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After Caylee Anthony’s disappearance and death in 2008, Casey Anthony became the prime suspect in one of the most infamous murder cases in recent history. Caylee Anthony was just a toddler when she met a horrific death in 2008. The young girl had vanished in June of that year — when her mother Casey Anthony reportedly drove off with her from the family home in Orlando, Florida. Then, in December, the two-year-old’s remains were found in the woods near the house....

As an FBI informant in the Black Panther Party, William O’Neal provided information that helped the Chicago police kill Fred Hampton in 1969. YouTubeWilliam O’Neal was one of the most trusted Black Panthers during the late 1960s. As far as the Black Panther Party was concerned, William O’Neal was one of their most loyal brothers in arms. The head of security for the Black Panthers in Chicago, he was tasked with an enormously important job: guarding the group’s leader Fred Hampton....

The elaborate burial complex, which also contains animal sacrifices and valuable gold artifacts, appears to be the tomb of an ancient lord. Daily MailA 1,500-year-old grave complex was uncovered in the Saxony-Anhalt state of Germany. In what archaeologists are describing as the most important excavation in the last 40 years of Germany’s history, a burial complex belonging to a high-status lord was unearthed in Saxony-Anhalt, near Brücken-Hackpfüffel. The tomb is an ancient burial site dating back 1,500 years and features an unusual arrangement: a cauldron at the center of the tomb which is encircled by the remains of six unknown women....

From bathing in girls’ blood to making homemade conjoined twins, these 10 famous psychopaths are some of the most terrifying people in the history of the world. Everyone is well aware of the atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler. And many know that under Joseph Stalin’s leadership, the number of those killed via starvation and murder ranges from about 10 to 60 million. Unfortunately, these tyrants aren’t the only ones who have taken history and left a nasty stain in its pages....

From bear-baiting to goose-pulling, these animal blood sports were as violent as they were popular. Our ancestors were a creative bunch. Their entertainment options were severely limited and yet they found countless ways to amuse themselves, some of which were far more violent than the leisure activities of today. Goose-Pulling Monkey-Baiting Bear-Baiting Bear-Whipping Octopus-Wrestling Cock-Throwing Badger-Baiting Drawing The Badger Fox-Tossing Lion-Baiting Donkey-Baiting Duck-Baiting Pato Rat-Baiting While nowadays we can satisfy our thirst for violence by switching on a crime show, back in the day (whether it was centuries ago, mere decades ago, or even still in some places today), that thirst could be satisfied by some truly disturbing animal blood sports instead....

Source: UNESCO How many female scientists can you name that aren’t Marie Curie? Even today, the stigma about women in science persists, but each of the women in this list have directly contributed to the lexicon of modern life. Unknown Women Scientists: Ada King, Countess of Lovelace Source: The Huffington Post The only legitimate child of the infamously promiscuous Lord Byron, Ada King was raised by her mother, Anne, after her father abandoned them when Ada was only a month old....

The discovery of the elephant carcasses comes just a few months after the country’s strict anti-poaching policy was changed. Elephants Without BordersSome of the poached elephants in Botswana. Botswana is facing a new poaching threat after 87 of their elephants were found dead just outside of a wildlife sanctuary. Elephants Without Borders, a conservation nonprofit, made the grisly discovery while conducting an aerial survey of the wildlife in the area....

From a child-eating scarecrow to Krampus himself, these eerie Christmas folktales from around the world are bound to ensure you have at least one nightmare before Christmas. Matej Divizna/Getty ImagesKrampus, a demon-like creature from Central European and Alpine folklore who accompanied St. Nicholas. The Christmas season is meant to be a time when people can come together to exchange gifts, be merry, and partake in a number of traditions, from the tree to Santa himself....

For decades, we’ve all been using a map that simply isn’t accurate and instead reinforces colonial biases. Boston Public Schools (BPS) became the first school district in America to trade out the distorted Mercator Projection map for the far more realistic Gall-Peters Projection map this past Thursday. “This is the start of a three-year effort to decolonize the curriculum in our public schools,” Colin Rose, assistant superintendent of opportunity and achievement gaps at BPS, told the Guardian....

After a miserable childhood, Catherine of Valois married King Henry V of England and secured her place in history — but she lived in controversy after his untimely death. National Portrait Gallery/Wikimedia Commons A portrait miniature of a medieval woman, most likely Catherine of Valois, Queen of England and wife of Henry V. Around the year 1599, Shakespeare penned Henry V, a fictionalized dramatization of the medieval King Henry V and his 1415 victory against the French at the Battle of Agincourt....

