Maus Castle, which is actually called Thurnberg, was occasionally the favourite residence of the electors of Trier, located in Wellmich - Germany

Archbishop Balduin built the castle between 1353-1388 AD, for the protection of his newly acquired territory. It was one of the most modern and technically most interesting constructions of its time. About 1370 the counts of Katzenelnbogen built the mighty stronghold Neu-Katzenelnbogen on the adjoining mountain.

Among the people the impression arose that the castles spied on themselves like cat and mouse. So both bastions got their nicknames, under which they are known until today. Mouse Castle opens its gates for visitors. Inside you can admire precious furniture and interesting collections.

Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.

Located in Arizona in the United States, Supai is considered the most remote town in the Southern United States. The town of 208 is actually inside the Grand Canyon and is the Havasupai Indian Reservation capital. Eight miles from any road, you can only access it by foot, helicopter, or pack animal, giving these isolated homes the distinction of being the only town in the US to get mail delivered by mule.

The inventor of Vaseline was such a firm believer in its medicinal properties that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it a day; During a bout of pleurisy in his 50s, he ordered his nurse to cover him from head to toe in the substance, and soon recovered. He lived to be 96.

On this day in 1903: Wright brothers airplane flies for the first time.

Around 14,000 years ago, children in Las Monedas Cave in Spain likely created what is now called the “Panel of the Enigmatic Signs.” While adults were busy drawing detailed charcoal images of animals like bison and reindeer, children aged 3 to 6 worked in their own section of the cave, drawing at their height. Their panel, about a meter wide and 60 centimeters high, is filled with scribbles similar to what young kids today might make, like rough circles and shaky lines.

Researchers used 3D scans to study the markings and compared them to how children today learn to draw. They found that these drawings were likely made by children working on their own, not under the guidance of adults. The kids seemed to be exploring and experimenting with materials like charcoal in a safe space near the adults, who probably used fires or torches to light the dark cave.

This discovery challenges the long-standing belief that children’s involvement in ancient cave art was limited to following adult guidance or being used to create stencils. Instead, it shows that children were independently exploring and experimenting with materials like charcoal, actively contributing to their community’s cultural practices. Researchers hope this approach will lead to the identification of more examples of children’s art in ancient caves, offering new perspectives on their roles in early societies.

Meet Nicole Smith-Ludvik, the woman who stood atop the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa (828m) for an Emirates Airlines ad

Perfectly kept dinosaur embryo from 66 million years ago found, in China :

In 2021, scientists have announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago that was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken...

The fossil was discovered in Ganzhou, southern China and belonged to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, which the researchers dubbed “Baby Yingliang.”

"It is one of the best dinosaur embryos ever found in history," University of Birmingham researcher Fion Waisum Ma, who co-authored a paper in the journal iScience.

Ma and colleagues found Baby Yingliang’s head lay below its body, with the feet on either side and back curled – a posture that was previously unseen in dinosaurs, but similar to modern birds.

In birds, the behaviour is controlled by the central nervous system and called “tucking”. Chicks preparing to hatch tuck their head under their right wing in order to stabilise the head while they crack the shell with their beak. Embryos that fail to tuck have a higher chance of dying after a hatching that is unsucessful. “This indicates that such behaviour in modern birds first evolved and originated among their dinosaur ancestors,” said Ma.

An alternative to tucking might have been something closer to what is seen in modern crocodiles, which instead assume a sitting posture with the head bending upon the chest up to hatching.

Oviraptorosaurs, which means “egg thief lizards”, were feathered dinosaurs that lived in what is now Asia and North America during the Late Cretaceous period. They had variable beak shapes and diets and ranged in size from modern turkeys at the lower end to massive Gigantoraptors, that were 8m long. Baby Yingliang measures about 27cm long from head to tail and lies inside a 17cm long egg at the Yingliang Stone Nature History Museum.

Researchers believe the creature is between 72 and 66 million years old, and was probably preserved by a sudden mudslide that buried the egg, protecting it from scavengers for aeons. It would have grown 2-3m long if it had lived to be an adult, and would have likely fed on plants. The specimen was one of several egg fossils that were forgotten in storage for decades.

The research team suspected they might contain unborn dinosaurs, and scraped off part of Baby Yingliang’s eggshell to uncover the embryo hidden within.

“This dinosaur embryo inside its egg is one of the most beautiful fossils I have ever seen,” said Professor Steve Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh, part of the research team, in a statement.

On this day in 1975: the Byte Shop opened.

It was one of the first computer stores.

And the first to sell an Apple computer.

A Buddha statue in Afghanistan before its destruction in 1992.

Chris Espinosa is currently the longest-serving employee at Apple.

He joined in 1976 at the age of 14, writing BASIC code while the company was still based in Steve Jobs’ garage.

On November 29, 1899, Joan Gamper and eleven others met at the Solé Gymnasium in Barcelona to form a club that would bear the name and crest of the city.

That day, Futbol Club Barcelona was born.

Pablo Escobar and his son infront of the white house 1981

This guy scanned monks' brains.

He expected normal results.

But what he found had never been seen in scientific history.

The discovery landed him on Time's 100 Most Influential People.

Young DJ Khaled went by the name ‘Arab Attack’, which he wisely decided to change after 9/11

Māori protest in New Zealand against a bill to give equal rights to citizens of all races:

In case you missed this, there is a Window Cleaning World Cup.

The Colosseum wasn't the biggest stadium in Ancient Rome — it was the Circus Maximus, where chariot races took place.

It once held 250,000 spectators.

Why so big? Because chariot racing — not gladiatorial combat — was the most popular Roman sport...

Guy smiles for a photo after the tree he planted 35 years ago that he named Epimaco Amancio saved a bus from plunging off a cliff in Dalaguete, Cebu, Philippines. It saved the lives of 37 people, most of them were students.

A Coca-Cola employee offered to sell company secrets to Pepsi for 1.5 million dollars. Pepsi responded by notifying Coca-Cola.

As high-ranking Coca-Cola employees, Joya Williams and her accomplice Ibrahim Dimson had access to many documents about Coca-Cola drinks and future projects. Williams and Dimson so called Pepsi and offered to sell all the executive secrets for $1.5 million.

