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The first human spaceflight program in America, Project Mercury focused on getting a man into orbit. 1959. Taught to pull levers in response to sound and light, Ham performed his tasks well in space moving only slightly slower than he had on Earth. This showed that humans would be able to do the same.

Memory of the NetherlandsWitches were believed to be light enough to ride broomsticks and were therefore thought to be lighter than a Bible. In medieval Europe, most town centers had stations called weigh houses where traders and sellers measured their crops or livestock before taking them to market. But as the witch hunt craze swept

RedditCarney Landis psychology experiments took a dark turn when he had his subjects decapitate rats. In the early 1920s, psychologist Carney Landis found himself wondering if all humans made the same facial expressions when responding to the same emotions. He wanted to find an answer to this question, but there was one major hangup: Landis

In fact, in April 1909, six years before the genocide began, Turkish Muslims in support of Islamic Sultan Abdul Hamid II killed between 20,000 and 30,000 Armenian Christians who largely opposed the Sultan in the Adana region in modern-day Turkey (aftermath pictured).

When recently crawling the ocean floor off the California coast, remotely-operated vehicles controlled by the Nautilus exploration vessel happened upon the most unbelievably adorable marine creature on Earth: a stubby squid.