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The passenger had returned to Manila from Hong Kong and presumably decided not to go through with the smuggling operation at the last minute. Bureau of Customs NAIA/FacebookThe duct-taped turtles freed from their containers at Customs, 2019. Illegal wildlife trafficking is a big business and even the strictest of laws and consequences prove to be ineffective deterrents. For a Filipino passenger who left over 1,500 live, duct-taped turtles abandoned in his luggage at Manila airport, however, the risks did finally seem to have outweighed the profits....

Authorities are still baffled as to what happened to Rebecca Coriam, the young British cruise ship employee who vanished from the Disney Wonder on March 22, 2011. rebecca-coriam.comDisney has always maintained that it was a rogue wave that swept Rebecca Coriam away. But such weather conditions would have been impossible. On March 22, 2011, while working aboard the Disney Wonder cruise ship off the coast of Mexico, 24-year-old Rebecca Coriam suddenly disappeared....

In 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler made history when she earned her M.D. But her inspiring story was largely forgotten for over a century. Public DomainThis depiction of Rebecca Lee Crumpler was reportedly created during Sun Oil Company’s involvement in the Charles Drew Award in the 1980s. But some doubt this is Crumpler’s “real” face, since no photos of her exist. In 1860, more than 54,000 physicians lived in the United States....

After Richard Lee McNair mailed himself out, perhaps the most astounding part of his escape was still yet to come. Although Richard Lee McNair is a convicted murderer, it’s his extraordinary ability to escape from prison that has made him more notorious than the actual crimes that put him there. Richard Lee McNair escaped from prison three times, which is an impressive feat in itself. But it was his third escape in 2006 that required the kind of creativity and innovation that you very seldom see....

It took meticulous research, but one blogger narrowed found the actual date Ice Cube was rapping about in “It Was A Good Day.” When listening to Ice Cube’s “It Was A Good Day,” you’ve surely wondered just what day that was. Well, through some truly impressive, thorough, and meticulous research and deduction, blogger Donovan Strain figured it out. In fact, the actual date in question turned out to be 24 years ago today: January 20, 1992....

As the face of the economic reunification of Germany, Detlev Rohwedder was a major target to the thousands of East Germans who lost their jobs in the merger. Wikimedia CommonsDetlev Rohwedder was killed by a sniper positioned 200 feet away from his bedroom window. As one of the faces of Germany’s reunification process, Detlev Rohwedder was also one of the country’s most heavily targeted people. A successful German politician and businessman, Rohwedder was responsible for privatizing the socialist East German businesses as the country reformed....

Myrtle Corbin was also born with two sets of internal and external reproductive anatomies. Wikimedia CommonsMyrtle Corbin and her legs. For all intents and purposes, Josephine Myrtle Corbin was a normal girl. Her birth was not marked by anything out of the ordinary, and her mother claimed to have had a typical labor and delivery, apart from the baby being momentarily in the breech position. The doctors who examined the baby after birth reported her to be strong and healthy, adding that she was growing at a good rate....

New Tiananmen Square photos, uncovered WWII bombers, Hemingway’s love letters, Australia’s faceless fish, Earth’s mass extinction event. Hidden Tiananmen Square Photos Released By Photographer After 28 Years David Chen was 25 years old when the protest occupation began in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. A student at Dalian Maritime College, he led pro-democracy demonstrations in the northeast part of the country before joining the unprecedented movement in the country’s capital. Chen set up camp on the square — joining about one million other protestors at the movement’s height....

These rock-solid JFK assassination facts are more fascinating than any conspiracy theory ever could be. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 21 Astounding Joseph Stalin Facts Even The History Buffs Don’t Know 45 Presidential Facts Even Huge History Nerds Won’t Know 10 Interesting Stories That Will Surprise Even The History Buffs 1 of 24Kennedy would likely have survived the assassination if he wasn’t wearing a back brace....