Unfortunately for Williams and Dimson, Pepsi executives reported them to Coca-Cola and the FBI. The FBI then sent undercover agents posing as Pepsi executives. Those FBI undercover agents lured Williams and Dimson with a portion of the $1.5 million demanded and forced them to hand over the documents and the vial containing the chemical. Williams and Dimson were caught red-handed.

The FBI presented the proof of payment and the secrets to the court as irrefutable evidence. In 2007, Williams was sentenced to eight years in prison and Dimson to five years in prison.

A Pepsi spokesperson said, "We did what any responsible company would do. Competition can be fierce, but it also has to be fair and legal," according to CNN.

Eight years in prison is the sentence given to Joya Williams, the former Coca-Cola employee and five years to his accomplice, Ibrahim Dimson, who had attempted to sell the secret formula of the famous drink to competitor Pepsi without taking into account that, in addition to patents, the law also protects business secrets.

This performance takes street art to the next level

abandoned cargo ship off the coast of Oman

Paul "Bear" Vasquez, the creator who filmed the Double Rainbow video, made thousands of videos in advance and reportedly scheduled 15 years worth of uploads in advance before he died, leaving his channel still active now years after his death.

He died in 2020 after posting a video talking about feeling feverish and having trouble breathing.

His channel is called Yosemitebear62.

A father looks for his two missing sons during the Kosovo war in 1999. He would later find them.

1956: 2024:

3.75 MB 1 TB

On August 1, 2009, Dalia Dippolito of Boynton Beach, Florida, got into the passenger seat of a red sedan for a clandestine meeting and told the driver she wanted him to kill her husband.

She offered him $7,000, and he responded that he'd already bought the gun.

They agreed on a date and time when she would be at the gym to establish an alibi.⁠ ⁠When Dalia arrived home from her workout on the day of the planned murder, her house was a crime scene.

Police told her that her husband was dead and she broke down in tears right there on the street. Officers consoled her and escorted her to the station for a debriefing and explanation.

There, she continued to sob in horror and disbelief — until the man she believed to be dead came out from behind a doorway.⁠ ⁠

The whole operation had been a setup. The hitman was an undercover cop and her husband himself was in on the sting — with the entire saga had even been recorded for an episode of "COPS."

This day on September 30, 1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.

This is how water is loaded into a firefighting plane!

It took 28 years to build this massive statue of the Hindu god Vishnu riding a mythical bird.

Garuda Wisnu Kencana in Kuta Selatan, Bali, is Indonesia's tallest statue.

Illia Golem, the “world’s most monstrous bodybuilder,” has died at 36.

Early in his career, Sylvester Stallone was so low on cash, he was forced to sell his dog, Butkus, for $40. When he sold the script for 'Rocky', he bought the dog back for $15K and gave him a role in the movie.

About 5 years ago, Stallone shared the story of his beloved dog Butkus during a tough stretch in 1971. "When I was 26, totally broke, going nowhere VERY fast, owned two pairs of pants that barely fit, shoes that had holes in them, and dreams of being successful were as far away as the sun... But I had my dog, BUTKUS, my best friend, my confidant, who always laughed at my jokes and put up with my moods, and was the one living thing that loved me for who I was!"

"We were both thin, hungry, and living in a flophouse above a subway stop. I used to say this apartment had… Hot and cold running roaches. When things got even worse, I had to sell him for $40 in front of a 7-Eleven store because I couldn't afford food. Then, like a modern-day miracle, the screenplay for Rocky sold, and I could buy him back. But the new owner knew I was desperate and charged me $15,000... He was worth every penny!"

Rocky won an Oscar, the two never separated, and Butkus even got to star in the first two movies before his death in 1981.

On April 28, 1988, the roof of an Aloha Airlines jet ripped off at 24,000 feet, but the plane still managed to land safely.

Meet the anti-robbery catcher device made in the early 1900's.

Wrought iron Volkswagen Beetle

Tamil Nadu: a land where every route is a marvel.

Some chronological milestones that may instantly reveal you how fast time flies.

"Mimetic Architecture" is when buildings are designed to look like something else.

Like the infamous National Fisheries Development Board Headquarters in Hyderabad, India.

People seeing the iPhone for the first time.

June 29, 2007.

The world's most expensive under water hotel room.

The Ethiopian Bible is the oldest, original and most complete bible on earth. Written in Ge’ez an ancient language of Ethiopia, it’s nearly 800 years older than the King James Version and contains 81-88 books compared to 66.

Written on goat skin in the early Ethiopian language of Ge’ez. It is also World’s first illustrated Christian Bible. It includes the Book of EN0CH, Esdras, Buruch and all 3 Books of MACCABEE, and a host of others that was excommunicated from the KJV.

The Ethiopian bible dating analysis dated Garima 2 to be written around 390-570, and Garima 1 from 530-660. During the Italian invasion fire was set in the monastery in the 1930s to destroy the monastery’s church nevertheless the Bible survive.

The original Christianity of Egypt was established by the apostle Mark in AD 42 in Ethiopia (Coptic Church--Coptic Orthodox Christianity) where it spread to Europe and some part of Asia. Today We have been told Christianity came from Rome.

The Catholic Church begin with the teachings of Yeshua (Yehōshu'a) who lived in the 1st century CE in the province of Judea of the Roman Empire. Meanwhile by AD 313, the Roman Empire Catholic Church faced persecution and christianity was not openly practice, the Coptic Orthodox Christianity was flourishing in the Aksumite Empire now in Ethiopia.

Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion Axum Ethiopia, houses the Ark of the Covenant, bears a design similar to that of Eastern Orthodox churches in Europe. Its most recent building, reconstructed in the 1950s, has a dome similar to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. It is heavily guarded.

Lalibela is a holy town most famous for its churches carved from the living rock, which play an important part in the history of rock-cut architecture. Its buildings, built in the 11th and 12th centuries, are considered symbolic representations of biblical Jerusalem.

For early Christians, the risk of persecution from the Romans sometimes ran high, forcing them to practice their beliefs in private, posing a challenge for those scholars who study this era.

The King James Version Bible New Testament which is said to be translated from Greek, and the Old Testament from Hebrew and Aramaic, and the Apocrypha from Greek and Latin, All were originally translated from the Ethiopian bible. original Greek Bible was written around AD 1500.

It is also known that Ancient Afrikans of Old Egypt (Kemet) studied this bible in their temple which was known as the "The Book of the Coming Forth by Day and Night". The original Bible was produced by Black Afrikans approximately 3,400 years.

