Even though we’re pretty sure God spends the majority of his time sitting on a throne of gold half-heartedly chucking lightning bolts into a waste paper basket, the World Wrestling Entertainment company thinks the man upstairs is a wrestler in his spare time. Which is the only logical explanation for why there was once a wrestling match in which “God” was literally listed as one of the rostered wrestlers.
Chesty Puller, The Marine’s Marine
As one of the most decorated individuals to ever serve in the US military, Lieutenant General Lewis “Chesty” Puller is something of a legend amongst members of the Marine corps, with which he served for over 3 decades prior to retirement and death. Quite fittingly for a legend, many myths have sprung up about Puller’s combat prowess many of which are amazingly, more truth than fiction.
Pine Leaf, The Badass Female Native American Chief
Pine Leaf, later known simply as Woman Chief, was a Native American leader who lived a life so full of action, knife fighting and excessive levels of violence and sex that you’d assume she was the star of a Quentin Tarantino movie or alternatively, the porn parody of The Revenant.
Walking on Sunshine and Teacups with Morihei Ueshiba
Morihei Ueshiba is arguably one of the finest martial artists to have ever lived, as the founder of Aikido he spent almost every day of his life making non-broken bones an endangered species. When Ueshiba scratched his nose, his nostril hairs tapped out just to be sure and when he yawned the sun stopped shining because it thought he was threatening it. But by far one of the coolest facts about the diminutive master of slapping people in the grill is the time he punched gravity and logic in the dome just because he could.
The Adorable Reason, Spider-Man is Called, “Spider-Man”
Spider-Man is one of the world’s most recognisable – and now that his film’s are no longer being made by Sony – most bankable superhero. But have you ever wondered why a superhero best known for being a teenager has a name like “Spider-Man“? Well apparently it has a lot to do with Stan Lee’s refusal to take any shit.
