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The screwdriver was buried deep enough that it had already pierced the man’s large intestine. Youssef Shaban et alA CT scan showed that the Florida man had a screwdriver stuck inside his rectum. In a recent medical mishap, a 46-year-old man was admitted for surgery at a hospital in Florida to remove a screwdriver that was stuck inside his rectum. According to Florida’s WFLA news outlet, the man entered the operation room in a state of septic shock....

After they hang the blanket, some men on the flight then clap in approval. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMvsk4wy0aM Hasidic Jews are often seen doing things on planes that might seem weird to those outside the faith. Some of them refuse to sit next to women, some of them wrap themselves in plastic in case the plane flies over a cemetery, and some of them even try to censor in-flight movies. During a flight yesterday, a group of Hasidic men were seen hanging blankets from the ceiling to cover up what appeared to be the movie “Music and Lyrics” starring Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant....

Woodes Rogers made it his life’s work, and risked his families fortune, to rid the world of pirates. Wikimedia CommonsWoodes Rogers, on the right, as governor of The Bahamas. Woodes Rogers lived through enough adventures in one lifetime to fill up 10 lifetimes of ordinary people. The English privateer was born into wealth in 1679 whose father was a merchant who ran a shipping business, through which the family became decently rich....

The Auschwitz tattoo kit is one of only three others like it in the world and was expected to sell for up to $40,000 at auction in Israel. Frankie Fouganthin/Wikimedia CommonsA Holocaust survivor displays his tattoo in Stockholm on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, 2013. An Israeli court in Tel Aviv has halted the sale of a Nazi tattoo kit that its auctioneer says was used to brand prisoners at Auschwitz during World War II....

Jack Parsons helped invent rocket science itself, but his sordid extracurricular activities caused him to be all but written out of history. Wikimedia CommonsScientist and occultist Jack Parsons in 1938. Today, “rocket scientist” is often a shorthand for “genius” and those select few who work in the industry are respected, even revered. But it wasn’t so long ago that rocket science was considered to be strictly in the realm of science fiction and the people who studied it were thought of as kooky rather than brilliant....

John Wayne’s legacy as the white, conservative Western hero of the 1950s included stances inherent to those attributes: racial superiority, homophobia, and revulsion at the changing landscape. Wikimedia CommonsJohn Wayne in The Comancheros (1961). A 1971 Playboy interview with Hollywood legend John Wayne has made the rounds this week, with unsuspecting readers on social media learning of the Western icon’s casual racism, homophobia, and public support of white supremacy. Conducted in the latter part of his career — eight years before his death and long after Wayne’s peak as a star — the interviewer managed to get the actor to expand on his stances on diversity, American history, and social justice, with reasoning that has shocked readers of today....

During his 76 days out at sea, Antonio de la Rosa saw incredible marine life — and a lot of plastic trash. Antonio de la Rosa/FacebookAntonio de la Rosa points to a rainbow aboard his paddle board. He spent 76 days paddling at sea. A peculiar trend seems to be popping up among sea voyagers. After a Frenchman’s four-month-long voyage across the Atlantic in a giant barrel comes another trans-oceanic journey — this time on a paddle board....

When Tyria Moore cooperated with police and coerced a confession out of Aileen Wuornos, the two had been living together in a committed relationship for nearly five years. YouTubeAileen Wuornos’ girlfriend Tyria Moore cooperated with police to finally put her behind bars. On a humid Florida evening in 1986, Tyria Moore fatefully met Aileen Wuornos, an electric blonde at the Zodiac Bar in Daytona. Weeks earlier, Moore had left her conservative hometown of Cadiz, Ohio, to fully embrace being a lesbian....

Determined to become a “proxy” of the fictional Slender Man, 12-year-old Morgan Geyser brutally stabbed her friend Payton Leutner in the Wisconsin woods — and nearly killed her. On a spring day in 2014, 12-year-old Morgan Geyser led her two friends, Anissa Weier and Payton Leutner, into the woods of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Then, during a game of hide-and-seek, Geyser and Weier suddenly attacked Leutner. As Weier watched, Geyser stabbed her 19 times....

From Mick Jagger hanging out with Andy Warhol to David Bowie’s epic mugshot, enjoy this gallery of the best of old school cool. While nostalgia for yesteryear can feel mawkishly selective, there is a certain je ne sais quoi appeal to fashions of decades past. Enter “old school cool”, a community on Reddit that catalogs some of the best photographs that capture the human appeal of our yesteryears. From the vintage to the recent and the celebrity and the criminal, enjoy forty of the best photographs of old school cool:...