Before the Old Testament and more than 4,200 years before the New Testament, and countless versions of it have been written and published. Different scholars also translated the bible to their local languages during their studies in Kemet.

Visualizing the $105 Trillion World Economy in One Chart

From the archive: https://visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-105-trillion-world-economy-in-one-chart/

Soviet soldiers feed polar bears from a tank, 1950 This picture was taken in the Chukchi Peninsula.

This Peninsula is west of Alaska and it is considered to be one of the hardest places to survive in the Russian federation (then Soviet Union).

Patrols in this area were routine, however the soldiers there often saw that even the wildlife there was struggling due to the extreme cold in the area, so they would feed cans of condensed milk to the polar bears. The second image shows a soldier kissing a cub.

The soldiers did not give meat to the bears, as it wouldn't be possible to take a large quantity of meat with them in a tank, however condensed milk was part of their army ration as a dessert.

These picture's are actually incredible, as polar bears are very protective of their cubs and will fight viciously to defend them. Polar bears are also thought to be the most aggressive type of bear towards humans.

The Chukchi Peninsula is inhabited by the Chukchi people, an indigenous group of people who may have been the first to ever live in the Eastern Russian Federation. There are about 15,000 Chukchi people alive today.

The Age of Exploration was a period from about the 15th-17th Centuries in which European powers traveled to and colonized territories around the globe. Portugal and Spain were dominant seafaring and colonizing powers in beginning of this period. By the end of the Age of Exploration, the principal European colonizers were Britain, France and the Netherlands. European powers invented new types of ships, weapons and navigational tools during the Age of Exploration to aid their sea voyages and colonial campaigns.

In 15th Century, Portugal started producing a new kind of ship called the caravel. These medium-sized ships had two or three masts with triangular sails and only required a small crew. They became one of the key types of ships that Portuguese and Spanish sailors used to traverse unfamiliar routes during the Age of Exploration. Caravels were faster and easier to maneuver than large ships, but their smaller size meant they had less cargo space. Niña and Pinta ships that Columbus sailed to Bahamas in 1492 on behalf of Spain were both caravels. However, the Santa María ship on that voyage was a larger type of vessel: the carrack.

The carrack ships that Portugal produced during 15th Century were larger than caravels and had three or four masts with square and triangular sails. Carracks were slower and less maneuverable than caravels, but they were sturdier in rough waters. Because they had much more storage space than caravels, Portuguese and Spanish crews used them for longer trips to Asian spice markets. One of the most famous carrack ships from the Age of Exploration is the Victoria, the first known ship to circumnavigate the globe. Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan led this journey from 1519 until his death in 1521 (he died while trying to attack an island in the Philippines). Ship continued its journey without him and completed its circumnavigation in 1522.

In 16th Century, large galleon ships began to replace carracks. Galleons could carry cargo as well as heavy cannons, yet were faster and easier for crews to maneuver than the smaller carracks. An even larger version of galleon, Spanish galleon, could hold up to 60 cannons. European sailors used galleon ships to transport stolen goods from colonized lands and to fight in battles. The use of galleons in battle declined after the Age of Exploration as newer, sleeker warships emerged. However, European sailors continued to use galleons as cargo ships into 19th Century.

Falconet was one of many types of cannons that European ships carried during Age of Exploration. Falconet was a light cannon on wheels that sailors could use at sea or on land. Another cannon on these ships was the culverin, a medieval field cannon that sailors started using at sea during the Age of Exploration. There was also the lombard cannon, which the crew on Columbus’ 1492 voyage reportedly fired to alert the ships that a lookout had spotted land.

One of the tools that European seafarers used to navigate while sailing their caravels, carracks and galleons was the traverse board. Crew members used these boards to keep track of a ship’s speed and direction. Top half of the board had a compass rose design with slots for wooden pegs. Every half hour, the sailor keeping watch with the traverse board would look at a compass to determine what direction the ship was going in, and then mark that direction on the board using a wooden peg. On the bottom half of the board, the sailor on watch would also mark ship’s speed with wooden pegs.

A 24-year-old live-streamer, known for her binge-eating broadcasts, has died after her stomach ripped open while streaming a 10-hour food binge that included eating cake and chicken fingers.

The Chinese woman, Pan Xiaoting, died last week from a suspected stomach rupture after consuming 10kg of food.

Post-mortem examination revealed that her abdomen was visibly distended and her stomach was filled with undigested food, suggesting that her stomach may have burst.

23-year-old Tiago Rech was the only fan at his team's stadium in a game in 2012. In 2014 he became the club president and in 2020 they've won the FGF cup and classified for Copa do Brasil for the first time in the history of the club.

Harrowing photograph taken by by Alice Seeley Harris shows a father called Nsala staring at the hand and foot of his five-year-old, severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota, Belgian Congo, 1904.

At that time, the Congo Free State was owned by Leopold as a personal business, and he exploited the local people for his own profit, particularly through the production of wild rubber.

To ensure that the rubber quotas were met, the colonists, under the king's orders, would routinely cut off the limbs of the natives.

In 2018, John Allen Chau made a controversial attempt to contact the Sentinelese, an isolated indigenous tribe on North Sentinel Island. The Sentinelese have long maintained their seclusion and are known to react aggressively to outsiders.

Visits to the island are strictly prohibited without government approval, which Chau did not obtain. Instead, he paid local fishermen to take him near the island.

Chau's motivation was to spread Christianity to the Sentinelese. He wrote in his diary about his mission, expressing concerns about the island being "Satan's last stronghold" and stating that "the eternal lives of this tribe is at hand."

Despite warnings from the fishermen, he made several attempts to approach the islanders, offering gifts and singing worship songs, but was met with hostility and laughter.

On November 17, during his final visit, Chau instructed the fishermen to leave him on the island.

The fishermen later reported seeing the Sentinelese dragging what appeared to be Chau's body and then burying it on the shore.

Indian authorities tried to retrieve the body but eventually abandoned the efforts due to the hostility of the islanders.

Spirituality was at the heart of Stonehenge from start. Neolithic and Bronze Age people put an enormous effort into building this extraordinary structure, despite the fact that it serves no known practical function. Many theories have been put forward over the years about the purpose of Stonehenge. But what does the evidence suggest that it may have been used for?

