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On Friday, the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board voted in favor of killing 45,000 wild horses currently in government holding. This decision has been a long time in the making. As Inhabitat reported, over the course of two decades the BLM has removed wild horses from their natural habitat so that privately owned cattle can graze on the land. The horses obviously had to go somewhere, and so the BLM placed them in government-owned facilities across the United States....

John Kapoor’s conviction sets an enormous precedent: He’s the first pharmaceutical boss to be convicted for his role in the U.S. opioid epidemic. Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe/Getty ImagesInsys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor leaving federal court in Boston on March 13, 2019. John Kapoor of Insys Therapeutics has just been found guilty of defrauding insurance companies to sell Subsys — a fentanyl spray much stronger than morphine. According to The Guardian, the 75-year-old billionaire’s company was also found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe the drug to their patients....

“We just saw her small head but if the ripples were bigger, I think we probably wouldn’t have noticed her at all.” Vitisak Payalaw/FacebookThe dog was named Boonrod, or Survivor, by the rescuing oil rig workers. Working on an isolated oil rig in the middle of the ocean would likely cause many people to start losing their mind at some point. And when workers on an oil rig 135 miles offshore in the Gulf of Thailand recently noticed a dog paddling toward them, they surely couldn’t believe their eyes....

The photographer insists that the picture is real but that no sexual activity occurred while atop one of the world’s greatest wonders. Anreas Hvid/Daily MailThe image of the couple seemingly having sex at the Great Pyramid. Authorities in Egypt have reportedly launched an investigation after a photographer from Denmark posted a photo of himself and a woman apparently having sex at the top of the Great Pyramid in Giza. The photographer identified as Andreas Hvid also posted a video to YouTube of the couple apparently climbing the pyramid at night, with the woman taking off her shirt at the tail-end of the production....

Though officials know that the girls likely met on social media, police have no leads on their motives in this grisly slaying. Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty ImagesPolice said the victim had been in Toronto’s shelter system since September. Eight teenage girls are facing second-degree murder charges following the stabbing death of a 59-year-old Toronto man on December 18. Per CBC, police are not categorizing the girls as a gang, but rather investigators have called the incident a “swarming,” which Detective Sergeant Terry Browne said typically involves victimizing a specifically chosen target....

King Harald III Sigurdsson of Norway, better known as Harald Hardrada, traveled as far as Iraq and Sicily before becoming the last Viking king to attempt to seize the English throne in 1066. Wikimedia CommonsHarald Hardrada became a Viking warrior at 15 years of age. As King of Norway, Harald Hardrada led a horde of Norsemen in an invasion of England to claim the crown in 1066 A.D. And his death in battle was so consequential that it signaled the definitive end of the Viking Age....

No one knows why Harriet Cole donated her body to science, but the contribution she made lives on to this day. Drexel University ArchivesDr. Rufus B. Weaver poses next to the reconstructed nervous system of Harriet Cole. She may have been a hospital cleaning lady, but Harriet Cole ended up making perhaps a greater contribution to medical science than any of the doctors she worked alongside. Few may even recognize her name today, but without Cole, our understanding of the human nervous system wouldn’t be quite the same....

These myths and horror movies based on true stories feature paranormal spirits, demons, and tales of brutal murders, and while every single one is undoubtedly terrifying, they’re also all very real. Getty ImagesEdward Theodore Gein, the inspiration for Leatherface, Buffalo Bill, and more. They say the truth is stranger than fiction and nothing illustrates that better than these 13 terrifying myths and horror movies based on true stories. Horror movies are all inherently scary, but the ones that feature the cryptic “based on a true story” tagline seem to incite a deeper kind of fear in people....

Bones unearthed in California suggest that humans lived there 130,000 years ago. Tom Deméré/San Diego Natural History MuseumThe uncovered mastodon femur exhibiting the crack believed to be caused by impact from human tools. New evidence unearthed in California suggests that early humans may have lived in North American approximately 130,000 years ago — which is about 115,000 years earlier than scientists had previously thought. Paleontologists digging in San Diego discovered mastodon bones that appear to have been broken apart with stone tools, which were themselves also found nearby, according to the study published in Nature....

