George and Willie Muse performed in traveling sideshows all over the world, including the famous Ringling Bros. They even performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden — yet the Muse brothers were only there because they had been taken from their parents and were being held against their will.
Because these brothers were born both Black and with a rare form of albinism in the Jim Crow South, they were subjected to particularly brutal exploitation. Billed as the "missing link" between apes and humans, they were forced to eat raw meat in front of white crowds who tugged on their hair in disbelief that it was real. And when they were billed as the “White Ecuadorian Cannibals Eko and Iko,” they were made to bite the heads off of snakes for the audience's amusement.
They soon became unprecedented stars capable of drawing in audiences as large as 10,000 while their white handlers raked in untold sums — yet they never saw a dime. And when the brothers finally escaped the circus in 1927, Ringling Bros. actually sued them for “depriving the circus of two valuable earners with legally binding contracts.” But the brothers fought the suit with the help of a small-town lawyer — and won. This is their story: https://allthatsinteresting.com/george-and-willie-muse
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On October 16, 1869, two men digging a well on a farm in Cardiff, New York, unearthed what appeared to be an impossibly large human foot sitting just below the surface. As they kept digging, the men discovered what they could only call an ancient Biblical giant, just as described in the Book of Genesis. And by the time people had started to gather, the men had excavated this 10-foot-tall man "contorted as if in a death struggle."
Soon, the owner of the farm erected a tent around the figure and charged people 25 cents to see the petrified "fossil." But the Cardiff Giant proved so popular that the farmer upped the price to 50 cents within just two days. By November, more than 3,000 people had come from miles around to see it and local businessmen paid the farmer a staggering $30,000 for an ownership stake in the find. Archaeologists, geologists, and theologians all debated the true origins of the giant. Even P.T. Barnum wanted to get in on the action, offering to buy it outright for $50,000.
But the whole thing was a hoax — perpetrated by the farmer’s atheist cousin who wanted to prove how easily he could trick Biblical literalists into believing in a fake giant. Go inside the story of the Cardiff Giant, perhaps the greatest hoax in American history: https://allthatsinteresting.com/cardiff-giant
Below is a link to his gofundme page. For those who don’t know, Jason Watson protested in uniform to remove Donald Trump from office. This man will lose his career, pension, medical and it will be harder to find a job for the rest of his life. He is a real patriot. He has given everything just in the hope that our country could be saved. I donated $100. Please donate if you can. It’s not much but it’s what we can do for him.
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During his testimony in Robert Blake civil trial in 2005, Christian Brando repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right because he did not want to become involved in what he viewed as unreasonable questioning from Blake’s attorneys, especially since he was not closely involved in the victim’s life during her marriage to Robert Blake. However, he told the judge:
“This has been going on for five years. Mr. Blake’s been pointing the finger at me. I had absolutely nothing to do with this.”
Despite the fact that the Los Angeles police investigated and cleared him of any involvement, Robert Blake’s legal team attempted to shift blame toward him in a desperate move to protect their client.
Brando was subpoenaed in Blake’s civil trial. With his lawyer, Bruce M. Margolin, by his side, he invoked his Fifth Amendment right. Margolin said his client did not answer most of the attorneys’ questions because he did not want to open a “Pandora’s box” that would make his personal life the focus of the trial.
Brando also did not want to make statements in court that could be taken “out of context,” Margolin added.
“Blake’s defence apparently is trying to imply that [Brando] is involved in Blake’s domestic dispute with his wife,” Margolin said outside court.
“This was an attempt to implicate Christian in something he had no part in,” Margolin stated. “He does not in any way want to be implicated in this attempt.”
Outside the courthouse, reporters asked Brando whether he had any idea who may have killed Bonny Lee Bakley. He shrugged, smiled, and replied:
“Probably sitting up in the room there.”
— referring to Robert Blake, who was present in the courtroom.
Christian Brando was also asked how he felt about Blake being acquitted in the criminal trial.
“He’s going to be judged someplace else,” he said.
(Associated Press, 2005)
According to a handwritten note from 1993, the dog belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Jones of Monroe.
A woman named Mrs. Dee Strickland, who lived with the Jones family in 1932, recalled that Buddie was a beautiful Irish Setter.
