10 Things You Don't Know About
10 Things You Don't Know About
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10 Things You Don't Know About

5.9 / 10
2012
3 seasons
26 episodes
Documentary

Did you know that President John F. Kennedy was a bodybuilder, Roman ruler Caligula loved to gamble and drug kingpin Pablo Escobar burned millions in cash to keep warm? The series 10 Things You Don't Know About reveals intriguing and provocative details about some of history’s most fascinating individuals and groups. Tune in to explore the lives of historical figures ranging from Abraham Lincoln to the members of the Rat Pack, discovering what your textbooks never told you.

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Seasons

  • Benjamin Franklin

    1.Benjamin Franklin

    27-02-201230m

    Benjamin Franklin was a multi-talented American founding father--but he also owned slaves, frequented sex clubs and was a suspected serial killer. In this episode of our new series...

  • Abraham Lincoln

    2.Abraham Lincoln

    27-02-201230m

    Abraham Lincoln was the steady hand of leadership during the Civil War, only to be gunned down in his prime at Ford's Theater. Outspoken historian David Eisenbach delves into Linco...

  • John F. Kennedy

    3.John F. Kennedy

    05-03-201230m

    JFK brought Camelot to Washington and forever cemented the Kennedy name in the political sphere. But he was also a courier in Nazi Germany, a body builder and was seriously addicte...

  • J. Edgar Hoover

    4.J. Edgar Hoover

    05-03-201230m

    J. Edgar Hoover ran the FBI for almost 40 years and was America's most respected, and feared, lawman. Author and historian David Eisenbach digs into Hoover's buried secrets to reve...

  • The OK Corral

    5.The OK Corral

    12-03-201230m

    The OK Corral was the site of the world's most famous Wild West gunfight. But the shootout didn't actually happen at the OK Corral, Wyatt Earp was more of a pimp than a lawman, and...

  • The Roosevelts

    6.The Roosevelts

    19-03-201230m

    Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were Washington's first couple with a New Deal. But historian and author David Eisenbach reveals that the Roosevelts' marriage was a political arrang...

  • The Mormons

    7.The Mormons

    26-03-201230m

    Mormons built a politically powerful religion based on family, faith and clean living. But they also built Las Vegas, they owned brothels, and they copied some of their rituals fro...

  • Pablo Escobar

    8.Pablo Escobar

    02-04-201230m

    Pablo Escobar was Colombia's king of cocaine, a man his own government was afraid to touch. But he also violated the dead, set fire to millions in cash to keep warm and actually he...

  • General George Patton

    9.General George Patton

    09-04-201230m

    George S. Patton was WWII's greatest combat general. His armored troops rolled to stunning and important victories in North Africa and Europe. But Patton suffered from dyslexia, he...

  • Caligula

    10.Caligula

    16-04-201230m

    Caligula was a notoriously sadistic Roman Emperor with a wanton disregard for life. Roman citizens, even those with money and power of their own, lived in fear of Caligula's cruelt...

  • Adolf Hitler

    11.Adolf Hitler

    30-04-201230m

    Adolph Hitler was history's most notorious anti-Semite, so hell-bent on world domination that his Nazi war machine inflicted death and destruction on millions of innocent victims....

  • The Rat Pack

    12.The Rat Pack

    07-05-201230m

    They were the bad boys of popular music in the 1960's. But contrary to the usual stories, Frank Sinatra had nothing to do with starting the Rat Pack, Dean Martin was never really d...

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