These Hunter S. Thompson quotes could be the soul-stirring reminder that adventure is just around the corner. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 21 Images Of Hunter S. Thompson, The Gonzo Writer Too Weird For This Planet Meet Tommy Thompson, The Treasure Hunter Who Found $4 Million In Gold — And Won’t Tell Anyone Where It Is...

Once upon a time, having a couple of tattoos was the definition of body modification, at least across the US and Europe. But extreme body modifications are growing in popularity, and those who claim it as a lifestyle choice are always looking for ways to take it to new levels. However, body modification isn’t something confined to grungier corners of San Francisco or New York. A number of cultures have practiced body modification since before the Magna Carta was signed....

Under the Nazi occupation of France, the Jewish-owned Parisian furniture store Lévitan was converted into a work camp where some 800 Jewish prisoners were held. German Federal ArchivesIn their quest for total elimination of Jews, the Nazis carried out a mass pillaging operation to seize every item that once belonged to a Jewish person. After the Nazi invasion forced Jewish people across Europe out of their homes, a systematic operation called Möbel Aktion or “Furniture Operation” set about looting thousands of personal possessions from their abandoned houses and apartments....

Starting on November 23, 1966, New York City was plagued by three days of suffocating smog in what remains one of the worst air pollution episodes and environmental disasters in American history. Wikimedia CommonsCaptured on Nov. 24, 1966, the smog blanketing New York City was so deadly that it spurred anti-pollution measures. On Thanksgiving weekend in 1966, a noxious combination of sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide wrapped itself around New York City....

Native Americans were in no position to help Irish potato famine victims, but they helped anyway. That 1847 favor is now being returned by Irish citizens who haven’t forgotten their history. Mike Searle/Creative CommonsThe Kindred Spirits sculpture was erected in 2017 to commemorate the generous 1847 aid sent to Irish potato famine victims by the Choctaw Nation. During the potato famine, a million Irish people emigrated, while another million died. In 1847, the Choctaw Nation charitably sent the Irish $170 — more than $5,000 by today’s standards — as relief....

A Michigan judge did not put up with a drunk driver’s family laughing in her courtroom. A Michigan judge threw a drunk driver’s mother in jail for 93 days after she refused to stop laughing at the family of the man her 25-year-old daughter killed in a head-on collision. According to NBC affiliate WDIV, Wayne County Circuit Court Qiana Lillard heard giggling while the family of Jerome Zirker was reading their statements to the court....

Though 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson’s death was ruled accidental after his body was found inside a gym mat on January 11, 2013, many suspect foul play. On January 11, 2013, the body of 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson was found in the most unusual of circumstances: upside-down and rolled up in a school gym mat. The mysterious death of Kendrick Johnson was initially ruled an accident by law enforcement, but his family was not convinced....

Grayden Denham was given four life sentences plus an additional 115 years for murdering his grandparents, his sister, and his three-month-old nephew in 2016. Platte County Prosecutor’s OfficeGrayden Denham shot and killed four members of his family and burned their bodies. On Feb. 19, 2016, firefighters responding to a blaze in Edgerton, Missouri, discovered four bodies. Each of them had pennies on or near their eyes in a recreation of scenes from the film The Boondock Saints....

The international experiment showed that people are certainly better than we thought. PixabayResearchers travelled across the globe dropping 17,000 “lost wallets” for a behavioral study. If you came across an abandoned wallet full of cash, what would you do? That is one of the questions a group of behavioral scientists explored during an international research campaign on “civic honesty.” To do this, researchers launched a large-scale experiment which involved a tourist (really a research assistant in disguise) walking into a bank to give the teller a lost wallet that they had “found....

Josephine Earp’s story was shrouded in mystery throughout her life, but modern historians posit that she lied about her early years in an effort to conceal her unsavory past. C. S. Fly/Wikimedia CommonsA portrait of Wyatt Earp’s wife, Josephine Earp, in 1881, the year they met. She went by several names: Josephine Marcus, Sadie Mansfield, and Josephine Behan. But the name “Josephine Earp” made her famous. In 1881, the same year as the notorious shootout at the O....

Previous evidence put the first humans in Australia some 65,000 years ago. But these blackened stones say it’s more like 120,000. John SherwoodThe site of the blackened stones in southern Victoria, Australia. A site filled with blackened stones in southern Victoria, Australia has raised the possibility that humans existed on the continent 120,000 years ago — twice as long as the previously established timeframe of early human life in the land “down under....