Madonna herself is a fan of urine therapy, claiming that peeing on her feet in the shower helps cure her athlete’s foot. YouTube Urine therapy is said to cure a whole host of ailments, including everything from acne to athlete’s foot. In the Book of Proverbs, in the Old Testament of the Bible, there is a passage which reads: “Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well....
Ivan Milat had a history of violence. By 13, local authorities had him on their radar. By 19, he was a convicted thief. It wouldn’t be long before he became the “backpacker murderer.” In the early 1990s, Australia was rocked by the gruesome killings of seven foreign backpackers in Belanglo State Forest. The tragedy came to be known as the “backpacker murders” and remains one of the worst string of homicides to take place in the country, and the man behind them, Ivan Milat, maintains his innocence even after decades behind bars....
In September 2019, Lori Vallow’s children J.J. Vallow and Tylee Ryan suddenly vanished without a trace. Their remains would later be found on her new husband Chad Daybell’s property. At first glance, Lori Vallow seemed like a regular Idaho mom. But then, in 2019, her two young children mysteriously disappeared, one after the other. Sixteen-year-old Tylee Ryan was last seen on September 8, 2019, and seven-year-old J.J. Vallow vanished on September 22, 2019....
Norilsk is a Russian city of extreme cold and extreme pollution, yet 177,000 people have still choose to live there. Inside The Harsh World Of Norilsk, The Siberian City At The Edge Of Earth View Gallery The city of Norilsk is one of the Northernmost inhabited cities in the world, located even above the Arctic Circle. But Norilsk is anything but a winter wonderland — it’s Russia’s most polluted city. It’s an isolated place, restricted from tourists, and built on the ruins of a forced labor camp....
It took five years of verification and restoration to prepare the 1607 Caravaggio for auction. It is expected to go for $170 million. Wikimedia Commons/Eric TurquinA 16th- century painting by Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio was recently discovered collecting dust in an old attic. Sometimes the most valuable treasures are hiding in plain sight, which was certainly the case with a French family when they discovered a priceless painting thought to be lost forever in their attic....
The fossilized bones of the baby turtle are perfectly preserved, marking the first-ever discovery of intact embryonic material from prehistoric giant turtles. China University of GeosciencesThe egg of the extinct Nanhsiungchelyid land turtle found in Henan Province, China, contained a perfectly preserved baby. In 2018, a farmer in Henan Province, China, was rooting around his property in a fossil-rich region when he unearthed what he thought was an odd rock or possibly a fossil....
Microscopic photography is one of the most breathtaking and unconventionally beautiful forms of the artistic medium. In commemoration of the oft-overlooked genre, the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition has recently released its selection of 2013 contest winners. The images vary greatly in content, style, and appearance but what they do have in common is their uncanny ability to present viewers with a dynamic world that typically goes unbeknownst to the human eye....
Through his turbulent marriage, the unabashedly cheeky Antony Armstrong-Jones went from a common photographer to the Earl of Snowdon — and dragged the royal family into the 20th century. Anwar Hussein/WireImageThough tumultuous, the marriage between Antony Armstrong-Jones, a.k.a. Lord Snowdon, and Princess Margaret would catapult British Royal engagement into the modern era. His was something of a gender-reversed Cinderella story: a lonely boy of small nobility, isolated and marked from a childhood illness, met a lovely young princess....
The West Africa Squadron faced the seemingly insurmountable task of trying to eliminate the slave trade for good. Wikimedia CommonsIn the 19th century, the British Navy set out to eliminate the slave trade in West Africa via the mixed-race West Africa Squadron. After Britain abolished its slave trade in 1807, the British Royal Navy launched an initiative of seafaring patrollers known as the West Africa Squadron to squander the remaining slave traders in the Atlantic....
Man Finds $2.4 Million-Worth Of Gold Bars In Iraqi Tank He Purchased On eBay When Nick Mead purchased an ex-military tank on eBay, he probably thought he was getting a decent deal. Little did he know, there were five gold bars worth $2.4 million hidden in the fuel tank. Mead, a tank collector from the United Kingdom, owns a company that provides tanks and armored vehicles for driving classes, television and film props and, occasionally, epic parties....
