As the youngest of six children, Alfred The Great was never supposed to become king, but he snatched the throne from his own family.
On the set of Rocky IV, Sylvester Stallone told Dolph Lundgren to punch him for real during their fight scenes, and he ended up in the ICU.
Edward Longshanks is remembered as the villainous king from Braveheart—but most people don’t know the gruesome extent of his dark history.
Veronica Lake was always one of the most tormented souls in Hollywood—and her mother eventually revealed the devastating reason why.
Nirvana only released three albums before Kurt Cobain demise, but in that short time, they left a legacy that changed music forever.
Probably the most iconic patheon of all the ancient mythologies, the lives of the Greek Gods were filled with more scandal than any modern tabloid.
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. When it came to the Wars of the roses, truer words were never spoken.
In 1921, FDR was believed to have polio, leaving him paralyzed. But new evidence suggests it was actually Guillain-Barré Syndrome.
After fighting off invaders for nearly 1,000 years, Constantinople finally fell because someone accidentally left a gate open.
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