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If you think Cancun is the only place to catch some truly amazing Mexican sights, you’ve clearly not read about the crystal cave known as La Cueva de los Cristales. Source: Terrific Top 10 Situated in Chihuahua, Mexico nearly 1,000 feet below ground in the Niaca mine, Mexico’s Cave Of Crystals (known locally as La Cueva de los Cristales) contains some of the world’s most incredible crystals to date. The cave, which miners only discovered 13 years ago, sits above magma residing about a mile from the earth’s surface....

The director behind what’s widely regarded as the greatest film ever made helped Roosevelt with speechwriting and campaigning. AFP/AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president of the United States four times — an unmatched feat. Turns out he had a secret weapon helping him for much of that time. According to Smithsonian, Roosevelt employed Orson Welles, the famed American director and producer who shot to fame with 1938’s radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” and stayed there with the 1941 film Citizen Kane, as a ghostwriter and campaigner....

After the police were called, Edgar Collaguazo attempted to jump down to the ground from his fourth-floor apartment. https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/man-falls-dies.mp4 In a bizarre and horrifying turn of events, a man accused of trying to grope a child fell from a fourth-story window to his death while trying to evade police. The New York Daily News reported that Edgar Collaguazo, 44, fell from the fourth floor of a Queens, New York apartment at 1:05 AM on Thursday after trying to escape from a locked room as the police were coming....

Millvina Dean was just an infant when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. GERRY PENNY/AFP/GettyMillvina Dean in 2002 at a Titanic exhibit opening. Millvina Dean was born in February of 1912. Two months later, she boarded a passenger ship with her mother, father, and older brother Bertram. The ship was the RMS Titanic, and she was the youngest passenger and last survivor of the disaster, which occurred on April 15, 1912....

Humans have found a community of the elusive Highland Wild Dogs for the first time in more than half a century. NGHWDF The New Guinea Highland Wild Dog Foundation (NGHWDF) has announced that they have found a living community of Highland Wild Dogs (HWD) in New Guinea. It’s the first time in decades that scientists have found any proof that these ancient dogs are not in fact extinct. “The discovery and confirmation of the Highland Wild Dog for the first time in over half a century is not only exciting but an incredible opportunity for science,” the NGHWDF stated, according to Science Alert....

Adventurer and spy Sidney George Reilly did daring espionage work for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, earning him the moniker “Ace of Spies” — until Stalin put an end to him. Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Public Archive/Wikimedia CommonsSidney Reilly, once called “the Scarlet Pimpernel of Red Russia.” While the thrilling cloak-and-dagger of classic fictional spies derives from many sources, much of the behind-enemy-lines, false-mustache skulduggery is thought to be traceable to one man....

From archaic toilet paper to moats made of feces, using the bathroom in the Middle Ages was no picnic. For those familiar with an outhouse, the medieval toilet is its massive stone-built predecessor. Relegated to the private alcoves of a fort, medieval toilets were nothing but openings that led into a latrine or castle moat below. Designed mainly with function in mind, the medieval toilet was otherwise known as a garderobe or privy chamber and was often located on several floors of most castles and no bigger than the restroom of a modern-day coffee shop....

While Christine Jorgensen wasn’t the first person to undergo gender reassignment surgery, she was the first to be famous for it. This is her story. Caitlyn Jenner has captured the world’s attention with her debut appearance on the cover of Vanity Fair. Over the past several months, we have learned much about her transformation, and ourselves. As much as Jenner is doing to raise awareness for the transgender community, she is aided substantially by the steps of Christine Jorgensen, the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery....

Ancient temple to Demeter found in Crete, Etruscan statues uncovered in Italy, millennia-old branding irons used on slaves unearthed in Egypt. Archaeologists Just Found Offerings To The Goddess Demeter Inside An Ancient Temple In Crete Hellenic Ministry of Culture and SportsThe sister of Zeus, Demeter was worshipped by the ancient Greeks as the goddess of fertility, agriculture, and the life-giving power of water. A bustling enclave on the western end of Crete that was first established by the Dorian people in the 7th century B....