Serial killer denied appalling burial request, fossilized teeth that could change history uncovered, U.S. knowledge of Indonesian genocide revealed. Infamous Serial Killer’s Ashes Can’t Be Scattered On His Old Hunting Grounds, Judge Rules A judge has ruled that British serial killer Ian Brady will not be allowed to have the burial ceremony that he’d requested — one in which his ashes may have been scattered near the very site where he murdered several of his victims....
The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad — but it did fight the system of slavery by secretly shepherding slaves to freedom in the North. Wikimedia CommonsWilber Siebert’s map of the Underground Railroad. When the U.S. enacted the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, runaway slaves had to travel all the way to Canada in order to truly be free. On a night in 1831 something stirred along the shores of the Ohio River....
Powerful Photo Series Captures Children Regaining Sight India is home to over 30% of the world’s blind population, with countless children being born into a world of darkness due to congenital cataracts each year. When you take into account the fact that these children will not be able to go to school and will always require the help of family to make it through the day, it’s clear that the consequences of blindness extend beyond the physical; they tap into issues of systemic poverty and inequality as well....
Relive the funniest news of 2018, including the woman who married a ghost pirate, a mass ramen heist, and a zoo break-in gone horribly — albeit hilariously — wrong. The news cycle over the past year has seen no shortage of amazingly hilarious news stories to distract everyone from all the chaos that’s happening in the world. From the large trough of these stories, below are the absolute funniest news items that caught our attention in 2018....
The woman, identified only as “Irmgard F.”, worked for the Stutthof concentration camp in Poland from June 1943 to April 1945. Panstwowe Muzeum StutthofThe Stutthof concentration camp barracks, shown after the camp was liberated in May 1945. Irmgard F. was about 17 years old when she became a secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp in Poland in 1943. For about two years, she went about her work — as the Nazis murdered tens of thousands of people just outside of her office....
Two months before Napoleon’s historic defeat at Waterloo, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused heavy rains in Europe that soon succeeded in bringing him down. Universal History Archive/Getty ImagesA rendering of the Battle of Waterloo published in The Sunday Times in 1888. The defeat of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 is widely believed to be due to the inclement weather in England. But a new study suggests that Napoleon’s misfortune with the rain and mud was caused by a massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia two months prior to the battle....
New details of rituals paint a picture that’s even more macabre than initially thought when this ancient human sacrifice site was first uncovered. Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu AgencyUncovered skulls from the Aztec site. In 2015, archeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History uncovered a tower of human skulls under an excavated Aztec temple in Mexico City. The skull tower – described circular tower built out of rings of human heads held together by lime, was made up of more than 650 skulls and thousands of fragments....
Though it’s never been photographed, people keep reporting sightings of the five-foot death worm lurking in the Gobi desert. According to sightings, the Mongolian death worm is a long, sausage-like sandworm, dark red in color with spikes jutting out of both ends of its shapeless body. Using venomous spit strong enough to corrode metal or electric shocks powerful enough to kill an adult human, these alleged deadly worms are said to live below the sands of the Gobi Desert....
Born Alfredo Bowman in Honduras, Dr. Sebi sold vegan diets and “cell food” to some of the world’s biggest celebrities — and even claimed that he found a cure for AIDS. Dr. Sebi/FacebookDr. Sebi was a controversial herbalist and healer who worked with celebrity clients, including Michael Jackson. Throughout his lifetime, Dr. Sebi was a proponent of healthy lifestyle choices, such as veganism and “alternative medicine.” But the man born Alfredo Bowman also peddled in pseudoscience and was even arrested in New York for practicing medicine without a license....
Ever since the 1950s, Dolores Huerta has fought tirelessly to improve the lives of immigrants, women, and the working poor — despite nearly being killed in the process. Dolores Huerta Foundation/George Ballis/Take Stock/The Image Works Dolores Huerta rallies farmworkers during a strike in 1969. Faced with laws that made words like “strike” and “boycott” illegal, many Latinos in Arizona hesitated to support the growing labor rights movement in the 1970s. But Dolores Huerta urged them on with a simple message — “Sí, se puede!...
