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“Compared to the size of a typical gingerbread house that you might buy in a grocery store kit, mine is 20,000 times smaller.” Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy/McMaster UniversityA Canadian scientist built this tiny gingerbread house that measures in at one-tenth the width of a human hair. There are many ways people can get into the holiday spirit. For scientists, that might involve integrating some merry cheer into their particular field....

When Scott Amedure confessed his crush on his straight friend Jonathan Schmitz while appearing on the daytime talk show, a stunned Schmitz seemed to laugh it off — but three days later, he shot Amedure dead. YouTubeScott Amedure, left, confessed that he had a crush on his friend Jonathan Schmitz on the The Jenny Jones Show in 1995. Days later, he was dead. On March 6, 1995, Scott Amedure went on The Jenny Jones Show to confess his “secret crush” on a man named Jonathan Schmitz....

From involuntary natural drunkenness to a condition called “Exploding Head Syndrome,” these are some of the most unusual disorders in the world. Image Source: Flickr Our brains and bodies are composed of an incredibly complex series of networks and systems, which naturally means that the list of things that can go awry within them is seemingly endless. Here are five disorders of the brain and body that you won’t believe even exist....

We recognize them by their signature yellow-black stripes and for being invaluable to our ecosystem. These queen bumblebee facts will only add to that. First off, we’re talking about this kind of Queen Bee: Not this kind: But when you get right down to it, they’re pretty similar. Both have striking features, they’re known to fight lesser creatures who threaten their social status, and they’re both bad bitches. Nobody ever said life on top was easy....

What you might not know is that The Green Man, also known as Charlie No-Face, was a real person — a Pennsylvania man named Raymond Robinson. If you grew up in the 1950s and 60s in Western Pennsylvania, chances are you’ve heard the legend of The Green Man, the no-faced man who stalks remote streets at night. What you might not know is that The Green Man, also known as Charlie No-Face, was a real person: a man named Raymond Robinson....

In 1993, TV writers took a risk in avoiding sex and skimpy clothing They created Dana Scully and mainstreamed women in STEM careers. Gillian Anderson was a twenty-four year old ingenue from Chicago when she auditioned for the part of Dana Scully. Even though Anderson told the producers of the show — titled The X-Files — that she was twenty-seven in order to fit the aesthetic of the FBI agent’s character, she was still the farthest thing from what they were looking for....

Wikipedia Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California. We recognize them from ‘Rosie the Riveter’ recruitment posters, but the female workforce of World War II provided us with much more than colorful kitsch. More than six million women joined the workforce during the War, and by 1942, the estimated proportion of jobs deemed acceptable for women shot up from roughly 29 to 85 percent. Women rose to the occasion and carried out tasks once considered out of their “reach”, feeling that it was their duty to support their short-handed country during times of conflict....

Knights Templar treasure tunnels uncovered, ancestral homeland of all humankind located, medieval Viking warrior’s face reconstructed. Archaeologists Uncover 800-Year-Old ‘Treasure Tunnels’ Of The Knights Templar Under Israeli City Wikimedia CommonsResearchers found a new network of secret tunnels buried underneath the Israeli city of Acre. The story of the Knights Templar — Catholic warrior monks known as the “crusading soldiers of God” — is the stuff of legends and continues to be studied today....

In his The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground, Canadian photographer and author Lyle Owerko calls the once-ubiquitous boombox a “sonic campfire” and “the eighties equivalent of Spotify – a conduit through which music was shared.” Share Flipboard Email It’s hard to imagine any contemporary, Spotify-equipped device as analogous to a campfire, sonic or otherwise. But the Spotify comparison does speak to the boombox’s small-scale social media-like power, decades before the term “social media” was even coined....

With hundreds dead and tens of thousands of properties destroyed, this was one of Britain’s worst natural disasters of the 20th century. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Meet The Mods: The Mid-Century Fashionistas Who Took Britain By Storm 22 Surreal Photos From The Great Boston Molasses Flood And Its Sticky Aftermath Hurricane Harvey’s Dogs: 21 Stirring Photos Of Brave Pooches That Survived The Storm...

These historical photographs finally provide a look at landmark events you didn’t know were even photographed like this in the first place. The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln (indicated by red arrow) arrives at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863, not long before delivering his Gettysburg Address.Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons The Last Lifeboat Off The Titanic A handful of surviving images depict the Titanic on the water, just days before the ship’s tragic accident on April 15, 1912....

Originating in Seattle, grunge took America by storm in the late ’80s and early ’90s — and became just as much a lifestyle as it was a music genre. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 17 Pictures Of When Seattle Grunge Took Over The World ‘Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair’: 33 Pictures Of The Summer Of Love In San Francisco...

Whether it was serial killers prowling the streets or parents killing their children in their own homes, these are some of the most disturbing murders ever committed on Halloween. For many, October 31st is an occasion to dress up, eat candy, and celebrate the macabre. But as the most disturbing Halloween murders from history prove, this ghoulish holiday can sometimes turn gruesome in a way that’s all too real. Below, discover the stories behind nine murders that took place on the scariest day of the year....

Also known as the sun spider or the wind scorpion, the camel spider is a desert-dwelling arachnid known for its enormous size and painful bite. Wikimedia CommonsThe camel spider, or sun spider, can reach lengths of up to six inches — though urban legends have greatly exaggerated their size. The camel spider is everything that arachnophobes fear. It’s ugly, huge, and the subject of many a tall tale. The myths surrounding this creature were popularized in 2003, at the height of the Iraq war, when American soldiers began spotting its spindly body in the unforgiving Middle Eastern desert....

The man arrested for the crime has been in jail since January. In footage from his body cam video, Baltimore police officer Richard Pinheiro can be seen rummaging around a pile of garbage. “Yo!” he says, pulling a bag of drugs out of a soup can. Normally, this would seem like an impressive bit of detective work — had the same footage not shown Pinheiro plant the drugs in that exact spot 30 seconds earlier:...

Also known as Canities subita, Marie Antoinette Syndrome is the name for a mysterious condition said to suddenly turn all of your hair white due to fear or stress — but the scientific jury is still out on whether or not it’s real. Alexander Kucharsky/Museum of the History of FranceAn unfinished portrait of Marie Antoinette, showing the young queen after her hair turned white. Once, a queen went to sleep a brunette and woke up with white hair....

After beginning by correcting his father’s math at 3 years old, Carl Friedrich Gauss became one of the most influential mathematicians the world has ever seen. Wikimedia CommonsCarl Friedrich Gauss. When Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born in present-day northwestern Germany, his mother was illiterate. She never recorded his date of birth, but she knew it was a Wednesday, eight days before the Feast of the Ascension, which is 39 days after Easter....

“I think she probably was one of the original, you know, the original ‘it girl’. Honestly, in terms of her style and her relationship to fashion and jewelry.” Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Archaeologists Just Discovered A 3,500-Year-Old Jewelry Collection In An Egyptian Necropolis Can Marie Antoinette Syndrome Really Turn Your Hair White From Fright?...

In July 2019, rangers in Colorado spotted a bull elk with a car tire stuck around its neck. After two long years of trying to relocate it, wildlife officials finally managed to liberate it. Colorado Parks and WildlifeThe elk was spotted on Oct. 9, 2021, by local Pine, Colorado resident Patrick Hemstreet. During a survey of the Mount Evans Wilderness in July 2019, Colorado Parks & Wildlife officers spotted a young bull elk that needed help....

Genyornis, or ’thunder birds,’ went extinct some 47,000 years ago, shortly after humans arrived in present-day Australia. Australian MuseumA huge flightless bird, Genyornis was a mihirungs dubbed a “thunder bird.” Many modern-day humans like eating eggs. So did ancient people living in Australia, and a new study suggests that they stole and ate so many eggs from huge flightless birds called Genyornis that they drove the small-winged wonders into extinction....