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Turns out cavemen cared about dental hygiene — and may have something to teach us about the ways we care for our teeth. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty ImagesOn December 21, 2016, anthropologist Helene Rougier displays some of the Neanderthal teeth recently found in Belgium’s Goyet cave. The Chinese are said to have invented the earliest-known modern toothbrush sometime during the 15th century. Just looking at it, it’s likely not something you’d want to put in your mouth....

Fond of playing his bagpipes before charging into battle with his broadsword and longbow in hand, Lt. Col. “Fighting Jack” Churchill was a soldier unlike any other. Sunday People/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty ImagesLieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, a.k.a. Jack Churchill, “Fighting Jack” Churchill, and “Mad Jack” Churchill, a British soldier who fought throughout World War II armed with a longbow, arrows, and a Scottish broadsword. Lieutenant Colonel John “Mad Jack” Churchill had a motto: “Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed....

A missing child found hidden under a staircase three years after she was kidnapped and a man who lived with his dead roommate’s body for years while cashing his checks are just some of the most outrageous crime stories that made headlines this past year. Midterm elections and Elon Musk’s buyout of Twitter may have dominated the headlines in 2022, but life still carried on for the 7.9 billion people on Earth who don’t work for Twitter or the American government — and it was full of surprises....

Ukrainian model and influencer Valeria Lukyanova has found fame as the real-life Barbie doll — though she claims her doll-like appearance is completely natural. Also known as the “Human Barbie Doll,” Ukrainian model Valeria Lukyanova looks like she’s undergone numerous surgeries to construct her surreal appearance. Yet she claims she’s only had one procedure done — a breast enhancement. While Lukyanova’s strange look might be the first thing you notice about her, her worldview is even more bizarre....

Opinions aside, here are four objective reasons why Paul McCartney was simply a better Beatle than John Lennon. You’ll be surprised. Wikimedia CommonsPaul McCartney (right) and John Lennon arrive with The Beatles at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on February 7, 1964. IT’S A FACT: PAUL MCCARTNEY WAS A BETTER BEATLE THAN JOHN LENNON. And no, we’re not talking about the offstage words and deeds that reveal Lennon’s ugly side....

Whether Odin, Frigg, Thor, Balder, or Freyja, these Norse gods boast tales that are far more outrageous than you ever realized. Mårten Eskil Winge/Wikimedia CommonsThor rides into battle against the giants. You can obviously learn a lot about a culture from their idols. And the legends of the Norse gods provide a revealing glimpse into a fascinating ancient culture. The stories of the Norse gods, passed down for generations throughout Scandinavia, feature remarkable characters from a forgotten time and express values that reflect how these medieval people saw the world....

Gregory Forth has collected more than 30 eyewitness accounts that the “Hobbits” are still alive on the Indonesian island of Flores. Wikimedia CommonsA digital reconstruction of Homo floresiensis. When researchers discovered the bones of Homo floresiensis in Indonesia in 2003, scientists stood in awe. The remains on Flores Island indicated that this newfound hominin species had been three-and-a-half feet tall and used stone tools to hunt. Experts long believed it had gone extinct 50,000 years ago — until now....

The eight-foot oaken idol was likely used to commune with the spirit world, or “Otherworld” of Celtic Paganism. Archaeological Management SolutionsOne of only a dozen idols of its kind ever found in Ireland, the “Gortnacrannagh Idol” is the largest. With construction on Ireland’s N5 Ballaghaderreen highway in County Roscommon about to begin, it was important to survey the area beforehand to ensure nothing historical would be destroyed. Remarkably, a team from Archaeological Management Solutions (AMS) uncovered a 1,600-year-old pagan idol as a result....

Barbro Karlén believed she was different as a child but didn’t know why until she read the diary of Anne Frank — and realized she had lived as Frank in a past life. YouTubeBarbro Karlén claims to remember details from Anne Frank’s childhood before the Holocaust. Throughout history, many have questioned whether reincarnation can happen, either from generation to generation or across time. And Swedish writer Barbro Karlén is one of many who believes it exists....

Let us introduce you to the Anlong Pi dump, a toxic landfill where poor men, women and children scavenge for recyclable materials every day. Each year, millions of tourists gather in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province to visit the Angkor Wat temple. Built as a spiritual home for the Hindu god Vishnu, the UNESCO World Heritage Site is an archaeological triumph that offers scholars an intimate look at Cambodia’s past. Yet alongside the beautiful temples and flashy tourist magnets, a much darker world exists....

