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16 Fruits And Vegetables Before Many Many Years
A crop of a 17th-century painting by Giovanni Stanchi shows watermelons in a completely different form than we’re familiar with.
Read More »Pizza Delivery Woman Shares Her 32 Most Memorable Customers
“A group of EMT’s hanging out in the back of an ambulance at a recently extinguished (but still smoldering) house fire.”
Read More »20 Box Office Bombs That Definitely Deserve Your Attention
A couple things about these movies. One, I imagine that many regular readers are going to recognize many of these films, because it turns out plenty of good movies get fucked over at the box office for no reason. The …
Read More »3D-Design Team Recreates The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World In Their Original Forms
The Colossus was a 104ft tall triumphal statue of Greek sun god Helios built over Mandraki Harbour in Rhodes on 49ft marble pedestals allowing ships to pass between his legs.
Read More »There’s Always Something That Can Surprise Us
“Researching plantation houses in the 1700s. What is the thing hanging from the ceiling in this dining room?” It’s a ceiling fan. The rope at the top would be pulled to create the back and forth motion to fan the air and keep flies away …
Read More »Romans Have Done So Much For Our World!
Arches Romans didn’t invent the arch, but they sure did perfect it. With a reverence for the Greek architectural order of things, Roman architects built upon that knowledge and took it even further, advancing the technology. Their new arch techniques …
Read More »There Is Still So Many Things We Can’t Explain
Ruins of Atlit Yam Discovered in 1984 off the coast of Israel, the Ruins of Atlit Yam is an ancient neolithic village completely submerged underwater. Many of its structures remain preserved with several human skeletons found as well, including a …
Read More »Historically Mind-Blowing Artifacts That Are Still Unexplained
The Codex Gigas is a massive illustrated manuscript that is said to be the written documentation of a devil’s pact with a monk. But really, no one knows exactly what it is or why it was made. Evidence shows us …
Read More »These Creatures Have Just Way Too Much Venom In Them
Mexican Beaded Lizard While it doesn’t have fangs, this lizard will chew on its prey until its venomous saliva drips into the wound. Bites can cause respiratory arrest in humans. Brazilian wandering spider This spider’s venom is so strong that …
Read More »Entire Civilizations That Disappeared Without A Trace
Indus Valley Civilization Known to historians as one of the largest and earliest civilizations to not only colonize a continent but thrive in it, the Indus Valley Civilization was extremely advanced. They were known to have practiced dentistry, mathematics, …
Read More »Unexplainable And Odd Events That’ll Confound Your Brain
Cicada 3301 Cicada 3301 was a name given to a secret unknown organization that posted a series of nearly-unsolvable games and riddles online, and is believed to have been an attempt to recruit highly-advanced codebreakers and linguists. Their puzzles …
Read More »Turns out Easter Island heads have detailed bodies
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 …
Read More »EARTH. It’s A Very Neat Place
Cave of Crystals, Mexico Massive beams of selenite dwarf explorers in the Cave of Crystals in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico, March 18, 2008. Some single gypsum crystals in this cave are 36 feet long and weigh 121,200 pounds, some of the …
Read More »17 superhero actors who are even more amazing in real life
Chris Evans Stand up guy and the other half of Hollywood’s most charitable bromance, Chris Evans is pretty outspoken about using his celebrity for good. His recent Superbowl bet with Chris Pratt resulted in the pair visiting hospitals in full …
Read More »The Great Blue Hole: How An Undersea Cave Taught Us About An Ancient Civilization
The Great Blue Hole of the Belize Barrier Reef and the ancient Mayan civilization seem to have little to do with one another aside from their locations. However, just as everything on our planet is linked in some way, scientists …
Read More »They Found The Runt Of The Litter Dead At The Bottom Of The Pile. Or So They Thought…
He was alive, though. They named him Stuart Little. The kitten was terribly dehydrated, losing hair, and had badly infected eyes.
Read More »Rare Historical Photos
Construction of Brasilia city, which would later become the capital of Brazil. 1960. Very interesting collection of rare historical photos.
Read More »This Former “Hippo” Is Now a Yummy, Mummy
As a girl, this young, British mother was often called, “Hayley the Hippo” as a result of her size. Gorging on fast food throughout her pregnancy, she topped the scales at massive 21 stone (133 kg) before she decided to …
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