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Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, a number of women have helped get the American electorate acclimated to the idea of a woman in the Oval Office. Here are four female presidential candidates you should know. From left: Shirley Chisolm (Wikimedia Commons), Margaret Chase Smith (Wikimedia Commons), Gracie Allen (Wikimedia Commons), Jill Stein (Flickr). Hillary Clinton may have made headlines for the last near-decade as she’s sought the United States presidency, but she’s hardly the first woman to make waves by pursuing the nomination — nor is she alone in being chastised for it....

Nature’s most incredible gems aren’t the ones you can see, but rather those you cannot. The Most Astounding Transparent Animals: Barreleye Fish The first photos of this strange fish alive and in its natural habitat were not published until 2004, although the species has been recognized since 1939. Found in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans at a depth of between 600 to 800 meters, there are 14 different types of Barrelfish....

The fatberg weighs as much as 11 double decker busses and is longer than the London Tower Bridge. An 820 foot long fatberg has been found blocking a sewer in East London, and it is taking a lot of man power to get it out of the way. The fatberg, a solid mass of congealed fat, wet wipes, diapers, oil, and condoms was found in a Victorian-era tunnel in Whitechapel. The Thames Water company said it was the largest they had ever seen and estimated the removal time at three weeks....

Warning: These photos — while making you feel like the world’s best housekeeper — could also put you off eating for the day. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 16Leanne Elliott gears up for extreme cleaning with a hazmat suit and gas mask.Mirror/UK 2 of 16Bottles filled with urine.SWNS 3 of 16250 bottles of urine to be exact....

In 1983, eight-year-old Christie Downs miraculously survived after her mother Diane Downs shot her and her siblings, Danny and Cheryl, in the backseat of their car in Oregon. Family PhotoDiane Downs’ children, Christie Downs (standing), Stephen “Danny” Downs (left), and Cheryl Downs (right). Christie Downs was only five when her parents divorced in 1980. But however difficult that was for her would pale in comparison to the events that transpired just three years later — when her mother, Diane Downs, attempted to murder Christie and her siblings Danny and Cheryl because her new boyfriend didn’t want children....

On April 18, 1906, the Great San Francisco Earthquake devastated the entire city, killing 3,000 people and igniting massive fires that burned for days. It’s been over a century since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake tore the city apart, but the shock waves from this catastrophe still reverberate across time. On a seemingly normal April morning, the city’s residents awoke to one of the worst natural disasters in American history....

“Even the dogs here have been known to walk around in a state of sexual excitement.” An Irish town claims that the vapors from a Viagra factory have filled their local men with an unexpected vigor. Residents of Ringaskiddy claim that there has been “something in the air” ever since a local Pfizer factory began producing the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra in 1998, reported the Sunday Times. “One whiff and you’re stiff,” local bartender Debbie O’Grady told the paper....

Legendary surfer and lifeguard Eddie Aikau saved hundreds of lives on the beaches of Hawaii in the 1960s and 1970s. But, in the end, he was the one who needed a rescue most of all. WikimediaEddie Aikau For more than a decade, legendary surfer and lifeguard Eddie Aikau watched over the beaches of Waimea Bay, Hawaii. And in all his years in the lifeguard tower, he made some 500 rescues without losing a single life....

Yup. He did that. Just when we thought politicians couldn’t say anything more stupid, Maine Governor Paul LePage took the microphone. Taking down Confederate monuments, the Republican said at a Thursday press conference, would be “just like” taking down the memorial honoring those killed in the September 11 attacks. LePage made this insane comparison after being asked about the deadly violence that took place in Charlottesville over the weekend, when white supremacist groups protested the removal of a Robert E....

With its white sand beaches, bronzed dancers and succulent agave, the Mexico of travel advertisements is hardly the Mexico that a number of its citizens experience daily amid the country’s new dirty war. Across Mexico, thousands of people have gone missing with families left seeking answers and bodies. In 2006, violence exploded across Mexico—particularly along the Texas border—when former president Felipe Calderón enacted his militarized drug war. Calderón’s war lasted six years and left at least 60,000 people dead across the nation....

