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The asteroid is more than 2,000 feet wide and has been classified as potentially hazardous. J.A. Peñas/SINCAn artist’s illustration of the “death comet.” A ghoulish asteroid nicknamed the “death comet” is poised to make another appearance just after Halloween this year. The asteroid eerily resembles a skull and is estimated to zoom past Earth on November 11, according to NBC News, making a fashionably late post-Halloween appearance. The first time the spooky space comet flew past Earth was on Halloween 2015....

Florida Man was bolder than ever this year, from DIY castration to a bagel breakfast with an alligator. Don’t say you weren’t warned about these outrageous Florida man headlines. It’s rare that a term as succinct as “Florida Man” produces such an immediate reaction. Violence, drug and alcohol use, animal abuse, and sheer recklessness are all contained in the phrase. Yet another year has come to an end, and with it, a decade too....

Whether it’s war heroes, adventurers, or stories of survival in extreme conditions, these stories are about the triumph of the human spirit. Nancy Wake As WWII’s most decorated woman, Nancy Wake was at the top of the Gestapo’s most wanted list. Trained in hand-to-hand combat, espionage, sabotage, and able to drink her male counterparts under the table, she was known as one of the most fearsome resistance fighters of WWII. At one point during the war, she led 7,000 guerilla fighters into a raid of a German gun factory and even killed an SS sentry with her bare hands....

From the Giggling Granny to the Candy Man, history’s worst serial killers are somehow even more disturbing than they sound. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 33 Chilling Photos Taken Inside The Homes Of The Worst Serial Killers In History How Teenager Elmer Wayne Henley Became The Accomplice Of One Of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killers...

Nicknamed “Ivanna the Terrible” for her bad manners and crude sense of humor, Anna Ivanovna tortured and imprisoned anyone who opposed her for 10 grueling years. Wikimedia CommonsAnna Ivanovna became the unlikely Empress of Russia in 1730. Her death a decade later was a relief to many. Even though she was born a princess, Anna Ivanovna did not have a fairytale life. Her father, Tsar Ivan V, was mentally and emotionally absent....

“We talk about lifesaving transplants. This is a life-giving transplant.” Divulgação Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSPDoctors with the baby girl that was born via a deceased woman’s donated uterus in Brazil. Medical professionals in Brazil have made history after they facilitated the first-ever successful uterus transplant and subsequent birth of a healthy baby girl. This is the first time that the donated uterus came from a deceased woman. The 10-hour transplant was performed in Septemeber 2016....

“If I don’t get back on my board,” Bethany Hamilton said after the attack, “I’ll be in a bad mood forever.” Bethany Hamilton/FacebookBethany Hamilton Surfer Bethany Hamilton was powerless to stop a tiger shark from chewing off her left arm when she was just 13 years old. But instead of lamenting her fate and giving up her surfing career, she decided to get back in the water. This is her story....

The bug was finally removed fully after three separate doctor visits. Penn Live newsKatie Holley and the piece of cockroach that lived in her ear for over a week. After spending one night at the emergency room getting a cockroach pulled out of her ear, Florida resident Katie Holley thought the worst was over. But when her ear still didn’t feel right nine days later, she feared the worst — that the little creeper might still be in there....

Flapper fashion meant embracing your freedom from constrictive corsetry and flaunting the luxurious designs of the Jazz Age. 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 Flappers That Show The Jazz Age It Girls In Action The Tragic Tale Of Clara Bow, The Original Flapper Girl Who Took Hollywood By Storm 33 Images Of The Roaring Twenties That Capture The Jazz Age In Full Swing...

Chemnitzion richteri was discovered at the site of an ancient petrified forest and is believed to have roamed the Earth 291 million years ago. Calliesauria, Museum of Natural History Chemnitz 2022/ZengerA 3D render of Chemnitzion richteri, the amphibian believed to have lived nearly 300 million years ago. Given how old the Earth is and how recent the field of science is comparatively, much remains unknown about the planet’s zoological history. Modern researchers regularly find fossils that provide evidence to support the existence of previously-undiscovered creatures, and now German scientists have identified the remains of a unique, extinct amphibian species....