The sarsen stones, put up in at the centre of the site in about 2500 BC, were carefully placed to line up with the movements of the sun. If you were to stand in the middle of the stone circle on Midsummer’s Day, you would see the sun rise just to the left of the Heel Stone, an outlying stone north-east of the circle. Archaeologists have found a large stone hole to the left of the Heel Stone which may have held a partner stone: if so, the two stones would have framed the sunrise.

On Midwinter’s Day, the sun would originally have set between the two uprights of the tallest trilithon (two upright stones capped by a horizontal lintel). It would have dropped down over the Altar Stone, a sandstone block which was placed across the solstice axis. Today, this effect has been lost because half of the trilithon has fallen. But a laser survey of Stonehenge has shown that the stones that framed the solstice axis were the most carefully shaped, with vertical sides that framed the movement of the sun.

The whole layout of Stonehenge is therefore designed in relation to the solstices, which are the extreme limits of the sun’s movement. The solstice axis is also marked by the Station Stones, which are placed at the corners of a rectangle around the edge of the surrounding circular ditch. The short sides of the rectangle are parallel to the main alignment at Stonehenge.

The late Neolithic monument known as the Avenue, made up of parallel banks and ditches, links Stonehenge to the nearby river Avon. And it is also linked to the movements of the sun – its final, straight stretch close to Stonehenge is aligned on the north-east to south-west solar axis.

Recent excavations across the Avenue have found that the earthworks appear to follow the line of some ridges, with gullies between them (known as periglacial stripes). These are natural features created by glaciation. But it’s possible that Neolithic people noticed that the ridges and gullies lined up with the solstice, and may have chosen to build Stonehenge here as a result.

Marking the movements of the sun was clearly important to the people who built Stonehenge, as they went to such great lengths to align the monument with them. But we have few clues as to what they did here. Excavations show that the area within the stone circle seems to have been kept clean of everyday debris, and we can imagine that people came here to celebrate midsummer and midwinter.

The people who built Stonehenge were farmers, herders and pastoralists. The changing seasons would have been of immense significance to them, both practically – the seasons dictated what they could grow and when – and also probably spiritually. So Stonehenge is likely to have been much more than a calendar. Midsummer and midwinter may have been important times of year to remember the dead or to worship a solar deity.

In 2019, Alexey Ivanovsky was “skinned alive” on Kunashir Island, Russia, when he was attacked by a mother brown bear defending her cubs.

While gathering crabs, Ivanovsky found himself surrounded by a group of bears in a strategic pincer movement.

The enraged mother bear clamped onto his leg, tore his skin off from his scalp and buttocks, and severed an ear. Despite medical efforts, Ivanovsky succumbed to his injuries nine days later.

In April 2023, Texas high school teacher Sherri Moody underwent a quadruple amputation after her limbs turned black and became “mummified”.

Initially, she experienced symptoms similar to a common cold during a class trip, which she did not take seriously.

However, her condition rapidly deteriorated, leading to a high fever and difficulty breathing, prompting her to seek medical attention.

At the hospital, doctors diagnosed her with double pneumonia, a severe lung infection commonly caused by streptococcus, the same bacteria responsible for strep throat.

Sherri's body responded to the infection with septic shock, a critical condition that significantly reduces blood pressure and threatens life.

To save her life, doctors placed her in a coma and administered medication to restore blood flow to her vital organs, inadvertently affecting circulation to her extremities.

Following her recovery from the life-threatening situation, medical professionals concluded that amputating Sherri's limbs below the elbows and knees was necessary.

The story of Zinaida Portnova, the 16 year old girl who took the lives of more than 100 Nazis by poisoning their food. She was captured by the Gestapo, and while being interrogated, she disarmed the Nazi detective and shot him in the head. In her attempt to escape, she executed two more Nazis.

A seventh-grade student at the 385th school in Leningrad, Zinaida became member of the local underground Komsomol organization, named Young Avengers, during the German invasion.

She became employed as a kitchen aide in Obol. In August, she poisoned the food meant for the Nazi garrison stationed there. Immediately falling suspect, she said she was innocent and ate some of the food in front of the Nazis to prove it was not poisoned.

After she did not fall ill immediately, they released her. Portnova became sick afterwards, vomiting heavily but eventually recovering from the poison after drinking much whey. After she did not return to work, the Germans realized she had been the culprit and started searching for her.

When she was captured in 1943, during the Gestapo interrogation, she took the investigator's pistol off the table, then shot and killed him. When two German soldiers entered after hearing the gunshots, she shot them as well.

She then attempted to escape the compound and ran into the woods, where she was caught near the banks of a river. She was executed in 1944.

In 1996, Indian actor Suniel Shetty saved 128 Nepalese women from a sex trafficking ring in Mumbai. When the Nepalese government refused to repatriate them, Shetty bought airfare for their return and ensured their safety. He kept this act private until one survivor revealed the story 24 years later in an interview.

U.S. Route 50 in Nevada, stretching approximately 408 miles from the California is famously known as “The Loneliest Road in America.” This route traverses diverse landscapes, including the scenic Sierra Nevada mountains, vast desert expanses, and remote mountain ranges.

Major cities along the way include Carson City, Fallon, and Ely, each offering unique attractions such as historical sites, the Nevada Northern Railway Museum, and gateways to natural wonders like Great Basin National Park. The road also passes through historic mining towns like Austin and Eureka, preserving 19th-century charm and providing a glimpse into Nevada's rich mining heritage.

North Korea has publicly executed a 22-year-old man for listening to K-pop.

Houston police officers stand outside the house in Clear Lake City, where Andrea Yates drowned her 5 children.

In June 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in their bathtub.

Yates started with John, Paul, and Luke, and then laid them in her bed. She then drowned Mary, whom she left floating in the tub. Noah came in and asked what was wrong with Mary.

He then ran, but Yates soon caught and drowned him. She left him floating in the tub, and laid Mary in John's arms in the bed.

She then called the police, repeatedly saying she needed an officer but refusing to say why.

In 2002, Yates was convicted of capital murder, but the jury refused the death penalty option. She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after forty years.

The verdict was overturned on appeal, in light of false testimony by one of the supposed expert psychiatric witnesses.

On July 26, 2006, a Texas jury in her retrial found that Yates was not guilty by reason of insanity because she exhibited severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and schizophrenia leading up to the murders.

