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According to the Associated Press, the footage showed 16 total tribespeople walking around the area. One member of the unnamed tribe can be seen carrying what looks like a bow and arrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?amp=&v=a63rMds-D50 Funai, the Brazilian government’s protection agency for indigenous peoples, captured the footage last year while on a mission to observe these uncontacted tribes. Funai’s president, Wallace Bastos, told the Associated Press that the drone footage holds an immense power....

Surely someone could have seen this one coming. In one helluva poorly conceived–if not momentarily pretty–publicity stunt, Los Angeles-based company Treb decided to promote its services by releasing nearly 1.5 million balloons into the skies of Cleveland, Ohio. In spite of wasting vast amounts of helium for a single, fleeting event, the launch was built on good intentions: children sold sponsorships to benefit charity United Way, at the price of $1 for every two balloons....

Paleontologists said this dinosaur had a one-of-a-kind opening that was “shaped in its perfect, unique way.” Vinther et alThis well-preserved Psittacosaurus fossil from China enabled scientists to study a dinosaur cloaca for the first time. A unique fossil has revealed how dinosaurs may have peed, pooped, and had sex. And it all comes down to one multipurpose hole. According to CNN, an extremely well-preserved Psittacosaurus fossil from China has enabled scientists to examine the mysterious orifice that the dinosaurs used for multiple bodily functions....

From the toothpaste made of urine to the perfume made of sweat, these Ancient Rome facts will give you a whole new way of looking at history. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 33 Ancient History Facts You Definitely Didn’t Learn In School Inside The Praetorian Guard, The Fearsome Military Unit Of Ancient Rome 27 Vietnam War Facts That Will Change How You View American History...

These pictures of Princess Diana at the palace, at the water park, and in the field show why she was hailed as “the People’s Princess.” Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 33 Photos Of Princess Diana’s Funeral That Show How Beloved Lady Di Truly Was Inside The Horrifying Death Of Princess Diana And The Conspiracy Theories Behind It...

“The persons who shot these innocent and beloved burros deserves to be brought to justice….We hope that an increase in the reward will lead to arrest and conviction for these cruel acts.” NeedpixOfficials have found 42 decomposing donkey corpses riddled with bullet wounds in the Mojave Desert. Wild donkeys are turning up dead and riddled with gun shot wounds in the Mojave Desert. Since May, the bodies of 42 shot-up donkeys have been discovered in the Clark Mountain Herd Area near the California-Nevada border....

“He’s a born dog whisperer.” McConn Family“Dog whisperer” 7-year-old Roman McConn. Seven-year-old Roman McConn of Augusta, Georgia, has saved over 1,350 dogs and 50 cats from kill shelters since the inception of his 2016 mission, Project Freedom Ride. Together with his mother Jennifer McConn, Roman transports pets in danger of euthanization from high-kill shelters in Texas to forever homes in the Pacific Northwest. Roman began the altruistic affair at just four-years-old when he asked family and friends to donate money to his favorite animal rescue in lieu of gifts....

To this day, archaeologists don’t know for sure why the massive city of 20,000 people at Cahokia Mounds vanished quickly and left barely any trace behind. Long before Christopher Columbus “discovered” North America, the mounds of Cahokia stood tall and formed the continent’s first city in recorded history. In fact, during its height in the 12th century, Cahokia Mounds was larger in population than London. It spread across six square miles and boasted a population of 10,000 to 20,000 people — vast figures for the time....

On January 16, 1997, Ennis Cosby pulled his car over to the side of a Los Angeles interstate to change a tire and was brutally gunned down by Mikhail Markhasev during a failed robbery. George SchoolEnnis Cosby lived with dyslexia until it was formally diagnosed when he was an undergraduate. From then on, he sought to help other students with learning disabilities. By the 1990s, Bill Cosby — untainted by future scandals — was known as one of the funniest men in America....

New research shows that goldfish and other related species can convert lactic acid into alcohol. Turns out, some fish deal with depressing and cold winters in the same way that humans do: alcohol! A new study published in Scientific Reports found that goldfish and their crucian carp cousins convert lactic acid into alcohol in order to survive harsh winter conditions. They developed this ability in response to the ice, which covers ponds in the winter and blocks oxygen from reaching the creatures underneath....

