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“It took losing my sight to get me back on the right path, but from the bottom of my heart, I’m so glad I’m here.” People MagazineKaylee Muthart, who gouged out her own eyes while high on methamphetamines. On Feb. 6, Kaylee Muthart, 20, horrified churchgoers in Anderson, S.C., when she went into a drug-induced hallucination and began clawing out her own eyes in front of the church. When members of the church discovered Muthart, she was found holding her eyeballs in her hands....

From the sinking of the Lusitania to the demise of a Russian warship saddled with $130 billion in gold, these are the most fascinating sunken ships from around the world. For a significant chunk of human history, the world’s leading powers concerned themselves with dominating the seas. As the saying went, “he who ruled the seas, ruled the world.” Naturally, this led to countless conflicts among nations across the centuries, and more than a few ships being laid to rest in watery graves....

About 160,000 birds get trapped in the 9/11 lights every year. Many of them die from injury or exhaustion. Xinhua/Qin Lang/Getty ImagesThe Tribute in Light uses 88 searchlights and can be seen from over 60 miles away. Unfortunately, it also endangers 160,000 birds a year. Every September, two powerful beams of light illuminate Manhattan’s sky to commemorate the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and those who perished on 9/11. But while those rays of light might help the affected process trauma, they’re potentially endangering 160,000 birds a year....

Meg Nicol/Flickr Should a spider drop down on your work desk or go skittering across your kitchen floor, the initial instinct is to grab the nearest rolled up newspaper. Horror stories about bites and infestations haunt every nature program and recess of the internet, feeding our unease with these creatures. Yet all of this negative attention pointed towards these tiny, hardworking arachnids actually undermines the numerous contributions they provide to your daily life....

We’ve all heard of the Met and the Louvre, but what about the penis museum? We’ve compiled six strange museums that will leave you scratching your head. Source: Flickr From the mundane to the bizarre, if it exists, there is probably a museum somewhere dedicated to it. Both in the United States and abroad, people are infinitely fascinated by things, their variety, and their history. Below are six items so arcane or lackluster that dedicating more than a moment’s thought to them—let alone a museum—is already quite the task....

From a glow-in-the-dark moon to a planet where it rains diamonds, this is the most fascinating space news of 2020. We are about to close out another spectacular year of scientific discoveries. Indeed, there was a lot of significant — and thrilling — space news this year. Some brought mankind closer to understanding outer space, while others only deepened the mystery of our universe. Let’s explore some of the biggest and most mind-bending space news headlines from 2020....

Even génocidaires have standards, apparently. In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler had publication of this photo (and others like it) banned because he considered it “beneath one’s dignity.” How did these photos surface, then? In 1945, an Allied soldier named Alf Robinson found a tattered, coverless book in a bomb-blasted house in Germany, and added it to his collection of Nazi relics, according to reports. It turns out that the book was more or less a propagandistic Nazi party “fanzine” called Deutschland Erwache (Germany Awaken), and written by Baldur von Schirach in the 1930s....

Though Alberta Williams King is often viewed as a footnote to the Martin Luther King Jr. story, she played a crucial role in shaping her son’s thinking about race in America. Bettmann/Getty ImagesAlberta Williams King, left, with her son Martin Luther King Jr. and daughter-in-law Coretta Scott King in 1958. The story of Martin Luther King Jr. is well known. But the civil rights activist drew many lessons from his mother, Alberta Williams King, who he called “the best mother in the world....

From the adorable to the ferocious, these unique arctic animals rule Earth’s snow and ice. The Arctic is a mysterious world of ice and snow, much of it still seldom explored and thus home to creatures that remain relatively enigmatic. It may seem like not much can survive in these freezing temperatures, but life is abundant. Here are 21 of the most incredible Arctic animals you’ll ever see, with one fascinating fact for each:...

From dictators to crooked politicians to war criminals, the magazine hasn’t always chosen someone who’s made the world a better place. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons German Chancellor Angela Merkel was just named TIME’s “Person of the Year.” In the magazine’s own words, she was chosen “For asking more of her country than most politicians would dare, for standing firm against tyranny as well as expedience and for providing steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply....

