Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story about 4 crewmen who are lost at sea and turned to eating the cabin boy named Richard Parker. 46 years later, an English yacht sank and the remaining 4 survivors in a life boat turned to eating the Cabin Boy after he fell ill, also named Richard Parker

A Russian man who tried to rob a hair salon ended up as the victim when the female shop owner overpowered him, tied him up naked and then used him as a sex slave for 3 days. Jasinski, 32, had attempted to steal the day€™s takings from a salon in Meshchovsk, Russia when he was confronted by black belt shop owner. Zajac demonstrated her martial art skills beating the intruder senseless leaving him semi-conscious before tying him up naked with a hairdryer flex and cuffing him in a back room to a radiator. The 28-year-old then fed her hostage Viagra and used him as a sex slave for three days – wanting to teach him a lesson.

The first televised MMA fight occurred in 1963 when boxer Jim Beck offered $1,000 to any Judo practitioner (who he termed “Judo Bums”) that could beat a professional boxer. Gene Lebell took on the challenge, and won after choking out his opponent and leaving him unconscious for 20 minutes.

Elon Musk believes that the United States is “[inarguably] the greatest country that has ever existed on Earth”, describing it as “the greatest force for good of any country that’s ever been” and believes outright that there “would not be democracy in the world if not for the United States”

Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun

The scene in Matrix Reloaded when Trinity hacks into a power station’s computer is actually an accurate portrayal of a hack exploiting a real SSH vulnerability

A guy upset with his then girlfriend for not properly mourning his father’s death hatched a plan to marry and conceive a child and then kill it later after the wife had bonded with it. He was convicted for murdering the 7 month old. He said it was revenge because Amy, before they were married, had refused to cut short a vacation trip to comfort him when his father died in 1996. “Shanabarger said he planned to make Amy feel the way he did when his father died. He married her, got her pregnant, allowed time for her to bond with the child, and then took his [boy’s] life,” according to an affidavit prosecutors filed to support a murder charge

1,140 people have been diagnosed with cancer as a result of “exposure to toxins at Ground Zero” from 9/11. Over 1,400 9/11 rescue workers who responded to the scene in the days and months after the attacks have since died

A Texas man was asked not to swim in a marina due to sightings of an alligator. He responded with “F#$k that alligator” before diving in the water. He was immediately killed by an alligator. Tommie Woodward, 28, was at an outdoor bar at a marina in Orange, Texas, around 2:30 a.m. local time when he defied a sign warning of alligators and entered the bayou waters. Employees at the marina had erected the sign in recent days after spotting a “pretty damn big” 11-foot alligator in the area, Orange County Police Captain Robert Enmon told BuzzFeed News. A woman with Woodward warned him not to enter the water because of the risk, prompting him to reply “Fuck that alligator,” Enmon said. Just before he jumped in, the woman spotted the gator, Enmon said. Woodward was attacked almost immediately.

Identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair (botched circumcision). The truth came when the one being raised as a girl INSISTED he was a boy; the parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide. Reimer said that Dr. Money forced the twins to rehearse sexual acts involving “thrusting movements”, with David playing the bottom role. Reimer said that, as a child, he had to get “down on all fours” with his brother, Brian Reimer, “up behind his butt” with “his crotch against” his “buttocks”. Reimer said that Dr. Money forced David, in another sexual position, to have his “legs spread” with Brian on top. Reimer said that Dr. Money also forced the children to take their “clothes off” and engage in “genital inspections”. On at “least one occasion”, Reimer said that Dr. Money took a photograph of the two children doing these activities. Dr. Money’s rationale for these various treatments was his belief that “childhood ‘sexual rehearsal play'” was important for a “healthy adult gender identity”

Seattle has a “tiny house” village that homeless residents can use to sleep, eat and shower. It costs residents $90 a month to cover utilities, and is designed to help them get back on their feet.

Physicists proved that shooting “granny style” is the absolute best technique to consistently score points on the line, but NBA players refuse to do it because it looks stupid.

Richard Marsh is a rare survivor of locked-in syndrome, a condition where a patient can only move his or her eye muscles. During his coma, Richard watched his wife beg doctors not to take him off of life support, and witnessed his own rough handling by the nighttime staff. Richard Marsh watched helplessly from his hospital bed as doctors asked his wife, Lili, whether they should turn off his life support machine. The medics believed he was in a persistent vegetative state, devoid of mental consciousness or physical feeling My brain protected me – it didn’t let me grasp the seriousness of the situation. […] I can never remember feeling scared. The doctors would just stand at the foot of the bed and just talk like I wasn’t in the room. The only way for Marsh to sleep, was to be medicated I did get injured a couple of times with rough handling and that always happened at night. I knew I wasn’t in the best of care… The moment that doctor discovered he could communicate by blinking was one of profound relief for Marsh Today, he has recovered 95% of his functionality