Railway Token Exchange System: On single-track railway routes, drivers must physically collect a token to get official permission to enter the next block section of the track
Abbye Stockton holds with ease a 135 pounds barbell at Santa Monica, California, 1946. She was the first all female gym owner in California and the first to organize a femal olympic weightlifting cont
In 1988, the renowned forensic scientist Herbert MacDonell was ready to prove that a man named Bill Mowbray killed himself. But he wasn’t called, and his wife Susie was sentenced to life. But 10 years
This was Akku Yadav, an alleged gangster in Nagpur, accused of raping around 40 women. In 2004, around 200 women stormed a courtroom, reportedly stabbing him 70+ times and forcing chili powder into hi
Scientists may have found the real life SpongeBob and Patrick nearly 6,200 feet below the Atlantic. A NOAA expedition captured a yellow sponge and pink sea star sitting side by side, and marine biolog
The desert grassland whiptail lizard (Aspidoscelis uniparens) is an all-female species that reproduces exclusively through parthenogenesis, i.e. the embryo develops from an unfertilized egg cell
In 1986, 20-year-old Christopher Knight disappeared into the Maine woods, lived alone in a hidden camp for 27 years, and committed around 1,000 burglaries to survive before being caught in 2013.
The Romanian Football Federation has introduced a new black card, which can be used to permanently cancel a match, to help prevent abusive behaviour from parents at youth-team matches
The Bee Hummingbird: this is the world's smallest warm-blooded animal, with males measuring just 5.5cm long (including the tail and beak) and weighing less than 2 grams; this species also has the high
Undefeated boxing heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano (49-0) with Olympic Gold Medallist Floyd Patterson. Patterson’s manager Cus D’Amato had so much respect for Rocky’s power, that he waited until Ma
The oldest known sentence written in the Canaanite alphabet, found on a 3,800-year-old ivory comb, translates to: "May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.
