Crazy True Stories Of Politicians Convicted Of Crimes
Here are some crazy true stories of politicians convicted of crimes.
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The Truth About Hugh McDonald's Time In Bon Jovi
Lots of bands have that one guy they'd rather you forget, and Bon Jovi is no exception ... well, until very recently. For over a decade, at the height of their fame, the band with some of the biggest hairdos in pop music was living on a prayer that no one would notice the old guy among their ranks: Hugh McDonald.
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The Truth About Nikki Sixx's Strained Relationship With His Mother
Nikki Sixx's many exploits, highest highs, lowest lows, and even his insane near-death experiences are notorious.
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The Truth About Chuck Norris' Hidden Passion
Chuck Norris is known for many things. He's Walker, Texas Ranger. He was a world-class martial artist who acted in movies with the famed Bruce Lee. The guy created his own martial arts style and his own fighting league. He's something else, too.
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The Creepiest Things Caught On Doorbell Cams
Doorbell cams record when they detect motion. And sometimes what they capture is pretty freaky. These are the creepiest things caught on doorbell cams.
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The Truth About Stephen Hawking's Ex-Wife, Jane
Many of the brilliant and influential people in the world are terrible spouses. Unfortunately, this seems to have included the late physicist Stephen Hawking.
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The Untold Truth Of ShamWow
Everybody knows ShamWow. Either it's a product you use, or a word you find fun to say. What happened to it?
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Things The Indiana Jones Movies Get Right About History
The Indiana Jones movies take a lot of liberties, but Steven Spielberg and George Lucas put a surprising amount of historically accurate info into their films.
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Malaysia Flight 370: Chilling Details About The Mysterious Disappearance
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was carrying 239 people when it disappeared in 2014. Here are the chilling details known about its mysterious disappearance.
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The Untold Truth Of Helen Keller
You've heard about Helen Keller and how she managed to become a successful writer and activist despite being deaf and blind. Her life was challenging, but she never truly cared that society believed she wouldn't do well.
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The Messed Up History Of New York's Hart Island
Hart Island has been host prisoners of war, quarantined city dwellers, convicts, the mentally ill, and more. And, almost always, it has been set aside for the burial of New York City's indigent and unclaimed dead. This is the messed up history of New York's Hart Island.
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What You Didn't Know About Sam Elliott's Daughter, Cleo Rose
We all know Sam Elliott. He's been married to Katharine Ross for more than 40 years. They have a daughter, Cleo Rose, who is a model and musician.
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The Truth About Rick James' Violent Encounter With Alfonso Ribeiro
If you know anything about the crazy life of Rick James, who reached super-stardom in the 1980s with hits like "Give It to Me, Baby" and "Super Freak" (and also once caught himself on fire while smoking crack), you won't be surprised to hear that he once physically attacked Carlton.
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The Truth About Ozzy Osbourne's First Marriage
Osbourne met Thelma Riley in 1971 at a nightclub just as his band, Black Sabbath, was really taking off. They soon married and, according to Osbourne, "we had two children, Jessica and Louis. We bought a house for 20,000 pounds, I thought, 'I have arrived.' Not realizing it was a giant mirage."
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The Messed Up History Of Ebola
Ebola is a pretty nasty disease. The virus can cause symptoms that you'd expect to see in a horror film. The more mild symptoms include fever, body aches, fatigue, and intense vomiting and diarrhea. The more extreme cases include kidney and liver impairment.
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The Messed Up History Of Yellow Fever
Yellow fever has a history of plaguing humans for centuries. While today a vaccine can protect us, it had a history of affecting Panama Canal construction.
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Queen Nzinga: One Of Africa's Fearless Female Leaders
Queen Nzinga was never supposed to be in power, but through sheer force of will, she became respected and feared by all who dared to oppose her.
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Here's How Rick James Got His Name
While in the Great White North, James got by gigging on the drums for jazz bands and immersed himself in a new world of sex, drugs, and music. This is where he began the transformation that would end in the controversial character that the public came to know and love as the flammable Rick James.
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The Truth About The Golden Girls Feud
Michael Musto wrote in a 2017 Village Voice article that White admitted that Arthur "was not fond of me." it was White's positive attitude that caused Arthur to become angry at her. "Sometimes if I was happy, she'd be furious," White said about her costar, a woman she often found reserved.
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The Messed Up History Of Malaria
The CDC cites statistics from the World Health Organization: "in 2018, 228 million clinical cases of malaria occurred, and 405,000 people died of malaria, most of them children in Africa" with underdeveloped immune systems. It is fatal if not treated.
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The Tragedy Of Abbott And Costello
A classic example of the comedic double act, straight man Bud Abbott and funny man Lou Costello starred in two movies a year at the peak of their popularity, and went on to influence generations of comedians who followed along after them.
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Whatever Happened To Mister Hooper From Sesame Street?
Will Lee, the actor who played kindly grocery store owner Mr. Hooper, had died in December 1982. The show's producers were left with a conundrum: How do they address Mr. Hooper's absence from the show to the children who depend on seeing him there?
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History's Craziest Plane Hijackings
You'd think that taking over an airplane the air would require skill or at least sobriety. You'd be wrong. Here are some of history's craziest plane hijackings.
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What Medieval Peasants Really Ate In A Day
Medieval peasants were contending with the Black Death and the Crusades, and much of what they ate in a day was a reflection of what they had on hand.
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The Base Jumper Who Accidentally Filmed His Own Death
You're five to eight times as likely to die in a BASE jumping incident than you are in a skydiving accident. The mortality rate averages one death out of every 2,317 jumps, says the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
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Inside Albert Ebosse's Mysterious Death
Four months after the incident, The Guardian reported further that an independent pathologist contracted by Ebossé's family to investigate the death concluded that it was impossible for him to have been killed by an object thrown from the stands.
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The Crazy Way Meat Loaf Was Stripped Of His Money
Meat Loaf dropped one of the most successful albums of all time. So how is it possible that a mere six years later, in 1983, he filed for bankruptcy?
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