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A surprising new study based on chimpanzee behavior suggests trees played an “essential” role in the evolution of bipedalism. GUERCHOM NDEBO/AFP via Getty ImagesThe study’s authors observed the movements of chimpanzees to understand how early humans might have developed bipedalism. Walking on two legs is one of the defining features of mankind, and researchers have long assumed that our ancestors developed bipedalism while traversing grasslands. But new research suggests that early humans may have started walking on two legs while still living in trees....

A victim of childhood sexual and physical abuse, Jason Vukovich decided to get revenge on sex offenders by becoming a pedophile hunter known as the “Alaskan Avenger.” In 2016, Jason Vukovich the “Alaskan Avenger” tracked down a number of sex offenders listed on the nation’s public registry — and attacked them. Vukovich reported that he felt an “overwhelming desire to act” because of his own history of abuse at the hands of his adopted father....

Obsessed with the movie Taxi Driver and infatuated with star Jodie Foster, John Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, in an attempt to impress her. Bettmann/Getty ImagesJohn Hinckley Jr. in front of the White House in an undated photo, c. 1981. To most who knew him, John Hinckley Jr. was a nobody. He failed to make an impression at high school or college, and a friend of his father later admitted that he didn’t know that Hinckley existed — until 1981 when Hinckley became determined to leave his mark on the world by assassinating the president of the United States....

The enormous ocean sunfish known as the Mola mola can grow to be 5,000 pounds and 14 feet long, making it the world’s largest bony fish. The Grey family was in the middle of a relaxing fishing trip off the southwest coast of Wales when a nightmarish animal leaped out of the water. To their surprise, this behemoth that resembled a giant fish head wasn’t a freak of nature, but instead an ocean sunfish....

Your eyes may be able to detect light, but your brain is what does the actual “seeing”. As these optical illusions reveal, it’s a bit slow. Your eyes may be able to detect light, but your brain is what does the actual “seeing” … and truth be told, it’s a little slow. When it comes to deciphering mind-bending optical illusions, what’s actually happening is the brain trying to predict the future, and when you take in to account the slight delay (one tenth of a second) the picture your brain conjures up is not always reliable....

During the 1950s and ’60s, the CIA used brainwashing, hypnosis, and torture on thousands of subjects brutalized by the infamous Project MK-Ultra experiments. Though they may sound like science fiction and though the CIA tried to deny them for years, the mind-control experiments of project MK-Ultra were all too real. For more than a decade at the height of the Cold War, CIA researchers abused helpless subjects in some of the most disturbing experiments in history....

Adolf Hitler Uunona represents a party that is historically anti-apartheid and anti-white minority rule. Twitter/Wikimedia CommonsThe Namibian politician had no idea who Adolf Hitler was until he was already a young man. We’re weeks away from 2020 being a year of the past. From a global pandemic to one of the most polarizing U.S. Presidential elections in modern history, it seemed as though the year couldn’t get any stranger. That is until a man named Adolf Hitler won a local election in the African country of Namibia....

Family and friends allege that she dismembered her former lover, and served him to friends at a neighborhood barbecue. Fox NewsKelly Cochran, who allegedly killed and served her ex lover to friends at a neighborhood barbecue. An Indiana woman was sentenced to decades in prison last month after admitting to injecting her husband with a lethal dose of heroin and smothering him with a pillow — but that’s just the tip of the iceberg....

How New York City’s Doyers Street became the deadliest street in American history, known forever as The Bloody Angle. Image Source: Flickr New York City has always been inextricably linked with its gangs. In simply reading that sentence, you’re likely already remembering images from Gangs of New York, The Godfather, The Warriors and on and on. But what you’re probably not picturing is a strange little 200-yard stretch called Doyers Street, one of the few streets in Manhattan bent at a nearly 90-degree angle — and one of the bloodiest streets in American history....

During the London Beer Flood, over 380,000 gallons of beer flowed out of the brewery at high speeds. In October of 1814, in the parish of St. Giles, London, England, there was a flood. Eight people were killed, and countless others were injured when over 380,000 gallons of beer rushed through the streets. Getty Images The Meux’s Horse Shoe Brewery, where the London beer flood began. The London Beer Flood, as it came to be called, began at the Meux and Company Brewery on Tottenham Court Road....

