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Known affectionately as “Evita,” Eva Perón worked her way out of poverty to become a voice for Argentina’s poor and working class as the wife of President Juan Perón. Eva Perón was an actress, an activist, and the First Lady of Argentina. The platform gave Perón a loudspeaker to champion issues like poverty and women’s rights. A beloved figure in her country, Perón became affectionately known as Evita – and her rags-to-riches story inspired a musical and a movie....

Sometimes, a dog or a cat just won’t do — so why not try a pet otter or capybara? The cat and the dog have long been the default companion for humans. For some of us, though, they just won’t do. We need a more unusual companion animal. We need something exotic and intriguing like these weird pets: Weird Pets You Can Own: Skunks Skunks have one obvious drawback which is why they’ve never really taken off as pets until recently: their smell....

Genghis Khan is believed to have had so many children that some 16 million men alive today are directly descended from the Mongol emperor. With an unquenchable bloodlust and thirst for territory, Genghis Khan expanded his Mongol Empire from the Pacific Ocean to the Danube River throughout the late 12th and early 13th centuries. And though this ruthless warrior king left countless bloody battlefields in his wake, he also left behind an astonishing legacy of procreation....

The 36-foot-long whale was only discovered in the remote jungle when swooping scavenger birds alerted local officials with their screeching. Bicho D’agua Institute/FacebookThe whale is 36 feet long and weighs 10 tons. Preliminary theories suggest that the whale washed ashore during a storm or that it was already dead when rising tides carried it on land — but scientists are confused as to how it managed to travel so far inland, or why it was swimming off the Marajó coast at all....

During the Igbo Landing of 1803, approximately 75 captives from present-day Nigeria died by mass suicide in Georgia’s Dunbar Creek rather than face a life in chains. For hundreds of years, enslaved people from Africa were kidnapped, crammed onto slave ships, and whisked to the Americas. But in 1803, 75 Igbo and other West African people from modern-day Nigeria fought back in a remarkable event known as Igbo Landing. After being sold in Savannah, Georgia and forced onto a ship bound for St....

Mining and urbanization are bringing an end to the Dukha, or what many call Mongolia’s “reindeer people.” Mongolia is twice the size of Texas, but home to only 2.6 million people. The sparse, desolate lands are difficult to live on and the frigid winters are harsh and overbearing, which is why the country’s Dukha people have relied heavily on reindeer in nearly every facet of their lives for thousands of years....

Pablo Escobar made many enemies during his time. Some of them decided to fight back and formed Los Pepes to take down the Medellín Cartel. Pablo Escobar was one of the world’s most notorious drug lords. Based in Medellin, Colombia, Escobar’s brutal reign over the illegal cocaine industry cost thousands of lives in Colombia alone. His brazen hits on judges, government officials, and police were swift and deadly. He even spent time in an opulent prison, called The Cathedral, that he constructed....

Louise Turpin and her husband kept their 13 children prisoner for the majority of their lives — feeding them once a day, bathing them once a year — and now the couple faces life in prison. Louise Turpin currently sits in a California jail. The 50-year-old mother and wife was sentenced to life in prison in February 2019. Together with her husband David, Louise Turpin had secretly kept her 13 children in captivity for years — possibly even decades....

Named after the 1950s sci-fi classic, this organism is challenging scientists to reassess what we know about biological intelligence. It’s set to be unveiled to the public in Paris this weekend. Paris Zoological Park/FacebookThe blob’s striking colors are especially clear on a dark background. What has no mouth, no eyes, 720 sexes, and can detect food and digest it? If you miraculously guessed “the blob” (otherwise known as Physarum polycephalum), you’d be correct....

“I can’t imagine what an insect infected with a mermithid nematode must feel. Scaled to human size, a mermithid [nematode] would be at least as intrusive as an anaconda coiled among the intestines.” BSIP/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesNematodes, or roundworms, are the most abundant animals on Earth. Nematodes are the most populous animals on Earth but little is known about them. While some species are used to combat crop pests, others can inflict severe damage to the environment, including inside plants and animals....

