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Fisherman Shares Terrifying Creatures Of The Deep Sea

Asli Akalin — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:46:05 +0000

Roman Fedortsov (previously here) spends most of his time on fishing trawlers. Some of his catches, however, end up going viral on the internet instead of being quietly digested in someone's tummy.

"I'm 39 and have been working onboard trawlers for seventeen years," Roman told Bored Panda. "I live in Murmansk, Russia. It is a big port, and that's why I enrolled in the Marine University after school. My specialization has a lot to do with fishing technology. I know how to prepare fish for freezing and further delivery to the customer."

Roman brought most of these photos from the Norwegian and Barents seas while some of them came ashore from the Atlantic Ocean.

Once on a fishing trip, Roman and his mates live in six-hour cycles. They work for six hours, then rest for another six. And repeat. "We are to catch commercial fish such as Cod, Haddock, Halibut, Redfish, Herring, Mackerel, and so on," he added. "The most extreme fish I have ever caught are Frilled Shark, Rabbitfish, Big Sunfish, Angler, Stoplight Loosejaw..."

"During my watch, I work at the fish factory. I'm responsible for processing the fish, so I have to control other seamen while they're working, too."

Roman really likes finding unusual types of animals aboard the trawl. "I decided to create social media accounts because many people have no idea how some of the fish look. I'm constantly impressed by the appearance of some deep water fish and want to share my experiences with other people."

"I have never been scared of the fish I catch," he said. "I'm always interested and impressed."

Scroll down to check out the terrifying creatures Roman has grown so fond of!

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#1 "I'm So Ugly, But That's Okay"

#2 "The Underwater Space Is Impressive"

#3 "Looks Like Cartoon Dragon. No Photoshop"

#4 "Scary Beauty In My Hands"

#5 It's Beautiful

#6 "Total Recall. Sea Edition"

#7 "The Beauty From The Sea Bottom"

#8 "These Fishes Remind Me Of Dwarfs From 'Lord Of The Rings'"

#9 "Anybody Home?"

#10 Chimaera

#11 "Lumpsucker. They Are Used As "Cleaner Fish" To Reduce The Parasite Burden On Salmon Farms In Scotland And Norway"

#12 "Another Pretty Creature From The Bottom Of The Norwegian Sea"

#13 "This Is Psolus Phantapus! Real Cool Guys From The Depths"

#14 "Zoom Photo. Look In Those Sad Eyes"

#15 "Fantastic Four. My Sea Edition. I Like This Fish"

#16 "Remora From Different Sides"

#17 "Nervous People Better Not Look"

#18 "Shell Pike. Beautiful Creation"

#19 "No Need To Invent “Monsters” Nature Has Already Done It"

#20 "Different Colors Of Lumpfish"

#21 "Natural Born Killer"

#22 "Big Sunfish. Bycatch. Fishing In Atlantic Ocean, Near Morocco"

#23 "Disapproving Look"

#24 "Did You Miss Me? I Returned Home"

#25 "Hellboy’s Fish"

#26 "Why Not A Velociraptor?"

#27 "When You Drink To Much Coffee"

#28 "Unusual Cod From Norway"

#29 "It's Monday Fish"

#30 "Photo Of Frilled Shark. Ideal Predator"

#31 "I’ll Be Back In Your Nightmares"

#32 "Hello Humans!"

#33 "Terrible Beauty"

#34 "Fish-Rubber Ball"

#35 "Fish With Ears"

#36 "I Hope You’re Not Eating At This Moment"

#37 "Pretty Wolffish. Tasty And Scary"

#38 "Submarine"

#39 "New Artifact For Stalker. Disgusting Beauty From The Depths. It's Alive"

#40 "This Is A Engraulis"

#41 "Rat Fish"

#42 Grenadier

#43 "This Fish Was A Catch In Greenland Sea"

#44 "When Somebody Didn't Get Enough Sleep Once Again"

#45 "Another Beauty Fish From The Depths Of The Sea"

#46 "Flatfish"

#47 "Strange Creature"

#48 "Amazing Sea Urchin. Norwegian Sea"

#49 "Abstract Composition From The Sea’s Bottom. Broken Shell, Sea Urchin And Something Yellow"

#50 "Anglerfish(Monkfish)"

#51 "Lancetfish. Teeth Like Little Swords"

#52 "From The Underwater Garden"

#53 "Beautiful Or Scary?"

#54 "Rising From The Depths"

#55 "Fish Without The Lower Jaw"

#56 "Greetings From The Norwegian Sea"

#57 "Another Strange Fish"

#58 "Ghost Shark"

#59 "It's Like Advertising... Advertising Toothpaste"

#60 "This Guy Again"

#61 "One More Strange Fish"

#62 "The Ling, Molva Molva, Is A Large Member Of A Family Of Cod-Like Fishes"

#63 "Sea interpretation Of The 'Beauty And The Beast'"

#64 "Sad Sunday Fish"

#65 "Zombie Fish"

#66 "Nature Is The Best Author Of Nightmares"

#67 "Basket With Surprise"

#68 "Wolf-Fish. Look At These Teeth"

#69 "Successful Weekend"

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30 Photos Of Dogs Growing Up Next To Their Owners

Asli Akalin — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:52:04 +0000

From fluff to fur, puppies grow-up really fast. You blink once or twice, and your little goofball has become a sophisticated K9. Because of their rapid development, a lot of owners want to document every breath, their little bundle of joy takes. Others go a step further by making and then recreating a series of then and now family photos with their beloved funny dogs.Bored Panda has collected another series (part I, part II) of before-and-after photos of cute dogs growing up, and they're so adorable, they'll definitely remind you to cherish every moment you spend with your family pet. Scroll down to check out the most adorable family dogs and upvote your favorite changes!

