Used in Ancient Greece, the brazen bull torture technique goes as follows: The victim is put into a hollowed out bull statue, made of bronze. Under it, the torturers place logs and burn them until the metal gains a fiery yellow color.
There's something that just isn't right with human history. There are numerous artifacts and facts that fundamentally alter the historical notions about mankind's origins. However, these are often ignored by scientists.
Oliver Heaviside adored his nails and often painted them pink. He also disliked classical furniture, so he emptied his home of all such and placed granite blocks in their place.
The first dinosaur bone ever found was in 1676. At the time, the scientists thought that the remains belonged to an elephant or some other large animal. It wasn't until a century later that it became clear that the fossils belonged to a Megalosaurus.
In 1503, Columbus's ship got stuck in the shallows around Jamaica, while en route to the New World. Knowing that a lunar eclipse was coming, he warned the natives that if they did not help his crew he would make the Moon disappear.
Why is there more matter than antimatter? Currently, scientists accept that matter and antimatter are 2 extremes of the same thing. When they come together they destroy each other.
Every time we hear about ancient civilizations in America, most of us immediately think of the Aztecs, Mayans and Incas. A little known fact is that these were neither the greatest, nor the oldest cultures to rule the exotic lands of Latin America.
256-year-old Chinese man Li Ching-Yuen was the longest living person on our planet. He was discovered in 1930 by the New York Times newspaper, when he was already over 200 years old.
The company has announced that the specialists in its IT department are working on creating a kill switch to stop artificial intelligence if it were to ever threaten humans in the future.
His birth name - Cassius Clay - Ali received in honor of a white farmer living in the 19th century who freed, educated and provided work for the 40 slaves he inherited from his father.