The Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976 near the Republic of Congo. Ebola fever is one of the most dangerous known to mankind – 50 – 90 percent of all who get sick from it die.
The fact that Mary Ann Bevan was declared the world's ugliest woman and agreed to public humiliation all in the name of her 4 children, makes her tale a touching and inspiring one at the same time.
While drug use has its obvious risks, there are also plenty of examples of geniuses in the fields of art and science using illegal drugs as a form of inspiration.
The sarcophagus with its millennia-old mummy was discovered in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor by a team of Spanish archaeologists, writes the British Independent.
The Pentagon has written a document titled CONPLAN 8888 , whose goal is to inform major American institutions how to counter a zombie invasion. It calls for mobilizing all available assets for stopping the crisis.
Niccolò Paganini's talent drew a lot of suspicion from his contemporaries, with many being convinced that he had sold his soul in order to play the violin as magnificently as he did.
Throughout the Incan city are 16 fountains, which residents once obtained water from. It was not spring water - it was brought to the city via a unique system of engineering.
The Girl with a Pearl Earring is Johannes Vermeer's most famous painting but even today no one knows who the muse with the headscarf on her head actually was.
Native Americans believe that the crater in Oregon was once a mountain called Mazama. It was inhabited by the god of the underworld, Llao, who declared war on the sky god Skell.
In central Madagascar live the Merina people, who worship the dead in an unusual, and for most people - a barbaric and horrific, way. The ceremony is called Famadihana - the bones of the deceased are dug up and venerated.
The majority of dreams we have come and go while we sleep, without us sparing them a second thought. But every once in awhile, an idea so ingenious appears in our dreams that it has the ability to change the world.