Sperm and semen are as common as men in the world. However, aside from knowing that it comes from the male genitals and is important for making babies, there are still a lot of amazing things about it that many of us don’t [...]
Secret Code Of Rhode Island’s Founder
on Apr 18, 2014
Roger Williams was the founder of Rhode Island, and during the last years of his life, he filled the margins of a book, An Essay Towards the Reconciling of Differences Among Christians, with a series of notes on various [...]
The Mysterious Disappearance of Flight MH370
on Mar 13, 2014
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is the kind of mystery that’s not supposed to be possible anymore.
The Information Age is also the age of surveillance, of interconnectedness, of cloud computing, [...]
The Worst Sports Outfit Fails of All Time
on Feb 23, 2014
We have seen some truly bizarre and horrendous outfits in our time following sport, but it's the ones that are entirely unsuitable or faulty that cause the biggest problems. Often athletes spend their dream occasions on [...]
Kate Upton Amazing Defy Gravity Video In a Bikini
on Feb 20, 2014
Kate Upton defied gravity for the 50th Anniversary of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.
The 21-year-old got into her itty bitty bikini and hopped on a zero gravity plane off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida [...]
Sergei Tretyakov, Russian Double Agent
on Feb 17, 2014
Sergei Tretyakov was a Russian spy who defected to the United States in October 2000. During his time in Russia, Tretyakov was a colonel in the Russian intelligence service (S.V.R.) and oversaw covert operations in New [...]
Sidney Gottlieb, CIA "Black Sorcerer"
on Feb 16, 2014
In 1918, Sidney Gottlieb was born in New York under the name of Joseph Scheider. He received a PhD in chemistry from Caltech and became an expert on lethal poisons.
In 1951, Gottlieb joined the CIA and was given a [...]
Alexander Solonik, Infamous Russian Assassins In History
on Feb 15, 2014
In 1960, Alexander Solonik was born in Kurgan, Russia. In the late 1980s, he was arrested for rape and sent to prison.
In jail, he became targeted for death due to his association with the police. However, Solonik [...]
Arnold Paole, Famous Examples of Vampires
on Feb 14, 2014
In the early 18th century, people in southeastern Europe started to believe in the existence of vampires. They were seen as a major problem to society, especially in Transylvania.
People took to digging up graves and [...]
Lawrence E. King Jr., The Child Sex Ring Allegations Scandal
on Feb 13, 2014
Lawrence E. King Jr. is the man who was at the center of the child sex ring allegations involving the Omaha, Nebraska, branch of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union (FCFCU) that emerged in the late 1980s.
Despite [...]
Karl Koecher, CIA Double Agent
on Feb 12, 2014
In 1934, Karl Koecher was born in Czechoslovakia. When he was 28, Koecher joined the Czech intelligence agency.
In the mid-1960s, he moved to the United States and received a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. [...]
"Lee Harvey Oswald", A Series of Conspiracy Theories
on Feb 11, 2014
On May 5, 1979, a man named Raymond Lee Harvey was arrested by the Secret Service for concealing a loaded starter gun only 10 minutes before President Jimmy Carter was set to give a speech in Los Angeles.
Harvey was [...]
Who's Wolf Messing, Teacher For The KGB!
on Feb 10, 2014
In 1899, Wolf Messing was born in the town of Góra Kalwaria, which is located 25 kilometers (15 mi) southeast of Warsaw, Poland.
As a teenager, Messing claimed to be a psychic. He could alter people’s perceptions and [...]
The Pimlico Poisoning Mystery
on Feb 9, 2014
On the January 1, 1886, Thomas Edwin Bartlett was found dead at his home in Pimlico in the center of London.
He had been ill for some time, but when doctors performed a post-mortem, they discovered a large quantity [...]
The Origin Of The London Stone Mystery
on Feb 8, 2014
The London Stone, also known as the Stone of Brutus, is an unassuming piece of history. It’s located at 111 Cannon Street in London, behind a grate in the wall of a disused office building.
You can see its resting [...]
The Natural History Museum Mystery Bug
on Feb 7, 2014
London’s Natural History Museum has 28 million bugs on record, so when museum entomologist Max Barclay found one hanging around in the building’s grounds, he decided to check what it was.
It turned out to be a mystery—there [...]
Mystery, Who Owns Witanhurst Mansion?
on Feb 6, 2014
The most modern mystery on this list involves Witanhurst Mansion, which is the second largest home in London after Buckingham Palace.
While we know who owns the Queen’s residence (it’s our shape-shifting lizard overlords), [...]
The St. Pancras Walrus 44,000 Bodies Buried Mystery
on Feb 5, 2014
“Who is the walrus?” is no longer just a question of interest to Beatles fans.
Archaeologists in London were excavating the graveyard of St. Pancras Old Church this past July, in preparation for the construction of [...]
The Mystery of Edmund Godfrey Death
on Feb 4, 2014
Edmund Berry Godfrey, an English magistrate, was found dead in 1678. Though three men were convicted of his murder and hanged, many historians believe they may have been entirely innocent.
The late 17th century was [...]
Pediophobia Fear of Dolls
on Jan 22, 2014
Pediophobia is the irrational fear of dolls. Not just scary dolls – ALL dolls.
Strictly speaking, the fear is a horror of a “false representation of sentient beings” so it also usually includes robots and mannequins, [...]
Mageirocophobia Fear of Cooking
on Jan 17, 2014
The bizarre fear of cooking is called mageirocophobia which comes from the Greek word mageirokos which means a person skilled in cooking.
This disorder can be debilitating and potentially lead to unhealthy eating if [...]
The Possibly Cannibalistic Susquehannocks
on Jan 11, 2014
The Susquehannocks were a Native American tribe who were given a very bad reputation by European settlers.
Depicted as brutal cannibals, the Susequehannocks were accused of the massacre of their neighbors, the Shenks [...]
Deipnophobia Fear of Dinner Conversation
on Jan 10, 2014
Now admittedly some dinner conversations can be very awkward, but some people are so terrified of the idea of speaking to another person over dinner that they avoid dining out situations.
In times gone by there were [...]
