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The Quick 10: 10 Film Set Tragedies
If you’ve seen the movie based on Stephen King’s Pet Sematary Two, you probably remember the horrifying scene at the beginning when the actress is electrocuted on set while her son (Edward Furlong,...
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The Quick 10: 10 Famous Beauty Pageant Contestants
Whether it’s becoming Wonder Woman or, you know, Oprah, many beauty queens have parlayed their time on the pageant circuit into bigger things. 1. Oprah. Her first stop on the road to world domination?...
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The Late Movies: Jump Blues
Jump blues is a type of up-tempo blues that first gained popularity in the 1940s and experienced a renewal in interest during the (dreaded) 1990s swing revival. Billboard has described jump tunes as...
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The Worst War Movies Ever
From Delta Force to The Empire Strikes Back, Danger Room skewers eight war films for their inaccuracy, political bias, poor strategy, or all-out cheesiness. Take Rambo III, for example, which did not...
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The mental_floss Guide to the NCAA Tournament: The South
We’re going region by region, giving you one fun fact about each team in the tournament. (1) Kentucky Kentucky got its royal blue team color from a piece of clothing. In 1891 the school needed a set of...
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Operation Eagle Claw: The Disastrous Rescue Attempt During the Iranian...
© Mahmoudreza Kalari/Sygma/Corbis The Iranian Hostage Crisis, in which Iranian student revolutionaries held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, was an unprecedented act of state-sanctioned terrorism...
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Movie Trivia for Universal’s 100th Anniversary
The Universal Film Manufacturing Company was officially incorporated in New York on this date in 1912. According to company legend, Carl Laemmle named his company Universal after seeing “Universal Pipe...
View ArticleLake in France turns blood red
The river delta of Camargue in France is home to the peculiar spectacle of water that turns blood red. Scientists believe that the reason this happens…
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