Charles Manson’s first wife, Rosalie Jean Willis, seemed doomed from the get-go. All three of her children died before she did — while Charles Manson lived to see old age. Charles Manson may be considered an inhuman monster to many, but America’s most infamous cult leader was once a seemingly normal, married man. Before The Beatles inspired his “Helter Skelter” race-war mantra and before the horrific Sharon Tate murders came to fruition, Charles Manson was just someone’s husband....

The discovery of the jawbone could help scientists understand human migration patterns and breeding between homo sapiens, hominids, and Neanderthals. Washington PostThe jawbone found in Isreal. Scientists have found what is believed to be the oldest fossil ever uncovered outside of Africa. The fossil, an ancient jawbone found ten years ago in a collapsed cave on the coast of Isreal, is at least 175,000 years old. For the past decade, scientists have been pouring over it, analyzing its structure, and attempting to carbon date it....

A disturbing look at life in the Khmer Rouge’s notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh during the Cambodian genocide. During the invasion of Cambodia in late 1979, Vietnamese soldiers uncovered a hastily abandoned prison in Phnom Penh containing meticulous records of each inmate, complete with a portrait photo and detailed “confessions” of their crimes committed against the Khmer Rouge. That prison was Tuol Sleng, or Security Prison 21, a former high school in the Cambodian capital that was converted into a prison and interrogation center upon the Khmer Rouge’s ascent to power in 1975....

Terrible Ted made the rounds in WWA fighting, taking on some of the most famous names in wrestling, and almost always coming out on top. Gene DuBois wrestles Terrible Ted On April 1, 1950, wrestler Terrible Ted debuted in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He defeated renowned fighter Tony Galento, after which he fought him again in a rematch. Despite being a newcomer to the wrestling scene, Terrible Ted proved himself a worthy adversary of more famous heavyweights....

Every human being who has ever lived was born on Earth. With the exception of a few professional space travelers, no member of our species has ever traveled farther than a few dozen miles from its surface. Every person you’ve ever known or read about has lived here, inside a thin layer sandwiched between the hot lower layers of the crust and the frigid upper atmosphere. Just about all of the life known or suspected to exist in the universe evolved in this tiny pocket, and virtually none of it will ever leave....

Image Source: Adapted from Cinismo Ilustrado Let’s be perfectly clear: the attacks in Brussels earlier this week were a tragedy, and every bit of sympathy and goodwill the country has received is deserved. At the same time, tragedies like that one — and others far, far worse — continually go under-acknowledged. And the underlying problem is that there’s a terrible pattern as to why that happens. As the “Tragedy World Map” above suggests, certain regions of the globe get the world’s sympathy when disaster strikes and some do not....

The cannabis traces found had high concentrations of THC. Xinhua WuArchaeologists discovered traces of cannabis at an ancient burial ground in Central Asia. A new discovery suggests people have been smoking pot since at least 2,500 years ago. As reported by The Guardian, a group of researchers found traces of highly potent cannabis at an ancient burial ground in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia called Jirzankal Cemetery. The cannabis residue was found in incense burners on the cemetery grounds, which dates back to the 5th century B....

The crater caused by ocean tides measures 25 feet deep and about 980 feet wide — and authorities fear another one will likely appear in the area soon. Rainbow Beach HelicoptersThe sinkhole appeared overnight to the shock of beachgoers, and authorities believe that more sinkholes like this are expected to happen. A large portion of a beach in Queensland, Australia has been swallowed up by a massive sinkhole. The crater emerged overnight on Sept....

In 2014, Michelle Carter texted her boyfriend Conrad Roy to kill himself just before his suicide. About three years later, she was sentenced to prison for involuntary manslaughter. Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy always had a peculiar relationship. While the couple lived about an hour away from each other, the two teenagers only met in person a handful of times during their two-year romance. And so the pair’s communication was almost exclusively relegated to emails, phone calls, and now-infamous text messages....

Go inside the complicated history of what year it is right now, according to the cultures and religions that don’t follow the Gregorian calendar. As we prepare to usher in each new year, it’s a good time to remember that the year is only a number, an arbitrary number at that. In fact, there are a plethora of calendars around the world that differ greatly from the Gregorian calendar. So, what year is it according to the world’s other various calendars?...