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A witness who lived in the same apartment building as Amelia Distasio said that she “wasn’t friendly and kept to herself.” Fox 6Amelia Distasio and her 4-year-old son Antonio. In a horrifyingly tragic incident, a Milwaukee mother was arrested for killing her child by binding him with belts and setting him on fire. Fox 6 reports that 23-year-old Amelia Distasio will now face charges for first-degree murder after her 4-year-old son, Antonio, was found dead in her apartment....

Nine notebooks forgotten in a dusty box have uncovered the identity of Detective X, the crime-fighting forensic genius of the 1930s. The identity of Detective X — the secret crime-fighter who helped police solve dozens of cases over the course of decades with the aid of pioneering science — has finally been revealed. His name is Wilmer Souder, and he was a 1930s physicist who worked at the National Bureau of Standards, the predecessor of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)....

Investigators claimed that Phoebe Handsjuk climbed into the trash chute of her boyfriend’s luxury Melbourne apartment in a sleepwalking state — but her family suspects foul play. Left: Phoebe Handsjuk; Right: Antony HampelPhoebe Handsjuk (left) died by falling down the trash chute of her boyfriend Antony Hampel’s (right) apartment. An avid climber and martial artist, 24-year-old Phoebe Handsjuk brightened every room. Tragically on Dec. 2, 2010, however, her life was cut short in one of the most bizarre incidents in Australian history....

“This is an unexpected and fascinating discovery that helps to visualize and understand the rich history of the area.” Network RailConstruction workers uncovered a cave that bears the markings of a shrine site. According to UK news outlet The Telegraph, construction workers were working by a railroad track near Guildford when they came across something unusual. It turned out to be a small cave. Inside, archaeologists discovered what appear to be the remnants of a shrine....

In the past, breeders have focused squarely on size and shelf-life of their produce. With this new tool, scientists hope breeders will opt for taste and pathogen resistance as well. PicrylMost breeders of processed tomatoes grow their produce with size and shelf-life in mind. Researchers aim to make this new genomic resource an easy way of selecting multiple additional traits like taste and resistance to pathogens. Let’s face it: Supermarket tomatoes taste pretty blah....

Zebra finches typically learn to sing a song from their parents through imitation, but a new study shows they can learn a song without ever hearing it. PixabayScientists performed memory inception on zebra finches, implanting fake memories into their brains. To learn how our bodies work, scientists often turn to study animals with similar physiological traits as humans. Scientists use zebra finch birds, for example, to understand the mechanisms of human speech because the species’ vocal development is quite similar to ours....

The Bhopal disaster remains the world’s most devastating industrial disaster, with people feeling the effects for decades after the tragedy struck. Sandro Tucci/Liaison/ Getty ImagesDead bodies from the Bhopal disaster. In the early hours of December 3, 1984, the sleepy residents of Bhopal, India began to cough. Soon, their eyes began to water as they gasped for air. Within moments, they were vomiting. Within hours, thousands were dead. The cause of their symptoms was a chemical leak of deadly methyl isocyanate, or MIC, from the nearby Union Carbide pesticide plant....

Fourteen years before the fateful maiden voyage of the Titanic, a small town writer predicted the whole thing. Wikimedia CommonsMorgan Robertson, author of The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility. It was a clear, chilly night in April. The largest vessel ever to float at 800 feet long, displacing 45,000 tons, and declared unsinkable by all who had seen her was gliding through the water with roughly 2,500 peacefully sleeping passengers....

Ursula Haverbeck is now finally behind bars after years of making proclamations like “The Holocaust is the biggest and most sustainable lie in history.” Bernd Thissen/picture alliance via Getty ImagesUrsula Haverbeck in court in Detmold, Germany on Nov. 23, 2017. For several decades now, she’s been dragged into court again and again for spreading lies that claim the Holocaust never happened. Whether it was handing out leaflets or sharing her views on YouTube, she kept telling anyone who would listen that the murder of millions by Nazi Germany both before and during World War II was all a myth....

From their seemingly unbelievable cheese consumption to their military dominance, these interesting France facts prove there’s a lot you don’t know about the most visited country on Earth. In France, you can legally marry a dead person, as long as the President and the Justice Minister approve. The law originated after a 1959 dam collapse killed more than 400 people, including the fiancee of one woman who convinced the government to let her go ahead with the marriage anyway....

