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A British research vessel named Boaty McBoatface via online voting will soon set out on its first mission underneath Antarctica. Boaty McBoatface, a small robotic submarine and British research vessel whose name comes from an online vote, will soon set out on its first-ever mission. The British government felt it would have been inappropriate to bestow the humorous moniker upon the roughly $250 million ship for which the voting was initially held last year, and so instead decided to give the name to a trio of robotic submarines, who will all share it....

Dale Cregan’s story sounds like Hollywood had a field day with serial killer stereotypes – revenge, family feuds, murdered police officers, and a one-eyed suspect – but the horrifying crimes he committed were very real. Dale Cregan was a notorious one-eyed killer, whose involvement in a decades-long feud with the Short family led to the death of two policewomen in Greater Manchester, England in 2012. Cregan was a known drug dealer, who began by dealing marijuana as a teenager and by the age of twenty-two, had graduated to dealing hard drugs like cocaine....

After an eight-month missing person search, the man’s body was finally found inside his own truck at an airport parking lot. An eight-month-long missing person search came to a shocking conclusion earlier this week when investigators discovered the man’s corpse in his pickup truck inside an airport parking lot. The Washington Post reports that last Tuesday, Randy W. Potter was found decomposing in his truck at Kansas City International Airport’s parking lot....

Fewer than 1,500 of Borneo’s pygmy elephants remain in the wild. Their latest casualty was particularly brutal. Sabah Wildlife DepartmentIt’s unclear whether the pygmy elephant died quickly or suffered through all 70 bullet wounds. A pygmy elephant was found dead in a river on the Malaysian side of Borneo island, with 70 bullet wounds in its body and both tusks removed. It’s a brutal blow to an endangered species already ravaged by habitat loss; fewer than 1,500 Borneo pygmy elephants remain in the wild....

Exploding head syndrome (EHS) is a little-understood medical condition that afflicts upwards of 15 million people. Max PixelA man clutching his head. Welcome to the world of exploding head syndrome. No, it’s not about your head expanding so much that it blows up and shatters into a million bloody pieces. Exploding head syndrome, also known as EHS, is an actual psychological disorder that may seem bizarre — but it’s more common than you think....

The Cotton Club had a reputation for catapulting famous careers, but history has a way of glossing over the cabaret’s social transgressions. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The Sordid History Of The Viper Room, Hollywood’s Infamous Rock Club The Bloods: 21 Startling Photos Inside America’s Infamous Bi-Coastal Gang 29 Vintage Photos Of The Unparalleled Glamour Of Streamliner Trains...

Santa Claus is based on a real man named St. Nicholas who lived in the third century, but the generous monk also spawned countless other legends of Santa-like figures. Most children in the United States grow up with a very clear idea of who Santa Claus is and what he looks like. Legends of Santa around the world describe him as jolly, rosy-cheeked, and endowed with powers that allow him to visit every house in one night to deliver Christmas presents....

Popularly known as the setting for the horror movie Candyman, Cabrini-Green began as a mid-century example of what a public housing project could provide, but eventually grew so neglected that it had to be demolished. Ralf-Finn Hestoft / Getty ImagesOne of the “reds,” a mid-sized building at Cabrini-Green. It wasn’t supposed to end like this. As the wrecking ball dropped into the upper floors of 1230 N. Burling Street, the dream of affordable, comfortable housing for Chicago’s working-class African Americans came crashing down....

Helmut Kentler, the man behind the project, was a noted psychologist whose work was often called an “open call for pedophilia.” Wikimedia CommonsBerlin in 1973 during the World Festival of Youth and Students. The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s is usually lauded as having broken down outdated codes of conduct and morals while paving the way for important advancements in women’s and gay rights. But what happens when every social code is broken?...

Though the state quickly convicted two suspects in James Jordan’s 1993 death, lingering evidence has many asking how Michael Jordan’s dad really died. Robert Mora/NBAE via Getty ImagesMichael Jordan stands on the court alongside his father, James R. Jordan, in February 1988. On June 20, 1993, James Jordan and his son, Michael, celebrated the latter’s NBA Finals victory, his third in as many years. Already a basketball legend, Michael Jordan was at the height of his career and his father was there with him every step of the way....

