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The decree demands 220 pounds of human feces daily, but considering the average amount of feces produced a day is less than one pound, the decree seems entirely untenable. North Koreans rally in support of a New Year’s address in Pyongyang, 2019. The North Korean government and its purportedly dear leader Kim Jong-un have demanded that each able-bodied citizen produce and deliver 220 lbs of feces per day in order to combat the country’s fertilizer crisis and declining economy....

Though it seems like a taboo subject to most of the general public, the idea behind the hybridization of a human and a chimpanzee isn’t that crazy. Wikimedia CommonsCould a “humanzee” actually come from combining humans and chimpanzees? In 1910, Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov presented a most controversial idea to the World Congress of Zoologists. He hypothesized the possibility of creating a mammalian hybrid unlike anything the world had ever seen before....

The water that fills the shoes’ soles was taken from the River Jordan and blessed by a priest in Brooklyn. MSCHFAn advertisement for the holy water-filled sneakers reselling for $4,000. A pair of Nike Air Max 97s often sells for about $160, already a sizeable price tag for a pair of sneakers. But now, one Brooklyn company has raised that price point to a whopping $1,425 by filling the soles with holy water and marketing them as “Jesus Shoes....

WWE legend “Rowdy” Roddy Piper died of a heart attack on July 31, 2015, leaving behind millions of fans to mourn the most famous heel in pro wrestling. Jesse Grant/WireImage for Yari Film Group/Getty“Rowdy” Roddy Piper, pictured in 2007. Superstar WWE wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper died suddenly and unexpectedly on July 31, 2015, in his sleep at the age of 61. Given his relatively young age, fans and colleagues were heartbroken at his passing, and when the news broke at a professional wrestling convention in North Carolina, emcees held a 10-bell salute, then shared their memories of this singular performer....

Stonehenge’s LEGO-like construction secrets revealed, 200-million-year-old dinosaur eggs unlocked, ancient primate raft journey from Africa to South America uncovered. Rare Photo Reveals How Stonehenge Was Constructed Like Ancient LEGOs Stonehenge/TwitterA view of the top of a Stonehenge slab revealing its knobs-and-grooves system. A rare photo has revealed how Stonehenge was constructed like ancient LEGOs. “It’s exactly like Lego. We sometimes say to our schoolchildren who visit that Stonehenge is just like Lego....

Ancient Greek swords found in stunning condition, holding cells for gladiators uncovered at Roman amphitheater, and Britain’s oldest skull discovered to be a possible hoax. Ancient Greek Swords Found Intact After 3,200 Years Inside A Bronze Age Tomb Greek Ministry of CultureArchaeologists just found these ancient Greek swords, which are so well-preserved that their wooden handles are still intact even after three millennia. Archaeologists digging inside an ancient Greek necropolis just found three bronze swords dating back 3,200 years....

“I would rather drink your social media persons piss than coconut water.” TwitterA photo shared by Vita Coco on Twitter appearing to show their social media manager holding a jar of urine. It’s no secret that food brands like Wendy’s and KFC have begun to utilize their social media platforms to engage directly with customers in increasingly playful ways. But how far will these brands go to make a splash? Apparently, for Vita Coco coconut water, offering customers pee in a jar is not off limits....

The condition of the 25-year-old woman remains unknown. Nano Calvo/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesGuests at Yellowstone are instructed to keep a safe distance from bison, which are powerful and fast. A Memorial Day trip to Yellowstone National Park turned into a nightmare for one woman, who was gored by a bison and tossed ten feet into the air after she got too close to the animal. According to a statement from the National Park Service (NPS), the 25-year-old woman from Grove City, Ohio, crossed paths with the bison as it walked near a boardwalk at Black Sand Basin, north of Old Faithful....

Amanda McClure tortured her boyfriend for three days before killing him and dismembering his body with help from her sister and father. A bizarre murder that took place in West Virginia in February 2019 has come to a conclusion — at least, for now. According to local news outlet The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Amanda Michelle Naylor McClure, 31, pled guilty to second-degree murder for killing her boyfriend, 38-year-old John Thomas McGuire, with the help of her father and sister....

“This is what evolutionary biologists predicted. It’s really exciting that what we have found lines up so neatly with their prediction.” University of California, RiversideMany experts didn’t think such tiny, prehistoric fossils would ever be found. Fortunately, modern technology proved them wrong. Researchers have just uncovered evidence of a 555-million-year-old worm-like creature in Australia. As if that wasn’t exciting enough, experts believe this is the first ancestor of all animals — including humans....

