The Reason Axl Rose Used To Fear Women
His stepfather was a strict Pentecostal man who used his faith as a way to brainwash Rose and his sister, Rose alleges, and added to an already skewed idea of women and relationships.
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The Hidden Meaning Of Hogwarts' House Colors
The houses represent different traits. Ravenclaws are generally curious and value knowledge, Slytherins are ambitious, Gryffindors are brave and impulsive, while Hufflepuffs are loyal. But it isn't just traits that make each house stand apart. Even the house colors mean something.
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Why A Rare Fish Was Found Aboard A 500-Year-Old Shipwreck
What's the big deal about a fish being found in an old boat in the sea? The archaeologists believe that the sturgeon was part of a royal power play that ended up an epic fail at the bottom of the sea.
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What Really Happened To The Franklin Expedition
The "best-equipped and most technologically advanced Arctic expedition to that date" set sail on May 19 with a crew of 134 men and enough provisions to last three years. Despite the planning and care that went into preparing for the journey, the boats disappeared just two months later.
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What The Final 12 Months Of Chester Bennington's Life Was Like
Chester Bennington was best known for being the lead singer of Linkin Park. For much of his life, he struggled with drug abuse, alcoholism, and deepening depression. This is what the final 12 months of Chester Bennington's life was like.
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The Bizarre Life Of The Murderous French Fortuneteller La Voisin
Parisian, fortune teller, serial killer, secret abortionist, poisoner, clairvoyant, black mass priestess, businesswoman, possible sociopath: quite a resume for one person. But this list of crimes and occult practices did indeed belong to a single individual: Catherine Monvoisin.
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The True Meaning Of The Dendera Light
The Dendera light is a motif carved into the walls of the Hathor Temple in Dendera, Egypt. The image, depicted across three stone reliefs inside the temple, shows a unique depiction of what, at first, looks to be a light bulb shaped like a Crookes tube, with a cord snaking through the middle.
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The Truth About Woodstock's 'Trip Tents'
Aside from dealing with heat exhaustion from the late summer heat, lacerated feet from walking barefoot, and even some people getting run over by tractors, the medical team had to keep up with everyone who took drugs.
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The Events That Led Up To The Creation Of NASA
You might know NASA sent the first men to the Moon in 1969, but how much do you know about the events that caused NASA to be created?
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The Truth About Journey's 1983 Arcade Game
Gaming giants Bally Midway released a Journey video game. Per Dangerous Minds, the game came in both arcade and home versions with the tagline "the hottest band in the country is about to take over the planet!"
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This Is The Real Life Mirkwood From Lord Of The Rings
We've found a piece of J.R.R. Tolkien's fabled world residing here in our own: Mirkwood. Well, not the Mirkwood, but it's the closest thing our Earth has to the fictional forest.
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Why The Moon Is Drifting Away
The Moon is not actually quite as attached to us as you'd think. In fact, it's ever so slowly inching away from Earth, like a guest at an awful party tactically maneuvering toward the exit.
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The Cabbage Farmer Who Became Emperor Of China
Zhu took on the name Hongwu and claimed he had the divine right to rule, becoming an absolute monarch. Wary of losing his throne to violence -- after all, he took it by violence -- he stamped down rebellions and even established secret police.
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The Tragic Death Of Guns N' Roses' Original Bassist
Beich was drawn to the band's potential. He'd already proved his mettle with Mercyful Fate and other bands. As the the sound and style of Guns N' Roses evolved, however, the bassist found himself struggling to be happy. He didn't want to stick to hard rock.
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The Unexpected Way MythBusters' Jamie Hyneman Met His Wife
Eileen and Jamie met in 1984 and the two dated for five years, sharing a deep love for science, scuba, and big, bushy mustaches, before tying the knot in 1989. She was by his side when he returned to the mainland.
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The Mystery Of The Klerksdorp Spheres
They're classified as pyrophyllites, a layered silicate formed by hydrothermal alteration (i.e., they dried out). Despite their names, they're not, in fact, spheres, but somewhat flat, oval, and some have three parallel lines across their length. The kicker? They're about 3 billion years old.
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The Sudden Death Of Former Megadeth Drummer Nick Menza
Menza's career came to a tragic halt in May 2016 when he passed away due to a cardiac arrest while performing in California. He was 51.
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You Wouldn't Have Wanted To Meet The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones In Real Life. Here's Why
When they fished his body out of his pool, "[there] were traces of pep pills, sleeping tablets and alcohol in his bloodstream" which had led "drowning by immersion in fresh water associated with severe liver disfunction caused by fatty degeneration and ingestion of alcohol and drugs."
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Here's How Neanderthals Differed From Homo Sapiens
You might have some Neanderthal DNA of your very own. Think of them as cousins. Just like you and your cousins, Homo sapiens and Neanderthals had some key differences.
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This Is The Smallest Fish In The World
The fish is native to Southeast Asian peat swamp forests and is found in the waters of the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Bintan Island. A mature female Paedocypris progenetica measures only 7.9 millimeters, or just over 0.3 of an inch.
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How The Golden State Killer Was Finally Caught
All serial killers are evil, but the Golden State Killer was particularly terrible. In early 2020, the four-decade-old case came to a close and it gave a lot of people a lot of hope — hope that there's always still a chance for justice. Here's how the Golden State Killer was finally caught.
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This Is The Smallest Horse In The World
Einstein was the world's smallest horse when he was born in 2010, measuring up at a pint-sized 14 inches tall, and weighing only six pounds. He's never going to pull a beer wagon or round up longhorns, but he still wins the cute sweepstakes.
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The Japanese Swordsman Who Turned Into An Artist
This legendary swordsman, like all samurai, began his training when he was a wee one, and he wasn't much bigger when he attained his first victory. As The Karate Lifestyle relates, Musashi fought his first sword duel at the age of 13, defeating a fully trained, adult samurai in single combat.
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The Tragic Death Of The Who's Keith Moon
The fanfare and fantasies surrounding rock stars often produce rumors that aren't remotely true. But The Who's late drummer and Dionysian spirit animal, Keith Moon, might have been the rare exception where the man outdid the myth.
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The Truth About The Invention Of Time Zones
Think of a sundial, which catches the light and deploys a shadow to tell the viewer what time it was. In practical terms, this meant each village operated under its own solar time, because their relative position to the sun was unique, which in turn produces an individualized time.
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What You Need To Know About The Milgram Experiment
Milgram believed his experiment proved that ordinary people, when directed by an authority figure, would behave in ways that ran counter to their own moral or ethical beliefs. In October 1963, he published his findings in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology.
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The U.S. Race Riots History Forgot
The United States has had a long, sad history of racial violence, and shockingly, few of these incidents are widely remembered. There are the U.S. race riots history forgot.
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