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Not only was the perp arraigned for the toolbox bomb, but a quick investigation of his home also revealed a sawed-off shotgun and an undisclosed amount of meth. Wikimedia CommonsStout collected feces from his own dogs as well as from the neighborhood dogs he could find piled in his courtyard. When a friend repeatedly fails to return one’s belongings, frustration can build to a boiling point. For Robb Alexander Stout of Portland, Oregon, there was only one solution....

Scott Davidson was more than just the father of “SNL” star Pete Davidson. He was a teacher, a coach, a husband, and one of the most courageous firefighters of Ladder 118. Pete Davidson/InstagramPete and Scott Davidson in March 1995, just a year after Scott joined the New York City Fire Department. Most people only know Scott Davidson as Pete Davidson’s dad or the New York City firefighter who died on 9/11....

The trio were charged with over 1,400 counts of sexual intercourse with animals and are also accused of endangering the welfare of children. Clearfield County District Attorney’s OfficeTerry Wallace, Marc Measnikoff, Matthew Brubaker, were arrested for allegedly having sex with at least 12 animals on their property in Pennsylvania. Three men in Munson, Pa. were arrested for allegedly performing lewd sex acts on a number of farm animals. The men, Terry Wallace, 41, Matthew Brubaker, 31, and Marc Measnikoff, 34, all lived on the same farm on Mouse Lane and face an astounding 1,460 counts of sexual intercourse with animals as well as counts of animal cruelty....

The Ku Klux Klan lived a much different life in the 1920s, apparently a life that involved riding Colorado’s amusement park Ferris wheels. Ku Klux Klan members enjoying an amusement park in Colorado. Image Source: Imgur Although practically an underground movement these days, America’s most infamous hate group was surprisingly open and widespread during the group’s peak in the early and mid-20th century. More than 4 million people across the country were KKK members in the 1920s, and the 1924 Democratic National Convention very nearly chose a known Klansman as their presidential candidate....

Mary Shanley was one of the NYPD’s first female police officers — and one of its most badass. Library of Congress“Dead Shot Mary” Shanley in 1937. If you found yourself amid crowded New York City sidewalks in the 1930s and ’40s, you might well have run into a brawny Irishwoman named Mary Shanley. In her hat and day dress, Shanley probably looked like a mother going about her day — which is precisely why the New York City Police Department considered her to be one of its most valuable, streetwise assets....

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These heart-rending, life-affirming Anne Frank quotes and photos can teach us all about courage and reveal that hope is always possible. Of all the books we’re made to read in high school, Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl is perhaps the one high schoolers are least equipped to fully appreciate. While it’s counterintuitive to think that the writings of a teenager wouldn’t resonate most with other teenagers, it’s only as adults that we can truly understand just how profound and wise-beyond-her-years Frank was....

From Murder, Inc. to the Chicago Outfit, these colorized images show the early days of organized crime as they really were. The Italian mob’s prominence at the heart of America’s criminal underbelly has been well chronicled and glamorized by countless movies, television shows, and books throughout the years — but the true story of how the Mafia came to be such a powerful force in the United States is even more tantalizing than the Hollywood portrayals....

The Mad Pooper’s spokesman has compared her actions to breastfeeding in public. In case you missed it, a Colorado Springs neighborhood has been under attack from a woman dubbed the “Mad Pooper.” The woman, a jogger who has recently been identified only as “Shirley,” has been terrorizing residents by stopping during her runs and literally pooping on their lawns, sometimes in front of their children. So far, authorities have been unable to catch her....

The frogs may have been eaten by humans living at the site, or the amphibians may have suffered a “prehistoric frog tragedy.” Mike Kemp/In PIctures via Getty ImagesA common toad in England, possibly a descendant of the hundreds of Iron Age frogs found dead in Bar Hill. Archaeologists dig up curious finds all the time. But a team from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) made an especially peculiar discovery recently when they came across 8,000 frog bones in a ditch near an Iron Age roundhouse in Bar Hill, Cambridgeshire, England....

