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Steve Jenne saved Nixon’s leftover sandwich before we ever landed on the moon — and still owns it to this day. YouTubeThen-Vice President Nixon eating the sandwich during his 1960 campaign stop in Sullivan, Illinois. Anniversaries are a time to cherish life’s journey and reflect on accomplishments. For Illinois man Steve Jenne, this week holds a truly one-of-a-kind milestone, as it marks the 60th year he’s had Richard Nixon’s half-eaten sandwich in his possession....

The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry tormented its patients with almost no consequences from its opening in 1911 until it was finally shut down in 1990. Public DomainThe “violent ward” at Byberry mental hospital. 1943. While the description above sounds like something out of a horror movie, it actually comes from a 1946 LIFE Magazine exposé of Philadelphia’s Byberry mental hospital. Even today, inhumane conditions and patient abuse are the main legacies of the Byberry mental hospital (officially known as the Philadelphia State Hospital)....

In November 1970, the town of Florence, Oregon decided to blow up an 8-ton whale carcass that had washed up on the beach. The results were truly explosive. KATU/YouTubeReporter Paul Linnman stands in front of the carcass that’s about to be detonated in Oregon’s infamous exploding whale incident of 1970. On November 12, 1970, residents of the small town of Florence, Oregon witnessed a rare sight as an exploding whale sent chunks of meat and blubber soaring 100 feet into the sky....

Thawee Nanra said that he was the “father of all religions” and that eating his bodily fluids and skin could cure all illnesses. For years, deep in the woods of Thailand’s Chaiyaphum province, cult leader Thawee Nanra promised his followers that consuming his skin and bodily fluids could cure all ills. Now, police have arrested the 75-year-old after 11 of his followers’ bodies were discovered at his remote compound. “I didn’t force anybody to stay here or do anything they didn’t want to,” Nanra told the police, as reported by The Daily Mail....

A four-year streak of gang violence in northwestern England has ended as hitman Mark Fellows was brought to justice via his Garmin Forerunner. PRESS ASSOCIATIONMark Fellows upon his arrest. Cyclist and marathoner Mark Fellows, 39, was arrested and sentenced to life in prison after his step-keeping GPS watch revealed a route between the runner’s neighborhood and the crime scene of two slain mobsters on the day of the murder. Four years ago, Manchester boss “Mr....

The historic spacewalk was set to be the first featuring only women — and this isn’t the first time NASA has been unable to provide suits for female astronauts. FlickrThe first female astronaut class at NASA. NASA announced that it will be canceling its much anticipated all-female spacewalk due to a shortage of correctly-sized spacesuits. The all-female spacewalk was planned to cap off Women’s History Month and would have been the first all-female pairing for a spacewalk mission....

New findings in western Idaho provide evidence that North America’s ancestors arrived much earlier than was previously believed. But not everyone is convinced. Davis et alWhite arrow head points to the exact location of the Cooper’s Ferry excavation site. It’s widely believed that the first human settlers of North America reached the continent through the Bering Land Bridge, an ice-free landscape that connected Asia and North America after the last Ice Age around 14,800 years ago....

Why more Americans should remember the largely forgotten Philippine-American War. When the Americans first arrived in the Philippines in 1898, during the Spanish-American War, the Filipinos believed that their independence would soon be ensured. Share Flipboard Email The Filipinos had attempted a revolution against their Spanish colonial overlords in 1896, but they were largely unsuccessful. But with the Americans now poised to defeat the Spanish, the latter’s 330-year rule of the Philippines was coming to an end....

“The victim’s parents and other family members saw the abduction, were able to catch Dewitt and wrestle the boy away from him.” RIVERSIDE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENTMarcus DeWitt’s mugshot, 2019. A normal day at a California park turned unexpectedly alarming and when a registered sex offender tried to kidnap two toddlers from their families. Fortunately, the protective instincts of a couple of parents led them into a wrestling match with the offender until they successfully prised the children away from him....

In August 1964, the U.S. entered the Vietnam War based on reports of an unprovoked attack in the Gulf of Tonkin — which the president knew were false. In August 1964, the American destroyer USS Maddox was stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam. That month, this ship was involved in two events collectively referred to as the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which changed the course of modern history in ways that reverberate to this day....