What CONOP 8888 says about defending against a zombie invasion — and why it exists. USSTRATCOM via ScribdThe first page of the CONOP 8888 report. “Zombies are horribly dangerous to all human life and zombie infections have the potential to seriously undermine national security and economic activities that sustain our way of life. Therefore having a population that is not composed of zombies or at risk from their malign influence is vital to U....

A Jacksonville officer detained, fined, and threatened Devonte Shipman for crossing the street illegally without an ID. Most people don’t think twice about jaywalking. In New York, you do it ten times a day. But last Tuesday, 21-year-old local Devonte Shipman and a friend were stopped and then detained by Sheriff’s Officer J.S. Bolen in Jacksonville, Florida for that very offense, the Miami Herald reports. In a video that Shipman took of the encounter, he asks Bolen what he and his friend did wrong....

Ernie Chambers was sick and tired of God’s role in causing “widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.” So he sought a legal injunction. Nebraska LegislatureErnie Chambers In August 2008, Nebraska Judge Marlon Polk presided over the matter brought before his courtroom that day: the lawsuit of state Senator Ernie Chambers vs. God. The year before, citing the Almighty’s role in “fearsome floods… horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes… widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants,” a state senator who’d served some 35 years had actually filed suit against God, seeking an injunction against all of these wrongdoings....

To overthrow President Batista’s tyrannical government, Fidel Castro led a band of guerilla farmers in the Cuban Revolution — and was successful. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: How Soviet Spy Oleg Penkovsky Single-Handedly Prevented Nuclear War During The Cuban Missile Crisis The Real Story Of The Cuban Missile Crisis, When The World Was On The Brink Of Nuclear Annihilation...

It grows to 20 feet tall, burns and blinds you, and only arrived in the U.S. as an ornamental plant. This is giant hogweed. The Courier The giant hogweed plant may look harmless and, with its clustered white flowers, even pretty. But looks can be deceiving. Now, this highly toxic plant is causing a panic in Virginia, where specimens of the invasive giant hogweed have recently been found. Over the past few days, various authorities in Virginia have reported giant hogweed sightings in Middlesex County, Clarke County, and Isle of Wight County, all in the far eastern portion of the state....

In the 1930s, an Irish politician named Eoin O’Duffy embraced fascism and tried to turn Ireland into a dictatorship — but he ultimately failed. Wikimedia Commons/Narodowe Archiwum CyfroweEoin O’Duffy as the commissioner of the Garda Síochána, the police force of the Republic of Ireland. He held this position for most of the 1920s and early 1930s. In the years leading up to World War II, a disturbing number of countries around the world descended into fascism....

Even though she was emancipated in 1848, Henrietta Wood was kidnapped and enslaved again for 16 more years. After she was freed a second time, she took her captor to court. Wikimedia CommonsHenrietta Wood (not pictured) was a free woman who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. She took her abductor to court in 1878 — and won. In 1853, a deputy sheriff lured a Black woman named Henrietta Wood across the Ohio River from Ohio into the slave state of Kentucky....

“I Am” is meant to challenge our ideas of what constitutes meaning, according to sculptor Salvatore Garau. Instagram/salvatore_garauSalvatore Garau described his immaterial sculpture as a “concentrate of thoughts.” Our definition of art has been in constant flux. From the very first cave paintings to motion pictures and the advent of downloadable music, the form is ever-changing. It now appears that the constant of being able to actually observe the art is, too — as the world’s first invisible sculpture just sold for $18,300....

‘Smart Aleck’ would share profits with the police to avoid being arrested for his cons. Getty ImagesProstitutes on a city street, scouting out potential suitors. The term smart aleck is usually used to describe someone who is sarcastic or humorous to a fault — someone too smart for their own good. For a long time, people thought that the term was generic and that there was no actual Alec. However, a professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology discovered that the term actually was derived from a real-life person named Alec who was a con man that thought he was smarter than everyone else....

Mysterious figures described in the mythology of pre-Islamic Arabia, jinn are shape-shifting genies said to both aid and torment the humans they encounter. While the concept of jinn (or djinn) might seem unfamiliar at first, these legendary creatures have actually been introduced to the world at large through the genie in Disney’s Aladdin. But despite the movie’s depiction, these shape-shifting spirits aren’t traditionally seen as friendly. Known as jinn and djinn, the fabled genies described in the pre-Islamic mythology of Arabia can appear as everything from snakes to scorpions to humans....