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In 1913, Leo Frank was found guilty of killing 13-year-old Mary Phagan, even though no physical evidence linked him to the crime. Two years later, a mob lynched him for it. On August 17, 1915, a Georgia mob lynched Leo Frank, a Jewish man convicted of murder whose death sentence had just been commuted to life in prison by the governor. Two years earlier, a jury sent Frank to prison for killing a 13-year-old girl named Mary Phagan, who worked at the pencil factory he managed....

The man stopped to relieve himself on the side of the road when he noticed the bear, and decided to take a selfie with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg-mSCTDz3M A man in India was mauled to death by a bear, after attempting to take a selfie with it. Prabhu Bhatara, a taxi driver from India, was headed home from a local wedding when he pulled over to relieve himself on the side of the road....

Shoebills are famously intimidating, standing at five feet tall with a seven-inch beak that’s strong enough to tear through six-foot fish. The shoebill stork has to be one of the craziest-looking birds on planet Earth. The giant avian is native to the swamps of Africa and is best known for its prehistoric features, in particular, its strong hollow beak which looks an awful lot like a Dutch clog. This living dinosaur was beloved by the ancient Egyptians and has the power to overtake a crocodile....

A new study by Dutch scientists suggests that it could someday be possible to say goodbye to bad trips forever. PixabayDutch researchers have identified how the psychedelic effects of magic mushrooms dissolve our egos when we’re high. We hear stories of people losing themselves when they ‘trip’ on psychedelic substances like mushrooms and LSD. While we have long known that consuming these substances triggers a change in the way our brain works while being ‘high’ or under the influence, scientists have never fully exacted evidence of how this process really works....

Scientists already knew that dolphins use “signature whistles” to identify themselves, but now they know that they also use the taste of urine. Wikimedia CommonsThe study showed dolphins can recognize each other through taste alone – unlike any other vertebrate. While humans can easily recognize friends by their faces, bottlenose dolphins don’t have that luxury. Instead, these aquatic mammals generally identify each other with signature whistles that serve as names, but a new study has just showed that they’re also familiar with each other’s urine — and can identify their friends by tasting it....

Only two U.S. presidents have followed through on all of their campaign promises. As with his presidential campaign, the media has tracked and analyzed practically everything that Donald Trump has said, done, and even tweeted following his 2016 presidential election. More recently, the media has highlighted how Trump supporters have criticized the president-elect for backtracking on some of the promises he made on the stump — namely those regarding Hillary Clinton, and his assurance that he would jail her for supposed corruption....

It was the size of a car and its teeth were the size of bananas. Mauricio Anton/National GeographicSimbakubwa kutokaafrika New discoveries are sometimes simply a matter of fate. That’s what happened when paleontologist Matt Borths serendipitously came across the fossils of Africa’s largest carnivorous mammal, one that walked the Earth some 23 million years ago. According to National Geographic, Borths found the animal relics in the drawers of the fossil collection at the Nairobi National Museum in Kenya....

New video of the biggest great white shark ever caught on camera, nicknamed “Deep Blue,” has been released – and it’s truly astounding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8raLJHzWqVA There may be no predators in all of nature as terrifying and fascinating as sharks. And few sharks are more fascinating than Deep Blue — the biggest great white shark ever caught on camera. Video of Deep Blue went viral back in August of 2015 after it was featured on “Shark Week,” but it turns out that the videographer behind the images, Michael Maier, was holding out on an even larger stockpile of footage....

The organization formed after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newton, Connecticut. Seventeen teachers in Weld County, Colorado, are taking part in a pilot program to become “armed first responders” in the case of a school shooting. They are being trained in a three-day course that was designed by parents, police officers and medical experts as part of the Faculty Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response Group (Faster)....

Federal prosecutors estimate that up to 100 girls were cut over the 12-year period. The first federal case on the practice of female genital mutilation in the U.S. involves two doctors and one of the doctor’s wives, who are being charged with subjecting two seven-year-old girls to genital cutting. While those children are the only victims directly involved in the case, evidence shows that eight other girls were also subjected to the procedure by the same doctors....

