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A partnership between a health organization and the Larco Museum in Lima invites men to touch the 1,000-year-old artwork to learn how to self-examine for early warning signs of cancer. Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Larco Museum in Lima, Peru, showcases hundreds of “huacos,” a pre-Columbian term for handicrafts. The Larco Museum in Peru boasts one of the finest collections of pre-Columbian Mochica sculptures in the world — and most of them are very sexually explicit....

Scientists in Boston have created a new compound that can give your skin a suntan without having to risk overexposure to the sun. A dermatologist and a chemist in Boston have teamed up to create a new compound that may be able to give human skin the same effect as a suntan, without having to risk exposure to damaging UV rays. The discoveries that led to this breakthrough began with the study of mice containing melanin-receptor blocking genes similar to those in redheaded humans, that block the body from creating melanin, the compound that naturally darkens skin....

Throughout its existence, Jerusalem has seen countless individuals seek salvation on its soil (sometimes to the point of believing themselves to be the next coming of Christ). Jerusalem syndrome aside, perhaps one of the area’s most curious salvation stories comes from Chicago’s Spafford family, who in the late 19th century abandoned the United States in order to establish a Utopian Christian society in Jerusalem. Share Flipboard Email And the thing is, it kinda worked: Up until her death in 1923, Anna Spafford ran the American Colony in Jerusalem, and was treated by many of those on-site “as a prophet,” according to Jane Fletcher Geniesse, who wrote a biography on the matriarch....

Some suspect a serial killer while others point a finger at the paranormal, but nobody has been able to fully explain the mysterious disappearances from Vermont’s Bennington Triangle and Glastenbury Mountain. Followers of folklore and aficionados of the paranormal are likely familiar with the Bermuda Triangle and perhaps even southeastern Massachusetts’ Bridgewater Triangle. But one lesser-known relative of these areas holds more than its fair share of tantalizing mysteries: the Bennington Triangle of Vermont....

It’s unclear how exactly the Black Knight Satellite conspiracy theory began, but the premise is clear: a UFO has orbited Earth for millennia — and NASA is covering it up. In 2017, conspiracy theorists claimed the Illuminati had shot down a UFO. They called the object the “Black Knight Satellite” and said it had been orbiting Earth for more than 13,000 years when leaders of the secret society took action....

Sometimes, our best travels happen after we die. These famous corpses exemplify just that. As depressing as it is to ponder, when death comes to pass, our physical forms will still inhabit this world for a time – and at this point, they become someone else’s responsibility. What happens when you’re not around to look after yourself? A book by Bess Lovejoy recounts some wild stories surrounding some notable corpses – or pieces thereof....

Despite being an amputee, Virginia Hall bolstered the Allied resistance in France so successfully that the Gestapo launched special missions just to find her. They never did. Central Intelligence AgencyAlthough Virginia Hall became infamous among Nazi counterintelligence operatives, she was practically forgotten for much of the 20th century. To the Nazis, Virginia Hall was “the most dangerous of all Allied spies,” and they sent their entire stable of double agents to “find and destroy her....

Be it time travel or, god forbid, spaghettification, these are six leading theories on what might happen to a person if they go inside a black hole. At the center of most galaxies lies a massive black hole. Image Source: NASA Only “seen” when swallowing up an unfortunate gas cloud or wayward star, black holes remain an enigma. With one of these bodies at the center of most galaxies—including our own—many scientists spend their whole careers trying to understand what happens to objects that become entrapped in their startling gravitational pull....

A single footprint is the size of an adult male. We know that some dinosaurs were massive, and a recent discovery in the Gobi desert illustrates just how big “big” can be when we talk about the now-extinct reptiles. This August, researchers from Okayama University of Science and the Mongolian Academy of Science discovered one of the largest dinosaur footprints in recorded history — a Titanosaur’s footprint. The dinosaur left the footprint behind roughly 70 to 90 million years ago in what is now the Gobi desert....

1960s Egypt was a time when the modern Arab identity was being questioned and defined. Have a look at it in photos. If you even so much as glance at a newspaper these days, you’ll see that Egypt is very much in the throes of an identity crisis. This is nothing new, and as these images suggest, much of these differing viewpoints on what a modern Egypt “should” look like stems from social and political thought in the mid 20th century...