She was consequently committed by the court to the high-security North Texas State Hospital in Vernon, where she received medical treatment.

Photograph of Jeffrey Dahmer passed out drunk.

Dahmer was a serial killer who murdered and dismembered 17 males between 1978 and 1991. He also cannibalised the remains of some of his victims.

In February 1992 Dahmer was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms; a 16th consecutive life sentence was added in May for the murder he committed in 1978.

Dahmer was murdered by a fellow inmate in a Wisconsin prison in 1994.

The lizard fish. Found 8000 ft below

Giant sturgeon in the Fraser River, Canada

Did you know the last Civil War widow died in 2020? She was born on August 3, 1919, less than a year after the end of World War I, Helen Jackson grew up in Niangua (population about 275), a railroad and farming town about 25 miles northeast of Springfield, Missouri.

In 1936, Helen Jackson, then a 17-year-old high school student married James Bolin, twice a widower.

He was 76 years her senior. Less than three years after the marriage, on June 18, 1939, Bolin died in the home of his daughter, Martha, after a lengthy illness.

He was 96. Helen never remarried. She passed away on December 16, 2022 when she was 101 years old.

In Japan, "Johatsu" refers to people who disappear due to pressures like failed marriages, debt, and job loss. They abandon their lives and live anonymously off the grid. Specialized companies, called "night movers," assist them in vanishing completely.

Marcus Junius Brutus, Most Famous of Caesars Assassins, 44-42 BC.

This type, traditionally attributed to an otherwise unknown Dacian or Sythian king Koson, was struck for Brutus, 44-42 BC, with gold supplied by the Senate to fund his legions in Roman civil war against Mark Antony and Octavian.

The obverse imitates a Roman denarius struck by Brutus in 54 BC, depicting his ancestor L. Junius Brutus, the traditional founder of the Roman Republic.

The reverse imitates a Roman denarius struck by Pomponius Rufus in 73 BC. The meaning of the inscription "KOΣΩN" is uncertain. KOΣΩN may have been the name of a Dacian king who supplied mercenary forces to Brutus, or BR KOΣΩN may have been intended to mean "[of] the Consul Brutus."

When Marina Chapman was just four years old, she was abducted near her home in Colombia and left abandoned in the rainforest.

There, she spent the next five years being raised by a family of capuchin monkeys. Initially, the group merely tolerated her presence without fully accepting her.

However, after a severe bout of food poisoning, an older monkey led her to drink muddy water to induce vomiting.

This event marked a turning point, and she was soon accepted as part of the family.

They began to groom her as one of their own, and she learned to climb trees, scavenge for fruit and berries, and catch small animals with her bare hands.

By the time she was found and rescued from the jungle, she had entirely forgotten her native Spanish and preferred to walk on all fours.

New evidence from the bottom of a lake in the remote North Atlantic Faroe Islands indicates that an unknown band of humans settled there around 500 AD, some 350 years before the Vikings, who up until recently have been thought to have been first human inhabitants. The settlers may have been Celts who crossed rough, unexplored seas from what are now Scotland or Ireland. The findings appear in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

Faroes are a small, rugged archipelago about midway between Norway and Iceland, some 200 miles northwest of Scotland. Towering cliffs dominate the coasts; buffeted by strong winds and cloudy weather, the rocky landscape is mostly tundra. There is no evidence that Indigenous people ever lived there, making it one of the planet’s few lands that remained uninhabited until historical times. Past archaeological excavations have indicated that seafaring Vikings first reached them around 850 AD, soon after they developed long-distance sailing technology. The settlement may have formed a stepping stone for the Viking settlement of Iceland in 874, and their short-lived colonization of Greenland, around 980.

New study, led by scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is based on lake sediments containing signs that domestic sheep suddenly appeared around 500, well before the Norse occupation. Previously, the islands did not host any mammals, domestic or otherwise; the sheep could have arrived only with people. The study is not the first to assert that someone else got there first, but the researchers say it clinches the case.

In 1980s, researchers determined that Plantago lanceolata, a weed commonly associated with disturbed areas and pastures and often used as an indicator of early human presence in Europe, showed up in the Faroes around 2200 BC. At the time, this was deemed possible evidence of human arrival. However, seeds could have arrived on the wind, and the plant does not need human presence to establish itself. Likewise, studies of pollen taken from lake beds and bogs show that some time before the Norse period, woody vegetation largely disappeared—possibly due to persistent chewing by sheep, but also possibly due to natural climatic changes.

Some Medieval texts suggest that Irish monks reached the islands by around 500. For one, St. Brendan, a famous and far-traveled early Irish navigator, was said to have set out across the Atlantic with comrades from 512 to 530, and supposedly found a land dubbed the Isle of the Blessed. Later speculations and maps say that this was the Faroes or the far southerly Azores, or the Canary Islands or that Brendan actually reached North America. There is no proof for any of this. Centuries later, in 825, the Irish monk and geographer Dicuil wrote that he had learned that hermits had been living in some unidentified northern islands for at least 100 years. Again, later speculations landed on on the Faroes, but there was never any proof.

The first physical evidence of early occupation came with a 2013 study in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, which documented two patches of burnt peat containing charred barley grains found underneath the floor of a Viking longhouse on the Faroese island of Sandoy. The researchers dated the grains to somewhere between 300-500 years before the Norse; barley was not previously found on the island, so someone must have brought it. For many archaeologists, this constituted firm evidence of pre-Viking habitation. However, others wanted to see some kind of corroboration before declaring the case closed.

Southern French Alps :

Originally founded by the Gauls, the region was then conquered by Romans who started Christian era. It was during this time that the Roman road - the Domitienne Way was built (118 BC) linking Spain, France and Italy. This road wound through the mountains of the Hautes Alpes passing through Sisteron, Gap, Embrun and Briançon and on to Italy.

Barbarians invaded during 400 AD and Saracens ravaged France from 700 AD. During their stay, the Saracens taught the local people about medicine and how to use pine resin and cork-oak bark. The Saracen domination was over in 990 AD . Evidence of these mainly muslim people (Arabs, Berbers, Moors and Turks) can be found in the names of some of the local accommodations for example in the Champsuar Valley there is The Passage of the Saracens.

