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At just 20, Matthäus Hetzenauer became the most successful snipers in the Third Reich — and one of the most decorated. Wikimedia Commons Matthäus Hetzenauer, clutching the deadly tool of his trade. From 1943 to 1945, Matthäus Hetzenauer terrorized Soviet troops on the Eastern Front with his keen eye. He personally shot and killed 345 men, though Hetzenauer’s biographer believes the kill count could even have been twice that. The decorated sniper was wounded and captured all before his 30s, but he persisted in becoming one of the deadliest snipers in all of Germany....

This enormous Savannah cat measures 18.83 inches tall to its shoulder — and is often mistaken for a puma. Guinness World RecordsDr. William John Powers with Fenrir, the world’s tallest domestic cat. A house cat from Farmington Hills, Michigan has officially been named the world’s tallest domestic cat by Guinness World Records. He is featured in the 2023 Guinness World Records book, which was published in September. At 18.83 inches tall from foot to shoulder, Fenrir “is a monster,” said owner Dr....

After the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, panicked citizens evacuated the nearby towns. At first, Naoto Matsumura was one of them. But with nowhere to go, he went back home to his pets. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: From Dogs To Radioactive Boars, Animals Are Thriving Inside’s Fukushima’s Nuclear Exclusion Zone In The Wake Of Nuclear Disaster, Animals Are Thriving In The Red Forest Of Chernobyl...

The olm can live to be 100 and often goes years without food, sex, or even moving. One was recently observed doing absolutely nothing for 2, 569 days straight. TwitterThe olm is a cave salamander found in the underwater cave systems of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, and Slovenia. They are extremely cautious with their energy, moving about 16 feet on average in an entire year. If there’s anything salamanders are known for, it’s regrowing a lost tail and having a surprisingly long lifespan....

Megalodon’s name literally means ‘big tooth’ and with good reason — its jaws were strong enough to crush a car. The megalodon shark was one of the fiercest and largest predators to ever swim in the ocean. Capable of reaching lengths twice the size of Tyrannosaurus Rex and carrying a bite force that could crush an automobile, the megalodon, or Carcharocles megalodon, was the ruler of the prehistoric seas. And yet, despite being at the top of the food chain with no known predators, the megalodon shark went extinct around 2....

Artist Tsukimi Ayano has made at least 400 dolls to repopulate the dwindling village of Nagoro. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 25 Haunting Photos Of Life Inside New York’s Tenements Adorable Photos Of The Japanese Snow Monkeys Who Get Through Winter In Hot Springs Vintage Photos Of Creepy Dolls And The Factories That Made Them...

The Department of Veterans Affairs previously paid for veterans with physical disabilities to have service dogs, but the PAWS Act will extend that coverage to mental illness for the first time. K9s for WarriorsThe PAWS Act will start as a five-year pilot program. Service dogs can change a life. Smart, loyal, and trained to help, they have long aided veterans with physical disabilities in navigating the world. Now, the PAWS Act seeks to extend that coverage to veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder....

Molly Sampson has been searching for shark teeth since she could walk, but the megalodon tooth is her biggest find yet. Bruce SampsonThe megalodon tooth that Molly Sampson found is as big as her hand. On Christmas morning 2022, nine-year-old Molly Sampson got the presents she had asked for: insulated waders and fossil sifters for shark tooth hunting. That same day, the young aspiring paleontologist found a 5-inch-long Otodus megalodon tooth in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay....

In the early morning hours of September 5, four armed Palestinian terrorists took Pan Am Flight 73 hostage in Pakistan and demanded passage to Israel — eventually causing hundreds of casualties. KRAIPIT PHANVUT/AFP/Getty ImagesPan Am Flight 73 before departing Mumbai, India for Karachi, Pakistan. It was shortly before dawn on Sept. 5, 1986, when approximately 400 passengers aboard Pan Am Flight 73 were taken hostage by four Palestinian terrorists. The Boeing 747 had only just landed in Karachi, Pakistan, when members of Palestine’s Abu Nidal Organization rushed the plane, armed with explosive belts, grenades, and AK-47s....

The pigeon was discovered perched on the wall of the Pacific Institution in Abbotsford, British Columbia, with a “fairly substantial” amount of crystal meth in its backpack. TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty ImagesA pigeon (unrelated to the bird carrying meth) standing on a wall. Pigeons are everywhere. Pigeons with tiny backpacks, however, are unusual. Recently, correctional officers at the Pacific Institution in Abbotsford, British Columbia were shocked when they spotted a backpack-carrying pigeon — and even more stunned when they discovered that it was carrying crystal meth....