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#1 Before And After Deployment

#2 Father, Daughter And Pets Take The Same Photo For 10 Years, And It’s Bizarre How Little Things Actually Change

#3 20 Years Later And Still Going Strong

#4 6 Weeks Vs. 6 Months

#5 14 Years And A Lot Of Grey Hairs Later

#6 Once The Boss, Always The Boss

#7 Before And After. That's Like Having A Pet Bear

#8 8 Weeks To 8 Months

#9 Exactly 12 Years Apart

#10 12 Weeks Apart

#11 11 Years Apart

#12 Let's Grow Up Together, Friend

#13 My Boy Lucky Was There For My First Day Of Kindergarten And My Senior Portrait

#14 Veterinarian Caring For The Same Dog 15 Years Apart

#15 3 - 6 - 9 - 12 Months With My Little Girl

#16 "I Want To Sleep On You Hooman"

#17 8 Weeks To 5 Months! The Same Mummy And The Same Car, Just Slightly Bigger Winston

#18 We Are Both Still In Camo 2 Years Later

#19 14 Years Later And We're Still Inseparable Even Though I'm A Grown Up And He's Slowing Down

#20 Puppy Progression. Golden Doodle Puppy To Brown Bear 9 Months

#21 Growing Together

#22 Puppy Grows Into Small Horse In 9 Months

#23 My Little Bro And Eli The Poodle, On His First And Last Day Of National Guard. 6 Years Apart

#24 Then And Now. Growing Up Together

#25 Still A Pupper At Heart

#26 My Little Brother And His Dog Domino 10 Years Apart

#27 Here's My Brother's Dog, Moose The Pyrenees, On The Day That I Brought Him Home And Then A Year Later. I'm 6'4" For Scale

#28 Jub Jub Before And After

#29 14 Years Later

#30 Sigurd, 1 Year Old Now!

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43 Hilarious Tweets That Capture What It’s Like To Live With 4-Year Olds

Asli Akalin — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:48:04 +0000

Even if you don't have any little kids of your own, you might have heard about their development stage, called The Terrible Twos that is often defined by temper tantrums, disobedience, and anger. If this sounds horrible, then wait until you hear about The Frustrating Fours. A 4-year-old kid is somewhere in between babyhood and childhood, meaning they still don't have the motoric skills and language fully developed, yet their understanding of the surrounding world is already very advanced. Because of that the temper tantrums and disobedience of these frustratingly funny kids is expressed in even grander ways than at the age of two.

Sure at this age, the little children have a better command of the language, but is that always a good thing? I think the parents who have to argue with these ferocious debaters would beg to differ. The following funny tweet round-up of life with four-year-olds proves that while some things get better with age, they can also get crazier. Scroll down below to check out these funny Twitter stories and rants about raising children and don't forget to upvote your favs.

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9 Before & After Photos That Prove Your Weight Is Meaningless (New Pics)

Asli Akalin — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:49:04 +0000

When people try to get fit, they often use a bathroom scale to track their progress. There are, however, a number of reasons why it's not a good idea. Probably the main one is that your weight only tells how heavy you are, and nothing about your body composition, which is the proportion of fat and fat-free mass in your body. And to make our argument even more convincing, Bored Panda has collected a series of before-and-after photos of people at the same weight but in a very, very different shape. You'll see, there's no need to starve yourself to achieve great results. All it takes is just good old-fashioned dedication. And after you're done scrolling through this list, check out these 28 Before & After Photos That Prove Your Weight Is Meaningless for more inspiration as well.

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#1 "If You're Consistent At Lifting And Exercising And Hitting Protein, Don't Quit Because Things Are Happening Whether The Scale Reflects It Or Not"

#2 Reminder That Long Term Consistency Trumps Short Term Intensity

#3 The Scale Doesn't Always Tell Us The Truth, But Pictures Do

#4 Proof That Just Because You Weigh More Doesn’t Mean You’ve Got Fat

#5 It Gave Me Routine That Still Embodied Balance And Diversity

#6 Yeah, I’m Gonna Stop Using A Scale

#7 "Throw Out The Scales. Your Weight Doesn't Matter"

#8 Weight Is Not A Good Measurement Of Progress

#9 Stop Focusing On Your Scale Weight

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“White Samuel L. Jackson”: John Travolta’s New Cannes Look Triggers Hilarious Memes And Reactions

Lei RV — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:57:08 +0000

John Travolta probably expected people to talk about his big Cannes moment, his emotional speech, and his new movie.

However, rather than focusing on those moments, the internet did what it does best: it spotted one unexpected detail and ran absolutely wild with it.