Study shows Native American genocide caused ice age, Hitler’s paintings go up for auction, text reveals medieval nun fled to “pursue carnal lust.” Genocide Of Native Americans Left So Much Untended Land That Earth’s Climate Cooled, New Study Shows PixabayAn oil painting by John Stanley depicting Native Americans hunting, 2013. Scientists from University College London posited that the European colonization of America that resulted in the mass death of Native Americans actually caused the Little Ice Age....

Wary of masturbation yet fond of full-frontal public nudity, Victorian sex is is filled with some of the craziest customs in human history. We all that know the Victorians were a bunch of uptight prudes. In the late-19th century, women weren’t even allowed to vote, so how enlightened could they really be? People back then probably got arrested at the beach for showing their knees, right? Actually, while the Victorians—like everybody before and since—had their hangups, their all-too-human sexuality tended to come out in ways that modern people find really bizarre....

“We’ve arrived at a place where we can begin to address some key questions about our shared ancestry and even emerge with new questions we haven’t known to ask before.” Wikimedia CommonsHomo sapiens Scientists widely believe that modern human beings evolved from a single population of Homo sapiens in present-day Morocco some 300,000 years ago. But a new study is now suggesting that we rewrite the very foundations of our evolution....

On June 12th, the United States experienced the deadliest mass shooting in modern history, which took the lives of 50 and injured 50-some more at a gay nightclub in Orlando. The shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, specifically targeted the LGBTQ community that frequented the club in an act of what President Barack Obama has called domestic terrorism. Local hospitals in central Florida are overwhelmed by the casualties — not just those who have died, but those who were injured and are in desperate need of blood plasma....

While most people can’t even get through security once without something going wrong, Marilyn Hartman has managed to evade TSA agents ten times over the past four years. Fox News Marilyn Hartman has evaded TSA a record 10 times. Do you ever wish you could just avoid airport security altogether and get on your flight without all that hassle? Marilyn Hartman feels your pain. Last week, 66-year-old Hartman was arrested after evading the Chicago O’Hare Airport Transportation Security Administration – a feat she’s accomplished 10 times – but not before making it to London without a ticket or a passport....

These fascinating P.T. Barnum facts reveal the story of the infamous showman who brought Barnum & Bailey Circus to the world. There’s no proof that Barnum ever said “There’s a sucker born every minute” Though the phrase is widely attributed to him, Barnum respected his audience, crediting them as willing participants in fun pranks, rather than “suckers.“Earl Leaf/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Barnum really had bad luck when it came to fire In addition to the fire that claimed his opulent mansion, another blaze scorched Tuft University’s Barnum Hall, where his animal specimens were stored....

No one person created the blues. It was a sound born from slaves on plantations, shaped in prison chain gangs, and turned into a new style of music on the back porches of poor, African-American homes in the late 1800s. Share Flipboard Email In the 1930s, folklorists John, Alan, and Ruby Lomax traveled the South in the search of the birthplace of blues. Sure enough, they found it in the poorest parts of the region: in prisons, in hovels, and in the homes of former slaves....

From Butch Cassidy to an 11-year-old car thief to a Jesse James crony still bloody from a posse’s beating, these mugshots evoke the true outlaw spirit of the Wild West. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 55 Vintage Mugshots That Prove They Don’t Make Female Criminals Like They Used To 27 Annie Oakley Facts That Prove She Was The Wild West’s Biggest Badass...

Experts were stunned by the level of craftsmanship and precision in something built using only stone, bone, and wooden tools. Archaeological Centre OlomoucThe ancient water well was discovered in 2018 during construction of the Czech Republic’s D35 highway. The crumbling wooden water well above certainly doesn’t look impressive, but a tree-ring dating method revealed the oak used to build it is 7,275 years old. That might make it the oldest known wooden structure in the world confirmed using this method....

From Ted Bundy to Charles Manson, these infamous murderers had no problem finding love after they were convicted. The advent of 24-hour news and true crime entertainment has turned serial killers and other convicted murderers into celebrities of sorts. But no matter how infamous these “celebrities” are, many of them still boast a flock of fawning fans — and some of them even find love. In 1979, the trial of Ted Bundy made history as one of the first murder trials ever broadcast nationally to American homes....