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Facts About The Titanic That’s Not True
False facts about the Titanic. The sinking of the Titanic was a disaster on a monumental scale, ending with the deaths of 1,500 passengers in the frigid Atlantic Ocean. It's been elevated to one of ...
Why 40% of Vietnamese People Have the Same Last Name
Vietnamese people with the same last name. The existence of last names in Vietnam dates to 111 BC, the beginning of a lengthy thousand-year occupation of the country by the Han Dynasty in China. Before ...
Punishments In The Russian Army
These hilarious pictures show what happens to you in the Russian army when you make a mistake. Forgot your rifle? Maybe carrying around a huge wooden rifle will help you remember next time! However, while ...
Spiders Can Hear You ‘Walking And Talking’
Spiders can hear you 'walking and talking'. If you're already scared of spiders, you're not going to like this next part. A new study published Thursday in Current Biology found that spiders — specifically a species of jumping ...
How Many Megapixels Is the Human Eye? The Answer Is Complicated
The human eye. According to scientist and photographer Dr. Roger Clark, the resolution of the human eye is 576 megapixels. That's huge when you compare it to the 12 megapixels of an iPhone 7's camera ...
Top Ten Pain Relievers In Ancient Times
Pain relievers in ancient times. Many believe that patients before the early 20th century had to endure dental repairs, tooth extractions, or general surgery in agony, largely unrelieved except by slugs of whiskey or wine. Archaeology suggests ...
The Untold Truth Of Area 51
Area 51 is most commonly thought of as the place where the government keeps UFOs and alien secrets, but no one outside the highest levels of government knows the truths that hide in the top ...
A 5,000-Year-Old Toy Chariot Was Found!
A 5000 year old toy chariot was found! The ancient settlement of Sogmatar, which thrived 5,000 years ago, back to the Bronze age, might seem like a world detached from our own. By legend, this ...
A New Zealand Library Books Kept Vanishing And Then Reappearing
Library books kept vanishing and then reappearing. The Auckland Central Library in New Zealand’s largest city has a long history of providing for the city’s homeless population. After a local charity told administrators that the ...
The Green Children Of Woolpit
The green children of Woolpit. One day, out of the woods, two children walked into the English town of Woolpit. This was back in the 1200s, so children mysteriously appearing wasn't as odd back then—due ...
What Life Actually Was Like For A Real Pirate
In between bouts of pirate-talk and rocking out to Alestorm (or Lazy Town, whichever you prefer), you may have wondered what life would've been like if you actually were a pirate. As it turns out, ...
How Fire Ants Form Towers More Than 30 Ants High
Fire ants may not be cute or cuddly, but they have some pretty cool tricks. They can form rafts to survive floods, and researchers have now figured out how they form towers to escape danger or surmount ...
Armageddon-Proof Survival Pod Proves a Big Hit
You may be all happy and carefree today celebrating public holidays, but don’t forget about the end of days. Luckily, there’s a way around it – a survival pod built by a Chinese inventor who ...
How Freshwater Cultured Pearls Began
Freshwater cultured pearls. Pearls are produced by mollusks, mussels or oysters belonging to the Unionidae family. Saltwater pearls are produced by oysters in the ocean, while freshwater pearls come from mussels growing in lakes, rivers ...
The Deadly Alaskan Bermuda Triangle
You've probably heard legends about planes and ships mysteriously disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle. But those legends don't come close to the serious disappearances that have plagued Alaska for decades. There's a region of wilderness ...
How Pandas Got Their Patches – Science And Mythology
Panda patches. Giant pandas’ patches are among the most striking of any mammal: black ears and eye spots set against a white face, with dark limbs and shoulders abutting a white neck and torso. Science ...
Botticelli’s Masterpiece Of ‘The Birth of Venus’
Sandro Botticelli, an early master of the Italian Renaissance, is celebrated for his contributions to the major art motion. He is well known for his larger-than-life mythological scene of The Birth of Venus, even though ...
Daughter Found Box With 30,000 Never-Before-Seen Negatives
Never-seen-before negatives. Some artists don't live long enough to experience the recognition they get. Masha Ivashintsova was one of them. This Russian artist and theater critic had been heavily engaged in the Leningrad (now, Saint ...
Man In Colorful Parrot Costume Helps To Sell Houses Online
Colorful parrot. If you’re looking for a way to to make your property stand out on a real-estate website, dressing up as a colorful parrot and posing for photos seems to work wonders. At least ...
It’s The Addicted Rats That Ate 450 Kilograms Of Marijuana!
Addicted rats. When police inspectors in Pilar, Argentina’s Buenos Aires province, were recently questioned about the disappearance of 540 kg of marijuana from the evidence room, they explained that addicted rats ate it all! Commissioner ...