The actor arrived at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival looking nearly unrecognizable in a cream-colored wool beret, glasses, and a classic black suit while attending the premiere of his directorial debut, Propeller One-Way Night Coach.

He was joined by his daughter, Ella Travolta, who stars in the film, and the night became even more special when he was surprised with an honorary Palme d’Or.

Image credits: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Travolta got emotional while accepting the honor, calling it “beyond the Oscar” and admitting he “cried like a baby” after learning his film had been selected. It was a huge career moment. But social media had another storyline in mind.

Almost immediately, people became laser-focused on the hat.

Image credits: Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis/Getty Images

The beret quickly sparked confusion, comparisons, and creative reactions online.

“When did John Travolta become Samuel L Jackson?” questioned one netizen.

People also claimed they had to do a double-take before realizing it was Travolta, with one saying, “I thought that was J Balvin.”

Soon, memes flooded timelines and comment sections, comparing him to a wide range of people and things.

And honestly, once the internet starts playing the celebrity-lookalike game, there’s no stopping it.

Here are some of the funniest reactions and memes from John Travolta’s unexpected Cannes transformation.

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Is John Travolta in the picture with us because that is definitely not John Travolta pic.twitter.com/hzg763xxVF
— 🪼⚔️Justice⚔️🪼 (@CrematedSoul92) May 15, 2026

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Looks like he woke up from a coma thinking he was the other star from Pulp Fiction pic.twitter.com/BDl83Rpdtr
— Dylan Silkey (@dylan_silkey) May 15, 2026

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Why is he dressed up as Samuel L. Jackson pic.twitter.com/Se8zvJNZv3
— Orochi Markle 大蛇 (@OrochiMarkle) May 15, 2026

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*who tf is that?!🤔🤦🏾‍♂️🤣💀 pic.twitter.com/cPg96Er5dG
— Stark Thanos (@StarkThanos7) May 15, 2026

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Travolta staring in the New Jack City as Nino White pic.twitter.com/Wpzh9BdaX3
— Davey Love (@DAVEYLOVE) May 15, 2026

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WHO is that and what have they done with John Travolta?! pic.twitter.com/ffRR1O0VEN
— Olaf (@shewasafairrryy) May 15, 2026

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John Travolta at Cannes looking like his surgeon deserves an Oscar 💀
Bro’s face is tighter than the plot of Pulp Fiction 😂 pic.twitter.com/ChFIRGMkpR
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That is NOT Danny Zuko. That's a light skinned black man who is badly impersonating Danny Zuko pic.twitter.com/1MrdqDxDx0
— Rita (@RitaRita_I_am) May 15, 2026

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John getting ready to leave the house pic.twitter.com/0d9Hf5Qre7
— 🥢 succulent chinese meal 🥢 (@JxxSucculent) May 16, 2026

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That awkward moment when you can’t find John Travolta onstage at Cannes pic.twitter.com/XDrxQw4ef4
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) May 15, 2026

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Glowing, trim, wrinkle-free 70s… I wonder what beauty secrets the Church of Scientology is hiding, saved exclusively for their senior high ranking members. pic.twitter.com/GBaQhtcFOw
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That chinstrap is killing my eyes, absolutely hideous pic.twitter.com/COZUAmCnAv
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— Spike McFew 🏀🇺🇸☘️ (@Zagmaniac) May 15, 2026

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Where's John??? pic.twitter.com/n2uOUwh59T
— Butter Sunshine (@ButterSunshine4) May 15, 2026

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Rumors are leaking that they switched out John Travolta after this creepy video

That looks like a completely different person pic.twitter.com/VYnh51OYgv
— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) May 16, 2026

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People (just me) are saying that it looks like an actor, maybe Jim Carey, is playing the role of 72-year-old John Travolta.

People (again, me) are also commenting that his beard looks like it’s been drawn on. pic.twitter.com/DDJlIN6syT
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 16, 2026

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44 More Hilariously ‘Unispirational’ Quotes From The Most Pessimistic Instagram

Asli Akalin — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:45:05 +0000

Sometimes we need a little pick me up when life has dealt us a difficult hand, and inspiring quotes are a great way to do that. They are so uplifting they sound like they came straight from your parent's mouth, 'you're special' or 'you can do anything if you put your mind to it,' and let's not forget 'when life gives you lemons make lemonade,' and all the other happy-go-lucky bullcrap of motivational quotes. Well for all the realists out there who are tired of too much sugar in their lemonade, the uninspirational quotes account is back with more funnyinspiring quotes.

Be forewarned these short quotes are not here to make you feel like a special unique snowflake, they are here to remind you that if at first, you don't succeed, you should probably give up and that staying in bed is always the best decision for all the sad people. Scroll down for a healthy serving of sugar-free, sarcastic and hilarious helping of quotes!

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#1 At Least In Bed Nothing Can Go Wrong

#2 Shrug

#3 Double Standards

#4 We Are All Very Concerned About You

#5 Learn From The Past

#6 Believe In Nothing!!!

