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The veteran was injured in an IED blast several years ago. Now, he’s getting a new lease on life. The New York TimesThe veteran, who asked to remain anonymous due to the stigmas surrounding genital surgery, is expected to make a great recovery. A U.S. Military veteran has received a groundbreaking total penis and scrotum transplant surgery, the first of its kind to take place in the world. Several years ago the veteran, who has asked not to be mentioned by name due to the stigma that surrounds the type of surgery, was deployed in Afghanistan when he was injured in an IED explosion....

Mutsuhiro Watanabe was so deranged as a prison guard that General Douglas MacArthur named him as one of the most wanted war criminals in Japan. Wikimedia CommonsJapanese prison guard Mutsuhiro Watanabe and Louis Zamperini. Angelina Jolie’s blockbuster Unbroken incited some outrage in Japan after its release in 2014. The film, which portrayed the trials suffered by the former Olympian Louis Zamperini in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, was accused of being racist and of over-exaggerating the brutality of the Japanese prison....

Once called “the fool of Owari,” Oda Nobunaga would eventually be known as the first “great unifier” of Japan. In the 16th century, Japan was divided. Called the Sengoku Period, it was a time when the traditional feudal structure that united the country was shattered. In the chaos that followed, there was constant warfare. Powerful lords and their samurai followers fought against each other for dominance. At the same time, the traditionally closed society was struggling to adapt to the new ideas and technologies that were introduced by Europeans....

While these photos might seem far removed from our present, the legacy of segregation in America can still be seen today. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Children And Segregation: 38 Photos Of Little Minds And Big Hatred Reliving The Civil Rights Movement, In 55 Powerful Photos 44 Glamorous Photos Of Dolly Parton, Country Music’s Greatest Diva...

Elizabeth Stacey Stanton was a North Carolina waitress whose grisly 1990 stabbing murder shook up the small town of Manteo. Then her friend Clifton Spencer was thrown in prison for it — despite almost no evidence. CrimeJunkiePodcast/FacebookStacey Stanton was stabbed more than 16 times in a brutal murder that eventually saw her friend Clifton Spencer wrongfully convicted. The murder of Stacey Stanton rocked the sleepy North Carolina town of Manteo to its core....

The Scandinavian country denied her application for asylum. The Swedish Migration Agency has denied the asylum application of a 106-year-old woman, believed to be the world’s oldest refugee. Bibikhal Uzbeki, an Afghani woman, has been living in the Swedish city of Skaraborg for the past year and is blind and confined to a bed. In 2015, Uzbeki fled her hometown of Kunduz, Afghanistan with her family in order to escape the increasing Taliban influence....

During the New York blackout of 1977, an entire city went dark, only to be lit up by the fires of more than 1,000 arsons. Robert R. McElroy/Getty ImagesAerial view of a building burning in Brooklyn during the New York blackout of 1977. When the lights go out… anything goes. On July 13, 1977, in what is now considered the most infamous New York blackout in the city’s history, all the power in the Big Apple went out....

Founded in 1766, the Musée Fragonard houses the works and collections of medical artist and anatomist Honoré Fragonard. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Inside The Viktor Wynd Museum Of Curiosities, The Strangest Museum On Earth Inside Croatia’s Fascinating Museum Of Broken Relationships 33 Of The World’s Most Disturbing Museum Artifacts 1 of 23Entering Paris’s Musée Fragonard....

From 1868 to 1945, the Empire of Japan reigned as a formidable world power — and perpetrated some of history’s worst war crimes before and during World War II. The phrase “Nazi Germany” inspires a horrific set of images in the minds of most Westerners. But when it comes to “Shōwa Japan” — the term used to designate the wartime Japanese Empire under Emperor Shōwa (or Hirohito) — the same phenomenon tends not to occur....

The Philadelphia experiment on the USS Eldridge remains one of the most famous governmental experiments to date. The only problem? It likely never happened. If the stories are to be believed, the Philadelphia Experiment went something like this. As it sat in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1943, the newly commissioned destroyer USS Eldridge was being outfitted with several intriguing devices. These included top-secret generators that were said to be able to make the ship completely invisible to the enemy....

