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The giant opah, also known as a “moonfish,” was reeled in about 80 miles off the Virginia Beach coast. Courtesy photoA group of fishermen caught a rare deep-sea opah fish that weighed 143 pounds. A group of fishermen sailing near Norfolk Canyon, about 80 miles off the Virginia Beach coast, reeled in the catch of a lifetime: a rare deep-sea opah. According to local news outlet WAVY, fishermen Jon Wetherington, Michael MacTaggart, and Nick Kemp had been sailing around the area for a few hours in search of a swordfish....

Not even a near-assassination could keep the Bull Moose from the pulpit. Wikimedia CommonsTeddy Roosevelt, 1910. We live in a world where pundits purport that a bout of pneumonia — or even the sniffles — may make one unsuited to lead a country. Imagine what these pundits might say had they been around a little over a hundred years ago, when presidential hopeful Teddy Roosevelt gave a speech with a bullet lodged in his chest....

Check out these rolling stones. Wikimedia CommonsA pair of sailing stones on a journey across Death Valley National Park. Death Valley National Park is the hottest and driest place in North America. Its barren surface gets less than two inches of rain per year, making it an almost uninhabitable place. Yet there are signs of life if one looks closely enough. Across the playa creep tortoises, coyotes, and other animals that have adapted to the heat and drought....

Source: Tumblr Illustration is an art form that has been around since the Middle Ages, when pictures started accompanying text in books. Woodcut illustrations, etchings and engravings have given way to modern works that employ the latest technologies. Given the history of illustration, its connection with the mechanical, and its earliest perception as a vocation rather than an art, few illustrators have risen to the same level of fame and appreciation as their “fine artist” peers....

“This is not about harassing vulnerable people but trying to address the bigger question: whether we think begging should be normalized within the Swedish welfare model.” Eskilstuna becomes the first city in Sweden to mandate ‘begging permits.’ According to the Guardian, the city council of Eskilstuna, a small city in Sweden, is hoping to cut down the number of panhandlers by enforcing a law that requires them to apply for a permit before they can beg for money....

From the incel that blew up his own hand to the woman who murdered her own kids to be with a doomsday author, these crime news headlines show what a rollercoaster 2020 really was. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 11 Bizarre News Stories From 2020 That We Still Don’t Understand The Most Bizarre Crime Stories Of 2019, From Naked Devils To Decapitations...

During the Max Headroom hack of 1987, Chicago television stations were overtaken by a masked man who continues to baffle authorities to this day. The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion. The First Max Headroom Hack The Max Headroom incident came entirely out of the blue. On November 22, 1987, Chicago sportscaster Dan Roan was covering the highlights of the Bears’ recent victory over the Detroit Lions. The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion....

On the morning of February 27, 2012, T.J. Lane opened fire inside the cafeteria at Chardon High School, killing three students and wounding three others — while wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the word “killer.” Police PhotoT.J. Lane wore a sweatshirt with the word “Killer” written on it when he murdered three students and wounded another three. When T.J. Lane opened fire at the Chardon High School in the town of Chardon, Ohio, in 2012, his goal was to kill someone he thought was a romantic rival....

What one small city in Belgium can teach the world about mental illness. Wikimedia CommonsSt. Dymphna Church in Geel, Belgium The city of Geel, Belgium, has a popular saying: “Half of Geel is crazy, and the rest is half crazy.” The 35,000-person city is quaint — about an hour east of Antwerp, and an hour south of Belgium’s border with the Netherlands — and has all the charm of a weathered European city....

Though historians know that Greek fire was a devastating incendiary weapon used by the Byzantines starting in the 7th century C.E., its recipe remains mysterious to this day. Greek fire was a devastating incendiary weapon used by the Byzantine Empire to defend themselves against their enemies. The Byzantine people used this 7th-century compound to repel Arab invasion for years, particularly at sea. While Greek fire wasn’t the first incendiary weapon, it was arguably the most historically significant one....

Discover the shockingly literal and thoroughly disturbing 18th-century medical origins of the idiom “blowing smoke up your ass.” Today I Found Out/YouTube “Oh, you’re just blowing smoke up my ass,” is something you might hear someone say when they think you’re just telling them what they want to hear. But in 18th-century England, blowing smoke up your ass was an actual medical procedure, and no, we aren’t kidding. According to Gizmodo, one of the earliest reports of such a practice took place in England in 1746, when a woman was left unconscious after nearly drowning....

It’s been a little over one hundred years since the ill-fated attempts of Captain Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition and Ernest Shackleton’s Ross Sea Party to reach the South Pole took place. Only conducted a couple years apart, these two Antarctic expeditions are legends of loss and tragedy. The two voyages have more in common than their quests to reach the South Pole, the use of the same supply shacks en route, and similar fates; they’ve both had lost photos turn up nearly 100 years after the fact....

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These immortal Albert Einstein quotes show why he’s history’s most beloved genius. “Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.” (Source)Wikimedia Commons “Knowledge is limited; whereas imagination embraces the entire world.” (Source)Pexels “A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.” (Source)Wikimedia Commons “I have reached an age when if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to....

Racist, sexist, bizarre, and just plain false, these Donald Trump quotes come straight from America’s President. Donald Trump might be best known for saying “You’re fired,” but since he’s just announced–again–that he’s running for President of the United States, the world has been reminded of another Trump trait: his unique ability to churn out sentences that are guaranteed to make any thinking person cringe. Racist, sexist, bizarre, and just plain obscene, these Donald Trump quotes come straight from the mouth of America’s Republican presidential candidate:...

On January 12, 1995, Christa Pike brutally murdered Colleen Slemmer with Tadaryl Shipp in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee. And instead of hiding her crime, she decided to show it off. Like many people, Christa Pike lived a troubled life and dropped out of high school at a young age. But unlike many people, Christa Pike committed a brutal murder when she was barely a legal adult — and became the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States....

If author H.A. Rey hadn’t avoided the Nazis in dramatic fashion, the world wouldn’t even know about Curious George today. Wikimedia Commons H.A. Rey reading from Curious George. Curious George is obviously one of the most popular children’s book franchises in history, with some 30 million copies sold. And yet, Curious George almost didn’t happen at all. Hans Reyersbach and Margarete Waldstein, known more popularly as the husband-and-wife team of H....

North Korean propaganda: outlandish glimpses at what one of the most dangerous countries on earth thinks about us–and claims to have in store for us. A North Korean kindergartener takes part in a popular playground game at Kaeson Kindergarten in Pyongyang. On March 2, 2013, a short documentary surfaced on YouTube. The clip purported to be a recently uncovered North Korean propaganda video revealing the squalor in which Americans live. Amid a backdrop of rampant homelessness and gun violence, Americans ate birds (with which they made soup) and snow (with which they made coffee) in order to survive....

In 1936, the Lykov family left civilization and went to live deep in the Siberian forest, where they stayed in total isolation until 1978. SmithsonianAgafia (left) and Natalia Lykov In 1978, a helicopter pilot was flying over the forests of Siberia when he spotted something baffling. The pilot saw a clearing several thousand feet up a mountainside. To his surprise, the clearing had what appeared to be long furrows, which seemed to indicate that people were living there....

These brave dogs endured the destruction of Hurricane Harvey, and made it out as loyal and loving as ever. As man’s best friend, dogs often have to endure the same tragedies that humans go through. In the midst of the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, many people not only had to ensure their own safety, but that of their beloved dogs as well. They helped their pets get on rafts and floatation devices, and even carried them on their shoulders, all to make sure that their family members made it out ok....