Dr. Thomas Neill Cream left a trail of victims across London and Chicago before he was executed in 1892. And some believe he may have been the infamous Jack the Ripper. Science Museum Group CollectionMetropolitan Police images of Thomas Neill Cream. After his death, rumors circulated that Thomas Neill Cream was Jack the Ripper. Dr. Thomas Neill Cream thought police could never catch him. So, in 1892, he offered to show a detective around the sites of London’s latest grisly prostitute murders....

Timothy Dexter made absurd investments that somehow panned out, wrote an entire memoir without a single piece of punctuation, and faked his own death just to see how he would be mourned. On July 4, 1793, Timothy Dexter gave a speech in Boston to celebrate the new nation. But the eccentric millionaire decided to speak in French — in spite of the “small chance I have had to learn French.”...

The surgeons risked their own lives, using uncommon procedures to avoid detonating the grenade. Hanna Maliar/FacebookAn X-ray image of the grenade lodged into the soldier’s chest, just below his heart. Ukrainian military doctors recently performed a rare and dangerous procedure: removing a live, unexploded grenade from the chest of a patient. According to a Facebook post from Ukrainian deputy minister of defense Hanna Maliar, “Not every wound in the heart area is deadly!...

In 1943, white servicemen attacked Mexican-American youths amid rising racial tensions in Los Angeles in the now infamous Zoot Suit Riots. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Mods Vs. Rockers: When The Youth Of The ’60s Erupted Into Violence “The Modern Young Girl Is A Delight”: Flapper Fashion Of The Jazz Age 44 Images That Capture Iconic 1990s Fashion Trends In Full Effect...

From boats that would survive an ice age to wooden swimming suits, these strange inventions are also the most delightful to look back on. Weird Inventions: Swimming Aids Invented in 1925 by Italian M. Goventosa de Udine, these swimming aids were made from bike tires and allowed the wearer to move at speeds of up to 93 mph. And while they’re a far cry from being fashionable—or even remotely comfortable—at least you could move faster than a running cheetah....

From serial killers to the mafia, these true crime documentaries on Netflix will creep you out and keep you hooked. The Best True Crime Documentaries: Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer focuses on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who was executed in 2002 for killing six men in Florida. This is actually the second documenary that filmmaker Nick Broomfield did on Wuornos, but this one includes his personal testimony at her trial....

The Japanese snow monkeys who live in and around Jigokudani Monkey Park are the very picture of tranquility as they enjoy a long soak in the park’s naturally-heated pools. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 26Japanese Macaques, also known as Japanese snow monkeys, are the most northerly nonhuman primate species anywhere in the world....

“I’m very pleased that this ichthyosaur has been found to be new to science, and I’m very honoured for it to be named after me.” Megan JacobsAn artist’s rendition of Thalassodraco etchesi which lived during the Mezoic era 150 million years ago. After years of examining a bounty of bones discovered by an amateur fossil hunter on a beach in England, paleontologists have concluded that the fossils belonged to a previously unknown species of dinosaur....

The key handle was found at an excavation in Leicester and depicts a scraggly-haired man being devoured by a lion. University of LeicesterLead excavator Dr. Gavin Speed said that nothing like this has ever been found “anywhere in the Roman Empire before.” Despite falling nearly 1,600 years ago, the Roman Empire was so dominant and expansive that relics of its reign keep surfacing today. Discovered only five years ago in Leicester, England, a bronze key handle has now shed light on how ruthless that reign really was — as it depicts lions being used in human executions in Roman Britain....

This dolphin is part of a population of just 600 now facing dangers like the threat of ocean pollution. Vincent Jannink/AFP/Getty Images The staggering amount of plastic that pollutes Earth’s waterways continues to claim more victims as a baby dolphin was found stranded at Fort Myers Beach, Florida on April 23 in an emaciated state. After the dolphin was “humanely euthanized” by rescuers, a necropsy revealed plastic trash in its stomach....

Darrell Blatchley has recovered 61 whales and dolphins in the last 10 years, 57 of which have died from plastic pollution. Still, he’s never seen such a horrific amount of plastic ingested by one whale. D’ Bone Collector Museum Inc.Darrell Blatchley pulling out plastic from the whale’s stomach. A whale with 88 pounds of plastic trash washed ashore in the town of Mabini in the Philippines on Saturday. According to The New York Times, the 1,100-pound whale had over 40 pounds of plastic bags in its stomach and a whole slew of other disposable plastic garbage....