The Oscar-Winner And Notorious Stage Mother Joan Crawford Wikimedia CommonsJoan Crawford purportedly beat her adopted daughter for years and lied about the child’s biological mother. Best known for her 1978 memoir about her traumatizing childhood, Mommy Dearest, Christina Crawford claimed to see a side of old Hollywood staple Joan Crawford that nobody in Tinsel Town knew existed. Joan Crawford was an esteemed studio player with a rags to riches tale, starred in classic films with Clark Gable, and won the Best Actress Oscar for Mildred Pierce.

Source: Puebla Online Friendly Gestures: The High Five The high five’s origin is an extraordinarily contentious issue, given its association with camaraderie and celebration. The low five had long been used between black Americans and became popular during the Jazz Age as a response to “slap me some skin.” However, the cultural phenomenon known as the “high five” was not actually in print until 1980! Source: Policy Mic The most popular story of the high five’s genesis is attributed to flash-in-the-pan rookie sensation Glenn Burke, who was photographed instigating the action to another player in 1977.

How thousands of people that the Nazis categorized as subhuman ended up volunteering in the Free Arab Legion to fight for the Third Reich.Helmuth Pirath/German Federal ArchivesAir force soldiers belonging to the Arabian Legion stand at attention during training, 1943. Easily the most pervasive, enduring, and pernicious fallacy about World War II, at least in the U.S. and the U.K., is that it was “the good war,” a wholly noble, heroic endeavor (for its victors), one now rendered unto history in morally satisfy shades of black and white, good and evil.

In 360 B.C.E., Plato wrote that Atlantis was once a powerful civilization — but the gods sent earthquakes to destroy the island nation when its people became greedy and proud.Chronicle / Alamy Stock PhotoThe capital of Atlantis as described by Plato. The legend of Atlantis, a sophisticated island civilization said to have sunk into the ocean’s abyss, has intrigued scholars and enthusiasts for millennia. Originating from Plato’s dialogues, the story of Atlantis has evolved from a philosophical allegory into a subject of serious archaeological and historical investigation — and contention.

Although Daniel Lambert always insisted that he didn't overeat, his weight ballooned to 739 pounds by the time he was in his 30s, giving him a waist that measured more than nine feet around.Public DomainDaniel Lambert weighed 739 pounds at his heaviest. In 1806, a strange advertisement appeared in a London newspaper. It described the “greatest Curiosity in the World,” a Mr. Daniel Lambert, who weighed 50 stone (700 pounds). People could come and see Lambert and his girth — for a price.