Are you ready to (sort of) rock? Mac Sabbath This metal act was formed in Los Angeles in 2014, and they perform covers of Black Sabbath songs, with a twist: All the lyrics are about fast food. Their punny songs include “Frying Man” (based on “Iron Man”) and “Lord of the Swirl” (inspired by “Lord […]
Most fans of television shows or movies watch them a few times or buy a tie-in T-shirt. For the dedicated devotees that own (or once lived in) the following abodes, that just isn’t enough.
Okay, we all know that unicorns aren’t real, but that hasn’t stopped tricksters and hoaxers from trying to convince the public they exist. Two of the following hoaxes actually went down…and one didn’t. Can you guess which story we’re using to pull your leg? The answer is at the end of the post.
The animators at Pixar place “Easter eggs” in their films, or references to other Pixar movies. Here are some you probably missed…and boy are they twisted.
Did you collect baseball cards when you were a kid? If so, did you notice these really bad errors that somehow got past the editors? In 1989, Bill Ripken (younger brother of Cal Ripken, Jr.) was a rookie with the Baltimore Orioles and Fleer produced a card of him in its set for the year. […]
Luscious locks lost their luster? You could always try Rogaine, or Propecia, or a hair transplant.
Some people consider these road trip stops totally fascinating…while others might call them “tourist traps.”
Here are four odd stories from the halls of U.S. state legislatures.
It’s quite common for a movie production to replace an already cast actor before filming starts…but quite uncommon (and expensive) to replace a star after the cameras have started rolling.
Lots of people lie about their age, for various reasons. Here are some famous who did it…and then got caught.
Prisons have by and large sourced out its food service to for-profit companies that also service school cafeterias. They get a lot of food out of a dollar. The average cost per meal, per prisoner: under a dollar.
September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. You don’t want to look like an idiot do you? Here are some pirate words and phrases.
Well, they weren’t quite that unpopular. But here are some TV series that won major Emmy Awards despite a very low viewership.
Let’s let the myth end here: Yoko Ono didn’t split up the Beatles—they were already falling apart when John Lennon met the eccentric artist. But here are some other bands who fell apart when romance got in the way.
This might not save you in the even of an apocalypse, but you never know when little tricks like these will come in handy. Not all of these fire techniques are easy, but they do work with practice.
Avatar? Star Wars? Sure, they made a ton of money all around the world, but what are the most popular locally-made movies of all time in various countries?
Like NASCAR drivers in the U.S., soccer teams, or “football clubs” in the rest of the world, wear jerseys adorned with advertisements for their sponsors, which could be a shoe maker, a brewery, an airline, or something weirder…like one of these.
Acting as a teenager can often lead to a movie career as an adult. But sometimes, those actors have no interest in that.
