There are 58 countries that still have the death penalty world wide, and in 1724 the death sentence was altered adding hanging until death after a woman survived the hanging . The execution of Margaret Dickson A popular story in Edinburgh is that of Margaret Dickson, a fishwife from Musselburgh who was hanged in the Grassmarket in […]
Due to a miscalculation, the largest nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States was accidentally three times stronger than expected. This resulted in most of the test equipment being destroyed or vaporized rendering the experiment a failure. High yield The yield of 15 megatons was 3 times that of the 5 Mt predicted by […]
Nellie Bly, a 19th century female journalist who went around the world in 72 days, pretended to be insane in order to expose the deplorable conditions in mental asylums, patented two designs for steel cans and ran a million-dollar iron manufacturing business, all before the age of 40. Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (May 5, 1864 – […]
According to Jewish lore the pseudepigraphic 8th–10th centuries Alphabet of Ben Sira is considered to be the oldest form of the story of Lilith as Adam’s first wife. Whether this particular tradition is older is not known. Scholars tend to date the Alphabet between the 8th and 10th centuries CE. The work has been characterized as satirical. In the […]
An explorer once found a compound, calanolide A, in certain trees in the Malaysian rainforest. Researchers found out that it has anti-HIV properties, but they couldn’t find another sample for nine years as almost all the tree of that species had been cut down for firewood and building material. Calanolide A is an experimental non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase […]
Do you hate Rats? well i do hate them but see how many abilities they have. The average adult body weight is 350 grams (12 oz) in males and about 250 grams (8.8 oz) in females. The adult rat can squeeze through holes or gaps the size of a quarter (0.955 inches (24.3 mm), jump a horizontal distance of up […]
The Bloodbath of B-R5RB or the Battle of B-R5RB was a massive-scale virtual battle Gaming fought in the MMORPG space gameing Eve Online, and was possibly the largest player versus player battle in history. Pitting the Clusterfuck Coalition and Russian alliances against N3 and Pandemic Legion (N3/PL), the 21-hour-long conflict involved over 7,548 player characters […]
