🎸 Ali Meets Beatles

#1 – When Muhammad Ali Tried to Reunite the Beatles

The heavyweight boxer was a confessed Beatles fan!

With the Beatles’ breakup in the late 1960s, the rock landscape would never be the same. Rumors swirled about what contributed to the band’s untimely end. And a fascinating group of individuals worked to reunite the famed boy band. As attempts mounted and negotiations took place, the thirst for Beatlemania 2.0 increased throughout the 1970s.

The most fascinating effort involved Muhammad Ali. It teetered on success throughout the 1970s. The most famous man in the world at the time, the heavyweight boxer was a confessed Beatles fan. His attempt involved crowdfunding well before the internet, President Jimmy Carter, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono...

#2 – Sharks: Guardians of the Ocean

There is more than meets the eye with these important ocean creatures.

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a shark? Is it their mouth filled with sharp teeth? A movie that features their enormous size?

The media has long painted sharks in a scary and negative light. While we don’t know if these stereotypes persist due to misinformation, attraction, or otherwise, decades of research have indicated that this level of fear is unnecessary, as sharks do not feed on humans and are actually quite docile unless provoked...

#3 – Dracula vs. Count Orlok: Unmasking the Legends of the Night

Only one can be killed by sunlight.

When it comes to iconic bloodsuckers, two names stand at the top of the undead list: Dracula and Count Orlok. While both vampires have terrorized audiences for over a century, their differences are worth sinking your teeth into. 

So grab your garlic and crucifix, because we’re about to take a closer look at history’s most famous vampires—and trust us, there’s a lot more to this tale than just capes and coffins...

#4 – The Government Once Nuked a Bunch of File Cabinets

File under: B, for Believe It or Not!

If you’ve ever seen the film Office Space, you’re familiar with the scene where a group of characters take out their frustrations on a printer with a baseball bat.

At a grander scale, imagine that scene, but in the director’s cut, the United States government drops a 20-kiloton nuclear weapon on office filing cabinets.

Believe It or Not!, that actually happened...

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