Juan Catalan spent nearly 6 months in jail for the murder of a teenage girl until his lawyer found unused footage from HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiam” that proved he’d been at a Dodgers game with his 6-year-old daughter at the time of the crime
The people in a village on the Niger River in Africa were losing fellow villagers at such a rapid rate that they had to call in the Army to hunt down the culprit: a 22-foot, 2,500-pound crocodile
Hanako, a koi fish who died at the age of 226. In 1966, two of her scales were removed and extensively studied to determine her age. She was the longest living koi fish ever recorded (c. 1751-1977)
This is what an igloo looks like when you build a fire inside. The fire melts the inner layer of ice, and the cold outside refreezes it- adding a layer of insulation that can keep the igloo at 60° inside while it’s -50° outside
Point Nemo is officially known as “the oceanic pole of inaccessibility,” aka the point in the ocean that is farthest away from land, surrounded by more than 1,000 miles of ocean in every direction. The closest humans to this location at any given time are likely to be astronauts
A 9,000-year-old skeleton was found in a cave in Cheddar, England, and was nicknamed “Cheddar Man.” His DNA was tested and it was concluded that a living relative was teaching history 1/2 mile away, linking back 300 generations
UK artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in 1995. Over the next 5 years, he drew these self-portraits of himself which displayed the devastating effects of the disease
When loggers cut off the top of a chestnut oak tree to load it into a transport truck, they noticed the mummified remains of a hunting dog. Experts believe that it chased its prey up the tree in the 1960s, only to get stuck and eventually die. He wasn’t found until 1980
In 1974, Egyptian authorities issued a passport to Ramesses II so that the mummy could be legally transported to France for examination and restoration
These pictures are designed to give the viewer the simulated experience of having a stroke (particularly in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, where vision perception occurs). Everything looks hauntingly familiar but you can’t quite recognize anything
A monument in Georgia has instructions in 8 different languages on how to rebuild society after an unknown apocalyptic event. It also functions as a calendar, compass, and a clock
A snapping turtle buried in mud just after emerging from hibernation. This is where the Native American legends of the Earth being brought into existence and carried on the shell of a turtle originated from
Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a statue of a sphinx while draining water from the pharaonic temple of Kom Ombo near the southern city of Aswan