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Bicycle Day is known as the day Albert Hofmann took a ride on a bike and made a groundbreaking discovery at the same time. YouTubeA psychedelic painting of Albert Hofmann. The day that has been dubbed Bicycle Day does have to do with a trip. However, it isn’t exactly in reference to a literal bicycle trip. Bicycle Day is commemorated as the day Swiss Scientist Albert Hofmann discovered the effects of the psychedelic substance Lysergic acid diethylamide, also known as LSD....

Weighing in at 2,000 pounds and sporting arm-sized fangs, the entelodont earned its status as the “hell pig” of prehistoric North America. Wikimedia CommonsA fossil of the Daeodon, the largest variant of entelodont or “Hell Pig.” You’ve likely never heard of an entelodont, an extinct species seemingly summoned from the depths of hell. Indeed, the extinct creature is commonly referred to as a “hell pig” — and with good reason....

This Fabry disease patient is frequently accused of using a fake ID and the police once reported him as a missing child that ran away from home. Central European NewsTomasz Nadolski Due to a rare medical condition, a 25-year-old man in Poland is living out a nightmare: He’s trapped inside the body of a 12-year-old. Tomasz Nadolski suffers from an extremely rare condition called Fabry disease, a genetic disorder caused by a defective protein-encoding gene known as the GLA gene....

Using thousands of brightly colored threads, Gabriel Dawe creates surreal rainbow thread installations that amaze and impress viewers worldwide. Source: Arch20 At first glance, Gabriel Dawe’s colorful thread installations look like rainbows that have been plucked from the sky and transported indoors. Only upon closer inspection can you see that the gigantic displays are made from thousands of brightly colored threads, intricately placed together to create a colorful illusion. The man behind the intriguing installations is Gabriel Dawe, a Dallas-based mixed media and installation artist whose work has been featured all over the world....

Josh Duggar was a star on TLC’s 19 Kids And Counting — then he was accused of molestation and convicted of downloading child pornography on his work computer. Washington County SheriffFormer reality star Josh Duggar faces up to 40 years in prison and $500,000 in fines. For viewers of the reality television show 19 Kids and Counting, the crimes of Josh Duggar came as a shock. An apparently devout Baptist and family man, he was arrested for downloading and possessing child pornography in April 2021....

Karla Faye Tucker was the first woman to be executed since 1863, and only four have been executed since then. Born in Houston, Texas in 1959, Karla Faye Tucker had a troubled home life from the beginning. Her mother was a groupie, and by the time she was twelve, she was following her mother around, prostituting herself on tours. She began using drugs not long after, and it wasn’t long before she was regularly using heroin, coke, and speed....

During the reign of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, the gulags imprisoned millions of political prisoners — brutalizing and killing many of them. Library of CongressPrisoners at a gulag camp in Siberia. Date unknown. For decades, a single word could strike fear into the hearts of many Soviet citizens: “gulag.” At its peak from the 1920s to the 1950s, this sprawling network of forced labor camps held millions of political prisoners, rebellious peasants, petty criminals, and ordinary citizens who had been accused of being disloyal to the government....

The station was the most opulent and beautiful that New York had to offer. It was also the most impractical. FlickrCity Hall station as it appears today. For New Yorkers who ride the New York City subway system every day, the word lavish hardly comes to mind. Most stations hold nothing more than concrete floors, fluorescent lighting, and the omnipresent smell of urine and or hot garbage. It can be hard to imagine a time when almost all subway stations were outfitted with fine furnishings, decorated with hand-placed mosaics, and lit by natural, brilliant sunlight via ornate skylights, but when they first opened, that’s just what they were....

Gerald and Christine Gallego turned their dark sexual desires into a murderous rampage that left at least 10 young people dead across California between 1978 and 1980. Jerry Telfer/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty ImagesCharlene Gallego being escorted into the Martinez, California courtroom to testify against her husband, Gerald Gallego on Jan. 10, 1983. Gerald and Charlene Gallego made for terrifying partners in crime. An attractive brunette, Charlene Gallego had no trouble luring innocent youths into her car with the promise of work or marijuana....

