Reading Time: 3 minutes Nelson Mandela was removed from the US terrorist watch list in 2008! In another case of bureaucracy being way behind the times, the US looks like they were about 20 years behind the times with this late removal. However, the removal of Nelson Mandela from the terrorist list raises a couple of questions that must be answered. Firstly, …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Well oh la la. Did you know that Tupac Shakur was a ballet dancer? Well, it’s actually true, and would probably come as a surprise to a lot of people, especially considering his career path, confrontations with the law, and his untimely violent death. Now Tupac Shakup being a ballet dancer is obviously surprising. The …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Did Carrie Fisher wear underwear during Star Wars? All we can say is bravo George, bravo. Not only did he create a masterpiece in 1977 with Star Wars, but it looks like he was a bit of a smooth talker too. Why do we say this? George Lucas convinced Carrie Fisher not to wear underwear …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the most iconic films of the 1980’s would have to be Top Gun. It was the movie that made the already famous Tom Cruise a super star. It was also credited with the revival of the US military in films following the widely unpopular Vietnam war, and also spurned a massive interest from …
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the co-founders of Apple, Ronald Wayne, made perhaps the biggest mistake of his life in 1976. In fact, it was probably one of the biggest financial blunders in history. If it isn’t the worst decision ever, it is up there among them. I can hear a lot of you now asking why? Well, …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Annie Oakley could have killed German Kaiser Wilhelm II, and possibly changed the course of history throughout the twentieth century. But how could this be possible? She was a fantastic performer when it came to firearms, but she was no soldier? Annie Oakley was renowned as one of the finest sharp shooters of the late nineteenth century, …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Would you believe that the longest sneezing fit ever recorded lasted a whopping 978 days? As amazing as it sounds, it’s absolutely true. The poor unfortunate woman who suffered for over two agonizing years was Donna Griffiths from Worcestershire, England. For many of us who suffer a bout of the sniffles it usually lasts no more …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Fans of the Harold and Kumar movies undoubtedly know that Neil Patrick Harris has had a recurring role in the films. His role in Harold and Kumar is as Neil Patrick Harris. He plays himself, or does he? Celebrities appearing as themselves in movies and television shows is not a new idea. It does happen …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The fattest woman ever recorded was Carol Ann Yager who weighed 544 kg (1200 lbs), and measured between 4 and 5 feet (1.2 and 1.5 meters) in width at the time of her death, and that was after losing weight. It has been estimated that at one point in her life she weighed as much …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Before he was famous, Sylvester Stallone worked as a lion cage cleaner. For one of the biggest action stars of the big screen over the last four decades, was this just the early training days of a real tough guy? Unfortunately not, and it all happened at one of the toughest points in his life. Anyone who …