The deaths have prompted some to call U.S. drug overdose rates a “modern plague.” Paula Bronstein/Getty Images The New York Times has deemed it a “modern plague,” as early data suggests that over 59,000 people died from drug overdoses in the United States last year. That’s a shocking 19 percent increase from 2015 — and numbers from this year indicate that the problem is only getting worse. Drug overdoses — spurred largely by the opioid epidemic — are now the leading cause of death for Americans under 50....

They’re also playing A Tribe Called Quest, techno music, and Mozart in an effort to determine whether sound waves can have an effect on the taste profile of cheese. TwitterBeat Wampfler with his cheese as it is serenaded. Cheese lovers are certainly one of the most passionate types of food enthusiasts. The worship of cheese in all its forms has inspired festivals, niche restaurants, and not just one, but two unofficial annual national holidays....

Thousands of elk teeth were discovered in a prehistoric burial ground. They showed wear patterns that could only have been produced through years of dancing. University of HelsinkiAn illustration of a Stone Age person dancing while wearing “tooth rattlers.” The Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov site in Karelia, Russia is the largest Mesolithic cemetery in Northern Europe. Surprisingly, over half of the 177 graves discovered there yielded elaborate elk tooth ornaments, which left experts confused....

On December 16, 1985, John Gotti oversaw the assassination of Gambino family boss Paul Castellano outside Sparks Steak House in Manhattan — a hit that would change the Mafia forever. On December 16, 1985, Gambino crime family boss Paul Castellano and his underboss Thomas Bilotti were brazenly gunned down outside Sparks Steak House in Midtown Manhattan. Bettmann/Getty ImagesGambino boss Paul Castellano on February 26, 1985, after he posted a $2 million bail following an indictment on racketeering charges....

Hitler takes the title for most deranged dictator, but these guys are fine examples of the craziest dictators the world has seen. Source: The Mirror Picking the seven craziest dictators in history is, unfortunately, quite the task. There are so many of them to choose from, and the atrocities they committed should have had them committed to a psych ward. How can one compare Adolf Hitler’s extermination of more than six million people to another despot’s decision to name a country’s capital airport and streets after himself as well as changing the names of the months, including one for his mother?...

Cleveland abduction victims Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight, and Amanda Berry were forced to live in Ariel Castro’s house of horrors for 10 years. He raped and beat them until they escaped in 2013. Angelo Merendino/Getty ImagesAriel Castro pleads to Judge Michael Russo during his sentencing on Aug. 1, 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio. Castro was sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years for abducting three women between 2002 and 2004. “I’m not a monster, I’m sick,” he told the judge....

After the Revolutionary War, American soldiers told stories about a brave woman named Molly Pitcher who fought alongside them — but the truth is more complex. George Alfred Williams/Wikimedia CommonsThe 1917 book “Ten American Girls from History” featured Molly Pitcher. Amid the crackling heat of the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778, a woman darted among the American troops. She carried a pitcher of water, so they called her Molly Pitcher....

We all enjoy our privacy, but some celebrities really enjoy it. These infamous recluses completely disappeared from the public eye. ATI CompositeFrom left: Emily Dickinson, J.D. Salinger, and Stanley Kubrick. When we think of infamous recluses, the story of Howard Hughes is often the first that comes to mind. In 1947, the eccentric aviation genius and movie producer locked himself in a screening room for four months eating chocolate bars and drinking milk while living in his own filth....

Virginia Woolf’s suicide note revealed the sad reason why she drowned herself in England’s River Ouse. But the full story behind her death is even more heartbreaking. Wikimedia CommonsVirginia Woolf’s suicide note revealed the immense pain the writer was in before she took her life. The works of prolific English writer Virginia Woolf continue to influence modern culture a century or more after they were written. And while her renowned novels like Mrs....

The doctors’ mix up with a saline drip and a formaldehyde drip after surgery caused a young woman’s body to erode from inside. east2west newsEkaterina and her mother Galina Baryshnikova. A criminal investigation is underway after a 27-year-old woman was accidentally embalmed following a routine surgery. Ekaterina Fedyaeva died of multiple organ failures two days after doctors accidentally administered a formalin drip instead of a saline drip. While saline after surgery has few risks and is used for things like rehydrating patients and maintaining blood pressure, a formalin drip contains formaldehyde and is usually infused into the veins of people who are already dead in order to prevent decomposition....