Around 1877, Doc Holliday met Big Nose Kate at a saloon in Texas — and embarked on a decade-long love affair that saw the couple in violent fights, shootouts, and behind bars. Wikimedia CommonsThe relationship of Big Nose Kate and Doc Holliday was one for the history books, but Kate’s story was exciting even on its own. In most accounts of the Wild West, Mary Katherine Horony exists as a footnote....

From innocent lingerie modeling to fetish and S&M photoshoots, these pinup girls broke the mold in 20th-century America. Before the sexual revolution, there were the pinup girls. From Marilyn Monroe to Betty Grable, the most famous pinup models were known for making eyes pop with their sexy photos during the 1940s and 1950s. While the history of the pinup didn’t begin or end with World War II, this era is often seen as the golden age of the pinup girls....

Love learning about crazy coincidences and bizarre facts? Then read these amazing facts that will tickle your brain! Do you enjoy learning about the weird history, fascinating science, and crazy coincidences that make up our collective human experience? Then you came to the right place with this gallery of seventy-seven bizarre, fascinating, and simply amazing facts: Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as sharks per year. Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can....

This discovery has rewritten much of what we thought we knew about human history. Jose Manuel Ribeiro/Reuters A new study is shaking up the history of our early ancestors’ sex lives. Published in the journal Cell last month, the study revealed that Homo sapiens bred with different populations of the now extinct Denisovans. We already knew that Homo sapiens had a fair amount of sex with Neanderthals, as the latter’s genes make up one-four percent of the genetic material in humans from various parts of the world including Britain, Japan, and Columbia....

Kalua the monkey’s former owner was an occultist who fed him liquor and monkey meat. When his owner died, Kalua was left with nothing to drink and an appetite for violence. Kanpur Zoological ParkKalua has been designated to live the rest of his life in solitary confinement. After years of being supplied with booze by his occultist owner, Kalua the monkey established a bit of a tolerance. Left alcohol-dependent and helpless when his owner suddenly died, the monkey went on a violent biting rampage, horribly injuring 250 people and leaving one of them dead....

A holiday of airing grievances and decorating with a bare aluminum pole, Festivus was popularized by “Seinfeld” in 1997 — but it actually began decades before that. While millions around the world prepare for Christmas, thousands of loyal Seinfeld fans begin to gather around their unadorned aluminum poles and air their grievances for Festivus. NBCJerry Stiller, who played George Costanza’s father Frank, with the Festivus pole. But just what is Festivus, the holiday “for the rest of us” celebrated two days before Christmas?...

The idea of marrying a dead person is older than the Magna Carta — and it’s called ghost marriage. Image Source: Pixabay Imagine a world where “‘til death do us part” wasn’t taken literally — where you could be married after death, and even get married after you’d already passed on. In actuality, there’s no need to imagine. Necrogamy, or marriage that takes place after death, is alive and well today....

A new brain computer interface has made it possible for the first time for doctors to communicate with patients who have no muscle control. Wyss CenterShown on a model, the cap tracks blood oxygen levels and electrical activity to translate “yes” or “no” answers. People with locked-in syndrome suffer from total paralysis of all voluntary muscles. Though their thinking, hearing and feeling abilities are unaffected, those with this rare misfortune cannot breathe, chew, swallow, or speak....

Over 40 people survived the Donner Party’s doomed expedition. But what happened to them after their rescue in 1847? Unknown/Wikimedia CommonsJames and Margaret Reed managed to survive the Donner Party disaster with their four children. In the spring of 1847, the last rescue party finally reached the desperate remains of the Donner Party. Starving and driven to cannibalism after snows trapped their caravan in a snowy Sierra Nevada mountain pass, the survivors relayed to their rescuers the horrific stories of their ordeal....

When “Mama” Cass Elliot died on July 29, 1974, rumors spread that she had choked on a ham sandwich. But it was later revealed that the singer had died in her sleep. “Mama” Cass Elliot initially dreamed of becoming an actress but soared to hippie-era celebrity with The Mamas and the Papas when she was 24 years old. And her undeniable voice and permanent smile thrilled peers and fans alike — all the way until Cass Elliot’s death in 1974....