David Bawden believed that the Catholic Church hadn’t had a real pope since 1958. So he decided to take action. YouTubePope Michael To David Bawden, Kansas isn’t just the Sunflower State; it’s the Holy See. Bawden is convinced that since Pope Pius XII died in 1958, the church has been led by a series of fraudulent popes. He believes that the real leader of the church is Pope Michael – the name he gave himself at a makeshift papal conclave....

In 19th century England, the social event of the season was a rather gruesome affair. Egyptian history and culture have fascinated people the world over for centuries, but in the 19th century the Victorian elite took things to a whole new level with “mummy unwrapping” parties. If you don’t believe it, keep in mind that these were the guys who took photos with their dead relatives and used the deceased’s hair to make jewelry....

The synthesizer Eliot Curtis was cleaning was quite popular in the 1960s when LSD-friendly musicians were looking for new sounds. Unbeknownst to him, they left a few remnants behind. KPIX5Eliot Curtis was merely trying to fix an old discarded synthesizer — when the drugs began to take hold. When the great wave of 1960s optimism finally broke and hippiedom gave way to Vietnam and Richard Nixon, the end of an era had never been clearer....

Man’s best friend may also be deer’s best friend. Mark Freeley / Facebook We often think of dogs as good companions, but new video footage shows that they’re also pretty good at rescue missions. This week, a video emerged of a dog saving a baby deer from drowning in the waters of the Long Island Sound: https://www.facebook.com/NorthShoreInjuryLawyer/videos/10211179007929059/ In the video, the golden retriever jumps into the water, grabs the deer by the scruff of its neck and drags the baby animal back to shore....

In 1954, over 5,000 prisoners in the Kengir camp rose up against the guards, forcing them to flee the grounds. And for 40 days, the inmates got a brief taste of freedom. Library of CongressGulag prisoners, like those who started the Kengir uprising, often lived in squalid conditions. In 1953, the prisoners at the Kengir gulag had something new — hope. The notorious Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was dead. And Lavrentiy Beria, the head of his secret police, was named an “enemy of the state” and executed....

The idea of a gay bomb came from a desire to debilitate and distract their opponents but not necessarily kill them. Wikimedia CommonsThe gay bomb was a theoretical cloud of gas that would turn enemy soldiers gay. The concept of a “gay bomb” sounds like something out of a bad science fiction movie. A bomb that would drop a mixture of chemicals on the enemy and literally make them fall in love with one another to distract them from their wartime duties seems like such an impossible, far-fetched, ludicrous plan that no one could ever possibly attempt it, right?...

For more than 20 years, Michael Kent was a fervent white supremacist covered in hate tattoos. But that all changed when he met Tiffany Whittier and the pair struck up an unlikely friendship. Michael KentMichael Kent, a former neo-Nazi, and his ex-probation officer, Tiffany Whittier. One look at Michael Kent, a white man speaking alongside Black activists about bridging the country’s racial divide, and you’d never guess he was once a neo-Nazi....

At the height of the Holocaust, 23 Jews arrived at Julian Bilecki’s home seeking shelter. He didn’t have the room, so he made it. Wikimedia Commons Genia Melzer was 17 years old when she found herself lying atop a pile of corpses, thanking God she was still alive. Melzer, like many other Jews living in the village of Zawalow in eastern Poland, was a primary target of Nazi extermination squads. Between 1942 and 1943, Nazis rounded up approximately 3,000 Jews in the area and brought them to Zawalow....

On November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans — and became a civil rights icon. Wikimedia CommonsFederal marshals escort Ruby Bridges to school to protect her from a racist mob in 1960. Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she made history in 1960. As the first Black student to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Bridges stepped right into the forefront of the civil rights movement....

Researchers wonder if the heavy rewarding of habit-based solutions in Western educational systems are destroying our ability to creatively problem-solve. Julia Watzek/TwitterIn an experiment involving a problem-solving computer game, researchers found that monkeys had better ‘cognitive flexibility’ than humans. Do you think of yourself as a smart person? Well, according to one study, you could still be outsmarted by a monkey. According to Live Science, researchers recently tested how well both humans and monkeys could perform in a problem-solving computer game and found that the monkeys were undeniably better....