The 28-year-old tried drinking more beer and eating ice cream to push the fish down but to no avail. Natural History Museum RotterdamThe catfish in question on display at the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam. A man in the Netherlands, while drunk and on ecstasy, swallowed a spiked catfish in a strange ritual with friends that consequently lodged in his throat. Most of us are perfectly content to share a few drinks with our friends without engaging in any dangerous, potentially lethal behavior....

The phallic carving was found at the base of a building and stretches more than one-and-a-half feet long. Municipality of Nueva CarteyaAncient Romans saw phalluses as a sign of good fortune and protection. As archaeologists in Córdoba, Spain were excavating the El Higuerón archaeological site, they came across a surprising sight. There, carved into the foundation of a building, was the largest Roman phallus that they had ever seen. Andrés Roldán, the director of the excavation, said that though phalluses are common finds at Roman archeological sites, the carving in Nueva Carteya was “unusually large,” according to El País....

The Queen frontman was known to call his 10 cats while on the road — and even reportedly left them everything in his will. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 23 Photos Of Celebrities And Their Dogs That’ll Melt Your Heart Freddie Mercury’s Larger-Than-Life Career In 31 Photos Inside Jim Hutton And Freddie Mercury’s Touching Love Story...

Found behind a wall in a museum, one bottle dates back to 1769. New Jersey’s Liberty Hall Museum is about to have a pretty rowdy party. Or, at least, they could after having discovered more than 90 bottles and demijohns (aka old-timey bottles) of wine behind a Prohibition-era wall and locked wooden cage in their cellar. And not just any wine! Extremely rare Madeira wine dating back to as early as 1769....

The black leopard hasn’t been photographed in Africa in more than a century. Now, 110 years later, biologists from the San Diego Zoo have broken that trend. Will Burrard-Lucas/TwitterOne of the recent photos that reportedly reveals the rare African black leopard on film for the first time in more than a century. There’s been plenty of anecdotal evidence of the black leopard’s continued existence in Africa since its last confirmed sighting in 1909, but a team of San Diego Zoo biologists finally managed to get actual, photographic confirmation....

“It may be finished, but I won’t ever have peace.” Radio Free Asia/Wikimedia CommonsPol Pot’s head of state Khieu Samphan (left) and his deputy Nuon Chea have been sentenced to life imprisonment for their crimes against humanity during the Khmer Rouge genocide. Four decades after Cambodian dictator Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge regime orchestrated the deaths of at least 1.6 million of their own people, the country is finally gaining some small new semblance of closure....

Many regarded Derek Black as the future of white nationalism — but then he went to college, and abandoned the movement entirely. At just ten years old, Derek Black built a children’s website for white nationalists. The third grader regularly posted on it, promulgating the idea that America was in the midst of a “white genocide” and anyone not of European descent would and should be forced to leave the United States in order to save “white culture....

An unstable schizophrenic, Eduard would spend three decades in an asylum and was to his father Albert an “insoluble problem.” David Silverman/Getty ImagesAlbert Einstein’s two sons, Eduard and Hans Albert, in July 1917. Albert Einstein is one of the most famous scientists in history and his name has become a household term synonymous with genius. But although almost everyone has heard of the physicist and his remarkable work, few know about the tragic fate of his son, Eduard Einstein....

In August 1993, Eric Smith became known as the “Freckle-Faced Killer” after he tortured and murdered young Derrick Robie in the woods of Savona, New York. Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions and/or images of violent, disturbing, or otherwise potentially distressing events. In August 1993, the violent murder of four-year-old Derrick Robie stunned the small community of Savona, New York. However, residents were even more shocked when they learned who the perpetrator was: a 13-year-old boy named Eric Smith....

Just because you know how to use a chisel doesn’t endow you with taste. Such is the case with these supremely weird monuments. Image Source: Grenada Underwater Sculpture Park Apart from space travel, art is the most uniquely human creation in the world. Alone among animals, humans express themselves artistically by creating representations of themselves and the world around them. We do this with paint, clay, and – if the artist is an undergraduate in the humanities – menstrual blood....