Ignorant Scientists. So Many Don’t Know What They’re Talking About
Ignorant scientists. Science has enormous cachet and authority in our culture, for very understandable reasons! And that has led scientists (and non-scientists who claim the mantle of science) to claim public authority, which is all ...
Did Saint Patrick Banish All The Snakes From Ireland?
Did Saint Patrick banish all the snakes from Ireland? It turns out the story is a bit more complicated than that. Legend tells it that St. Patrick banished all the snakes from the Emerald Isle, ...
Winners Of The 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
The Sony World Photography Awards celebrates its 11th anniversary this year. This is one of the most respected and influential photography competitions in the world. Every single year they are sent thousands of stunning photographs from amateur and professional ...
Miracle Cat Predicts Death And Comforts The Dying
Miracle cat predicts death. Meet Oscar who is believed to have predicted the deaths numerous people at a nursing home. The 10-year-old tabby spends his days roaming the halls of Steere House and is known as notoriously anti-social. But the ...
Townsfolk Put Mayor In Stocks For Doing A Poor Job
Mayor in stocks. In most countries, the only way you can punish politicians and civil servants for not doing a proper job is by not voting for them in the next elections. But in Bolivia, ...
Chinese Lottery Winners Collect Prizes Dressed As Cartoon Characters
A Chinese man was recently in the news for not only winning millions of yuan in a lottery, but also for the bizarre costume he wore when he collected his prize. The man was so ...
Chinese Casanova Had To Leave Hospital With Police Escort
Chinese casanova has to leave hospital with police escort. When a man from China’s Hunan province got into a car accident last month, little did he know that his misfortune would actually affect his love life ...
Nine Million Deaths In 2015 Because Of Pollution
Pollution creates a deadly aftermath. In 2015, about one in six of the deaths around the world were linked to pollution of some kind, a new report has found. “Pollution is much more than an ...
Human Gene Editing Is Leaving Ethics Dangerously Far Behind
In a breakthrough scientists successfully did gene editing of a human embryo to eliminate a dangerous gene mutation. The birth of an actual baby with genes selected by technological means hasn't happened yet, but that ...
Why People Don’t Believe That The Moon Landing Happened
No conspiracy theory has captured the imagination quite like that time we faked the moon landing. That's right, we never landed on the moon. According to a 1999 Gallup poll, 6% of Americans thought the ...
Asia’s Deadly Secret: The Scourge Of The Betel Nut
The scourge of the betel nut. It is used by almost a tenth of the world's population. It gives people a buzz equivalent to six cups of coffee and is used variously as a symbol ...
The Warning Signs Of Online Fraud And How To Avoid It
The warning signs of online fraud and how to avoid it. Logged 207,000 Internet fraud reports to the U.S. Internet Crime Center ...
Fish Create Huge Underwater Spirals
Fish create huge underwater spirals. American photographer Octavio Aburto thrives on the fascinating world of life in the sea. He has spent decades studying and researching marine biology in order to educate the world about the ...
Groom Tried To Drown Himself After Seeing “Ugly” Bride For The First Time
Groom tried to drown himself. A young groom from China’s Hubei province was so disappointed after seeing his bride for the first time, he actually tried to kill himself at his own wedding! 33-year-old Kang Hu was ...
Homeless Man Lives In A Grave For The Last 15 Years
Homeless Man Lives In A Grave. Bratislav Stojanovic, a 43-year-old homeless man from Serbia, has been living with the dead in a cemetery in Nis. He has made a grave his home and says he ...
Life-Size Transformer Sculptures
Life-size transformer sculptures. A Chinese scrapyard became a tourist attraction after the staff built Transformers from metal junk. One day, the workers at a scrapyard in China recently decided to get creative with all the ...
The World’s Smallest Postal Service
If you truly believe great things come in small packages, then you’ll want to use the World’s Smallest Postal Service to surprise your better half, on Valentine’s Day. The World’s Smallest Postal Service was created by San-Francisco-based ...
Hyper-Environmental Skyscraper Acts Like A Squid
Hyper-environmental skyscraper acts like a squid. Animal-inspired architecture has undoubtedly been on the rise. The long legs of giraffes and spiders seem to naturally lend themselves to lofty buildings floating on spindly appendages. But what about creatures of the deep? You won't ...
Guy Sues Parents For Not Loving Him Enough, Wants $200,000
Guy Sues Parents. Bernard Bey, a homeless man from Brooklyn, New York, is suing his parents for not loving him and supporting him enough. He is actually asking for $200,000 in compensation. 32-year-old Bernard Bey ...
Silicon Valley Tech Companies Turn to Wiccan Witch For Help
Silicon Valley tech companies turn to a Wiccan witch to deal with pesky computer viruses and demons. Modern technology doesn’t exactly go hand in hand with witchcraft, but that doesn’t seem to be stopping Silicon ...