Relive the glitz, glamour, and despair of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic with these Great Gatsby quotes. Literary masterpieces transcend time and place — and The Great Gatsby, written nearly a century ago about a very specific time and place, is no exception. Penned and published by F. Scott Fitzgerald when he was just under the age of 30, the novel takes on dreams: Those who pray to them, those hypnotized by them, those failed and disillusioned by them....

Little did this gigantic 15-foot marine dinosaur realize that its last meal would become the oldest known direct evidence of megapredation ever found. University Of Edinburgh/Todd MarshallIllustration of an extinct marine ichthyosaur reptile on the hunt. When researchers in China discovered the nearly complete skeleton of a 240-million-year-old ichthyosaur dubbed the Guizhouichthyosaurus in 2010, they actually found more than first met the eye. Inside the extinct marine reptile’s stomach were the remains of yet another — a 12-foot-long thalattosaur....

Everyone has heard a story of that one person who found something truly remarkable that was thought to be lost forever; a Babe Ruth baseball card tucked away in a dusty shoebox, a Picasso in an attic, or that invaluable antique collecting cobwebs in an abandoned barn. Recently in France, a team of auction house employees made a discovery that is truly difficult to fathom. Early in 2014, the high-end French auction house Artcurial was privy to the authentication of what is likely the most valuable barn on the planet, a discovery that has been compared in grandeur to the uncovering of Tutankhamun’s tomb....

From cutting off fingertips to living with the dead, humankind has come up with some incredibly strange cultural practices. Image Source: The Daily Mail Some are taboo, some are cringe-inducing, some are downright revolting, and all are extraordinarily bizarre. From the weirdest things we put in our bodies to the weirdest things we lop off our bodies to the weirdest things we do with our dead bodies, here are seven of the strangest cultural practices from around the world that are still carried out today:...

From a science kit that contained uranium to a toy gun that generated fireballs, these dangerous toys would launch a thousand lawsuits if they were released today. H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty ImagesThe dangerous toys of decades past, like lawn darts, have been banned or adapted to be safer. Every generation looks back on its childhood toys with nostalgia. But the consumer products of yesteryear weren’t always up to today’s safety standards. On the contrary, the seven dangerous toys listed here show just how much times have changed....

Ezra James said that he feared that the animal would bite him, so he trapped the raccoon, poured gasoline on it, and then set it on fire. Left: WKMG, Right: Wikimedia CommonsLeft: Ezra James. Right: Photo of a raccoon taken in 2004. The infamous “Florida Man” is making headlines once again, and this time it’s an 88-year-old Palm Bay resident who was arrested last week after burning a raccoon alive because it ate his mangoes....

Source: Wired Now that The X-Files revival has been confirmed (we’re getting six new episodes in January of 2016, which even made David Duchovny weep with joy), many have begun their requisite binge-watching of all nine seasons. What viewers might not have realized the first time around is that many episodes of the hit sci-fi drama were based on real government conspiracies, cover-ups, and paranormal events. Sometimes life is stranger than fiction....

The Arizona organization claimed to be a respectable donor for the body parts of loved ones. In reality, it was an illegal body broker selling parts overseas. ABC 15 ArizonaScene outside the shuttered Biological Resource Center after it was raided by the FBI. Years have passed since the Biological Resource Center, which claimed to be a body donation center for medical research, closed its doors after it was raided by federal agents on the suspicion of illegally selling body parts that had been donated to the facility....

Cochise fought for the freedom of his people, but Union betrayal and depleted resources kept him from achieving true liberation for the Apache. Facebook/Fort Bowie National Historic SiteA bust of Cochise at the Fort Bowie National Historic Site. On July 15, 1862, the 2,500 men of the California Column, a force of Union volunteers led by Captain Thomas L. Roberts, were marching through Arizona Territory toward New Mexico. It had been a little over a year since the American Civil War began and Union soldiers had just pushed a Confederate garrison out of Tucson; now they hoped for similar success in Arizona’s east....

The history books may have to be revised. The Heiltsuk Nation — an indigenous government in British Columbia — has long claimed extensive land rights based on their people’s history in the area, which they say stretches back to before the last ice age. That assertion has rested on traditional oral accounts passed down through thousands of generations — not exactly bulletproof evidence to bring to the negotiating table. Last year, though, an excavation was undertaken that would put those claims to the test....