Australia has 2 active volcanoes on Heard & McDonald Islands, one of the remotest places on earth. It is very cold, mostly barren, erupts frequently, and has many wrecks around it. It has 71 species of fungi and was recently involved in legal proceedings between two entities (Australia & the UK). The post 25 Kickass… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 337, click here. 1. Dr. Erich Salomon faked a broken arm so he could hide a camera in his cast to photograph the US Supreme Court, 1932. 2. The scene on the highway near Palermo after a bomb killed anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife, and…… Read More »
Here are 10 Movies with the Worst Use of Physics. 1. G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra (2009): In the underwater scene when Rex blows up the ice pack, ice appears to be denser than water in this situation. The ice sinks when it’s blown up, and even if there were pieces of metal on…… Read More »
Here is a list of 7 Craziest Wars in History. 01. The Toyota War In the 1980s, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi dreamed of making his country into a great power in Africa. He used oil revenues to build a powerful army, funded revolutionaries and terrorists (including the guys behind the horrific civil wars in Liberia…… Read More »
Harry Glicken and his mentor David Johnston were assigned to Mount St. Helens on the day of the eruption. Johnston was killed but Glicken was reassigned the day before. 11 years later Glicken died in the eruption of Mount Unzen. They remain the only US volcanologists killed by volcanos 31 years later. The post 25… Read More »
Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Abandoned Places. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Abandoned Places 1. There exists a massive abandoned supercollider in Texas. Its construction was approved in 1987 and it was supposed to be the largest particle collider in the world when completed (3x the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland). It was…… Read More »
Here are 25 Interesting Fact About Mexico. 1-5 Interesting Fact About Mexico 1. Until 2008 Walmart de Mexico was paying its employees with vouchers that were only redeemable at Walmart. – Source 2. In 1985, Ethiopia donated $5000 to earthquake victims in Mexico because Mexico supported Ethiopia when Italy invaded in 1935. – Source 3.…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 336, click here. 1. Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1925. 2. The last known photograph of Tsar Nicholas II, seen with his wife Alexandra, c. August 1917. 3. Teddy Roosevelt’s 1907 hunting guide Ben Lilly. 4. Filming…… Read More »
Surely, we have all heard at some point about the samurai, those mythical warriors of Japan who followed a strict code of conduct and one of whose most important values was honor. This article will offer you 10 curious facts to learn more about this legendary and mysterious military class. 1. Their origin was plebeian…… Read More »