On Thursday the organization will hold a press conference regarding “ocean worlds.” NASANASA is exploring the ocean worlds in our solar system as part of our search for life outside of Earth. NASA has called for a mysterious press conference to make an announcement about “ocean worlds.” According to a press release, the meeting scheduled for Thursday at 2 will reveal new discoveries from the Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope....

Often depicted sleeping in a train car or carrying a tiny bindle over their shoulder as they meander across the countryside, the American hobo often gets unfairly branded as lazy or unsavory, but a closer look reveals hard-working men and women just looking for a fair day’s work. Share Flipboard Email Not to be confused with “bum” or “tramp,” “hobo” is a term that came about around the conclusion of the American Civil War, and was used to describe the countless, now homeless, veterans traveling from coast to coast in search of work....

Robert Chelsea’s long journey to receive a successful face transplant is a reminder of how few organ donors there are for people of color. He waited six years to find a match. WCVB Channel 5 Boston/YouTubeRobert Chelsea received a face transplant offer in May 2018, but the donor’s skin tone had a much lighter complexion. When Robert Chelsea was hit by a drunk driver in 2013, he had to face facts: The then-62-year-old African American would never look the same....

The mine is so deep, the vortex it creates is strong enough to suck a helicopter out of the air and into its depths. Wikimedia CommonsThe Mirny diamond mine, in all of its expansive glory. In the midst of the Siberian wilderness, there is a town known as Mirny, the only sign of humanity in a heavily forested landscape for miles around. Only a few full-time residents call the town home, all of whom live in a small community built on stilts to prevent the melted permafrost from flooding their homes in the spring....

“These are the oldest solid materials ever found, and they tell us about how stars formed in our galaxy. They’re solid samples of stars.” Janaina N. AvilaResearchers discovered 7 billion-year-old stardust from a meteorite that landed on Earth 50 years ago. On Sept. 28, 1969, a meteorite hurling toward Earth landed near Murchison, Victoria, in Australia. Though the 220-pound meteorite’s crash-landing on our planet isn’t itself news, the interstellar material it accidentally brought along with it certainly is....

“Wherever we find water,” says Michael Paul, Director of Space Systems at Penn State University, “we find life.” Most of us already know that both the Earth’s surface and the human body are made up of about 70 percent water. And most of us have long assumed that water, and perhaps life itself, is unique to Earth. Or at least this was the case until late last year, when NASA unveiled the “strongest evidence yet” of liquid water on Mars....

More people have been to space than to the wreck of the Titanic, but over the next few years that could change. Wikimedia CommonsThe bow of the Titanic. On April 15, 1912, at 2:20 a.m., the last portion of the RMS Titanic slipped beneath the icy waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Over the next five to 10 minutes, the ship came to rest at the bottom of the sea, some 12,000 feet below the surface....

Sergei Torop is known to his followers as Vissarion and has been running the Church of the Last Testament in small villages all across Siberia. Kukhmar/Tass/Jonas BendiksenCult leader Sergei Torop, a.k.a “Vissarion” or “Jesus of Siberia,” was recently arrested by Russian authorities on charges of extortion and abuse. Russian authorities have just arrested a cult leader who has been claiming that he is the reincarnation of Jesus for the last 30 years....

An unknown beast that led a deadly rampage through 1760s France? An unexplained explosion as powerful as 1,000 atomic bombs in Siberia? These little-known, interesting events bring history to life more than any textbook ever could. The Jonestown Massacre Perhaps one of the most disturbing events in modern history, the Jonestown Massacre was the site of the largest recorded mass suicide and the point of origin for the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid....

These stirring Eleanor Roosevelt quotes address everything from democracy to achieving peace to making the most of your time on Earth. “Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you.”Wikimedia Commons “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience....