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“If liquid water and a significant atmosphere were present on the early Moon for long periods of time, we think the lunar surface would have been at least transiently habitable.” Wikimedia Commons With no atmosphere and no liquid water, Earth’s Moon is an uninhabitable place today. However, a bold new report claims that there were two times in history when it’s likely that alien lifeforms did exist there. According to a new report published in the journal Astrobiology on July 23, analysis of lunar material like rocks and soil suggests that the conditions on the surface of the Moon may have been able to support simple lifeforms shortly after the Moon formed around 4 billion years ago, and then during another period about 3....

Angered by the burdensome terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Anton Drexler took matters into his own hands and founded what would eventually become the Nazi Party. Wikimedia CommonsA photograph of Anton Drexler when he was chairman of the German Workers’ Party. The decade following World War I is generally associated with sparkling flappers and Gatsby-esque decadence. But in Germany there was a darker side beneath the glitz and glamour, where many such as Anton Drexler resented the postwar conditions that had been foisted upon them by the victors....

This is a paid opportunity that also includes free rent in a house with a view of the Aegean Sea. God’s Little People Cat Rescue/FacebookSome of the 55 cats at the sanctuary. Have you ever fantasized about leaving your old life behind and starting over on an idyllic island? Well, now is your chance. But there’s one catch: You have to be a cat person. God’s Little People Cat Rescue, a privately-funded charitable organization devoted to caring for cats, is seeking a new recruit to take over the care of 55 cats on the “small paradise” Greek island of Syros....

“I am not a vegetarian, but fortitude and the will to fight for this cow’s life is invaluable.” Facebook/Pawel KukizThe cow that made the miraculous escape. A cow in Poland has captured the hearts of vegetarians and carnivores alike after making a miraculous escape on its way to a slaughterhouse. According to Polish news show Wiadomosci, the cow’s owner was loading it onto a truck bound for a slaughterhouse when the cow began to pull away....

Genelle Guzman-McMillan was hurrying down the stairs of the World Trade Center’s North Tower when the building collapsed around her, leaving her trapped for 27 hours before she was finally saved. Guideposts/YouTubeGenelle Guzman-McMillan survived for more than a day almost completely immobilized below the World Trade Center before she was rescued. Inside the North Tower of the World Trade Center, Genelle Guzman-McMillan felt the building shake. She was working on the 64th floor at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and ran to the window to see what had happened....

Captain Henry Morgan was basically Jack Sparrow if Jack Sparrow were cooler. The New York Public Library/ Wikimedia CommonsHenry Morgan. When we think of pirates, we imagine people like Henry Morgan. In fact, the man is so closely linked with piracy that a popular brand of rum is even named after him. And if you were looking for an example of a successful career as a pirate, you couldn’t do much better than Captain Morgan....

The group cited the War on Drugs, police brutality, and mass incarceration as examples of how the U.S. continues to inflict “racial terror” on African-Americans. A United Nations-affiliated group has stated that the United States owes African-Americans reparations for centuries of “racial terrorism.” On Monday, the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent presented a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council wherein it made the case for reparations, specifically by highlighting the link between present injustices and the historical treatments of African-Americans in the United States:...

Uli Derickson saved dozens of lives acting as a peacemaker after Hezbollah members hijacked TWA Flight 847. June 14, 1985, must have seemed a morning like any other to Uli Derickson. A flight attendant for Trans World Airlines, Derickson and the rest of the crew were preparing for what should have been an uneventful flight from Athens to Rome. But shortly after liftoff, the crew of TWA Flight 847 discovered that this flight was going to be far from ordinary....

In 1945, Japan developed a plot for mass death in America via biological warfare under the innocuous title “Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night.” Here’s why the plan failed miserably. Xinhua via Getty ImagesUnit 731 personnel conduct a bacteriological test on a child in Nongan County of northeast China’s Jilin Province. November 1940. The story of World War II has been retold so many times that it might be easy to forget that some of the war’s more obscure horrors still remain unknown to the general public....

How animals can be transformed into medical assistant devices and used in a more holistic health approach including medical animals in treatment. Revital Cohen designed the Life Support project to show how animals could be transformed into alternative, low-cost medical assistant devices and a part of a more holistic health care strategy to include medical animals in treatment: Cohen outlines a plan to use greyhounds that are retired from racing as a ventilation aid for humans with respiratory problems....

Ralph Lincoln is the Great Emancipator’s third cousin several times removed — and bears a shocking resemblance to him. Ralph LincolnA comparison of President Abraham Lincoln and his 11th-generation descendant, Ralph Lincoln. The likeness between 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln and his 11th-generation descendant Ralph C. Lincoln is striking. Even though the Great Emancipator has no direct descendants, distant relatives like Ralph Lincoln are connected to him through other Lincoln family members....

In October 2013, North Korean military personnel and party officials stood sternly at the opening ceremony of the latest venue meant to display North Korean wealth and devotion to their Dear Leader: a water park. Said Premiere Pak Jong Ju of the new water park, “[It] is the edifice built thanks to Korean Peoples’ Army service personnel’s spirit of devotedly carrying out any project and their fighting traits as they are ready to flatten even a high mountain at a go-in-hearty response to the order of the supreme commander....

Get a taste of the incredible beauty provided by Portland’s Japanese Gardens. Source: National Geographic Amid rainy evenings and vast expanses of trees in Portland, Oregon, lies a beautiful 5.5-acre space known as Portland’s Japanese gardens. Considered the most authentic Japanese gardens outside of Japan, these gardens attract thousands of visitors each year from all over the world. The park, which has existed for nearly 50 years, contains five different Japanese gardens: the Flat Garden, Strolling Pond Garden, the Natural Garden, the Tea Garden and the Sand and Stone Garden....

Plastic straws have been the target of recent actions from environmentalists, but this report shows that another contaminant might require more of their attention. Thomas Jones/Ocean ConservancyCigarette butts that were collected during a cleanup. Plastic straws have dominated people’s minds lately as deadly pieces of plastic that are slowly ruining the environment. However, while plastic straws are detrimental to the health of our planet, a recent study has revealed that a different piece of trash deserves much more of our attention: cigarette butts....

From a 1958 letter written by Fidel Castro to a gun that looks like a tube of lipstick, the upcoming auction is sure to be historic. KGB Espionage MuseumA Soviet version of the WWII Enigma code cipher machine, known as the Fialka. California-based auction house Julien’s is set to unveil hundreds of Cold War-era weapons, artifacts, and relics next year. According to Radio Free Europe, around 400 items will be auctioned off from mid-January to February 13 — with some truly amazing gadgets for sale....

The relief was found in 2021 at a Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey that archaeologists date back roughly 11,000 years. Bekir KöskerThe figure dates back to around 9,000 B.C.E. Archaeologists from Istanbul University and the Şanlıurfa Archeology Museum who were investigating a site in southeastern Turkey have come across an intriguing find: a stone carving of a naked man with one hand on his stomach, and the other grasping his penis that they believe could be the earliest narrative carving yet found....

Because no law exists making what they did illegal, five Florida teens who filmed a man die have avoided charges. Associated PressFuneral for Jamel Dunn. A group of five teenagers won’t face any legal action after they filmed, laughed, and insulted a drowning man. In July 2017, the teenagers saw 31-year-old Jamel Dunn struggling in a pond in Cocoa, Fla. Instead of calling for help, they recorded and mocked him as he drowned....

If you want to kill someone in New Jersey, don’t wear a vest. In Alabama, you can’t chain your pet gator to a fire hydrant. Behold, America’s craziest laws. If you want to kill someone in New Jersey, you probably shouldn’t wear a body vest. In addition to the legal problem of, you know, killing someone, New Jersey law forbids an offender to use or wear “a body vest while engaged in the commission of, or an attempt to commit, or flight after committing or attempting to commit murder, manslaughter, robbery, sexual assault, burglary, kidnapping, criminal escape or assault....

The bizarre choreography makes the tune even stranger: The male bird faces away from the female until the loudest final note. Anselmo d’AffonsecaThe white bellbird produces a song as loud as 125.4 decibels, far beyond the safety level for humans (85 decibels). Every species approaches sexual selection differently. The term “peacocking,” for instance, is directly tied to that animal’s penchant for showing off its beautiful colors. For the white bellbird, it seems that screaming directly into a potential parter’s face is the go-to strategy....

A team of scientists worked together to reconstruct the face of a teenager using a 9,000-year-old skull found in Greece. Reuters Dawn, the 9,000-year-old teenager. Guess teenagers were just as angsty 9,000 years ago. Meet Dawn, a teenager from the Mesolithic period, which was around 7,000 B.C. Her face was reconstructed by scientists using a skull that was found in 1993. Based on bone and teeth analysis, Dawn is between 15 and 18 years old....