From 476 AD, the fall of the Roman Empire, to the late 15th century was a key period of development for the region. During this time, many perched villages were created on hilltops, ridges and rocky outcrops on the sides of the mountains. The locations of these villages were selected as they were not easily accessible and overlooked the valleys so any invaders could easily be spotted. The villages were fortified with outer buildings forming a wall against possible attacks. Jarjayes is a beautful perched village near Gap which was built in 10th Century. Larger examples include Embrun which was build on a cliff top plateau, and Briançon, the highest town in Europe. Briançon was a medieval fortress before Vauban arrived in 1692 to prepare the town for canon warefare developing a fortified town.

During this period many chapels were built. The oldest chapel in the region, the Mere Eglise, is found in the Dévoluy and dates back to the 9th century. In 12th Century the Boscodon Abbey was built by hermit monks. With beautiful views of the Serre Ponçon lake the monks lived there until 20th Century. The abbey has been restored to its former glory and is open to the public.

St Bonnet en Champsaur was the birth place of the Duke of Lesdiguière, a Connétable de France (first officer of the crown) who fought for Henry le Bourbon (Henry IV of France) during the Wars of Religion from 1562 -1592. The protestant Henry had to become catholic to claim the throne which he did in 1589 after marrying a catholic. The Duke did the same to support him and in 1585 he captured many towns in the region including Chorges and Embrun. As a result, region submitted to the catholic religion despite having a protestant culture. Ruins of the Duke of Lesdiguière's 16th century chateau can be seen in Glazil in Champsaur.

A 17th Century fortress can be seen in Mont Dauphin which was built under the order of Louis XIV. The fortress is perched on a rocky outcrop and has superb veiws across the valley. Fountains, flour mills, bread ovens and wash houses dating back to 17th-18th Centurys can be found all over the region for example there is a traditional flour mill with its famous vertical wheel that has been restored and opened to the public in Villard Loubière in the Valgaudemar.

Napoléon also left his mark on the Hautes Alps. He passed through the region in 1815 with 1000 men after his escape from the Mediterranean island Elba on route to Paris stopping off in Sisteron, Gap, St Bonnet, Corps and La Mure. Later, in 1930, in homage to the leader a road was built tracing his epic journey - La Route de Napoléon.

At the end of 19th Century there was a population exodus where people migrated towards the towns lower down in the valleys. You can see examples of abandoned villages dotted throughout the area - Méollion in Champoléon and Rabioux in the Dévoluy.

Residents of the city of Seville found a wonderful way to stop the construction of another mosque in their city: they buried a dead pig in the place where the mosque was to be built, and widely notified the press about their “crime.”

Islamic law prohibits the construction of mosques on “pig-spattered land.” The Muslim community had no choice but to cancel the project, which was ready for construction (the land was sold to the Muslim community by Spanish government agencies).

In May 2024, a British father allegedly killed a Russian man with a single punch in Thailand after he reportedly propositioned the Brit’s underage daughter.

The intoxicated Russian was said to have made inappropriate sexual advances towards the teenager, which reportedly provoked the father's violent reaction.

The father was apprehended by law enforcement shortly after the incident. He expressed to the officers: "I did not think my punch would lead to the man's death... I regret my actions."

In 2011, a 29-year-old Australian man called Dan Saunders discovered an ATM glitch enabling him to withdraw cash far beyond his account balance. Over a span of 5 months, he splurged $1.6 million of the bank's funds on lavish parties, private jets, international vacations, and even covered his friends' university fees.
,
The man in question, Dan Saunders, was a bartender in his hometown of Wangaratta, three hours north of Melbourne.

The discovery of the ATM glitch was purely accidental. On a night out, Saunders was trying to check his account balance but the ATM kept displaying the message “balance unavailable at this time.” He decided to transfer $200 from his credit account to his savings and it said “transaction cancelled” but still dispensed the cash.

This was the beginning of his journey into the world of unlimited cash.
Saunders soon realized that the ATM couldn’t record transactions during late-night maintenance but still dispensed cash.

He found that he could “create” the money by doing a transfer between 1 and 3 in the morning, which is when he realized ATMs go offline. He had to always stay one day ahead, meaning that on the first day he spent $2,000, but on the second day he transferred $4,000 to make sure his balance didn’t stay negative.

This was the loophole that allowed him to live a millionaire’s lifestyle for a few months.

Interestingly, Saunders described how it was “quite baffling” that no authorities attempted to stop him, so he continued to spend like it would be his last day to do so. One of his most extravagant purchases was chartering a $90,000 private jet to take him and some friends to a remote Asian island for a weekend. After his arrest, Saunders returned to his job as a bartender, earning $22 an hour.

Chernobyl control rooms during construction, operation, and after the disaster.

According to official records recognized by the international community, the direct death toll from the Chernobyl disaster is 31 people.

However, the United Nations has estimated that the actual number of fatalities could be as high as 50.

The tragic final photo of Hachikō, the loyal dog who waited for over 9 years outside Shibuya Station for his deceased master.

In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor at Tokyo Imperial University, bought Hachikō to live with him in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Every day, Hachikō would meet Ueno at Shibuya Station after his commute home. This routine continued until May 21, 1925, when Ueno passed away from a cerebral hemorrhage while at work.

From that day until his own death on March 8, 1935, Hachikō returned to Shibuya Station daily, waiting for Ueno's return.

During the 16th century, a brutal torture device named the "Scavenger’s Daughter" was employed. Victims were placed with their heads at the top of an A-shaped frame while in a bent-knee position. This device exerted immense pressure, crushing the victim so severely that it often caused bleeding from the ears and nose due to the intense pressure applied.

Le Passe-muraille, 1943 "Le Passe-muraille", which means "the passer through walls", is a story from France about a man who discovers that he can pass through walls.

After leaving his job, the man began to abuse his power, using it to steal and seduce.

He eventually becomes stuck in a wall.

The sculpture seen above is meant to be the man, who is stuck in the Paris catacombs and was made by trespassers as a joke.

Motuo is a county in China located atop the Tibetan mountains.

Due to its altitude, it was isolated from the rest of the world until 2013, when the Chinese government completed the construction of a road passing under the mountain.

It’s a particularly popular destination for backpackers, although the route is considered quite risky.

Aliens might be living among us disguised as humans or in a base inside the moon, according to new Harvard study.

