In one week in March 2020, 3.3 million Americans filed unemployment claims. One expert said, "The United States is in the thralls of a catastrophic unemployment crisis, the likes of which we haven't seen since the Great Depression." But how many people were unemployed during the Great Depression?
Read MoreEveryone has been telling jokes about the recent trend of hoarding toilet paper, but the people of Hawaii got the dubious honor of experiencing a truly serious toilet paper shortage in 1971.
Read MoreIn the pantheon of musical demigods, John Lennon remains a point of cultural fascination. To some, his life represents an ideological high point: Creativity winning out over the mundane, love beating hate, war being out-lounged by peace. In truth, Lennon was troubled.
Read MoreImagine that you're a cat. You're going about your day, lounging about in a feline manner, when suddenly, disaster strikes and you find yourself face to face with your worst enemy. Is it a dog? Another cat, perhaps? No, it's something much worse — water.
Read MoreMusic just ran in the Cash family. Is it any wonder that the youngest of the seven cash siblings, Tommy, took a stab at it, too?
Read MoreCleopatra made men eat their hearts out and had the destructive prowess to make her siblings bite the dust, but she also had a pretty full plate herself.
Read MoreMost people don't associate Wyatt Earp with the deeply frozen north, particularly Alaska. There was money to be made in the Yukon. There, he met Jack London...
Read MoreThe Red Hot Chili Peppers have been rocking the world since 1983, and Anthony Kiedis has been delivering their peculiar vocal stylings all along. That sort of stardom has to be worth at least a little bit of pocket change, right?
Read MoreRoman Reigns was set to face Goldberg for the Universal Championship at the upcoming Wrestlemania 36.
Read MoreQuarantine is an old idea. And some of the people affected by these old time quarantines were famous. Here are famous historical figures who were quarantined.
Read MoreThe Rat Pack is the epitome of old-school cool, but there was a lot of turmoil and sadness behind the scenes. This is the tragic history of the Rat Pack.
Read MoreOn March 26th, 2020, the United States Senate passed an unprecedented $2 trillion financial stimulus bill in response to the historic economic downturn facing the country due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Here's what you need to know.
Read MoreMillions of Americans — including many schoolchildren — watched the Challenger explode on live TV. That's horrible enough, but as with many tragedies, there are further layers to the story, and the worst part of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster may not be what you think.
Read MoreIf you want to excel in your field of study, it's a good idea to take a close look to folks who've been knocking it out of the park for years. And if you're trying to become a better martial artist, there are worse places to look than to Donnie Yen Ji-dan.
Read MoreIn all of human history, what years are the really big ones? The years so significant that they changed the very foundation of what it means to be human.
Read MoreFor men, shaving the head isn't exactly news. But men might not have known the scientifically proven side effects you get from embracing the cueball look.
Read MoreThere's no question that Lee was an extraordinary athlete, teacher, actor, and director. Dying far too young, at 32, only adds to the tragic mystique. Along with the tragedy come stories, bordering on myth, attached to a man whose reality was more than remarkable all by itself.
Read MoreFans of Jurassic Park are well-acquainted with raptors of the "veloci" variety. But that's not what paleontologists dug up in New Mexico, explains the Guardian. Instead, it seems they stumbled across 20 bones belonging to a "cousin" of the velociraptor.
Read MoreCooke was best known as a pioneering singer who ushered in a completely new style of music. Surely money followed, but just how much is a bit of a mystery.
Read MoreThough she was a serial killer, Aileen Wuornos was also quite a tragic figure. Equally chilling, or perhaps just weird, were her final words.
Read Moreven people who don't particularly like dogs will admit that, yes, puppies are cute. Part of that appeal -- not unlike human babies -- is the disproportionate body parts. Especially those paws. But which breeds have the biggest?
Read MoreGary Coleman has been called "a casualty of American pop culture" who "sadly embraced and exploited his status as a walking punchline." Though, to claim that Coleman "exploited" his own exploitation seems a bit like a hollow observation. Here's how much money he had when his difficult life ended.
Read MoreThe story goes that around 1980, John J. B. Wilson went to see a 99 cent double feature that ended in an impassioned plea to get his money back. It would be this experience which led to the fittingly bizarre rise of the Razzies.
Read MoreSo, it turns out researchers recently uncovered a lost continent. What's more, said discovery appears to include diamonds. If you think that sounds like the beginning of a 1930s pulp novel, you're not wrong.
Read MoreDavid Stern Crockett. King of the wild frontier, as the song goes. By his own count, a hunter and marksman who killed 105 bears in a single season. While he certainly didn't have 105 children, he did have a fair share of both sons and daughters. Here's the story of the fairer half.
Read MoreIn real life, symptoms of most mass illnesses tend to be rather similar. Not so in fiction. These are the craziest fictional diseases from movies and TV.
Read MoreThe NGO Reporters Without Borders, first formed in 1985 to protect hard-hitting journalism and journalists across the world, is now promoting an open Minecraft server which preserves, protects, and displays censored articles from across the (real) globe.
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