In 1898, French soldiers Paul Voulet and Julien Chanoine were sent to unify colonies in Africa. But they brutalized them instead. Wikimedia CommonsThe murder of Lt. Colonel Klobb is remembered as Capt. Paul Voulet’s ultimate act of insanity that alerted France to the dangers of its empire. Across hundreds of square miles of the Sahara in the late 19th century, two bloodthirsty French officers, Paul Voulet and Julien Chanoine, unleashed one of the most gruesome campaigns of atrocities ever recorded in the history of colonialism....

In the early 1990s, Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo were known as the “Ken And Barbie Killers.” Today, she volunteers with elementary school children. Peter Power/Toronto Star via Getty ImagesKnown together as the Ken and Barbie killers, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka terrorized Canadian teens throughout the 1990s. Homolka today leads a wildly different life. In December of 1990, veterinary technician Karla Homolka stole a vial of sedatives from the office where she worked....

The man will receive $1 million, paid in monthly installments for the rest of his life. Fox 17 NewsLawrence McKinney A Tennessee man who was jailed for three decades for a crime he didn’t commit has finally received his compensation. Lawrence McKinney, 61, was exonerated after spending almost half his life in prison after DNA evidence got his rape and burglary conviction overturned. Upon hearing that he had been exonerated, McKinney began seeking the legal maximum repayment for wrongful imprisonment, a grand total of $1 million....

Neither locals nor experts have yet been able to identify the bizarre 50-foot blob now rotting near Hulung Beach. Pattimura Military Command/Facebook When Asrul Tuanakota stumbled upon the enormous blob near Indonesia’s Hulung Beach on Tuesday night, he thought it was a stranded boat. Soon, however, he realized that he’d, in fact, found some mysterious sea creature that had washed up dead on the shore. The rotting blob, which has turned the surrounding water red as it decays, measures just shy of 50 feet in length and weighs in at 35 tons –approximately the weight of four elephants....

Before he cooperated with the FBI and put John Gotti behind bars, Gambino underboss Sammy “The Bull” Gravano was one of the most feared killers in Mafia history. Sammy “The Bull” Gravano violated the cardinal rule that all who go into a life of organized crime must follow: Do not talk to the authorities. The Mafia calls this code of silence “omertà” and the penalty for breaking it is death....

In addition to abusing and humiliating her daughters, Shelly Knotek would open her home to wayward friends and family in order to manipulate and torture them to death. Michelle “Shelly” Knotek appeared to lead a charmed life. She had a caring husband by her side and was raising her three daughters in a home in rural Raymond, Washington. The couple was known for their selflessness and invited struggling friends and relatives to live with them....

The “Swamp Sasquatch” known as the Florida Skunk Ape is a 6'6", 450-pound hairy, smelly ape that roams the Everglades — or so believers say. Three days before Christmas in the year 2000, a family in Florida awoke to a loud noise on their back deck. There was so much banging and pounding that it sounded like some overweight drunk was knocking over deck chairs, but with all that noise came something that couldn’t possibly be human: a low, deep grunting, and with it, a stench like something was rotting....

Steve Fossett was an adventurer who was the first person to fly solo around the world in a hot air balloon. His life and adventures came to a sudden end in 2007. Wikimedia Commons Steve Fossett in the cockpit of the Global Flyer, the plane in which he set a solo world record flight. Billionaire Steve Fossett loved pushing the limits of human achievement, and it was this very quest that led to his death in 2007 in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California....

Dating as far back as the Paleocene era, Badab-e Surt remains one of Iran’s most popular tourist attractions — and sadly one of the least protected. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Adorable Photos Of The Japanese Snow Monkeys Who Get Through Winter In Hot Springs 21 Stunning Photos Of The Australian Outback’s 2 Billion-Year-Old Natural Wonder...

Some of the coolest sharks are known to us courtesy of Hollywood; others are shrouded in mystery. Here are seven of the coolest finned monsters we know of. Source: National Geographic Sharks are equal parts terrifying, mysterious and incredible. With around 400 shark species existing in the world today, each has its own aesthetic, hunting techniques and temperament. Here are seven of the world’s coolest shark species: Whale Shark Source: About Utila...