Kuru or laughing sickness - a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy which was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via cannibalism ( en.wikipedia.org )
List of suicides ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism ( en.wikipedia.org )
British Post Office Scandal ( en.wikipedia.org )
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
Harlequin-type Ichthyosis ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that the two people to have been the oldest when serving as POTUS are Joe Biden and Donald Trump ( en.wikipedia.org )
This is based on their age at the beginning of their term....
The Lottery - Controversial short story published in the New Yorker about a fictional American community which observes an annual stoning tradition ( en.wikipedia.org )
Henry Darger - Reclusive janitor revealed posthumously to be the author of a 15,145-page fantasy manuscript depicting young children being tortured and massacred ( en.wikipedia.org )
Robert Durst - American real estate heir who nearly got away with murder until his gleeful participation in an HBO documentary finally did him in ( en.wikipedia.org )
Albert Fish - American serial killer, rapist, child molester, and cannibal who committed at least three child murders from July 1924 to June 1928. ( en.wikipedia.org )
The most insane wikipedia article I know. Many paragraphs describe events that seem like the worst thing that could happen, but then the next paragraph is somehow worse.
Coastline paradox - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
Murder of Zebb Quinn - American teenager who went missing with his abandoned car containing a live puppy, drawing of a pair of lips, and an exclamation mark on the back window ( en.wikipedia.org )
Genickschussanlage - Facility used for surprise executions in Nazi Germany wherein the victim was shot in the back of the neck from the neighbouring room under the pretext of a medical examination ( en.wikipedia.org )
Covina massacre - Mass murder carried out on Christmas Eve by a disgruntled ex-husband wearing a Santa suit in LA County, California ( en.wikipedia.org )
Death of Gareth Williams - Welsh mathematician and Junior Analyst who was found dead in suspicious circumstances at a Security Service safe house ( en.wikipedia.org )
NATOPedia: World Systems Theory ( en.wikipedia.org )
Breast ironing - Practice of pounding and massaging of a pubescent girl's breasts to try to make them stop developing or disappear as a way to protect the girl from sexual harassment and rape ( en.wikipedia.org )
The Monster with 21 Faces - Alias used by the group responsible for the blackmail letters in the Glico Morinaga extortion case in Japan ( en.wikipedia.org )
Today is the 11,067th day of Eternal September ( en.wikipedia.org )
Eternal September or the September that never ended is Usenet slang for a period beginning around 1993 when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. The flood of new users overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums and the ability to enforce existing norms. AOL followed with their Usenet...
Gary Plauché - American man known for publicly killing Jeff Doucet, an accused child molester who had kidnapped and raped his son Jody ( en.wikipedia.org )
Taylor Mitchell - Canadian country folk singer and songwriter who died at the age of 19 of injuries and blood loss after two eastern coyotes mauled her ( en.wikipedia.org )
French frigate Méduse (1810) - Incompetent captain leaves 147 souls to their fate on an improvised raft for eight days, after which cannibalism ensued, and only 15 remained alive ( en.wikipedia.org )