If you think Jurassic Park has told you everything you need to know about the prehistoric inhabitants of Earth, think again. These fascinating dinosaur facts will surprise you. Long before the dawn of man, there walked giants who forever left their mark upon Earth. Dinosaurs lived on the planet for over 66 million years (over three times longer than humans so far) before their extinction, leaving us to scrape together what little information we can from their scattered remains....

From doll masks to bags over heads to outfits that can’t even be described with words, these vintage Halloween costumes are supremely creepy. The Halloween costumes of today may be flashy, complicated, and over the top, but in days gone by, there was enough horror for everyone in a simple mask. While these outfits were quite basic — and often just composed of something like a bag over someone’s head — these getups were also a million times creepier than any costume you’d see today....

These companies made fortunes and grew to what they are today with help from Hitler. Hugo Jaeger/Timepix/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesAustrian automobile manufacturer Ferdinand Porsche (left, in dark suit) presents a newly designed convertible Volkswagen car to Adolf Hitler for his 50th birthday. Berlin, Germany. April 20, 1939. Nowadays, we rightly view the Nazi regime as an evil empire, horrific in their actions and despicable in their ideology. However, Nazi Germany was not always viewed as such....

From the very first color photo taken in 1861 to the streets of Paris during World War I, these incredible early color photographs offer a window into the past. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 44 Old Color Photos Made With Autochrome That Remain Stunning A Century Later These 55 Photochrom Images Look Like They’re Straight Out Of A Fairy Tale...

They’re using stone tools to smash open fruits and nuts regularly, in more than 80 percent of observations. Between approximately 2.5 and 3.5 million years ago, humans entered the Stone Age when they started using rocks as tools. Now, at least one group of white-faced capuchin monkeys in Panama has followed suit. According to a study published in bioRxiv on June 20, the monkeys are using rocks as tools in order to do things like smash open nuts and shellfish....

Before dying on May 2, 2016, Afeni Shakur was a political activist who took on the NYPD while facing a 350-year sentence — and pregnant with Tupac. TwitterTupac with his mother Afeni Shakur. In 1995, rap legend Tupac Shakur wrote a love letter to his mother. Though the song “Dear Mama” pulled no punches and openly admitted that Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, had an addiction to crack while struggling as “a poor single mother on welfare,” it also expressed Tupac’s gratitude and reverence for her despite the challenges she endured....

This photo tour of Norway’s Bastoy Prison reveals why this facility is called “the world’s nicest prison” and why its methods work so well. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 22Bjorn, sentenced to five-and-a-half years for attempted murder, watches television in the living room of the wooden cottage where he lives.Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images 2 of 22An inmate who only provided the fake name of Niels, sentenced to 16....

At more than one million hours of use and counting, this bulb proves that they really don’t make things like they used to. Richard Jones/Guinness Book of World RecordsThe Centennial Bulb alight inside Firestation #6 in Livermore, California. In an otherwise unremarkable little firehouse in Livermore, Calif., there is a light bulb that has been burning since it was first set alight — in 1901. The Centennial Bulb, as this light has come to be known, is the longest-lasting light bulb of all time....

“The child was trying to tear my soul apart. I knew it was the right thing to do.” FacebookThe man was found not guilty of murder due to reasons of mental health. His family told him they loved him as he was taken away for evaluation. An Australian man accused of stabbing his son to death because he thought he was the devil has been found not guilty of murder due to mental illness....

David Lynch – along with his films – is hard to figure out. Reading about him, you get the impression he likes it that way. He doesn’t think he’s weird. He always buttons the top button of his shirt to make him feel safe. He used to give random weather reports on the radio and his YouTube channel for no reason whatsoever. Lynch conducted odd experiments even as a child. He initially wanted to be a painter....

Of the eight candidates on the ballot, four have been convicted of felonies including assault with intent to murder. When Detroit residents cast their votes in next week’s mayoral primary, they’ll be choosing from a field of eight candidates — four of which are convicted felons. While the other four, including frontrunners incumbent Mayor Mike Duggan and state Sen. Coleman A. Young II, have no records, media attention is now focused on the four that do....