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In Wilt Chamberlain's 1991 book, 'A View From Above,' the basketball great claimed to have slept with 20,000 different women during his life. Let's check his math on the basketball legend's most famous statistic.

Eddie Deezen
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Social media is buzzing about Netflix's unexpected release of 'The Cloverfield Paradox' during Super Bowl LII. But let's take a look back at the movie that started it all 10 years ago.

Garin Pirnia






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Betamax had a terrific picture and time-shifting abilities, but it also had a fatal flaw—one that alienated millions of NFL fans.

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What was seen as a calamitous retreat turned into a legendary tale of the early years of WWII—and now a Christopher Nolan movie with eight Oscar nominations.

Jason Serafino