Many deem Putin mania to be the biggest cult of personality Russia has seen since the days of Stalin. Take a look at these photos and judge for yourself. Source: The Daily Rash The “Let’s Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin” DVD sets. The shirtless strolls through Siberia. The bizarre rendition of “Blueberry Hill.” Say what you will about Vladimir Putin’s politics and tendency to “erase” those who criticize him, the man has built one helluva PR machine over the past several years....

Whether it’s the burning monk, the JFK assassination, or Woodstock, these images are still seared into the American consciousness 50 years later. This now iconic image of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara depicts him at the March 5, 1960 funeral for the victims of the La Coubre explosion. Guevara believed that the destruction of the French freighter in Havana harbor and the 75-100 resulting deaths were a deliberate act of sabotage on the part of the U....

At the turn of the 20th century, many people who were born with unusual conditions joined “freak shows” in order to make a living. Horrifically, some were forced into it. On May 19, 1884, the Ringling Bros. Circus officially opened for business, capitalizing on the extreme to earn a profit. And it worked: For many years, the most popular component of the circus was the “freak show.” Wikimedia CommonsThe Ringling Bros....

The peculiar box comes with a number of tools believed to be effective in warding off evil, including empty potion bottles, a vial of sharks’ teeth, a Bible, and a pistol. Hansons AuctioneersA British auction house has put an unusual antique up for sale: a 19th century vampire-slaying kit. You can never be overprepared, and that goes double when it comes to surviving a vampire apocalypse. According to the BBC, members of the public interested in becoming vampire slayers will soon be able to purchase a 19th century “vampire-slaying kit” at the Hansons Auctioneers in Derbyshire, England....

Nine months after having sex with two different men on the same day, the 19-year-old woman gave birth to this “one-in-a-million” set of twins. As her twins’ first birthday drew closer, a Brazilian mother began to have doubts about the identity of the children’s biological father. Nine months before they were born, she’d had sex with two different men on the same day, and she wasn’t entirely sure which of the men had fathered the infants....

The Ancient Romans feared that “evils” would haunt them from the grave — and took drastic measures to keep that from happening. David Pickel/Stanford UniversityThe rock that was inserted into the child’s mouth in the “vampire burial.” Archaeologists have uncovered a “vampire burial” at an ancient Roman cemetery in Italy. The ten-year-old child’s skeletal remains were found with a rock placed in his or her mouth and the researchers believe that it was purposefully inserted there to stop the child from rising from the dead and infecting the living with malaria, a news release said....

After slashing the throats of her two-year-old and six-month-old twins in 2015, Christina Booth chillingly told investigators she’d done so in an attempt to “quiet” them for her husband. FacebookChristina Booth, pictured with her husband Thomas, pleaded guilty to attacking her three children and was sentenced to 14.5 years in prison. On a winter’s night in 2015, Christina Booth settled in for a movie with her husband, Thomas. But their movie night turned into attempted murder when, at the end of the film, Christina slashed the throats of their three young daughters in an attempt to make the them stop crying....

Villagers in Mečenčani and Borojovići are finding their homes threatened by enormous, unpredictable sinkholes following December’s 6.4-magnitude earthquake. AFP/Getty ImagesThe sinkhole in Mečenčani on March 10, 2021. It was six days after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit central Croatia on Dec. 29, 2020 that Nikola Borojević saw his garden destroyed. Rather than waking up to marvel at his potato seedlings, the resident of Mečenčani was met by a 98-foot-wide sinkhole with a 49-foot drop....

A juror told VICE News that panelists reviewed media regarding the El Chapo trial during deliberations — an action which the judge had specifically ordered they not take. Wikimedia CommonsJoaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán in U.S. custody in January 2017. With all the news that’s coming out of the country’s capital as of late, it might be easy to forget that one of the biggest drug traffickers the world has ever seen was standing trial in New York City....

When employees opened the park on Tuesday morning and looked into the crocodile enclosure, they found only some clothes and a floating pair of Crocs shoes. Left: Florida Times-Union, Right: St. John’s County Sheriff’s OfficeLeft: Brandon Hatfield escaping the crocodile exhibit after being bitten by the animals. Right: Hatfield’s mugshot. On Nov. 6, when staff members at a Florida alligator farm entered a crocodile enclosure and saw two floating Croc shoes and discarded clothing, they were worried....