“I think actually seeing them, seeing them move around, seeing them talk, seeing them smile just really connects us very closely to those people.” SSPL/Getty ImagesCodebreakers working to decipher enemy encryptions at Bletchley Park. Secret footage of codebreakers working at a top-secret facility connected to Bletchley Park — home of Britain’s Special Intelligence Service (SIS) otherwise known as MI6 — during World War II was recently discovered. According to historians, it is the only known footage linked to the wartime activities conducted by the British intelligence agency....

When a deadly epidemic hit the remote town of Nome in the winter of 1925, a group of mushers and sled dogs risked their lives to save the town — with Balto standing out from the pack. In January 1925, residents of Nome, Alaska, faced a horrific epidemic of diphtheria. Seven people were dead, 19 people were sick, and 150 were under surveillance for infection in a town of just 1,400 people....

Maybe Lily Dale, New York is just like any other town. But its reputation as “the most psychic town in America” certainly suggests otherwise. billrock54/FlickrThe gates at the modern-day Lily Dale Assembly. In one small, southwestern New York town, the streets haven’t been widened since the days of the horse and buggy. Victorian cottages dot tree-lined neighborhoods. Playfully referred to as “the town where no one dies,” Lily Dale is more than just the setting of a Supernatural episode....

In January of 1959, nine young Soviet hikers died under mysterious circumstances while trekking through the Ural Mountains in what’s now known as the Dyatlov Pass incident. In January 1959, a 23-year-old hiker named Igor Alekseyevich Dyatlov led a journey to reach the peak of Otorten, a mountain in the Northern Urals of Soviet Russia. The young man brought a team of eight experienced hikers, many from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, along with him for the adventure....

Nobody can write… the lowercase “G.” Try to write the letter that comes after ‘f’ and before ‘h.’ If you wrote it in the more popular “opentail” form, you probably nailed it. However, if you wrote it in the “looptail” form, as seen in many novels and prestigious publications like the New York Times and All That’s Interesting, there’s a good chance you failed. But don’t worry, you’re far from alone....

Head-shrinking seems like exactly the kind of tall tale that an explorer would make up about a remote tribe they’d just encountered. However, the practice of making shrunken heads is very real, namely in the forests of Peru and Ecuador where the Jivaroan tribes have long practiced this macabre tradition. Share Flipboard Email Share Flipboard Email 2 of 17A shrunken head is displayed in a globe, while four others surround it....

On August 28, 1963, some 250,000 civil rights activists gathered in Washington, D.C. to demand racial equality during the March on Washington. Here are some of the most memorable photos from that day. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Reliving The Civil Rights Movement, In 55 Powerful Photos 44 Photos From The Anti-Civil Rights Movement That United Most Of White America In The 1960s...

The incredible new bipedal Atlas robot possesses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, but it still can’t defend itself against a hockey stick. Boston Dynamics took the Internet by storm back in 2013 when they debuted a video of their four-legged monster, the “Wildcat.” Now they’re back at it, and this time they have a robot with artificial intelligence (A.I.) that can walk on two legs, pick up boxes, and master snowy terrain — well, in the same way a teenager has mastered the drunken stumble, at least....

How Patty Hearst went from wealthy heiress to gun-toting, bank-robbing, radical militant of the Symbionese Liberation Army. San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office/Wikimedia CommonsPatty Hearst’s booking photo following her arrest in San Francisco. September 19, 1975. In 1974, a group of left-wing radicals calling themselves the “Symbionese Liberation Army” stormed into the Berkeley, California apartment of publishing heiress Patty Hearst and, after smashing a wine bottle across her fiancée’s face, dragged her away into the night....

If you’re looking to be surrounded only by eons-old natural formations and scorpions, the Vermilion Cliffs of Utah and Arizona are for you. Source: Wikipedia In Arizona, just south of the Utah state line, you can encounter an array of twisting reddish-orange cliffs, rock formations and valleys. This 294,000-acre expanse of geological treasures is known as the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, home to the Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon, Paria Plateau and the Vermilion Cliffs....