Researchers found both real swords and toy swords, presumably used by Roman children, that are nearly 2,000 years old. Excavators discovered a pair of ancient Roman swords, as well as several wooden toy swords, at the Vindolanda fort on Hadrian’s Wall, according to the Vindolanda Trust. “You can work as an archaeologist your entire life on Roman military sites and, even at Vindolanda, we never expect or imagine to see such a rare and special object as (the swords),” archaeologist Dr....

Dr. Scott Dolginow said he sees between three and 10 high dogs come in per week. However, this isn’t from the dogs getting into a stash at home, but rather indulging in a trail-side snack. PixabayDr. Scott Dolginow said he sees anywhere between three and 10 dogs experiencing marijuana toxicity per week. His clinic is near numerous campgrounds. With the legalization of marijuana steadily sweeping the United States, mistakes at home are bound to happen....

“We haven’t been really noticing any salmon up here. So we’ve been noticing that [the bears] have been getting skinnier and skinnier and getting more aggressive.” Rolf Hicker/HickerPhoto/FacebookAlarming photos of emaciated grizzly bears have led Canada’s First Nations to deliver 500 salmon fish to feed the bears. Tourists flock to Canada’s Knight Inlet every year to glimpse the grizzly bears hunting pink salmon in the river, stocking up on fat before it’s time for them to hibernate....

Even though he’s a Black man, Daryl Davis has successfully befriended and converted some 200 Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis. Daryl DavisFor more than three decades, Daryl Davis has dedicated much of his life to converting members of the Ku Klux Klan. Daryl Davis is a blues musician, author, and lecturer with an unusual and inspiring mission. While traveling throughout the United States over the course of the last three-plus decades, he’s sought out members of the Ku Klux Klan as well as other white supremacist organizations — and gotten them to change their ways....

The garment — which bears Elvis Presley’s initials in blue rhinestones — was a gift from a fan which the singer reportedly wore until his death in 1977. Paul Fraser Collectibles/Caters NewsA rhinestone-studded jockstrap that was frequently worn by Elvis is being sold for $36,000. Elvis Presley will forever be remembered as the velvet-voiced crooner of hit tunes from the 1950s like “Jailhouse Rock” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love” who scandalized TV censors with his distinct dance moves....

2 Million Ethnic Germans Perish After World War 2 As history’s most known genocide, the Holocaust was so disturbing and catastrophic that it’s become synonymous in the Western Hemisphere with mass genocide. Hitler’s pathological anti-Semitism wiped out nearly 80% of Europe’s Jews as well as five million of many other oft-targeted minorities, from homosexuals to the disabled to Communists. He wasn’t too keen on Germany’s eastern neighbors either, and in many respects, the secret genocide of World War II is the wholesale slaughter of 1....

Research suggests that hand dryers actually pump out bacteria-ridden air, instead of preventing the spread of germs. Wikimedia Commons Hand dryers are designed to both help the environment by eliminating the use of paper towels and supposedly help decrease the spread of germs. But as it turns out, using these bathroom dryers might be doing more harm than good. Researchers at the University of Connecticut and Quinnipiac University, in a study published in February, found that common hand dryers of the sort placed in public restrooms tend to merely suck up bacteria from poorly-washed hands and then dump it back out onto others’ wet hands....

Frank DeCicco helped John Gotti take over the family by murdering their boss — only to be killed in a bombing months later. Public DomainFrank DeCicco was brought under the wing of Gambino crime boss Paul Castellano, then he fatefully — and fatally — teamed up with John Gotti against him. Frank DeCicco was one of the first mobsters in the Gambino crime family to mutiny against their boss in 30 some odd years....

The nuclear shadows of Hiroshima were scorched into the city by the blinding light of the atomic bomb as it detonated over the city on August 6, 1945. Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty ImagesThe nuclear shadow of a Hiroshima man eerily scorched onto the stone steps of a local bank. When the world’s first atomic bomb used in warfare detonated over Hiroshima the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, a resident was seated on the stone steps outside of the Sumitomo Bank....

Though some ancient Norse legends portray Freydís Eiríksdóttir as a fearless warrior, others cast her as a merciless murderess. NetflixFreydís Eiríksdóttir is described in two Norse sagas, though it’s unclear if she actually existed. When the Vikings sailed to Vinland — present-day Newfoundland — over 1,000 years ago, they had multiple women in their midst. One of them, Freydís Eiríksdóttir, carved her name into Norse legend during the expedition. But not all sagas portray Freydís in the same light....