The U.S. military is using controllers that look like Xbox gamepads to operate advanced weapons systems because soldiers already know how to use them.
Sylvia Plath’s notes on T.S. Eliot from her college years
600 pounds of gold bars and $2 million seized from home of CIA officer
This is the moment captured when former high school football star breaks down in court as rape charge is dismissed after the 16-year-old accuser admits it never happened, following six years in prison.
GofundMe begging: There’s a wide range between “reliable car” and brand new $40,000 vehicle.
The level of detail on the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome which was completed around AD 193.
Tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (1323 BC) — the only unlooted royal tomb ever found, with over 5,000 pristine artifacts sealed for 3,245 years
A father threw a chair at a judge after his Daughter’s and Grandparents’ killer was sentenced to only 120 hours of community service.
So this exists…
Kindergarten requirements for 1954
Dostoyevsky on the death of his infant daughter.
In 1995, Hal Taylor built this special rocking chair after his third child was born, so he could sit with all three of his children and read books together.
Wealthy neighborhood vs Poor neighborhood
Water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that’s what we now call “visible light”.
US stamp from 1974
This is what a camel toe looks like
Corn’s ancestor “teosinte” is a type of wild grass
This is what was used to attack Captain Smit Macchhar in the flydubai plane
Fresh Kills Landfill: beneath this hill lies most of the 9/11 debris and rubble.
A road in Britain so neglected it’s gone back to the Victorian period
From inside the cockpit of a Ukrainian MiG-29, the pilot flips off the exploding wreckage of a Russian attack drone he has just blasted out of the sky.