#7 There Are Plenty Of Fish In The [bad] [bad] Sea

#8 Do Some Dating This Weekend

#9 It Goes Both Ways, Baby

#10 Have A Great Weak

#11 Weekends Are For Over-Eating

#12 No. Seriously. It's Never Gonna Happen. Give Up

#13 Just Don’t Do It

#14 So So So [darn] Jealous

#15 Life Goals From

#16 I’ll Get Back At You Soon With A Better Answer Ttyl

#17 It’s Just Math

#18 Workout Wednesday

#19 It’s Nice To Have Time Alone

#20 This Is All A Losing Game

#21 Everything Ends Badly!!!

#22 Every. [darn]. Night

#23 This Is The Only Way Many Of Us Are Ever Going To Find Happiness

#24 Give Me Naps Or Give Me Death

#25 Have Big Goals And Make Them Come True

#26 Don’t Wake Me Up Until Monday

#27 Sweet Dreams

#28 The Night Is Young! Get To Complainin’!!!

#29 And Tonight I’m Going To Eat My Friends

#30 Try It Sometime!!!

#31 It's Never Too Late To Give Up!

#32 Sundays Are For Staying In Bed

#33 I Regret All The Desserts But I Will Do It Again Anyway

#34 Aaaaaand I’m Reaaaaally Good At It

#35 Have A Great Weekend!!!

#36 Happy Halloween

#37 But You’re Not, So I Don’t

#38 Please Keep It Down Until At Least Tomorrow

#39 Almost Every Day

#40 Always Plan Ahead

#41 Yes. This Is About You

#42 Literally. Nothing. Matters.

#43 🎶🎶🎶happiness Is A Diseaseeeeeee 🎶🎶🎶

#44 Too Real? :(

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5 Chilling Mystery Cases With Brutal Confessions, Police Chaos And Plot Twists Nobody Saw Coming

Rocio Corsi — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:13:34 +0000

Some mysteries seem impossible to solve until one strange detail changes everything.

A random text message, a false confession, a loyal dog in the woods, or an obvious clue can suddenly open a case once thought hopeless.

These cases baffled investigators for years and led people astray before shocking twists completely redefined the story.

In some cases, the truth was stranger than fiction itself.

Here are five mysteries that prove real life doesn’t always follow logic, and sometimes the most unexpected turn becomes the key to solving everything.

#1 Nicole Van Den Hurk, A Desperate Brother’s Last Resort

On the morning of October 6, 1995, 15-year-old Nicole van den Hurk left her grandmother’s home in Eindhoven for what should have been a routine bike ride to her part-time job at a shopping center.

There was nothing unusual about that morning. No warning signs. No indication that it would be the last time anyone saw her alive.

But Nicole never arrived.

Hours later, investigators found her bicycle abandoned near the Dommel River. Then, nearly two weeks after her disappearance, another clue surfaced: Nicole’s backpack had been discovered near a canal.

It was as if pieces of a puzzle were appearing one by one, but none of them fit together.

Then came the most chilling discovery of all.

On November 22, a passerby walking through the woods between Mierlo and Lierop found Nicole’s body.

The autopsy painted a horrifying picture.

She had suffered jaw fractures, stab wounds, and signs of s*xual a**ult.

Image credits: oddlynews/Instagram

Detectives launched a massive investigation and chased hundreds of tips, but answers never came.

Even police arrested Nicole’s stepfather and stepbrother in 1996 before eventually clearing both men because there simply wasn’t enough evidence.

The mystery that haunted the Netherlands slowly turned cold.

Then, 16 years later, came a confession so shocking it looked like a nightmare had finally ended.

In March 2011, Nicole’s stepbrother Andy posted a message on Facebook that stunned everyone-

"I will be arrested today at the m*rder of my sister, I confessed."

Image credits: oddlynews/Instagram

Police immediately took him into custody.
For a brief moment, it seemed the case had finally been solved. But investigators quickly discovered something deeply unsettling- Andy’s confession was all they had.

No forensic evidence. No witnesses. No DNA. Nothing.

Five days later, he walked free.

Years later, Andy revealed the truth behind the confession. It had all been a desperate plan.

"I wanted to get her exhumed and get DNA off her," he later explained. "I kind of set myself up, and it could have gone horribly wrong."

And somehow, his gamble worked.

Nicole’s body was exhumed in September 2011, following Andy’s confession months earlier. Advances in DNA testing then uncovered traces connected to convicted r*pist Jos de G., a man with a disturbing criminal history.

Investigators later linked him to another attack involving a young woman taken from her bicycle at knifepoint.

During court proceedings, one witness recalled a chilling alleged statement from Jos.

"He looked at me with those cold eyes and said he k*lled a girl."

Another claimed he confessed to m*rdering Nicole after she laughed at him.

The legal fight dragged on for years.

In 2016, de G. was convicted of r*pe but acquitted of manslaughter, sparking outrage.

Two years later, in 2018, prosecutors appealed successfully, and Jos de G. was finally convicted of both crimes and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

But for many people, the most unbelievable part of the story was never the k*ller.

It was Andy.

"He literally went to jail for her. False confessed to a m*rder he didn’t commit so they’d test the DNA. That’s not just love, that’s unbreakable," one commenter wrote.

Another added, "Imagine loving your sister so much you’d confess to k*lling her. This hit me different."

#2 Patricia Stallings, The Mother No One Believed In

By the summer of 1989, Patricia “Patty” Stallings finally felt like life had given her a second chance.