Source: About Renzo Piano’s Most Famous Designs: Centre Georges Pompidou Source: Wikipedia Built in Paris between 1971 and 1977, the Pompidou Center is the proud home to a public library, the largest modern art museum in Europe (the Musée National d’Art Moderne), and a top-of-the-league music and acoustics study center. Piano built the structure as an over-the-top ode to high-tech architecture in which he strives to reveal a building’s inner workings and technological marvels that typically remain hidden beneath its surface....

Much is known about the man who killed young women and little girls, but what about Ted Bundy’s daughter? Here’s everything we know about Rose Bundy. Ted Bundy’s infamous rampage against at least 30 women and children in the 1970s has been analyzed for decades. With a renewed interest, largely sparked by the The Ted Bundy Tapes documentary series on Netflix and a thriller starring Zac Efron as the renowned sociopath, comes a renewed opportunity to focus on those forgotten in the frantic obsession with the man himself: namely Ted Bundy’s daughter, Rose Bundy, who was conceived on death row....

The monkey is apparently a cross between a proboscis monkey and a silver langur and may indicate that Borneo’s ecosystem is strained. Nicole LeeThe mystery hybrid monkey, who scientists suspect has successfully reproduced. In 2017, scientists noticed something odd in the jungles of Borneo. Amid the leafy trees near the Kinabatangan River in the Malaysian part of the island, they saw a monkey they’d never seen before. Now, they suspect that the “mystery monkey” is a hybrid of two distinct species — and a consequence of human development....

The history of the seance is one of seeing the sad and vulnerable as an easy business opportunity, adding gauze and then calling it a party. The human race has a conflicting relationship with their mortality. On the one hand, we are endlessly fascinated by and focused on it; on the other, we cannot conceive of a world in which our loved ones, separated by death, are permanently out of reach....

Thelma Todd was one of early Hollywood’s brightest stars — until she was found dead in 1935. Although her death was ruled a suicide, many believe she was actually murdered. For years, the shocking death of the 1920s and 1930s film star Thelma Todd has loomed large as a fascinating piece of Hollywood lore. Known as the “Ice Cream Blonde,” Thelma Todd was beloved for her comedic roles alongside the Marx Brothers in Horse Feathers and Monkey Business, as well as several other successful comedies....

In the U.S. alone, the vibrator is a billion dollar industry. But how long have they really been around, and who invented them? A sex toy staple, the rise of the vibrator has always been linked to the hysteria treatments of Victorian England. But the Victorians were hardly the first to employ “pelvic massage” as a medical treatment. As it happens, the history of the vibrator is much longer than that:...

A photographical study on the disparities between appearance and reality, Lara Zankoul’s work tests the limits of photography. Source: Lara Zankoul It’s all too easy for us to lose sight of ourselves when fulfilling the dull demands of the daily grind. Routines often put a damper on our creative potential, but for Lebanese artist Lara Zankoul, the day-to-day drudgery was the wake up call she needed to harness her creativity. Once constricted to the confines of a cubicle, Zankoul stumbled across the art of fine photography as a momentary escape, and ultimately swapped pencils and paper clips for an entirely different world all together....

The history of measles contains centuries of information. Here’s what you need to know about the invasive, deadly disease. Source: Etsy Though the history of measles stretches across centuries, a recent measles outbreak at Disneyland has re-ignited interest in the illness. This brief history of measles (and vaccines) will give you a little perspective on just how far we’ve come, and what’s at stake as pseudoscientific arguments gain traction. Physicians learned how to identify and diagnose measles between the third and ninth centuries....

One photograph paints a bleak future for polar bears throughout the Arctic. Image Source: The Dodo This devastating photo of an emaciated polar bear presents us with yet another ugly view of a climate-changed future. Just this August, wildlife photographer Kerstin Langenberger captured this heartbreaking image off the shores of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The islands that comprise the archipelago are home to one of the world’s largest populations of polar bears....

Two researchers assert that a comet from the Oort Cloud at the outer edge of the solar system was flung into Earth by Jupiter, killing the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. PixabayDinosaurs were wiped out by a celestial body that collided with Earth 66 million years ago. It’s conventional wisdom among scientists that dinosaurs had roamed the Earth for 165 million years when an asteroid collided with Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, leading to their extinction....