The Real-Life Couple That Inspired The Most Heartbreaking Scene In 'Titanic,' The Tragic Death Of Ernest Hemingway, And More From History Uncovered

[History Uncovered]( [Meet The Real-Life Couple That Inspired The Most Heartbreaking Scene In 'Titanic']( [One of the most memorable scenes in James Cameron's "Titanic" depicts an elderly couple holding each other as their cabin fills with water. In real life, that couple was Ida and Isidor Straus, who chose to remain on board and die together rather than be separated during the evacuation.]( ['A Greedy, Small-Minded, And Violent Terrorist': The Bloody Story Of 1980s Mob Boss Nicky Scarfo]( [Nicky Scarfo was so brazenly violent that he became the first mob boss in American history to be convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death.]( [A New Jersey Man Just Found Bundles Of Depression-Era Cash Buried In His Front Yard]( [Richard Gilson was stunned to find the rolls of bills dating back to 1934 on his property.]( [The Tragic Death Of Ernest Hemingway, The American Author Whose Work Defined The 'Lost Generation']( [When Ernest Hemingway was 29 years old, his father Clarence died after he fatally shot himself. In a letter to his mother-in-law, Ernest later wrote, "I'll probably go the same way."]( [Archaeologists In Utah Just Uncovered 'Ghost Tracks' Made By Ice Age Humans 12,000 Years Ago]( [Footprints like these only appear once in a great while when moisture conditions are just right, then disappear entirely once again.]( [19 Pablo Escobar Facts That Reveal The Man Behind The 'King Of Cocaine']( [The drug lord had so much cash lying around that he spent about $2,500 per month on rubber bands just to hold the bills together.]( [Why The Person Who Killed The Most People In History May Surprise You]( [Even by some of the lowest estimates of Joseph Stalin's brutality, nearly 2,000 people died every week under his rule — but even his murderous reign doesn't come close to the brutal death toll of history's deadliest dictator.]( ['She Went Out The Window': The Chilling Story Of Sculptor Carl Andre And The Mysterious Death Of His Wife]( ["My wife is an artist and I am an artist and we had a quarrel about the fact that I was more, eh, exposed to the public than she was and she went to the bedroom and I went after her and she went out of the window."]( [A Watch That Was Stolen From Adolf Hitler's Bavarian Hideaway At The End Of WWII Is Up For Sale]( ["We aren't offering this in homage to the worst man who ever lived. It is instead an incredibly rare historic relic, deeply evocative of one of the darkest periods in world history and thus especially important."]( [Meet Frank Matthews, The 'Black Caesar' Whose Massive Drug Empire Toppled The Mafia’s Hold On Heroin]( [Frank Matthews paid stewardesses $1,000 a month to smuggle heroin in their flight bags to airport lockers where his dealers could pick it up and distribute it.]( [Grunge Icon Andrew Wood Helped Change Music Forever — But Died Just Before His Debut Album Came Out]( [When Andrew Wood's band Mother Love Bone finished touring in advance of their debut album, he checked himself into rehab in hopes of being clean and sober by the time the record came out — but ended up dying of an overdose mere weeks before its release.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Update Subscription]( [History Uncovered On Instagram]( [History Uncovered On Facebook](