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Researchers realized the bones were so porous because they’d passed through the digestive system of an enormous bird. PAP/Jacek BednarczykThe tiny finger bones belonging to the Neanderthal child. A few years ago, a team of researchers in Poland came across a pair of Neanderthal bones that held a grisly secret: Their owner had been eaten by a giant bird. The two finger bones belonged to a Neanderthal child who had died roughly 115,000 years before, making those bones the oldest known human remains from Poland, according to Science In Poland....

On April 11, 2001, 20-year-old Branson Perry vanished from outside his own home in Skidmore, Missouri. Two years after his disappearance, a sickening clue emerged. Wikimedia CommonsBranson Perry suffered from tachycardia, which made his heart race, but he also had a black belt in hapkido. It was a day like any other when Branson Perry walked outside his home to return jumper cables to the shed on April 11, 2001. But then the 20-year-old vanished from his own yard — and he was never seen again....

“We didn’t have a clue that something like that could happen this fast. This is a previously unrealized challenge in cockroaches.” John Obermeyer/Purdue EntomologyA German cockroach (Blattella germanica) feeds on a blob of insecticide in the Purdue University lab. Some of the cockroach offspring tested there were found to be immune to the insecticides encountered by their parents. German cockroaches (Blattella germanica) are becoming increasingly resistant to the pesticides used to exterminate them — and might very well soon be entirely immune to these chemicals....

Afflicted with severe brain damage, Harolyn Suzanne Nicholas spent almost her entire life with caretakers or in mental institutions. Twitter Harolyn Suzanne Nicholas with her mother, actress Dorothy Dandridge. In 1963, Dorothy Dandridge made an appearance on The Mike Douglas Show. Beautiful, sophisticated, and the first Black actress to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award, she seemed to have it all. But on that day, Dandridge shared a sad secret she’d kept about her daughter, Harolyn Suzanne Nicholas....

After Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in 1951, doctors at Johns Hopkins cultured her cells for use in medical research — without her permission. APWhen Henrietta Lacks went to Johns Hopkins for cancer treatment, she unwittingly made a tremendous contribution to science. Johns Hopkins Hospital has long been considered one of the best hospitals in America. Back in the 1950s, it was also one of the few places where Black patients could seek quality medical care....

Before Chadwick Boseman’s death was announced on Aug. 28, 2020, only a handful of people knew that the Black Panther star had been quietly battling colon cancer for years. Gareth Cattermole/Getty ImagesIn August 2020, Chadwick Boseman died of colon cancer at just 43 years old. The unexpected news of Chadwick Boseman’s death in 2020 was met with shock and disbelief that was only compounded by Boseman’s cause of death: colon cancer that seemingly no one even knew he had....

“It felt like an earthquake,” said one hotel guest. TwitterOver 240,000 gallons of water erupted from the AquaDom, the world’s largest cylindrical aquarium, and out onto the street. Earlier this morning, a 46-foot-high aquarium burst in the lobby of a Berlin hotel, unleashing a flood of water that injured at least two people and caused roughly 1,500 exotic fish to spill out onto the street. As Reuters reports, the massive aquarium, called the AquaDom, held 264,172 gallons of water and decorated the lobby of a Radisson hotel....

Police have the man’s DNA and are attempting to identify him. Police in Pennsylvania are seeking help in locating a sicko who exposed himself and committed a sex act at Kennywood amusement park last week in West Mifflin, about 13 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. A 13-year-old girl and her 12-year-old friend were in line for a ride called the Log Jammer. “There is this guy behind me and he was getting closer to me, and I was moving away from him....

“Whatever happened in the home was by agreement and talk. It was totally by choice." It was March 12, 2004. A day that had changed everything for a small community in Fresno, California. Two women, along with their friends and relatives, frantically shouted in the front yard of a small home. They demanded that their children be released to them. An enormous man, over six feet tall, tried to calm the pair of anxious mothers....

While you may know her horror classic, Frankenstein, these 17 fascinating Mary Shelley facts will leave you astounded. Required reading likely introduced you to Mary Shelley as a teen, but there’s so much more to the Frankenstein author than you ever learned in English class. Get enlightened with these 17 fascinating Mary Shelley facts: Mary Shelley came from a family of intellectuals: Her parents were Mary Wollstonecraft, one of history’s first feminist writers, and William Godwin, a philosopher....

