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Despite their tough appearance, hadrosaurs were susceptible to the same tumor found among human children today. Wikimedia CommonsA study found cavities in the fossils of a hadrosaur that were consistent with rare tumors found in humans. Scientists have found evidence of a rare disease inside the fossilized remains of a duck-billed dinosaur that roamed the Earth about 66 million years ago. The tumor is called LCH (Langerhans cell histiocytosis) and it can actually be found in humans today, especially young boys....

“Over a meter long, and very well made.” Employees at a public park in Sweden were surprised to find a large wooden carving of a penis. The Local Sweden reports that a three-foot carved wooden penis was discovered at Blinkenbergs park in the small municipality of Hagfors. The government of the town of 12,000 people in the Värmland region of Western Sweden posted about their discovery online, calling on the owner to claim their lost property....

On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped prevent the outbreak of nuclear war by simply following his gut. Scott Peterson / Getty ImagesStanislav Petrov at his home in 2004. Not many people know just how close the world came to a nuclear war better than Stanislav Petrov. Petrov was a few hours into his shift on September 26, 1983, as the duty officer at Serpukhov-15, the secret command center outside Moscow used for monitoring Soviet military satellites over the United States....

French photographer Sarah Martinet dazzles with these breathtaking aerial photographs of Iceland, which offer a unique perspective on a beautiful country. Source: This is Colossal Using incredible aerial photography techniques, Sarah Martinet presents Iceland’s landscapes like no photographer has ever done before. Her aerial photos of Iceland—which were taken from an open-window airplane—display curling blue streams, snowy mountains and effortless waterfalls from an entirely new perspective. Check out these surreal aerial photographs of Iceland, then head to the Martinet’s website to purchase some prints....

Disasters have shaped the course of history. The weirdest disasters have shaped urban myths and folklore. In a way, most history can be explained through disasters, natural or manmade. The mass enslavement of Africans in American colonies came following sweeping malaria epidemics to which African people seemed to be immune; American colonists’ desire to part ways with the British Empire sprang from a costly, devastating series of civil wars in England....

Ordered to join the German armed forces and become complicit in the evils of the Nazi regime, Franz Jägerstätter instead chose to refuse – and paid the ultimate price. Wikimedia CommonsFranz Jägerstätter “Neither prison nor chains nor sentence of death can rob a man of the Faith and his free will,” Franz Jägerstätter once wrote. And while he did ultimately endure prison, chains, and death, he never lost his free will....

Ugliest Animals: Pangolin The pangolin is named after the Malay word, pengguling, which literally translates as “something that rolls up” – an apt title for this prickly creature. The pangolin’s aesthetically challenged “shell” is actually an amalgam of large, hardened, overlapping plate-like scales, which are made of keratin. The scales might not look so appealing, but they allow the pangolin to curl up into a ball when threatened, acting as armor....

J.D. McMahon promised Wichita Falls a skyscraper befitting the prospering boom town. Unknown to townspeople, the con man drew up blueprints for a building 480 inches tall, instead of the 480 feet he promised. WikimediaThe Newby-McMahon Building, popularly known as “The World’s Littlest Skyscraper.” In the early 20th century, a petroleum boom hit Wichita County, Texas, whose population more than doubled as over 20,000 new residents moved to the area. The town of Wichita Falls became a hub for the roaring economy, and new industries began to grow as did the town’s population....

Apps like Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You do more than track users’ porn habits — they report everything users do on their phones back to their “accountability partners.” When a member of the Southern Baptist church Gracepoint came out to his church leader, he was expecting to get kicked out. Instead, he was asked to download an app on his phone that would help him “control all of his urges.” Covenant Eyes/FacebookThe Covenant Eyes app logo....

From Hurricane Katrina to the little known category 5 hurricane that rocked Texas, we look at history’s worst hurricanes. Credit: Uyirvani The Worst Hurricanes In History: Hurricane Katrina Forming on August 23, 2005, Hurricane Katrina rapidly grew into a Category 5 hurricane within days of its creation. Katrina made landfall in the United States on August 29th and caused over $81 billion in damages while also claiming the lives of well over 1,500 people....