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge swung and swung until it couldn’t swing anymore. Footage from 1938 to 1940 of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, include the 1940 collapse. Never has a suspended bridge caused so much suspense. Footage from 1938 to 1940 of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, include the 1940 collapse. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington was the third largest suspended bridge ever built after the Golden Gate Bridge and the George Washington Bridge....

A storm battered the whaling ship Industry on May 26, 1836, snapping both its masts and cracking open its hull. NOAA Ocean ExplorationThe Industry is thought to be the only whaler that sank in the Gulf of Mexico between the 1780s and 1870s. For almost two hundred years, the story of the whaling ship Industry and its crew was lost to the waves. Now, Industry‘s wreck has been found — and the fate of its crew revealed....

“I just thought about defending the moms, the children, my own life and my daughter’s.” While waiting for a mother’s day party to begin at an elementary school in Sao Paulo, Katia da Silva Sastre, her seven-year-old daughter, and other parents and children were approached by an unknown man. Wearing shorts and a hooded sweatshirt, he walked towards them with a pistol in his right hand. They scrambled for safety as the man, identified by theWashington Post as 21-year-old Eliventon Neves Moreira, kept the gun pointed in their direction....

It goes without saying that Nazi research into medical science was brutal and inhumane, but did they also discover anything useful or beneficial? An inmate subjected to mustard gas. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Some life meant very little to the Nazis, who herded millions of people out of their homes and into indefinite detention, heavy labor, and a gruesome waiting game until death. Nazi Germany operated a constellation of thousands of concentration camps, as well as a network of forced-labor facilities and specialized killing centers....

Look back on the life of one of reggae’s heroes — and learn to better appreciate your own life — with these inspiring Bob Marley quotes. February 6th marks what would have been the 71st birthday of the most famous reggae musician of all time, Bob Marley. Nearly 35 years after his death, he remains an inspiration to millions worldwide. His philosophy of peace and love too often goes unheeded, which is why we wish to commemorate his life today with these insightful Bob Marley quotes:...

These colorizations from the battlegrounds bring a terrifying new understanding to the unprecedented carnage wrought by World War I. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Colorized Civil War Photos That Bring America’s Deadliest Conflict To Life 47 Colorized Old West Photos That Bring The American Frontier To Life 44 Colorized Photos That Bring The Streets Of Century-Old New York City To Life...

These interesting North Korea facts couldn’t be true of any other country and prove that the Hermit Kingdom is even more unique than you thought. From nuclear weapons tests to brutal assassinations and beyond, North Korea is a permanent fixture in international headlines. And after years of such headlines and reports, it would seem as though most of us should know virtually all of the unusual facts there are to know about the “hermit kingdom....

Archeologists used lasers to uncover several ancient Cambodian cities that might shed new light on the history of the Khmer Empire. Laser technology recently revealed several ancient Cambodian cities — making up what was once the world’s largest empire, in the 12th century — hidden in the jungle. Archaeologists found the Cambodian cities not far from Angkor Wat, the ancient temple complex, and largest religious monument in the world. Dr. Damian Evans led a team of researchers who used airborne laser scanning technology to map 734 square miles of the Cambodian jungle on their hunt for the lost cities....

In 1598, the Dutch landed on the island of Mauritius, just off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Here, they were met by a massive population of flightless, naive, meaty birds. Salivating, the sailors happily began killing them, kindly bestowing the name “dodo” upon the shell-shocked animals. Over the next several decades, humans, and the rats, pigs, monkeys and other animals they brought with them, made short work of the small island and the entire species of the dodo, rendering it extinct by 1662....

The washed up, mutilated carcasses of great whites signal a startling trend in the hunting habits of one of the sea’s greatest predators: killer whales. Dyer Island Conservation Trust / Marine DynamicsThe mutilated carcass of a great white washed ashore near Gansbaai, South Africa. In 2017, the bodies of five great white sharks washed up on the beaches of South Africa’s Western Cape province. The bodies ranged in size from nine feet to 16 feet, but each had large sets of puncture marks near the pectoral fins....