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The easy part about school is taking the facts the teacher tells you and regurgitating them come test time. But what about the facts you just can’t believe? We’re told to question everything, so it’s no surprise that there are …

17 years ago, Dawnielle Davison almost lost her life. She was just an infant, stuck in house engulfed by flames. When firefighters arrived, they had no idea anyone was in the home, but Mike Hughes rushed in anyways. Had he …

Imgur user threxx shares his method for dry aging a rib roast and cooking it to perfection. He starts with a 15 pound USDA prime rib roast from Costco and removes the original packing to place it in an Umai …

Chris Manno, a pilot flying from Dallas to Seattle, says the cockpit view on that trip is a well kept secret. “So few ever see the breathtaking tapestry scrolling under the nose that it’s best no one in the cabin …

Shengsi, an archipelago of almost 400 islands at the mouth of China’s Yangtze river, holds a secret shrouded in time – an abandoned fishing village being reclaimed by nature. These photos by Tang Yuhong, a creative photographer based in Nanning, …

Easter Island’s monumental stone heads are well-known, but there’s more to the story: all along, the sculptures have secretly had torsos, buried beneath the earth. Archaeologists have documented 887 of the massive statues, known as moai, but there may be …

Don’t you wish you still had some of these toys? Lite-Brite Nintendo Rainbow Brite Doll Garbage Pail Kids: Adam Bomb Transformers: Optimus Prime and Megatron Action Figures Fisher-Price Yellow Roof Little People Family Play House Teddy Ruxpin Casey The Talking …

Bodie, CA By the 1870s this former gold town in the Sierra Nevada mountains was booming with 10,000 residents, saloons, a red-light district, and opium dens. The decline took a while, with its post office finally shutting down in 1942. …

Abita Sitting 30 miles north of New Orleans, this brewery gets its name from the town of Abita Springs which was a Choctaw Indian village. Although the origin of the word “Abita” is unclear, the Choctaw insist that it’s not …

In the early days of the twentieth century, pornography was “a bit” more forbidden than it is today. In fact, you could be jailed in America for the production and distribution of erotic photos. However, man will be man and …

It’s not often you can have a conversation and say hey did you hear an NFL cheerleader joined the US Military? Actually don’t think it has ever happened before this. Rachel Washburn is a former Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader who, after three years …

The creepy, unexplained stories surrounding these holes will convince you they’re gateways to the netherworld. Devil’s Hole, Death Valley National Park You may not be able to tell, but there’s water down there (deep water, maybe more than 1000 feet). …

The Spanish courts ACTUALLY recognized her claim, but oddly enough she has not received any payments from solar panel users. After realizing the solar real estate business needed a little pick-me-up, she started selling plots of the sun on eBay, …

Dylan Sutcliffe who is 9 years old and has always dreamed of playing for the Cleveland Browns. Unfortunately, he was diagnosed with ataxia telangiectasia a genetic disorder that creates a vast amount of issues in the human body. Even though …

The 70s was a weird time that should be forgotten…

5 trillion pieces of plastic are estimated to be in the oceans right now, and Boyan Slat, a guy not even old enough to have a beer, thinks he can help fix that. Slat, the founder and CEO of The …

MIT researchers have developed an untethered miniature origami robot that self-folds, swims, and degrades. This is the first time that a robot has been able to demonstrate a complete life cycle. The robot consists of a magnet and PVC sandwiched …

My name is Marc Bushelle and I’m a Brooklyn based photographer. I have been recreating photos of heroines with my wife Janine and our 5-year-old daughter Lily. We started this photo series as a way to teach Lily about history …

 In the 1960s, a gang of variously disaffected youth sprang up in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. They didn’t ride bikes, but they quickly developed all the trimmings of an outlaw motorcycle club: patches, club colors, and a fiercely violent process …

This past week, Reddit user Victoknight (We’ll call him Victor for short), got the chance to be husband of the year and save one of his wife’s most prized possessions. You see, his wife dropped her engagement ring and it …

An East German soldier ignores orders to let no one pass and helps a boy, who was found on the opposite side from his family, cross the newly formed ‘Berlin Wall’- 1961 Bonnie and Clyde’s car after they were killed, …

I’ll give you a hint, the best-selling beer isn’t from America. 10. Coors Light (U.S.) 2005 rank: 7 Market share: 1.3% Outsold Coors by almost 13 to 1 9. Brahma (Brazil) 2005 rank: 5 Market share: 1.5% Brazilian beer also …

Steven and Glory Nelms have been together for 3 years and have a young son named Ezra. They decided that Gloria would become a housewife as it made more sense financially but when Stephan wrote a blog post about how …