After years of hardship, she had married David Stallings, moved into a new home outside St. Louis, and welcomed their first son, Ryan. Years later, Patty would remember that period with heartbreaking clarity-

"That truly was the happiest time of my life. Everything was perfect. Everything. A new house, a new baby. I mean, what could be wrong?"

Then one weekend, three-month-old Ryan became sick.

He vomited repeatedly, struggled to breathe, and Patty rushed him to a children’s hospital. Doctors ran tests, expecting answers.

Instead, they found something shocking.

Ryan’s blood allegedly showed dangerously high levels of ethylene glycol, an odorless, sweet-tasting, clear toxic a*cohol.

Suddenly, what had looked like a medical emergency became a criminal investigation.

Authorities believed someone had poisoned the baby.

And police quickly decided they knew exactly who had done it.

Image credits: Nimit N/Pexels (Not the real image)

Ryan was immediately placed into protective custody. Patty insisted she had never harmed her child. She couldn’t understand what was happening.

Then things got worse.

On August 31, Patty was briefly left alone while feeding Ryan from a bottle. Days later, he became critically ill again.

Tests once again supposedly showed antifreeze.

Investigators claimed traces of ethylene glycol had even been found in Ryan’s bottle. A gallon of antifreeze was also discovered in the Stallings home.

To prosecutors, the evidence seemed overwhelming.

Jefferson County prosecutor George McElroy told jurors,

"Don’t try to understand why Patricia Stallings poisoned her child… The point is, she did it. Only she could have done it."

Patty was arrested. Two days later, Ryan passed away.

The devastated mother was charged with first-degree m*rder while prosecutors pursued life in prison.

While grieving in jail, Patty discovered she was pregnant.

In February 1990, she gave birth to another son, David Jr., known as D.J.

Image credits: Ron Lach/Pexels (Not the real image)

But weeks later, something impossible happened.

D.J. developed symptoms eerily similar to Ryan’s. There was one major problem with the original theory-

Patty had never been near him.

Doctors eventually diagnosed D.J. with methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), a rare inherited metabolic disorder.

The condition causes toxic compounds to build up in the bloodstream and can mimic the symptoms of antifreeze p*isoning.

Suddenly, a terrifying question emerged-

What if Ryan had never been poisoned at all?

Even then, prosecutors resisted.

They argued Ryan could still have been poisoned.

Patty was convicted in January 1991 and sentenced to life.

Then a TV episode changed everything.

The case aired on Unresolved Mysteries, catching the attention of biochemist William Sly.

After reviewing Ryan’s blood, experts discovered something stunning.

The labs had confused propionic acid, produced by MMA, with ethylene glycol.

Professor Piero Rinaldo later blasted the testing process,

"Totally unacceptable, unbelievable, out of this world. I was astonished."

Image credits: Artem Podrez/Pexels (Not the real image)

The evidence that had sent Patty to prison had been wrong.

In September 1991, after nearly two years of suffering, prosecutors dropped all charges.

George McElroy publicly apologized-

"Unfortunately, we can't undo the suffering that the Stallingses have endured."

One commenter later wrote, "A rare disease looked like m*rder. That twist still shocks me."

#3 Susan Doll, A Contractor’s Bizarre Finding

When a real estate agent arrived at 39-year-old Susan Doll’s Fort Collins home in August 1989, it was supposed to be a routine visit.

Instead, it became the beginning of a mystery that would sit unsolved for years.

Inside the house, Susan was found lifeless on her bedroom floor. She has been a**aulted, s*xually attacked, and strangled.

Yet one detail immediately puzzled investigators- nothing appeared to be missing. No jewelry. No signs of a robbery gone wrong.

But detectives soon uncovered something deeply unsettling.

Ten days before Susan’s passing, someone had broken into her house and stolen an oddly specific collection of items- 25 pairs of women’s underwear.

The forensic team found s*men, urine, feces, and a fingerprint on a window frame at the crime scene.

Today, DNA would likely have transformed the investigation overnight. But this was 1989.

Image credits: Wendelin Jacober/Pexels (Not the real image)

DNA technology wasn’t available.

Instead, police focused on the fingerprint and launched an enormous search, testing nearly 3,000 sets of prints.

Nothing matched. Months became years. Years became six.

Then a completely unrelated repair job changed everything.

In August 1995, a furnace repairman working inside an old Fort Collins home noticed something strange hidden inside the ductwork- dirty women’s underwear stuffed into the furnace. Most people might have thrown it away and moved on.

Well, he didn’t.

Testing revealed s*men on the underwear matched s*men found at Susan’s m*rder scene. Suddenly, investigators had their first real break in years.

Image credits: Freepik (Not the real image)

Housing records led detectives to Douglas Thames Jr., who had once lived in that home with his brother and a friend. Even more shocking, his fingerprint matched the one found on Susan’s window frame.

Thames had been just 16 years old when Susan was k*lled.

In 1996, a jury convicted him of m*rder and sentenced him to life in prison.

But the story didn’t end there.

Years later, another horrific m*rder case involving 19-year-old Jacie Taylor would create a shocking twist.

