A teen who claimed she had undergone 50 surgeries to look like her idol Angelina Jolie has admitted she faked the whole thing to “amuse” herself. Sahar Tabar had been called a “zombie” by cruel commenters after her gaunt Instagram selfies went viral. But, as the Sun Online reported last week, many viewers had a
Most people are trichromats. Most animals are dichromats. In some rare cases some women might be a tetrachromats. Okay, I see you have lost me. I’ll teach you what I myself have just learned. We see color because of specialized nerve cells in the retina called cones, which function only in bright light. Most people
A woman has recently told her story of incredibly becoming pregnant while she was already pregnant, resulting in her giving birth to twins who were conceived by different parents and not at the same time. Jessica Allen, a 31 year-old from California, agreed to become a surrogate mother for a Chinese couple and underwent in
A recent study “discovered” millions of missing girls lost to China’s one-child policy, and the results also shine a light on China’s propensity to favor sons over daughters. Over the last few years, China’s problem of gender imbalance has been widely reported by media outlets. Experts determined that anywhere from 30 to 60 million girls
The world is filled to the brim with grotesque realities. We like to believe that every scary story we hear around a campfire is just made up out of the storyteller’s macabre imagination, but that’s not always the case. Sometimes, no matter how twisted they may be, these stories are true. That’s the case for
So ingrained is the widely accepted narrative of World War II that we can recount the conflict’s history in a short series of mere phrases: Hitler rises, France falls, the Holocaust begins, Pearl Harbor burns, D-Day commences, the bomb drops. However, this narrative — even in its most fully fleshed-out form — misrepresents why and
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Almost fifty years may have passed since Neil Armstrong spoke those iconic words but some out still believe that the first moon landings were faked. Now close-up analysis of one NASA photograph has led people to believe that the Apollo 17 mission three
The movies have long taught us to think of sharks as the ultimate ocean predator. But we might need to re-evaluate what we know. This is because five dead great white sharks have been found washed up on the beach on the south coast of South Africa since May this year. Eerily, all five shark
While many don’t openly talk about it, especially when it comes to family, there are plenty of people out there indulging in recreational drug use. Whether it’s a joint after a stressful day of work or lines of coke before a Saturday night out – odds are there are plenty of people you meet each
Skeletal winged bodies of fairies, werewolves and aliens were said to have been found in the basement of an old house in London. The macabre collection features what appears to be a range of mythical beasts, in cases and jars in gruesome poses. Fairies seen with their flesh rotted away and their wings nailed to