On April 23, 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke made his third and final moonwalk, accompanied by fellow astronaut John Young. During their exploration of the Descartes Highlands with the Lunar Rover, Duke left a unique token on the lunar surface: a photograph of his family.

The photo features Duke, his wife Dorothy, and their two sons, Thomas and Charles, seated on a park bench. Remarkably, for over 40 years, this family portrait, along with Duke's boot print, has remained undisturbed on the moon.

In a symbolic way, Duke not only brought his family to the moon, but they also stayed there indefinitely.

Omar bin Laden, the fourth eldest son of Osama bin Laden, is an artist and author, and his art is exhibited in France, where he lives.

Abu Tahsin al-Salihi is an Iraqi veteran sniper who is credited with killing over 350 ISIS members during the Iraqi Civil War.

Following the eruption of the War in Iraq in late 2013 and ISIL's Northern Iraq offensive, he enlisted in the Sadr Brigade within the Popular Mobilization Forces.

In total, he had 384 confirmed kills. This achievement earned him the nickname "Hawk Eye."

al-Salihi was killed in action during the anti-ISIS offensive against Hawija in Iraq, 2017.

Want to see one of the world’s most incredible natural wonders? Described as “the most alien-looking place on earth,” the island of Socotra is part of an archipelago in the Indian Ocean.

It’s so isolated that one-third of its plant life is found nowhere else on the planet, resulting in some especially bizarre flora.

Most notable are its dragon’s blood trees, which look like flying saucers sitting atop trunks. The adenium socotranum trees look like elephants’ legs with pink flowers perched on them.

There are also birds like the Socotra grosbeak, Socotra sunbird and the Socotra starling that are found nowhere else.

The island is actually inhabited by about 40,000 residents, and while there are two roads, there is no public transport. Visitors can fly in as the island has its own airport, and vehicles can be rented if required.

During World War II, the voracious spread of “Kilroy Was Here” began. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, it would become a legendary, almost mythical part of American military culture and the history of the war.

The basic doodle featured a bald man with a large nose. His head and hands were peering suspiciously over a wall along with the tag “Kilroy Was Here.” It could soon be found across all theaters of war visited by American troops.

Kilroy was found in ship holds, bathrooms, bridges, and walls, and even painted on the shells of Air Force missiles. It was found scrawled across France, Germany, the entire Pacific theater, and more.

The graffiti’s popularity grew to the point where it transcended the battlefield. It was found just about everywhere it could be spray-painted, carved, drawn, or left behind in some shape or form, no matter the country.

In 1944, war photographer Robert Capa photographed an instance of the meme at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Soldiers had written “Kilroy Was Stuck Here” on the walls of an abandoned barn. It is even rumored that during the Potsdam Conference in 1945, Stalin happened to stumble upon a drawing of “Kilroy Was Here” in the VIP bathroom.

He supposedly inquired with his aides, asking who Kilroy was, to which one can only guess what their answer was.

Even Japanese enemy forces were confused and intrigued by the tiny man peering over the wall. Japanese troops were reported to be perplexed by the meme they found all over the Pacific theater. They found it painted onto the sides of tanks and missiles in Guadalcanal and other islands.

During the war and in the years since the myths surrounding “Kilroy Was Here” continued to proliferate wildly.

Kilroy’s most notable appearances are the two inscriptions hidden in the World War II memorial in Washington D.C. Tucked away, in small unassuming corners of both the Atlantic and Pacific sides of the memorial, Kilroy has been carved into the marble.

It serves as a tribute to his legacy and impact on the war effort. Many myths and legends cropped up to explain the sometimes baffling and mystifying graffiti man.

However, the “Kilroy Was Here” phenomenon was primarily – and remains so – a lasting symbol of the American military during World War II and beyond. Kilroy even made a comeback in the days of the Korean War. He was similarly spotted in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wherever American troops go, Kilroy seems to follow.

Have you ever seen a CT scanner rotating without a cover?

There is a village in India called Antoli, in the Gujarat state, here a unique and unexpected story unfolded

A young leopard would make its way from the wild to seek the company of a domesticated cow. The pair would stay together most of the night, an unlikely friendship in which somehow both found comfort.

As an audience developed, the wild cat, wary of humans, decreased the frequency of its visits until they stopped. No one knows why the cat reached out or why the cow was so comfortable around it.

Dipprasad Pun, a Nepalese sergeant of the Royal Gurkha Rifles, demonstrated remarkable courage on the night of September 17, 2010, during the War in Afghanistan.

He bravely defended his patrol base near Babaji in Helmand province, single-handedly repelling a force of 12 to 30 Taliban insurgents.

Convinced he was facing imminent death, he resolved to inflict maximum damage on the enemy.

During the intense engagement, Pun discharged 250 rounds from his machine gun, 180 rounds from his rifle, and employed 17 hand grenades along with a Claymore mine.

He was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for an act of bravery. Upon receiving the award, Pun said that he had no choice but to fight.

In 1998, Australian man Bill Morgan experienced a massive heart attack that left him clinically dead for 14 minutes. He survived but fell into a 14-day coma.

A year later, Morgan bought a scratch-off lottery ticket and won a Toyota Corolla worth $30,000.

News of his incredible reversal of fortune reached a Melbourne TV station, which contacted Bill to share his story.

While filming the segment, the TV crew asked him to reenact his win with a new scratch-off card. In an astonishing twist, Bill won $250,000 on the new card.

Turning to the cameras, he exclaimed, “I just won $250,000 – I'm not joking. I think I'll have another heart attack.”

When the sun sets on the Barrow of Alaska, it remains below the horizon for 65 days! Yes, it is dark for over two months. With a population of about 4,000 and the average high temperature remains below zero, it is the northernmost town in the United States. Due to extreme climate and its location, the town is isolated and surrounded by wilderness tundra and not accessible by road. Yet, Barrow is home to many research facilities that bring in jobs, and oil and gas tax revenues allow the town to enjoy modern conveniences.

In 1995, a woman named Jennifer Fairgate was discovered dead in a securely locked hotel room in Oslo with a gunshot wound to the head.

The ballistics analysis indicated that it was unlikely to be a suicide.

Curiously, there were no fingerprints found, and her clothing labels had been meticulously removed, complicating efforts to identify her. This has led to speculation that she might have been a spy.