Mr. Jones frequently brought him to Kiroli Park to run, and when Buddie passed, Jones chose to bury him there, in the place they had shared so many happy days together.
Researchers had long puzzled over how the vast Pacific island network of Polynesia was first populated. But in 1947, Thor Heyerdahl proposed the radical idea that the islands of the South Pacific had been populated by seafarers from all the way in South America. Heyerdahl noted similarities between the cultures of these two regions, including myths, legends, and even food like the sweet potato. But experts nevertheless disagreed with Heyerdahl, claiming that ancient peoples would not have had the technology to make such a long and arduous ocean voyage. So, Heyerdahl set out to prove them wrong — by sailing from Peru to French Polynesia himself in a homemade wooden raft.
Read more of the unbelievable true story of the adventurer who successfully traveled 4,300 miles across the Pacific on a craft made of logs and rope: https://allthatsinteresting.com/thor-heyerdahl
A podcast episode with mechanical engineer Emma McCarthy at LSU on making materials for extreme conditions!
Al Capone's son didn't follow in his father's footsteps to live a life of crime. But he did inherit many of his dad's problems. From syphilis to the suspicion of the police, Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone long struggled under the weight of his infamous last name. So after a publicized arrest for stealing aspirin, he decided to change his last name to Brown — and then he disappeared to the West Coast.
Discover the little-known story of Scarface's son: The Secretive Life Of Albert Francis Brown, The Son Of Al Capone
Héroes sin capa.
Bobroczkyi was born in July 2000 in Arad, Romania, into a family built for height. His father Zsigmond is a 7ft 1 former international basketball player.
His mother Brunhilde is a 6ft 1 former volleyball and handball player. By the age of eight Robert was already taller than his mother.
He attended SPIRE Academy, a boarding school for elite athletes in Geneva, Ohio, and played college basketball in the US before transitioning to acting.
His first acting role was in Alien: Romulus in 2024, playing the Offspring, a rapidly growing human-xenomorph hybrid whose terrifying height was entirely practical, not digital.
During the first few months of 2019, a Reddit user named ChrisCGC began appearing everywhere on the platform. He spent over $70,000 on random user badges and used these awards as a strategy to lure people into a strange community called Cantelmoism. There, he posted lengthy texts about DMT, a powerful psychedelic substance that, according to him, could explain spirituality, schizophrenia, the existence of God, and even cure a supposed brain cancer he claimed to have suffered from since 2013.
Behind ChrisCGC was Chris Cantelmo, a Yale-educated biochemist who had worked for decades in the pharmaceutical industry and amassed a considerable fortune. Over time, he developed a doctrine centered on DMT as a path to divine understanding. As his followers spread his theories, defended his posts, and called him "Lord Chris," numerous users began to investigate his claims. Criticism grew at the same pace as the movement, and many concluded that Cantelmoism was acquiring the characteristics of a destructive online cult. Disputes surrounding Cantelmoism became increasingly aggressive until Reddit intervened and suspended accounts and communities linked to Cantelmo.
Banished from Reddit, he attempted to rebuild the movement on other internet platforms. He continued spending money on followers, funding their trips, university studies, and DMT sessions at his ranch. But his personal situation deteriorated rapidly, marked by episodes of paranoia, insomnia, self-destructive thoughts, financial ruin, anxiety, delusional thinking, and severe financial problems. On November 24, 2019, Chris Cantelmo was found dead in the Angeles National Forest in California; he had taken his own life with a sharp object.
Video about the story of the Cantelmoism cult. The strange virtual cult that originated on Reddit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q2ydxMZvDI
On October 18, 1963, French scientists in the Sahara Desert launched a rocket with an unusual passenger: a tuxedo cat named Félicette. A stray feline found on the streets of Paris, Félicette had undergone special "training" alongside 13 other cats to determine her fitness for space travel. Because Félicette was the calmest cat of the whole group — and didn't gain weight during the study — she was chosen as the first feline to ever go to space.
Félicette spent 15 minutes in spaceflight before her rocket plummeted back down to Earth. But even though she survived the trip, her story would soon come to a tragic end. Not long after Félicette returned from her journey, French scientists euthanized her so that they could study the effects that the trip had on her brain.
Read more here: Inside The Forgotten Story Of Félicette, The First And Only Cat To Go To Space