Researchers discovered that cartels often separate tusk pairs in order to cover up their tracks, but this practice might end up leading law enforcement straight to them. Wikimedia CommonsAn elephant in the Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand. A groundbreaking new method of DNA testing could help save the dwindling elephant population in Africa. A new study published in Science Advances revealed that DNA fingerprint testing on seized elephant tusks have helped law enforcement and conservationists alike to identify three major cartels involved in the ivory trade....

One of the most famous U.S. Army units of World War II, Easy Company successfully battled Nazi forces on D-Day, liberated the Dachau concentration camp, and even raided Adolf Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. In 2001, HBO released the celebrated World War II miniseries Band of Brothers. The 10-episode show followed the men of Easy Company, an American Army unit that found itself at the center of some of the war’s most dramatic moments....

Killing an elephant is punishable by death in Sri Lanka. Saving a drowning one is just really cool. No other land mammal (excluding Michael Phelps) is better at swimming than the elephant. But when a particularly ambitious Asian elephant got caught in a strong riptide off the coast of Sri Lanka, things weren’t looking good. The struggling creature was seen by the Sri Lankan Navy early Tuesday, swimming nine miles away from land and desperately trying to keep its trunk above the crashing waves....

On March 16, 1984, Gary Plauché waited at the airport for Jeff Doucet, who had kidnapped his son, Jody — then shot him dead as cameras rolled. YouTubeGary Plauché, pictured in a television interview just before his son, Jody, was returned to him. A parent’s worst nightmare is likely a child’s abduction — or sexual assault. Gary Plauché, an American dad from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, endured both, then did the unthinkable: He tracked down the man who took his son and shot him in the head....

Forced to work for the notorious Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz, Gisella Perl risked all to save as many lives as she could. This is her incredible, heartbreaking story. Gisella Perl with a baby. Image Source: Wikipedia We have previously shared the story of Stanislawa Leszczyńska, a midwife at Auschwitz who delivered almost 3,000 babies while imprisoned in the concentration camp. But while Stanislawa delivered infants, another Jewish medical professional risked her life to save the lives of other women in Auschwitz: a gynecologist named Dr....

The Lion of the Labour Party, Harold Wilson forged a close relationship with the Crown to focus on the working class and lead Britain through its “Golden Age of the Welfare State.” Wikimedia CommonsLord Harold Wilson was famous for his humble touches, like preferring a pipe to a cigar. Harold Wilson smoked a pipe. He wore a blue-collar Gannex raincoat and retained a Yorkshire accent. Though the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1964 to 1970, Wilson was a man of the people....

Just before George Washington died at Mount Vernon on December 14, 1799, doctors only made things worse by draining 40 percent of his blood. While much is known about the life of America’s first president, far less is understood about George Washington’s death. In December 1799, America’s most famous founding father suddenly fell ill. At first, it seemed to be no cause for alarm. By that point, Washington had already survived an impressive number of diseases, including malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, dysentery, tonsillitis, and pneumonia....

Some say there are as few as ten cases in the world, yet here’s the fascinating story of how twins with two different fathers can be born. Image Source: Flickr To virtually anyone without a degree in biology, the idea of a set of twins with two different fathers is baffling. Yet, this is precisely the case with a set of twins born recently in Vietnam. An unidentified father from the Hòa Bình province recently took the now two-year-old twins in for DNA testing, after he and his relatives continually insisted that the infants look very different from one another....

After years of political and personal tension, Vice President Aaron Burr initiated a pistol duel in the woods of New Jersey on July 11, 1804 — that ended in Alexander Hamilton’s death. Getty ImagesThe rivalry between Vice President Aaron Burr (front) and former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton (background) escalated from a few insults into a duel that ended in Alexander Hamilton’s death. American history will never forget the notorious Hamilton-Burr duel....

Inventor Peter Madsen says he dropped Kim Wall off before his submarine sank. But police suspect otherwise. Kim Wall, a 30-year-old freelance journalist based in New York and China, was last seen reporting on Danish inventor and rocket enthusiast Peter Madsen before her mysterious disappearance. Wall hasn’t been heard from since she and Madsen, 46, boarded a submarine in Copenhagen on August 10. The submarine sank soon after departure and Copenhagen police have arrested Madsen on charges of involuntary manslaughter, saying the evidence suggests he deliberately sank the vessel....