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Frankie Little Jr. played guitar with The O’Jays, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band best known for their hit “Love Train.” Twinsburg Police DepartmentFrank “Frankie” Little Jr. was murdered in the late 1970s or early 1980s. One night in February 1982, employees at a machine shop in Twinsburg, Ohio, went to dump shavings in the woods. There, they found body parts in garbage bags. Police have now identified those remains as belonging to Frank “Frankie” Little Jr....

The Confederates hoped that by invading Vermont, they would draw Union soldiers away from the main battlefields. By 1864, things looked bad for the Confederate States of America. The tide of the Civil War was rapidly turning against them as the Union marched south, and the Confederacy simply didn’t have the resources to fight the war on traditional terms. Clearly, they’d have to think outside the box if they wanted to have any chance of winning....

From trying to “cure” homosexuality to severing dogs’ heads to study artificial lungs, we give you the most WTF science experiments known to humankind. History is filled with examples of cruel and unusual experiments performed on human beings and animals for the so-called sake of advancing science. Even at the time they were performed, such experiments should have been considered crazy. And today, at the very least they should elicit a “WTF?...

Explaining the unusual architectural phenomenon of the whispering gallery that carries even the quietest words across dozens of feet amid swells of croud noise. FlickrA man takes advantage of the whispering gallery inside New York’s Grand Central Terminal. In terms of area and number of platforms, New York’s Grand Central Terminal is the largest train station in the world. Built in 1913, this landmark welcomes an average of about 750,000 visitors each day....

World’s oldest-known fossil forest found, 1,200-year-old “piggy bank” dug up in Israel, ancient Mayan palace uncovered. World’s Oldest-Known Fossil Forest Found In New York Quarry Binghamton University, State University Of New YorkAn aerial view of the root system that’s part of the ancient fossil forest recently found in Cairo, New York. Sitting in an abandoned quarry in upstate New York, researchers have found the remains of a 385 million-year-old forest that’s now the earliest-known find of its kind on planet Earth....

Bronze Age sword accidentally unearthed, disturbing details about Anne Boleyn’s beheading revealed, nails used to crucify Jesus possibly identified. Czech Man Out Looking For Mushrooms Happens Upon 3,300-Year-Old Sword Ethnographic Museum of JesenickoSeveral views of the Bronze Age sword recently unearthed in the Czech Republic. Circa 1300 B.C., the Urnfield people began building a society in what’s now central Germany and started making uniquely-crafted bronze swords unlike their more common iron counterparts....

A new report from the Wall Street Journal found that as little as 10 percent of the $55 million donated to the Peter’s Pence fund actually went to the poor. PixabayPope Francis in Rome, 2015. The Vatican annually collects over $55 million in donations through the Peter’s Pence charity fund and church law dictates that Pope Francis can legally use that money as he sees fit. A Wall Street Journal report found that as little as 10 percent of those donations have been used for actual charity....

Vin Mariani was advertised to reduce your hunger, aid digestion, cure the flu, and best of all, fill you with energy. Wikimedia CommonsA poster advertising Vin Mariani. In the last half of the 19th century, a new kind of wine was taking both Europe and the U.S. by storm. Invented by French Chemist Angelo Mariani, Vin Mariani was billed as a health tonic. It would reduce your hunger, aid digestion, cure the flu, and best of all, fill you with energy....

Life in the 1970s was politically turbulent — and we consoled ourselves with colorful clothes, the wonders of nature, and a dash of sci-fi fantasy. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 58A couple in Paris, 1972.reddit 2 of 58Skateboarding the Viper Bowl in Hollywood, 1976.reddit 3 of 58Boys playing ball in the street, circa 1970....

A 13-year-old boy in Northern Germany had no idea the piece of “aluminum” he discovered was actually silver from a trove of ancient treasures. Stefan Sauer/AFPSchoenand and 13-year-old Malaschnichenko participating in the 4,300-square-foot northern Germany dig. A recent discovery by a hobby archeologist and his 13-year-old pupil proved it doesn’t take a pro to uncover a hoard of treasure. In January of 2018, Rene Schon and his student Luca Malaschnitschenko were using metal detectors on Rugen Island, a Baltic Sea island in northern Germany, when they came across something....

