While you work and toil in obscurity, hoping to one day make a name for yourself, some people come out of nowhere and achieve fame and fortune seemingly overnight. We mean nowhere quite literally, by the way, as none of these people actually exist. Truth is stranger than fiction, but not nearly as successful.
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Occasionally, you’ll hear a story about how DNA tests show that two bitter political rivals are actually 9th cousins, six times removed. More impressive than that, however, is how so many random people can claim relation to a famous actor like Richard Gere. Who knows, maybe you’re one of them, and he will lend you money. You are family, after all.
Usually, celebrities do their best to create the illusion that they are truly larger-than-life, and that nothing can bother them. However, stripped of the glitz and makeup, they’re just people, and people have issues. In the cases of these celebrities, that issue is crippling social anxiety.
Most children have some behavioral issues. Everyone is human and you can’t expect anyone to…
Ben and Jerry’s ice cream is pretty much the best ice cream, or cheapest heroin…
Although sometimes dismissed as merely “the Dark Continent”, Africa has a rich history full of…
Now we’ve already covered how badass Bruce Lee is before, but Bruce Lee is a…
There’s at least a 99% chance that the music you love would not exist without the blues. It’s the foundation of just about every bit of popular song released in the past 100 years. Here, we pay tribute to ten of the best, the ones who should be personally thanked by every artist around today.
Along with werewolves and zombies, vampires are among the most popular mythological monsters sweeping mainstream…
Houdini was the original party magician, when he wasn’t slipping out of handcuffs like a…
Remember history class? Okay, neither do I. But those nerds who actually stayed awake through…
On 27 October 1960, American soul singer Ben E. King co-wrote and recorded “Stand by…
Sigmund Freud is, depending on who you talk to, either one of the greatest psychological minds in history, or a perverted phony who made up entire theories to “explain” why babies lust after their parents. The answer, as usual, is a little bit of both, as Freud was a deeply complex man, as these various factoids about him prove.
If you’re a fan of the television show 30 Rock, you may be familiar with…
Onions are like a cruel joke from god, they’re an inanimate object incapable of feeling…
Silly pranks are usually reserved for children and viral videos of random people screwing with each other. The power players of the world don’t bother, right? They’re too busy being powerful, right? WRONG. The’re just as silly and screwy as the rest of us, and here;’s proof.
Celebrities like to project a sanitized image and so we often don’t realize that they…
Other than the fact that they existed, pretty much everything Hollywood and TV has taught you about Native Americans is purest fiction, drummed up by racist white people desperate to demonize the people that already lived on the lands that they wanted. Hopefully, we can set at least a few records straight with this article.
Rowan Atkinson will likely never live down the accident prone dumbass called Mr Bean he…
Though Boeing is now synonymous with aeroplanes and jet travel, back in the 1950’s the…
The new future King of England is here! But in 2013, does it even matter? Why, of course it does! Despite having no real authority, England without its Royal Family would be like eating chocolate cake without the frosting: technically possible, but far more boring. Here are ten reasons why the House Of Windsor should endure forever.
Cardinal Mezzofanti, or to give him his full and more awesome title, Cardinal Giuseppe Caspar…
In the movies, a case of mistaken identity is oftentimes wacky and whimsical. In real life however, it’s usually far less so. In fact, in many cases it’s downright tragic. Here are ten examples of what really happens when we think one person is somebody completely different.
Donald “Lofty” Large, despite being the owner of a nickname so non-threatening whispering into the…