From its haunting passageways to its creepy “torture museum,” Bran Castle is the stuff of horror legends. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The Eerie History Of Houska Castle, The Gothic Fortress Built To Seal A ‘Gateway To Hell’ 33 Pictures Of Bellver Castle, Spain’s Majestic Island Fortress Experience The Grand Beauty of Germany’s Hohenzollern Castle, A Mystical Fortress In The Clouds...

Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Thirty Spectacular Photos Of John F. Kennedy The Iconic Jacqueline Kennedy In 25 Revealing Photos “One Brief Shining Moment”: The Kennedy Romance In Photos 1 of 46John and Jacqueline Bouvier pose on a tennis court in Hyannis Port during the weekend of June 26-28, 1953.John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum 2 of 46Robert (left), Jean Ann (center, facing front), Edward (to Jean Ann’s right), and others gather at the wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier (bottom left) and John F....

For decades, scientists offered wild theories about the fabled lost continent of Lemuria in the Indian Ocean. Then, in 2013, scientists actually found some evidence. Edouard Riou/New York Public LibraryA hypothetical rendering of Lemuria from 1893. Forget all you know about plate tectonics, evolution, and the study of DNA for a moment. Back in the mid-1800s, a few scientists working from scant evidence decided there must have been a lost continent in the Indian Ocean and they called it Lemuria....

Even after discovering that their new recruit was a woman in disguise, the Serbian Army allowed Milunka Savić to keep fighting because she was just that good on the battlefield. Wikimedia CommonsA photograph of Milunka Savić with several of her medals, taken during World War I. She has more medals for combat than any other woman in history, but most people have never heard of Milunka Savić. When the Serbian government called up her sick brother to serve in the First Balkan War in 1912, Savić cut her hair short and took his place, posing as a man — like a 20th-century version of Mulan....

Source: Sun Surfer Thousands of local and international guests visit New Zealand’s Waitomo Glowworm Caves each year. The iridescent caves, which have been around for centuries, are particularly striking due to the glowworm species that covers the ceilings and lights up the space like stars in the night sky. Source: Travel Online In 1887, local Maori Chief Tane Tinorau and English surveyor Fred Mace first explored the Waitomo Glowworm Caves. To navigate the caves, they built a raft of flax stems and floated through, quickly becoming mesmerized by the glowing ceiling....

Racial profiling is sadly a recurring theme in the United States. Artist Nick Cave examines the phenomenon through art, movement, and fabric. Inspiration comes in many forms, and for the prolific visual artist and dancer Nick Cave, the impetus behind his largest and most involved exhibition yet is racial profiling in the United States. Missouri-born Cave is taking his response — a collection of extravagantly constructed “soundsuits” — to Detroit, where they will not only be on display at the Cranbrook Academy of Art but also in the streets....

After hallucinogenics researcher Richard Alpert was fired from Harvard for drugging his students, he reinvented himself as a spiritual leader named Ram Dass and became an icon of the counterculture. Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesAmerican spiritual teacher Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) poses for a portrait. Over the course of his life, it would appear that Ram Dass led two vastly different lives. The first, of Richard Alpert, a boy born into an upper-class Jewish family in Newton, Massachusetts, who earned three degrees in psychology and was a respected professor....

These six legendary Soviet and Russian snipers not only aided the Soviet’s army but also changed the way militaries utilized long distance attacks. Sovfoto/Contributor/Getty Images In the 1930s, when other countries were cutting sniper teams, the Soviet Union began training some of the most talented snipers of not only the World War II era, but of history. These sharpshooters, able to the snuff out high-ranking, difficult-to-replace officers on the opposing side, were able to wreak havoc on their enemy’s chain of command and morale and quickly became some of the most important soldiers to fight in the war....

Was Sirhan Sirhan really the man who killed Robert Kennedy? Or was there a larger conspiracy at play? Getty ImagesThe booking mugshot of Sirhan Sirhan, the man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy. History knows Sirhan Sirhan as the man who killed Robert Kennedy. He was convicted under the decision that he was motivated by anger and vengeance for his country. But it appears that there could be more to this story than that....

A poignant, well-spoken commencement speech is more than just a college afterthought. In fact, these speeches offer educators of all types one final chance to sway and nudge their students toward success. The best commencement speeches focus not on praising graduates’ professional and academic achievements, but on managing the road forward and leading an all-around fulfilling life. Here are the seven best commencement speeches from the past 100 years: David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College, 2005 American writer David Foster Wallace delivered an incredible and incredibly moving commencement speech on May 21, 2005....