Booze, bullets, and Bill Murray: enjoy these engrossing photos of counterculture icon Hunter S. Thompson, the father of gonzo journalism. Born in 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky, Hunter Stockton Thompson went from a rocky childhood and an itinerant young adulthood to a workmanlike writing career fueled in part by a seemingly endless capacity for drugs and audacious behavior. His trademark reporting style became what’s now called gonzo journalism, in which he made himself a central character in his own stories....

Sorry, cities, these beautiful towns prove that you’re not the only ones capable of making tourists’ mouths drop. Get ready: you’re about to be struck with some serious wanderlust. From secluded towns tucked among looming mountains to frequently-visited, technicolor villages with more canals than concrete, we’ve selected a handful of destinations which prove that cities don’t hold a monopoly on culture: Annecy, France Source: Travelers looking for a break from the sights–and smells–of Paris, delight: Annecy is here for you....

No one thought Adolphe Sax would make it past childhood after his myriad near-death experiences. But he did — and invented an instrument that revolutionized the music world. Hit on the head with a brick. Swallowed a needle. Drank sulfuric acid. Fell face-first on a searing skillet. These were just a few near-misses in the life of Adolphe Sax, an incredibly accident-prone child who was born in Belgium in 1814 and one of 11 children in his family to make it to puberty (barely)....

Edward Snowden speaks to a student group by video conference in 2015. Source: Gage Skidmore On May 20, 2013, Edward Snowden boarded a flight from Hawaii to Hong Kong. The laptop and thumb drives he carried with him contained hundreds of thousands of secret government documents. In a Hong Kong hotel room, he met with journalists and a filmmaker named Laura Poitras, and together they began working through the documents Snowden had taken from the National Security Agency (NSA)....

The great jagged narrow-toothed shark was double the size of a great white and was so large that it feasted on whales. Museums VictoriaCarcharocles angustidens teeth An amateur fossil hunter and school teacher in Australia might have made one of the biggest discoveries in the history of paleontology. Back in 2015, Phill Mullaly discovered two perfectly preserved, 2.75-inch teeth from an enormous, long-extinct sea creature known as the great jagged narrow-toothed shark....

Chan Chan was the largest city in pre-Columbian America, but it sat in ruins from the time the Incas destroyed it in the 15th century — until now. Ministerio de Cultura del PerúThe masked statues at the Chan Chan excavation site. Researchers have discovered a 750-year-old passageway filled with creepy masked statues in the ancient abandoned city of Chan Chan in Peru. According to Newsweek, the country’s Ministry of Culture says that these 19 statues are believed to be from the pre-Columbian Peruvian civilization known as the Chimú empire....

During World War II, Edward Shames stormed the beaches of Normandy, looted Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, and saw the horrors of the Dachau concentration camp. Public DomainEdward Shames’s war stories became famous in Band of Brothers. As a member of Easy Company during World War II, Edward Shames experienced some of the conflict’s most harrowing moments. Now, he’s become the last member of that famous unit — immortalized in HBO’s Band of Brothers — to pass away at the age of 99....

Rebecca Burger, a well-known Instagram model, was killed after a whipped cream can exploded and struck her in the chest. InstagramRebecca Burger A fitness, fashion, and lifestyle blogger in France has been killed by an exploding whipped cream dispenser. Rebecca Burger was well-known in Europe for her Instagram filled with bikinis, beaches, protein shakes, and tasty meals: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rebecca Burger (@rebeccablikes) Just because she had an eight pack, shouldn’t mean that she couldn’t enjoy some dessert every now and then....

After his father agreed to testify against the Mafia, Giuseppe Di Matteo was tortured by gangsters for two years before being murdered. La SiciliaGiuseppe Di Matteo in an undated photo. Giuseppe di Matteo was just a child when the Sicilian Mafia kidnapped him in 1993. The Cosa Nostra members, disguised as police, told the 12-year-old that they would take him to see his father, Santino di Matteo, a Mafia turncoat. At the time, Santino was being held in police protection since he had agreed to testify against his former associates....

To make it through the 54-day solo trip, Colin O’Brady had to pack his sled very carefully. He, unfortunately, opted for more food over an extra pair of underwear. Wikimedia CommonsIn 2018, Colin O’Brady became the first person to trek across Antarctica without a kite, resupply, crew, or a change of underwear. Two years ago, Colin O’Brady became the first person in history to trek across Antarctica alone. To do so, he had to pack carefully and lightly....