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On August 31, 1888, a young woman by the name of Mary Ann Nichols was found dead, her body gruesomely mutilated on the streets of Londons Whitechapel neighborhood. Police didnt know it at the time, but Nichols murder would be just the first of several similar, grisly killings that would play out over the following

Flickr/Boston Public LibraryJesse Pomeroy at the age of 69, being transferred to Bridgewater hospital in 1929. In 1874, Jesse Pomeroy became the youngest person ever convicted of first-degree murder in Massachusetts. He was only 14 years old, but his crimes were horrific, violent, and bloody, and he would spend the rest of his life in

In 19th-century New Orleans, Marie Laveau proved that Voodoo was much more than sticking pins in dolls and raising zombies. While the white world dismissed her as an evil occultist who practiced black magic and held drunken orgies, New Orleans Black community knew her as a healer and herbalist who preserved African belief systems while

Wikimedia Commons; Tim Pierce/FlickrThe armadillo lizard (left) gets its name from the way it curls up into a ball as a defense mechanism, as armadillos do (right). With its thorny exterior and unique defenses, the armadillo lizard might be both one of natures cutest and one of its most eccentric reptiles. Just as its animal

Wikimedia Commons An island overrun by animals may sound like an adorable dream for some, and a few have even become tourist destinations for those looking to cuddle in a pile of bunnies or swim with wild pigs living in paradise.