The death of Geli Raubal, some said, was when the first seeds of inhumanity began to grow inside Adolf Hitler. Hulton Deutsch/Getty ImagesGeli Raubal as a teenager. On September 19, 1931, a woman named Geli Raubal was found dead in Munich, Germany. She was discovered in her bedroom in a pool of her own blood with a gunshot wound to the chest, the pistol that did it lying on the ground beside her....
Humans have always thought their sense of smell is worse than dogs’. But a new study shows that we’ve underestimated what our noses can do. Just because a sense of smell is different doesn’t mean that it’s worse. With that in mind, a new neuroscience review claims that us humans have been a little too hard on ourselves when it comes to our sniffing abilities. “We’re discovering, to our delight, that the human smell system is much better than we were led to believe,” John P....
An avid snowboarder and mountaineer, Marco Siffredi never returned from his final descent. YouTubeMarco Siffredi atop Mount Everest. Since British explorer George Mallory attempted to climb Mount Everest for the first time in 1924 and tragically perished on its slopes, over 4,000 people have tried to follow in his footsteps. Most have been successful, but hundreds of them have followed in his ill-fated footsteps, succumbing to the incredibly harsh conditions that exist on the world’s tallest mountain....
Five people paid $250 a plate for artist Mao Sugiyama’s genitals. Unfortunately, the food and legal repercussions made the banquet less than a success. YouTubeMao Sugiyama “Please retweet. I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen… I will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location.” That was the tweet Tokyo illustrator Mao Sugiyama sent out in 2012 after he received elective genital-removal surgery (“gender nullification”)....
“She absolutely gorged herself and got very fat. She had a lovely time, but went too far.” Suffolk Owl SanctuaryThe owl lost between 20 and 30 grams after two-and-a-half weeks of diet and exercise at the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary. When Suffolk Owl Sanctuary in eastern England was called to rescue a “little owl,” they did not expect to find one that was actually too fat to fly. According to CNN, a concerned citizen first spotted the poor bird lying helplessly in a ditch....
Arrested for violating Britain’s Terrorism Act, 21-year-old Ben John faced 15 years in prison — and was sent home with some reading material, instead. TwitterBen John is to report back to court once every four months to relay what his reading has taught him. British white supremacist Ben John was 20 years old when he was arrested for violating Britain’s Terrorism Act in 2020. With nearly 70,000 extremist documents and bomb-making materials on his computer, John proved an imminent threat....
The last time a Dead Sea Scrolls hiding place was discovered, it was 1956. The 981 manuscripts, some of which dated back to 408 BC, had been uncovered in 11 closely situated caves, tucked into the Qumran cliffs of the West Bank of Palestine. It was a huge archaeological find, since the collection included the oldest known copies of many Biblical texts, as well as secular writings that provided new insight into what life was like in the 1st and 2nd Centuries AD....
Built more than 600 years ago, Okinawa’s Shuri Castle has weathered World War II bombings and a devastating 2019 fire. Here’s why it remains an iconic symbol of the Japanese island. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 26Tour guides in traditional Okinawan dress waiting to help visitors.Carl Court/Getty Images 2 of 26Shuri Castle covers over 11....
Staff at the South African reserve found the bloodied head and limbs of poachers who broke in to hunt rhinos. Sibuya Game ReserveThe lions are the watchers and guardians of the Sibuya Game Reserve. Over the last few years, the Sibuya Game Reserve in South Africa has faced several intrusion by poachers attracted to the reserve’s vast diversity of animals. Now, in what some are calling an act of nature’s karma, a group of poachers who broke into the reserve to hunt rhinos has been devoured by a pack of hungry lions....
The FCC has repealed Net Neutrality. Here’s what that means for you, your internet speeds, and your binge-watching habits. Public DomainFCC Chairman Ajit Pai. The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to repeal net neutrality protections. FCC chairman Ajit Pai claims that the repeal is the FCC’s way of getting the government to “stop micromanaging the internet,” but critics claim it’s going to change the internet as we know it forever....