Janis Joplin died of a suspected overdose at just 27 years old on October 4, 1970 — but some close to her believe something else happened. Janis Joplin’s death was ruled a heroin overdose, at least, according to the coroner’s official report. Discovered in her Hollywood hotel room on October 4, 1970, the rock and roll legend was clutching her cigarettes in one hand and money in the other. She was 27 years old....

Sadly, the astronauts weren’t allowed to taste the cookies before the batch was sent down to Earth for further research. Christina Koch/NASAThe astronauts successfully baked five chocolate chip cookies using pre-made dough and a zero-gravity oven. If you were wondering what the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were up to this holiday season, you’ll be happy to learn that they were enjoying their own festivities — and baking history’s first-ever batch of space cookies....

Jeremiah Button even had a bike-powered generator for those overcast days when his solar panels weren’t doing the trick. Marathon County Sheriff’s OfficeJeremiah Button successfully hid himself away for more than three years in his bunker — until curious hunter Thomas Nelson noticed an odd shack hidden in the foliage. About a year and a half after Jeremiah Button was released on a $25,000 cash bond, he vanished into thin air....

On September 18, 1973, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter filed a report with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena claiming he’d seen a UFO four years earlier. Library of CongressJimmy Carter claims to have seen a UFO in 1969, while he was still governor of Georgia. Before Jimmy Carter became the governor of Georgia and then the president, he was a typical small-town guy from rural Georgia with a peanut farm....

Neighbors described the Grim Sleeper as “friendly and quiet,” but inside Lonnie Franklin’s home were hundreds of photos of the women he had brutalized and murdered. Lonnie Franklin Jr., the serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, murdered women and evaded capture again and again in 1980s Los Angeles. But when one of his victims survived, he was startled into a 14-year hiatus from killing. Or so authorities initially believed....

The man was reportedly trying to avoid paying an 18 percent tax on gold. TwitterThe unidentified smuggler aroused suspicion due to his odd walk through Kannur International Airport. While having a weird walk isn’t illegal, transporting gold from Dubai to India without paying the 18 percent tax certainly is. Unfortunately for one airline passenger, staff noticed his odd walk at India’s Kannur International Airport on Tuesday — and found two pounds of gold in his butt....

A born-again Christian obsessed with “The Catcher In The Rye,” Mark David Chapman killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment on December 8, 1980. On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman became forever infamous as the man who shot John Lennon. Although he was quickly arrested, John Lennon’s killer caused immeasurable pain for the former Beatle’s loved ones — and his millions of adoring fans. In a painful twist of irony, Lennon had been enjoying his relatively quiet life in New York in the 1970s....

The curator at UCL, said, “I think Bentham would certainly have approved of his head going on public display. It’s what he intended." UCLPhilosopher Jeremy Bentham’s mummified head. The preserved head of an eccentric 18th-century British philosopher will be put on display at University College London and will be tested to see if he had autism. The Daily Mail reports that the mummified head of British philosopher Jeremy Bentham, which has been preserved since his death 185 years ago, will soon be put on display at a University College London art exhibit entitled “What does it mean to be human?...

Open only to first-class passengers, the Titanic’s gym offered some of the best workout equipment of the 1910s — until it went down with the ship. When the RMS Titanic first set sail on April 10, 1912, many saw the vessel as a technological marvel — and the epitome of luxury. Not only was the Titanic the largest ship in the world at that time, but it also boasted several impressive amenities, including a magnificent gym....

By studying the amount of nitrogen isotopes in giant sloths’ fur, scientists determined that these fearsome beasts were omnivores and likely scavenged South America for meat. Jorge Blanco/American Museum of Natural HistoryLong thought to be vegetarians, new evidence suggests that giant sloths were meat-eating scavengers as well. Today’s sloths are small and slow-moving. They are obligate herbivores and stick primarily to eating leaves and fruit, although some have been known to ingest the occasional bird egg when they can get it....

Witness the incredible five-foot-long ‘stache that earned John Roy a decades-long reign as the longest mustache world record holder. John Roy getting his mustache measured in 1977 for Guinness World Records. Everything old is new again: For proof, take a stroll through a Brooklyn street or peek into any major college campus and check out the abundance of facial hair. Yet no matter how hard people try to bring the mustache back, they will never meet the bar set by Scotsman John Roy, the former record-holder for the longest mustache of all time....