It's easy to romanticize what life would have been like if you'd only been born a few thousand years earlier. No credit card debt. No student loans. No telemarketers. No need to pine over whether bae has watched your Insta story yet. The Bronze Age was just a simpler time. Simpler, but brutal.
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Read MoreIn a legal battle that dragged on for years, Led Zeppelin was accused of plagiarism for the song "Stairway to Heaven." But they came out on top in the end.
Read MoreSome things go together like peanut butter and chocolate, like Johnny Depp and a certain level of cultural uneasiness, or turtles and their shells. Unless you're a hunter playing on easy mode, or a startling cartoon character, odds are that you've never seen a turtle outside of its shell. Why?
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Read MoreOn the date of March 13, 2013, the Catholic Church recognized its 266th pope, when the current pontiff, Francis, was elected. The Church believes that history shows an unbroken line of popes since the time of Jesus Christ.
Read MoreOne tends to run out of superlatives when describing an artist as creative and influential as David Bowie. Can we say the same for his bank account?
Read MoreIn 2010, Tennessee resident Timothy Cranick paid a visit to the South Fulton firehouse and punched the fire chief in the face, in what can best be described as a case of fighting firefighter with fighter. Why? Cranick wanted payback after the firefighters allowed his parents' house to burn down.
Read MoreEija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer decried the fall of the Berlin Wall as a crime. "What they did was awful," she lamented. "They mutilated my husband."
Read MoreThere are many things people are asking about COVID. For instance, what is the virus doing to your poor cats and dogs?
Read MorePassenger pigeons were once perhaps the most multitudinous avians on the planet, numbering as many as 5 billion in their prime. But in 1914, the last known member of the species died at 29 years old in the care of the Cincinnati Zoo. Her name was Martha. Batman would have been furious.
Read MoreHistory has seen some pretty obscene popes. In fact, the Catholic Church saw a 60-year period of pontiffs so profane that it came to be known as the "pornocracy." This age of barefaced and often bare-butted corruption was rooted in an outrageous trial that took place in 897.
Read MoreStage travel was one way to get from Point A to Point B or even Q in the Old West -- But that doesn't mean it wasn't painful.
Read MoreIt's cliche to compare the life of a country music star to the events of a country music song, but the real-life life story of Randy Travis sounds like it was ripped from a tragic ballad.
Read MoreWhen you put aside the machismo and bragging rights, it's difficult to say exactly why human beings have always felt a need to reach the summits of mountains. Nevertheless, there's a reason summiting Mt. Everest is considered one of the classic feats of adventure sports.
Read MoreSnoop's had his spoon in a lot of soups, and seeing as he's been super famous since the 1990s, it's only fair to assume that he's scooped up some serious dough most of the time. The question is, exactly how much has he earned over the years? Let's find out how much Snoop Dogg is really worth.
Read MoreIf there's one thing NASA loves, it's driving golf carts around the surface of Mars. Although Elon Musk may be worried that humans won't colonize the red planet in his lifetime, NASA's InSight lander recently beamed back some unexpected findings about the red planet's magnetic fields.
Read MoreWalt Disney may have started out as an apprentice ad cartoonist, but he finagled his love for animation into a media empire. Just how much was this smokey human success engine worth at the time of his death?
Read MoreEven the strange world of subatomic particles isn't above the aesthetic allure of symmetry.
Read MoreSome people think that the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm are as dark as a Friday the 13th movie. Well, most of them aren’t … but some of them definitely are. Here are the most messed up Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
Read MoreUmbrellas. They just kind of go with the word "dapper." Occasionally, umbrellas get repurposed, but for some reason, society has long held the opinion that opening one indoors is bad luck. Why?
Read MoreThere are few bands as iconic as The Who. Here is the tragic real-life story of The Who.
Read MoreThose of us who enjoy the comforts of the modern world would probably be horrified to walk a day in the sandals of the average person in ancient Egypt.
Read MoreHuman beings kill approximately 100 million sharks a year, per The New York Times Magazine. On the other hand, unprovoked shark attacks killed just five human beings in 2017. So clearly the sharks have more to worry about than we do. But here's how you can survive a shark attack if it happens.
Read MoreNorman Bates was based on the so-called Butcher of Plainfield, Ed Gein. However, the true nature of Gein's fixations was more complex.
Read MoreThe budding pandemic presents a particular conundrum for Trump, a notorious germaphobe. So how is he really handling it?
Read MoreErnest Hemingway was, in the minds of many, the last of a particular breed of man's man. And it turns out, his cat was also a rather peculiar breed.
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