Kurt Gödel was one of the 20th century’s most brilliant mathematicians. But he was so paranoid he ended up starving to death. Kurt Gödel. Kurt Gödel was a brilliant mathematician and philosopher, whose incompleteness theorems made him one of the most important mathematicians of his time. However, he also suffered from poor health, beginning with an episode of rheumatic fever at the age of six. He remained convinced he had never fully recovered and was known for being paranoid, anxious, and depressed....
“The law may not have a category for this man.” James City County Police DepartmentOswaldo Elias Martinez On Dec. 6, the Virginia Supreme Court unanimously ruled that it cannot hear the case of an alleged rapist and murderer because the defendant, who has been held without trial for 13 years, is both deaf and mute. The defendant, Oswaldo Elias Martinez, a 46-year-old undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, was charged with the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl in 2005, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch....
Archaeological and paleontological digs may require that we revisit our assumptions about dinosaur evolution and how people first arrived in North America. New Prehistoric Fossil Discovery Turns Established Dinosaur Evolution Theory On Its Head Turns out we may have gotten the whole dinosaur evolution thing wrong. This week, researchers at the UK’s University of Birmingham published a report wherein they detailed the findings of laser scans conducted on the Teleocrater rhadinus....
A Tasmanian wildlife expert said, “Based on this limited analysis of the film, there is perhaps a one in three chance the image is of a thylacine.” Recently released footage claims to show a Tasmanian tiger in the wild, even though the last known living member of the species died in 1936. A video from the BRT Team, a group that attempts to track Tasmanian tigers — also known as thylacines — believes that they have footage depicting one of the tigers in the wild, reports The Mercury....
This Pew report reveals the fastest growing religion in the world. The answer will likely surprise and, sadly, terrify many in the U.S. Muslims pray during the “Islam on Capitol Hill 2009” event — meant to promote the diversity of Islam in America — at the U.S. Capitol on September 25, 2009. On April 18, anti-Islam protestors will rally outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta and march on to CNN headquarters, shredding images of President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Prophet Muhammad along the way....
How Japan sent bombs thousands of miles across the Pacific and brought World War II to the American homefront. There were more than 400,000 American casualties during World War II, and believe it or not, six of them actually occurred on continental U.S. soil. During the war, the Japanese developed a rather unorthodox plan to attack American civilians right on their home turf. Taking advantage of the easterly winds, the Japanese created “fire-balloon bombs” that would drift across the Pacific, carried by hydrogen power, and explode over the western United States....
The DNA evidence that incriminates Aaron Kosminski comes from a stained shawl found at the murder scene of Jack the Ripper’s fourth victim, Catherine Eddowes, who was found lying in a pool of her own blood. Wikimedia CommonsCould Aaron Kosminski, a Polish barber, be responsible for the horrific crimes depicted here in 1888’s The Police Gazette? Jack the Ripper’s notorious legacy as the Victorian Era’s most infamous serial killer has captivated people for generations....
The fossilized feces unearthed a mere 1.7 miles from Stonehenge is shedding new light on the seasonal feasts conducted by its builders 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. English Heritage/Peter LorimerResearchers found the eggs of parasitic worms in five samples of ancient feces near Stonehenge. The Stonehenge monument in Wiltshire, England, annually draws more than a million visitors. The Neolithic solar calendar was built with multi-ton freestanding stones and remains a landmark to behold....
It was sexism, not a horse – as one infamous rumor goes – that brought down the powerful Russian empress known as Catherine the Great. Hermitage MuseumCatherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great), circa 1770. For more than three decades in the late 18th century, one woman ruled with an iron fist over all of Russia. That woman was Catherine the Great, and the power she held as a woman led the press as well as world leaders to crucify her for it....
In stark contrast to the Hitler Youth, the Edelweiss Pirates resisted Nazism in any way they could at a time when doing so was a criminal offense. Despite leaving behind little information on their exploits, a group of German teenagers known as the Edelweiss Pirates played an important role in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Much like the tenacious edelweiss flower clinging to the crags of Austria’s Alps that the group was named after, these young Germans resisted Nazi indoctrination....