In the months leading up to his demise on September 26, 2012, Johnny Lewis broke into a woman’s apartment, punched a man outside a yogurt shop, and tried to kill himself. When police responded to a call about a woman screaming in Los Angeles’s Los Feliz neighborhood on Sept. 26, 2012, they came across a grisly sight. Inside the house at 3605 Lowry Road, they found a woman bludgeoned in a bedroom, a beaten cat in the bathroom, and actor Johnny Lewis lying dead in the driveway....

The effects of urbanization have made life extremely difficult for koalas, a new World Wildlife Fund video says. Jeff Overs/BBC News & Current Affairs via Getty Images With urbanization spreading rapidly across Australia, thousands of koalas are being forced from their homes. It’s gotten so bad that the World Wildlife Fund is warning that, without immediate intervention, koalas might soon become extinct in several Australian states. “We used to have restrictions on land clearing, since that’s changed we have noticed an enormous influx in the rescues that are coming forward,” a WWF video explains....

For decades, scientists have been unsure how a creature as ferocious as this could have met its end. Now they have an idea. Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesEnya Kim from the Natural History department at auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields stands inside an authentic set of megalodon jaws comprised of about 180 teeth in Las Vegas on September 30, 2009. If you thought Jaws was scary, be grateful that you weren’t alive 2 million years ago, back when the megalodon shark ruled Earth’s waters....

Mickey Finn’s scam inspired Chicago restaurant workers to rebel against stingy tippers by poisoning their food and would later be immortalized with the nefarious phrase “slip a Mickey.” Early 1900s Chicago was likely not a city in which you’d want to go out drinking That’s because pickpocket-turned-bar owner Mickey Finn was scamming gullible customers by spiking their drinks with an illegal drug he got from a witch doctor. His association with the drug later inspired the manufacturing of another illegal substance, appropriately called “Mickey Finn,” that was used by vengeful waiters so often that it begat a food poisoning epidemic across Chicago....

Following the sexist demands that women wear high heels and makeup to work, Japanese businesses are now instructing them to not wear glasses. The younger generations aren’t having it. CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty ImagesYumi Ishikawa, leader of the #KuToo movement, who is working to help eradicate the glasses ban in Japan. Women are familiar with being told to smile, to cheer up, and to follow countless other instructions that men dump on them....

The skeletal remains revealed cut open chests, likely so that their hearts could be easily removed. National GeographicOver a dozen children were uncovered in a single day. In an exclusive with National Geographic , a team of international and interdisciplinary scientists have revealed what is likely the largest single incident of mass child sacrifice in world history. The skeletal remains of over 140 children, as well as 200 llamas, were uncovered in the north coast of Peru and date back to over 500 years ago, around 1450 A....

‘Thug’ is an oft-used derogatory term, and it turns out the Thuggees of India were actually pretty horrible people. Scene from The Deceivers. The word “thug” has been in the American lexicon for a long time, but the origins of the word date well past even the founding of the United States. “Thug” finds its roots in the Hindi word “thag,” which translates into “thief,” and the Sanskrit word “sthagati”, which means to conceal....

In the mid-1800s, Ada Lovelace saw the full potential of computers more than a century before they were a reality. Wikimedia CommonsLady Ada Lovelace, a British socialite in the 18th Century, was the one of the world’s first computer programmers. Lady Ada Lovelace, who is often referred to as “the enchantress of numbers,” was a British socialite who became one of the world’s first computer programmers. She loved to learn and — by many accounts — had the natural gift of genius....

An Australian park ranger gasped when she saw the record-breaking monster cane toad, now dubbed “Toadzilla.” Queensland Government Park ranger Kylee Gray holds the record-breaking cane toad dubbed “Toadzilla.” Park rangers in Australia made a discovery this week that shocked viewers and broke records: a nearly six-pound cane toad now dubbed “Toadzilla.” The toad was found during a routine trail check in Australia’s Conway National Park, when park ranger Kylee Gray stopped her vehicle for a passing snake....

No living human knows what happens when we die, but here’s what we’ve gleaned from history and some near-death survivors who said they glimpsed the other side. What happens when you die is perhaps one of the greatest mysteries on Earth, simply because none of us know the answer and yet all of us will experience death eventually. Humankind’s great thinkers have been pondering this question for millennia. And in 1994, an orthopedic surgeon named Tony Cicoria may have come close to solving this great mystery when he was struck by a nearly-fatal bolt of lightning in upstate New York....