Deep in Antarctica, the Halley VI Research Station is the headquarters of the British Antarctic Survey. The six comes from the fact that five other Halley Research Stations have fallen prey to Antarctica’s inhospitable environment.

This is one of the few structures that wasn’t built on location. Britain prefabricated and tested them in South Africa before shipping them to Antarctica.

Portability is vital because they set up Haley VI Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf, which is quickly moving towards the ocean.

Shocking footage from May 2019, shows Aeroflot Flight 1492 burst into flames upon crash landing.

The aircraft experienced an electrical failure and returned to Sheremetyevo Airport for an emergency landing.

It bounced on touchdown and landed hard, causing the landing gear to collapse, fuel to spill from the wings, and a fire to break out.

The fire engulfed the rear of the aircraft, killing 41 of the 78 occupants.

In the middle of Canada’s Saint Lawrence River near Alexandria Bay, is an island called Just Room Enough Island. This tiny island is one-thirteenth of an acre and has a small vacation home built in the 1950s.

When the tide is high, water gently laps against its walls. If it’s low enough at this isolated house, the owners can set up some chairs and enjoy the view without a single neighbor in sight.

The World Health Organization has announced that the First-Ever Human Case of Avian Influenza (H5N2) has occurred in Mexico; with the Patient, a 59-Year-Old Male, having now Died of Complications from the Virus.

The market cap of Nvidia is up over $200 billion since the CEO signed a boob

Let that sink in

The fake Kenyan lawyer, Brian, who won 26 cases before he was arrested. After he was arrested and presented to court, he represented himself and won the case. He is now a free man

In March 1978, an elderly woman known as Mary Doefour passed away at Queenwood East Nursing Home. However, Mary Doefour wasn't her real name.

Nobody knew her true identity, birth date, or any relatives to inform of her passing.

About 50 years earlier, Doefour had been found wandering in Northern Illinois, disoriented, beaten, and pregnant after being sexually assaulted. She couldn't remember her name but recalled being a school teacher.

Despite not being mentally unstable, she was placed in a state hospital for the criminally insane, and no effort was made to uncover her identity. Her child was likely placed in an orphanage.

She repeatedly tried to argue that she didn't belong in the hospital, but each attempt led to her being medicated. She was subjected to electric shock therapy numerous times, which likely damaged her mind.

After 10 years, she was transferred to a state mental hospital in Bartonville, where her mental and physical health slowly declined.

For 30 years, Doefour stayed in the Bartonville mental hospital without visitors.

In 1972, she was moved to a nursing home in El Paso and then to one in Morton. For more than four decades, no one could determine who she was.

After hearing her story in 1978, reporter Rick Baker began investigating her identity.

Baker published a 14-page story in the Bloomington Pantagraph about Doefour, hoping someone would recognize her.

When no one did, he ran another story in the Peoria Journal Star, which also appeared in other notable papers. A woman responded, recalling a teacher who had disappeared in Iowa.

Baker followed this lead to a school in Mount Vernon, IA, and learned that about 50 years earlier, a teacher named Anna Myrle Sizer had gone missing.

He discovered that Sizer had a brother, Harold, who was still alive. Harold revealed that Sizer was last seen getting off a train in Marion, IA.

A later sighting placed her wandering, dazed, on a highway between Cedar Rapids, OH, and Chicago, IL. The more Baker learned about Anna Myrle Sizer, the more he believed she was Mary Doefour.

Baker showed a photograph of Sizer as a young woman to people who knew Doefour, and they agreed they were the same person. Baker tried to persuade Harold to pursue the case further by accessing Doefour's medical records to prove she was his sister.

However, Harold refused, as his family had made peace with Sizer's disappearance and couldn't accept that she had been trapped in a mental hospital for 50 years.

Baker had to close his investigation without ever confirming if he had found the real Mary Doefour.

Arguably one of the greatest auditions in the history of Got Talent

Göbekli Tepe is a 12,000-year-old temple (7,000 years older than Stonehenge) that predates humanity's oldest known civilizations and is full of strange animal carvings and towering stone pillars.

This is the submarine that will take billionaire Larry Connor to the Titanic shipwreck.

In 1994, a BBC reporter named Tim Leach was assigned to cover a peculiar story unfolding at a school in Zimbabwe.

In his report, he expressed, "I could handle war zones, but I could not handle this." Likewise, a Harvard professor of psychiatry who visited the school was also taken aback by what he witnessed.

This is the account of the Ariel school UFO sighting. On September 16, 1994, 62 students from Ariel Primary School, a private school in Zimbabwe, allegedly witnessed unidentified objects descending from the sky.

According to their claims, when the crafts landed, individuals dressed in black approached them and conveyed messages.

The students were so startled that some of them burst into tears. The incident had a profound impact on the school community.

Remarkably, students between the ages of 6 and 12 shared nearly identical stories and drew similar depictions of the objects.

Despite this however, some doubt whether the children did see an alien spacecraft and say that the claims are simply a case of mass hysteria spreading.

Nevertheless, even today, the Ariel school UFO sighting is widely recognized as "one of the most significant events in UFO history."

Earth without water

8 years ago on this day, Gucci Mane was released from prison !

He gave his girlfriend, Keyshia all the money he had left($3M) so she could take care of herself while he was in jail and when Gucci was later released in late 2016 and his girlfriend welcomed him with a sum of $9M

Ivan Lester McGuire, an experienced skydiver, was documenting a tandem jump involving another instructor and a student on April 2, 1988.

As he exited the plane to capture the event, Ivan was so engrossed in his filming task that he made a critical error: he forgot to equip himself with a parachute. Initially, he didn't realize this oversight as he focused on filming.

As the instructor and student deployed their parachute, Ivan continued his descent. Throughout this, Ivan continued filming, with his last words captured on camera being, "Oh my God, no!"

Dougl Hegdahl, a U.S. Navy petty officer, was captured during the Vietnam War. His captors thought him unintelligent, earning him the moniker "The Stupid."

He feigned ignorance, opting to hum a song instead of speaking.

While in captivity, Hegdahl maintained this act, leading his Vietnamese captors to believe he suffered from a mental disorder.

After being freed and returning to the United States, Hegdahl astounded everyone by listing approximately 256 names of missing fellow POWs.

He had ingeniously memorized their names by associating them with the melody of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," the same tune he hummed throughout his imprisonment.