Taylor had been beaten, s*xually a**aulted, and strangled with a dog leash in 1994. A man named Robert Dewey spent nearly 16 years in prison, insisting authorities had arrested the wrong person.

As he was sentenced, Dewey reportedly told the judge,

"There's still a k*ller out there."

Years later, in 2011, new DNA testing proved he had been telling the truth.

The evidence pointed not back at Dewey, but at Douglas Thames.

Image credits: Freepik (Not the real image)

Authorities eventually identified Thames as the likely suspect in Taylor’s m*rder as well, exonerating Dewey after nearly two decades behind bars. Yet Thames’ family fiercely defended him.

"No way," his mother, Sandy Gifford, said. "Anybody who knows Doug knows there's no way he could ever be involved in something like this."

Still, for many people, another detail remains almost impossible to believe- Susan’s k*ller may never have been found at all if a contractor hadn’t decided to report a pile of old underwear hidden inside a furnace.

One commenter wrote, "Imagine solving a m*rder because somebody looked inside an air duct. Reality is stranger than fiction."

#4 Elaine O’Hara, The Summer That Solved A Crime

For more than a year, Elaine O’Hara had simply vanished.

The 36-year-old childcare worker from Dublin disappeared on August 22, 2012, after she was last seen near Shanganagh Cemetery.

Her purse, bag, and regular phone had been left behind. Her car was later found nearby. Given Elaine’s struggles with mental health, many initially feared the worst.

Some believed she had taken her own life. The case slowly became another haunting missing-person mystery with no real answers.

Then nature intervened.

In September 2013, three men standing near Vartry Reservoir in County Wicklow noticed something strange.

A warm summer had caused water levels to drop dramatically. What was normally around 20 feet deep had fallen to barely two feet. One of the men spotted a " shiny object " beneath the water when prosecutors later called it a “shiny object”. Curious, they pulled it out.

Inside the bag were bizarre items- clothing, restraints, rope, and handcuffs.

At first, they simply left the items on a nearby wall. But something felt wrong.

The next day, they brought everything to the Gardaí.

They had no idea they had just stumbled into one of the Ireland’s most disturbing m*rder mysteries.

Image credits: Google Maps

Just days later, another eerie coincidence unfolded nearly 20 kilometers away.

Dog trainer Magali Vergnet was walking through woodland near Killakee Mountain when one of her dogs ran into dense undergrowth and refused to return.

At first, the dog had occasionally returned carrying bones, which she assumed belonged to animals. But this time felt different.

Vergnet pushed through the brush and found scattered remains, clothing, and bones.

She immediately contacted the landowner.

Together, they discovered a rib cage and jawbone.

Only about 65 percent of the skeleton was eventually recovered. Dental records later confirmed the heartbreaking truth-

The remains belonged to Elaine O’Hara.

Prosecutor Seán Guerin later called what happened a “remarkable coincidence”.

Elaine’s body had been found less than a week before investigators understood the significance of the reservoir evidence.

The final twist arrived when Garda James O’Donoghue returned to search the reservoir again.

Image credits: An Garda Síochána/Garda Press Office

This time, he found a key job.

Attached to it was a Dunnes Stores loyalty card.

Investigators checked the name.

Elaine O’Hara.

Suddenly, the strange objects pulled from the water became evidence. More searches uncovered phones, batteries, glasses, and personal items linked directly to Elaine.

The phones led detectives toward architect Graham Dwyer.

And then they found the messages.

"I want to stick my knife in flesh while I am s*xually aroused… I would like to stab a girl to d*ath sometime."

Another read, "My urge to r*pe, stab or k*ll is huge."

Prosecutors later said,

"This was, in fact, the nearly perfect m*rder, but for the fact that 2013 was such a warm summer."

Online, many people remained stunned by the bizarre chain of events.

One commenter wrote, "Imagine if that summer hadn’t lowered the water. He almost got away with it."

#5 Barbara Brown Agnew, The Walmart Messages That Changed Everything

For 17 years, the m*rder of Barbara Brown Agnew sat buried in police files.

Back in 1997, her body was discovered near the Colorado River in Bullhead City, Arizona. She had suffered multiple skull fractures, and investigators believed she had been beaten to d*ath before being left among thick riverbank brush.

Her husband had reported her missing days earlier, but despite the brutality of the crime, detectives had nothing solid to work with.

No suspect. No promising leads. No Matthew Gibson.

In fact, investigators later admitted something shocking.

"His name was never in any report. We didn't even know he existed."

The case slowly slipped into cold-case territory.

Then, nearly two decades later, a bizarre chain of events began unfolding over 1,800 miles away in North Carolina.

Matthew Gibson started receiving strange text messages and calls from Walmart.

Image credits: Bullhead City Police Department

They all seemed meant for someone named Anita Townshed.

Prescription reminders. Advertisements. Voicemails.

Then came a mysterious envelope with a Walmart ad and no return address.

To most people, it would have looked like junk mail.

But Gibson became convinced it meant something far darker.

According to investigators, Gibson believed someone knew a terrible secret he had buried for years. He became increasingly paranoid and started fearing that someone had placed “a contract on his head.”

The strangest part?

He didn’t even know the name of the woman he claimed to have k*lled years earlier.