Trained Eagles Tackle Pesky Drone Problem
Trained eagles tackle pesky drone problem. The Dutch are using an ingenious, low-cost, totally organic solution to the country’s increasing drone problem – they’re having eagles trained to attack the flying machine as they would their ...
Japanese Hotel Rents Out An Alpaca Wedding Witness
Alpaca Wedding Witness. The Epinard Nasu Hotel, in Japan’s Tochigi Prefecture, offers a highly unconventional wedding service. Newlyweds can rent a cute, fluffy alpaca from a nearby zoo to act as a witness to their wedding ...
Woman Spends 14 Years With Mannequin Family
You would think that a woman living with a mannequin family has got to be some sort of weirdo. Contrary to that expectation, Suzanne Heintz comes across as fairly normal. As normal as an artist can be, ...
Guy Crashed Elite College Courses for Four Years, Never Got Caught
Guillaume Dumas, a 28-year-old Canadian entrepreneur, got his higher education for free, he crashed courses at ivy league colleges across America, for four years. Dumas, who hails from Quebec, said that he first started campus ...
Dark Japan Revealed In Film About Internet Cafe Living
Some of the Internet cafes are also called "manga kissa," because they specialize in serving as manga (comic books/graphic novels) reading spots (the name is short for manga "kissaten," which means cafe in Japanese) ...
Pseudis Paradoxa – The Paradoxical Frog That Shrinks as It Grows
Pseudis Paradoxa, or paradoxical frog, is one of the most curious creatures in the world. It grows into giant 11-inch tadpoles and shrinks to 2.5 inches as it matures. The Pseudis Paradoxa is the Benjamin ...
You Think Taxes Are Bad? They Were Heavier in Ancient Egypt
Tax day is never fun, but you can take solace in a new finding: A recently translated ancient Egyptian tax receipt shows a bill that is literally heavier than any American taxpayer will pay this ...
How To Survive If You Wake Up And You’re Buried Alive
So, you've been buried alive. We're not going to lie to you — things are looking real bleak right now. How you got there is not important. Let's focus on the immediate problem: You've woken up ...
They Thought They Were Lucky When They Cheated Death
People who cheat death think that they deserve to keep right on living. To die soon after would be just pointless and cruel on any level of cosmic life. There are, however, those misfortuned souls ...
Funny Shaped Fruits And Veggies Forgot To Be Plants
Funny Shaped Fruits And Veggies. You’d think that a carrot is a carrot, but that’s just not the case. Some carrots are just carrots, and others are also intergalactic superheroes. And we’ve got a series ...
Mysterious Alien Encounters Before Roswell
UFOs and alien encounters, from long before Roswell became synonymous with alien activity. ...
Franck Bohbot Captures Timeless New York City Landmarks At Night
Photographer Franck Bohbot presents Manhattan’s street corners and storefronts as symbolic portraits of the perpetual metropolitan pulse, throbbing luminously long after sundown. Captured over the course of almost two years, Bohbot's series called Light On ...
Stunning Underwater Photography by Christy Lee Rogers
Underwater photography. Hawaiian photographer Christy Lee Rogers creates beautiful scenes of swirling figures swathed in colorful fabrics. She creates luminous large-scale images not by using wet pigments, but rather by completely submerging her subjects in illuminated water ...
Quantum Particles And Entangled Time
Quantum particles. In the world you know, actions have causes and effects, objects exist as one thing or another, and everything is what it is whether you observe it or not. In the quantum world, ...
Those Times When Adorable Opossums Were The Unsung Heroes Of Cute
Adorable opossums. Instead of caving to the portrayal of possums as terrifying rat-like trash burglars, this collection of adorable possum pictures will change your mind. The cute possums of the world may carry their young around with them, but ...
You Have UFO Video Tapes But Did You Really See It?
You have ufo video tapes to back your sighting up! Groom Lake, Nevada A crowd of people wait in the chill darkness of the desert night near Groom Lake, Nevada for a brief glimpse of a ...
An Alien Called The Stenonychosaurus
Stenonychosaurus has been credited with being the most intelligent dinosaur. Compared with most others, it had a relatively large brain, although the excess brain volume was probably not concerned with reasoning and other activities that ...
The Truth About Magic Spells Real Cures Or Mind Over Matter
Magic spells real cures. For many thousands of years, civilizations all over the world have relied on their faith in spiritual or mystical powers to accomplish truly amazing feats. Long before modern medicine came on ...
Will Your Brain Evolve Or Regress In The Future?!
Brain evolve or regress. There has been speculation about THE BRAIN as long as we remember. It has been prodded, poked and has been subject to just plain head-scratching ever since our thoughts started to ...
What Will Happen When You Fall Into A Black Hole?
What, exactly, would happen if you fell into a black hole? You probably expect that you’d be crushed or be torn apart! But, according to BBC Earth, the story is actually much more bizarre than ...