Records show that Mr. Rogers registered for the draft in 1948, but was he ever a Navy SEAL or a military sniper? Fotos International/Getty Images Rumors have long persisted that Fred Rogers, the host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, hid a secret military career. A pinnacle of self-discipline, Mr. Rogers never smoked or drank. He ate a vegetarian diet for ethical reasons. “I don’t want to eat anything that has a mother,” he often said....

Newly released drone footage reveals the blue whale’s eating habits like never before. It makes sense that blue whales — the largest animals on the planet — have huge mouths. But even after seeing the 200-ton animals that these mouths belong to, the enormity of these fish-guzzling caverns is still shocking. These mouths stretch far down the animals’ bodies in blubbery extensions that allow them to ingest their weight in water and fish....

Teachers said he didn’t draw enough heads and experts note that he copied traditional paintings rather than create his own work. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 23This is Alter Hof in Munich, painted in 1914. It’s a idyllic scene among city life, but there are no people.Wikimedia Commons 2 of 23This landscape looks like a beautiful scene in Austria in the summer time....

This is the first-known temple discovered to honor the grisly deity Xipe Totec, which translates to “our Lord of the flayed.” Mexican Institute of Anthropology and HistoryTwo “skinned skulls” dedicated to Xipe Tótec — the flayed god. Much like the ancient Greek goddess Persephone, the Popolocan deity Xipe Totec was honored as the totem of the spring harvest in modern-day Mexico during the era before the Aztecs. But the offerings to this deity proved far more gruesome than one might think: Xipe Totec desired the skin of a human sacrifice....

“We want to make sure these creatures are treated with respect. I don’t think the perpetrators realize the severity of what they were doing.” Brianna Spause/The Philadelphia Inquirer, Associated PressThe Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion. A massive bug heist in Pennsylvania has left a prominent insectarium without most of their creatures — and police believe it’s an inside job. On Aug. 22, the staff at the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion realized that some of their insects and reptiles were missing from their cases but initially didn’t think anything of it....

No matter how strange some of these would-be Presidential assassins might seem, every one of them came close to changing everything. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 8 Bizarre Presidential Assassination Attempts That Failed Spectacularly Meet “Squeaky” Fromme, The Charles Manson Acolyte Who Tried To Kill A President Meet Santo Trafficante: The ‘Silent Don’ Who Tried To Kill Fidel Castro And May Have Ordered JFK’s Assassination...

Wanna make friends but are bad at small talk? Bone up on some science and impress your soon-to-be significant other at a party with these amazing chemical reactions. Source: Cambridge The world chemists live in can be a strange and terrifying place. Old-timey cartographers used to place dragons over the unknown lands on their maps. Any scientist doing research is operating on the border between the known and unknown worlds, and what lurks in the undiscovered country is sometimes found to breathe fire and—shed its skin?...

“They were having sex in her eye and one of them is pregnant and has babies,” said one researcher handling the case. Wikimedia CommonsA woman infected by parasitic eye worms found four of them in her eye. A recent case report has revealed a frightening phenomenon: parasitic cattle worms appear to be infecting human hosts now — and they’re breeding inside them. According to VICE, the case began in March 2018, when a 68-year-old female jogger from Nebraska began to feel an irritation in her right eye....

These pictures of the Armenian Genocide will make you wonder how – and why – most of the world’s countries don’t even recognize this tragic event. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Holocaust Photos That Reveal Heartbreaking Tragedy Only Hinted At In The History Books “The Forgotten Victims”: Heartbreaking Photos Of The Children Of World War II...

Watch the one-of-a-kind marine iguana swim through the sea and learn how fascinating these bizarre, endangered creatures truly are. The Galapagos Islands, infamous for the creatures Charles Darwin witnessed as he was shaping his theory of evolution, lives up to its reputation as home to some of nature’s most mysterious inhabitants. As proof of that, look no further than this recent video of a marine iguana foraging near Cabo Marshall....