So in his mind, Anita Townshed had to be her.

Without sleeping, Gibson got into his car and drove across the country to Arizona.

Straight to a police station.

On June 5, Gibson walked into the Winslow Police Department and calmly announced that he wanted to confess to a m*rder.

Detectives were stunned.

Then he started talking.

He said he had met a woman one night and brought her back to his trailer.

At some point, she became “loud and obnoxious” and refused to leave. He picked up a large Maglite flashlight and repeatedly struck her before wrapping her body and dumping it near the river.

Image credits: Google Maps

Detectives immediately checked old files.

Everything matched Barbara Brown Agnew.

The injuries. The location. The details. Even the flashlight.

Investigators realized they were listening to information only a k*ller could know.

Bullhead City Detective Mary Garcia later admitted, "He could have gotten away with this."

Years later, Gibson claimed guilt had weighed heavily on him.

"I had no intention to take a life. But it did happen, and I, as a man, will accept my punishment."

He also wrote-

"Only the good Lord knows what that night was all about ... I'm deeply sorry for that night."

He pleaded guilty and received a sentence of more than 10 years.

But many people still remain stunned that random messages sent to the wrong person may have solved a m*rder that had sat untouched for almost two decades.

One commenter wrote, "This is really a unique story. The one time wrong texts and junk mail were productive. I am glad they have him in custody."

39 Celebrities Who Fell In Love While Acting Together

Asli Akalin — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:47:03 +0000

You shouldn't mix work with love, and you should never date your coworkers, right? Well, seemingly, this rule does not apply to Hollywood power couples who fell in love on movie sets.

Have you stopped to consider that maybe the reason the acting in some films with a romantic storyline is so good is that it's not always an act? It's true, and there is a list of behind-the-scenes romances between costarring famous actors to back it up.

Maybe these movies are among their best performances because each shoot is filled with genuine feelings between the celebrity couples.

We here at Bored Panda compiled a list of famous couples whose on-set chemistry with their coworkers blossomed into real-life relationships. And no matter how long these cute couples stayed together, it's evident that nobody is safe from falling in love behind the scenes.

Scroll below to see the lucky teams, and if there's any pair you think should be added to the list, don't forget to write it in the comments!

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#1 Rose Leslie And Kit Harington

This couple met on the set of 'Game of Thrones' and turned their on-screen love affair into a real-life relationship.

#2 Blake Lively And Ryan Reynolds

Ryan and Blake met on the set of 'Green Lantern' in 2010 but didn't get into a relationship until they were both single.

#3 Freddie Prinze Jr. And Sarah Michelle Gellar

Freddie and Sarah met while filming 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' in 1997. The couple got married in 2002 and have been together ever since.

#4 Samira Wiley And Lauren Morelli

Actress Samira Wiley met writer Lauren Morelli on the set of 'Orange is the new black'. The couple began dating in 2014 and got married in 2017.

#5 Ginnifer Goodwin And Josh Dallas

'Once Upon A Time' is responsible for getting these two co-stars together. They have been married since 2014.

#6 Will Smith And Jada Pinkett Smith

The two met auditioning for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1994. They got married in 1997 and have been together ever since.

#7 Johnny Galecki And Kaley Cuoco

'Big Bang Theory' favorites Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco also had a real-life romance. The pair split, while their on-screen characters are now married.

#8 Stephen Moyer And Anna Paquin

Stephen met Anna while they were both starring on supernatural thriller 'True Blood'. They got married in 2010.

#9 Penelope Cruz And Javier Bardem

Javier and Penelope met on the set of 1992 film, 'Jamón, Jamón'.

#10 Natalie Portman And Benjamin Millepied

Natalie met her choreographer husband on the set of 'Black Swan' back in 2010. They got married two years after meeting each other.

#11 Kurt Russell And Goldie Hawn

The couple met each other on the 1968 set of 'The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band', but only got together ten years later after meeting again on the set of 'Swing Shift'.

#12 Daniel Craig And Rachel Weisz

Daniel and Rachel met on the set of 'The Dream House' in 2010 and married in June of the following year.

#13 Ryan Gosling And Eva Mendes

'The Place Beyond the Pines' brought Ryan and Eva together in 2011. They have two children together.

#14 Claire Danes And Hugh Dancy

This couple met while filming ensemble drama 'Evening' in 2006 and got married three years later.

#15 Johnny Depp And Winona Ryder

Johnny and Winona got together after filming 1990's Edward Scissorhands, but sadly, they broke up two years later

#16 Emma Stone And Andrew Garfield

Their love blossomed on the set of 'The Amazing Spider-Man'. Their relationship lasted for four years.

#17 Miley Cyrus And Liam Hemsworth

Miley met Liam on the set of 'The Last Song' in 2009. They broke up in 2013 and got back together in 2016.

#18 Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie

Brad and Angelina said they fell in love while filming 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith'. The couple separated in 2016.

#19 Michael C. Hall And Jennifer Carpenter

They have met on the set of 'Dexter'. While Michael and Jennifer were playing siblings on-screen, in real life they were falling in love and eventually got married.

#20 Laurence Fishburne And Gina Torres

They met each other on the set of 'The Matrix Reloaded' and got married in 2002. However, the couple separated in 2017.

