Solifugae - aka. Camel spiders became an Internet sensation during the Iraq war of 2003, when rumors of their bloodthirsty nature began to circulate online ( en.wikipedia.org )
Byron Looper - Obsessed with his political career, he legally changed his middle name to "(Low Tax)" and murdered his election opponent ( en.wikipedia.org )
My Lai massacre - War crime committed by US Army personnel involving the mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children ( en.wikipedia.org )
John Allen Chau - American missionary who prepared for his meeting with the Sentinelese by training in a mock village populated by staff pretending to be hostile natives wielding fake spears ( en.wikipedia.org )
Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL about "Swill milk" where cows were fed distillery waste causing cow teeth rot and disease. It was also adulterated with raw eggs, burn sugar, etc. Swill milk lead to over 8,000 infant's deaths ( en.wikipedia.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13693898
Jimmy Savile - Celebrated English media personality that was revealed to be Britain's most prolific predatory sex offender after his death ( en.wikipedia.org )
Centralia, Pennsylvania ( en.wikipedia.org )
Bowel Movement Bandit - Unidentified man in the Kenmore neighborhood of Akron who repeatedly defecated through the sunroofs of random people’s cars from 2012 to 2015 ( en.wikipedia.org )
Peter Stumpp - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
2 missing hikers are saved by rescue helicopter when they saw a SOS sign, but the sign was not made by the hikers ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
The Industry that falsely imprisons American teenagers at the request of parents. ( en.wikipedia.org )
Atretochoana — Specie of limbless amphibians known as the "penis snake" that was once thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in 2011 ( en.wikipedia.org )
Jennifer Pan - Canadian woman who was convicted of a 2010 kill-for-hire attack targeting both of her parents ( en.wikipedia.org )
Tuskegee Syphilis Study - A 40-year long study conducted by the US PHS & CDC to observe the long term effects of untreated syphilis where they deceived 399 impoverished African-American sharecroppers ( en.wikipedia.org )
Peter Scully - Dubbed the "World's Worst Pedophile" for peddling videos of himself torturing and sexually abusing young girls on his dark web site "No Limits Fun" ( en.wikipedia.org )
Trepanning - a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled into the human skull. Evidence has been found in prehistoric human remains from Neolithic times onward ( en.wikipedia.org )
A Serbian Film ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Read at your own risk, as some reviewers wrote, you can't unknow things once you learn them, and this movie's description is all of the terrible things.
The Murder of James Bulger - Two 10-year-old boys abducted, tortured, and murdered a two-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger. They led him away while he and his mother were shopping. ( en.wikipedia.org )
I really don't recommend reading the details of what they did to James
Anatoly Moskvin - a Russian former linguist was arrested in 2011 after the mummified bodies of 26 girls and women between the ages of 3 and 29 were discovered in his apartment ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Anatoly Moskvin is a Russian former linguist, philologist, and historian who was arrested in 2011 after the mummified bodies of twenty-six girls and women between the ages of 3 and 29 were discovered in his apartment in Nizhny Novgorod. After exhuming the bodies from local cemeteries, Moskvin mummified the bodies himself before...
Tiger parenting - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
Read it....
Country Bill White ( en.wikipedia.org )
Sailing Stones - Geological phenomenon in which rocks move [...] without animal intervention. ( en.wikipedia.org )
Heartbeat in the Brain - Lost 1970 documentary in which the director/subject drills a hole in her forehead with a dentist's drill ( en.wikipedia.org )
Portal - Australian avant-garde death metal band known for their complete anonymity, executioner costumes, and a chaotic sound that unsettles even fans of the genre ( en.wikipedia.org )