The leader of Mexico’s La Luz del Mundo church and self-proclaimed Apostle of God on Earth faces more than 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to three charges. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesNaasón Joaquín García in Los Angeles County Court. For decades, La Luz del Mundo in Guadalajara, Mexico, has served as one of the largest Christian religious organizations in Latin America. While its leader, Naasón Joaquín García, has been idolized by millions of followers as an apostle of God, he just pleaded guilty to child sex abuse charges in Los Angeles on June 3....

Crippling anxiety and depression are on the rise among a generation that feels greater pressure to be perfect than ever before. Pixabay While study after study has made headlines, and incited controversy, with claims that millennials are more prone to depression and anxiety than previous generations, new research suggests the reason why. A report published in the American Psychological Association’s Psychological Bulletin asserts that increased perfectionism is to blame for millennials’ higher-than-average levels of depression and anxiety....

The 42-year-old was leveling the bottom of a 7-foot-deep grave when the freak accident occurred. FacebookThe victim, Washington Memorial Park employee Rodwin Allicock. It was only a month ago that Rodwin Allicock celebrated his 42nd birthday. The Coram, New York man would tragically never see another, however, as a freak accident at Long Island’s Washington Memorial Park in Mount Sinai left him buried alive. According to ABC 7, Allicock was leveling the bottom of a 7-foot-deep grave around 8:30 a....

The man’s body was found behind a wall put up to cover utilities in a women’s bathroom. CBC NewsThe body is wheeled out of the restroom of the mall. A Canadian shopping mall employee got the shock of his life on Monday when he found a dead body behind the wall of a women’s bathroom. The employee had been called to the mall’s fourth-floor restroom to fix a toilet that reportedly wasn’t flushing....

Even today, 73 years after the creation of the poster that made her famous, most of us can still instantly recognize Rosie the Riveter. The character indeed took root in the American consciousness by evolving beyond its original purpose – getting women into the factory workforce during World War II – and soon became a feminist touchstone. But as important a symbol as Rosie has become, how many of us understand the original context from which she arose?...

History’s Dumbest Diet Trends Praying The Weight Away Source: CosmicTap Gaining clout in the 1950s, this diet’s initial devotees believed that God meant for people to consume as little calories as possible and that overindulging was more likely due to a spiritual void than a tapeworm. Thus, for the diet’s acolytes, the only way to truly resolve the problems of a bottomless stomach is to identify the deeper issues contributing to their second and third midnight snacks....

While the daily drudgeries of office life are enough to make anyone a bit soul sick, sometimes the workplace can actually make you physically ill. It’s aptly called “sick building syndrome,” and it can directly affect your productivity. Here are six ways that our office buildings are slowly damaging our health and sanity. Lighting You know you’re in an office when you hear the quiet, crushing drone of fluorescent lights. As it turns out, they don’t just look horrible, they make us tired by messing up our circadian rhythm....

From the 1960s through the 1990s, Romanian-Australian economist Stefan Mandel won the lottery 14 times. Here’s how he did it. YouTubeStefan Mandel You have a higher chance of being eaten by a shark, struck by lightning, or winning an Olympic gold medal than of winning the lottery even once. But Stefan Mandel hacked the system and won a whopping 14 times. A “Weekend Mathematician” Hatches A Scheme An admitted “weekend mathematician, an accountant without too much education,” Stefan Mandel came from Romania, back when it was still under Soviet control....

Though the depiction of samurai warriors is traditionally male-oriented, female samurai known as Onna-bugeisha were just as fearsome. Wikimedia CommonsA traditional Onna-bugeisha, holding a naginata. Long before the western world began to view samurai warriors as inherently male, there existed a group of female samurai, women warriors every bit as powerful and deadly as their male counterparts. They were known as the Onna-bugeisha. They were trained in the same way men were, in self-defense and offensive maneuvers....

From early 1900s attacks in the Pacific Northwest to the most recent Sasquatch sightings, these close encounters with Bigfoot will send chills up your spine. PixabayThe United States has tallied 23,000 Bigfoot sightings in total, with the most recent Sasquatch encounters happening in the western portion of the country. It’s unclear precisely when these terrifying Bigfoot sightings began, but North American history is littered with accounts of a bipedal ape-man seen roaming through the nation’s most isolated woodlands....