evidence we faked it.)
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Here's Why People Think The CIA Wrote A Scorpions Song
It was "Wind of Change" that has led some to believe that Scorpions were reaching beyond mere musical expression and into the realm of politics. It wasn't just a song about envisioning a free future for all people, as the lyrics say -- oh, no. It was CIA-created propaganda.
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The Tragic Death Of Gregg Allman
Gregg Allman was diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 2007, for which he received a liver transplant. In the following years, he would go on to suffer from liver cancer. The band continued to tour, but Gregg's worsening health problems would force them to stop in 2014.
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The Odd Location Where 'Weird Al' Yankovic Recorded His First Hit
"Weird Al"'s career really started with "My Bologna," a parody of the Knack's hit "My Sharona," described succinctly by Rolling Stone: "accompanied only by his accordion, the song is a G-rated ode to bologna" which "launched a hugely successful career that is going strong to this day."
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