Contrary to what many people believe, Hulk is still alive and healthy as of May 2020. He still trains at the DDK9’s kennel and still fathers a lot of pups. So, why do people think he is dead? People confuse the death of Ace, another DDK9’s pup, with Hulk. —…
Did Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta date in real life? Despite numerous rumours to the contrary – and some steamy pictures of the pair kissing at a party in 1978 (below) – there has been no romance between the two stars. But we’re still great friends.” John Travolta himself has…
No, FDR Did Not Know The Japanese Were Going To Bomb Pearl Harbor. Wednesday marks the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The history of the attack is clear, yet the conspiracy theory that President Franklin D. Roosevelt allowed the attack to take place to draw America into…
The ancient historian Plutarch claimed these “ill-born” Spartan babies were tossed into a chasm at the foot of Mount Taygetus, but most historians now dismiss this as a myth. If a Spartan baby was judged to be unfit for its future duty as a soldier, it was most likely abandoned…
The pace of the world was too much for him and he longed for the confines and familiarity of Shawshank. In the end he killed himself with the final words: “[I] Doubt they’ll kick up any fuss, not for an old crook like me.” Red also faces similar situations after…
Confucius was born in the Chinese province of Lu in the year 551 and Siddhartha Gautama was also born in the 6th century BCE in Lumbini, Nepal. Therefore, the hearth of Confucianism became China, Lu specifically, and the heart of Buddhism became Northern India. The four most important schools of…
The guitar sold at auction in 2014 for $25,000. Owner Jesse Amoroso has appeared several times as the vintage guitar expert on the History Channel’s hit reality television series Pawn Stars. The shop closed in 2019 following a prolonged decline in other business ventures run by the Amorosos. As he…
In 1860, the North manufactured 97% of the country firearms, 96% of its railroads, 94% of it cloth, 93% of its pig iron and over 90% of its boots and shoes. The North also controlled the Navy so the seas were in the hands of the Union. Still the South…
Bill Gates effectively invented the college-dropout billionaire trope in 1975 when he left Harvard University to found Microsoft. While Harvard eventually awarded an honorary doctorate to Gates, he never completed his bachelor’s degree. During his junior year, Gates dropped out of the university to work full-time on Microsoft, a company…
For millennia, those rich enough got servants to gather snow and ice formed during the winter and stored it in straw-lined underground pits called ‘ice houses’. But the ancient Persians stumbled across a neat bit of physics that allowed them to create ice from water even during the summer. The…