#21 Channing Tatum And Jenna Dewan

They met in 2006 while filming 'Step Up'. The couple got married in 2009 and had a daughter 4 years later. Sadly, in 2018 they announced their separation.

#22 Rachel Mcadams And Ryan Gosling

These two brought the romance of 'The Notebook' to life when they fell for each other on set in 2005. However, their relationship only lasted for 3 years.

#23 Emily Vancamp And Joshua Bowman

Emily and Joshua met on the set of 'Revenge' and have been dating since 2011.

#24 Alexis Bledel And Vincent Kartheiser

Alexis and Vincent met on the set of 'Mad Men' in 2012 and the pair got married two years later.

#25 Brad Pitt And Gwyneth Paltrow

These two actors began dating in 1994 after meeting each other on the set of 'Seven'. Two years later Brad proposed to Gwyneth but their engagement was called off in 1997.

#26 Zac Efron And Vanessa Hudgens

Zac and Vanessa met while filming the 2006 hit 'High School Musical'. They dated for five years, breaking up in 2010.

#27 Freida Pinto And Dev Patel

The couple met on the set of the Oscar-winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire' in 2008. Sadly, they broke up 6 years later.

#28 Blake Lively And Penn Badgley

The couple got together while filming 'Gossip Girl'. However, their romance ended halfway through the second season.

#29 Jennifer Aniston And Vince Vaughn

Love bloomed between Vince and Jennifer while they filmed the romantic comedy 'The Break-up', sadly their own break up followed only a year later.

#30 Rachel Bilson And Hayden Christensen

They met on the set of 'Jumper' in 2007. The couple split up in 2017.

#31 Jennifer Aniston And Justin Theroux

'Wanderlust' costars met on the set in 2012 and got together shortly after the film wrapped up. They got married in 2015.

#32 Megan Fox And Brian Austin Green

They met on the set of 'Hope & Faith' in 2004. The couple got married in 2010 but almost got divorced in 2015.

#33 Mia Goth And Shia Lebeouf

Mia and Shia met on the set of 'Nymphomaniac' in 2012. The couple is rumored to be engaged.

#34 Jennifer Lawrence And Darren Aronofsky

Jennifer Lawrence met Darren Aronofsky while making 'Mother!'

#35 Tom Cruise And Nicole Kidman

The couple fell in love with each other during the casting of 'Days of Thunder' and got married in 1990 shortly after they met but divorced in 2001.

#36 Bradley Cooper And Zoe Saldana

They met in 2011 while filming 'The Words' however, the couple split up a year later.

#37 Angelina Jolie And Billy Bob Thornton

Angelina and Billy met on the set of 'Pushing Tin' in 1999. They got married shortly after that. However, their union was only to last for 3 years.

#38 Halle Berry And Olivier Martinez

Love blossomed between Halle and Oliver while filming the movie 'Dark Tide' in 2010. They got married three years later but announced their split in 2015.

#39 Amber Heard And Johnny Depp

Johnny and Amber met on the set of 'The Rum Diary' in 2012. The couple married in 2015. However, the pair finalized their divorce two years later.

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91 Cases Of Pareidolia That Are Both Funny And Slightly Creepy

Ieva Pečiulytė — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:00:54 +0000

In 1921, Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach created a set of inkblots. He asked patients what they saw in them, hoping it would reveal their hidden thoughts and emotions. The test later became famous worldwide, but in a way, we do something very similar every day—spotting clouds that look like bunnies or vegetables that resemble people’s faces. The phenomenon is called pareidolia, and there’s an entire subreddit dedicated to these random patterns found where they don’t belong. Continue scrolling and see if you can identify them too!

#1 Depressed Little Pepper On Twitter

#2 My Favorite Picture Of President At His Inauguration Today

#3 Lady In White Waterfall

#4 I See A Stoned Bear Waving

#5 The Way These Pots Reflect The Burners

#6 Resting Birch Face

#7 Frog Riding A Motorcycle

#8 Watermelon Dog 🍉🐶

#9 These Water Stains On My Car Look Like Gorillas

#10 Happy Water Buffalo At The Dentist

#11 Tomato From Grandparents Garden. He's Very Happy To Have Grown

#12 This Can Of Paint Looks Like A Cat

#13 Are You Seeing What I'm Seeing?

#14 This Potato

#15 The Garage Door Is Staring At Me

#16 Secret Deer Council Watching You From The Fence

#17 The Pepper My Mom Grew Looks Like It'll Steal Christmas

#18 Carrot 'Bout To Drop The Healthiest Verse Of All Time

#19 Drift Sloth Wants To Be Painted Like One Of Your French Girls

#20 My Brother: You Can't Post This, It Won't Even Get 10 Upvotes. Me:

#21 The Best Thing I Have Ever Found On Facebook

#22 You Think Im Crazy?

#23 Grandma Caterpillar Putting On Lipstick

#24 Upgraded Cameras Have A Whole New Vibe

#25 The Two Faces Of Humidity

#26 8)

#27 Grumpy Purse Strap

#28 Reincarnation

#29 Show Me What You Got

#30 When Your Belly Is Happy To See Beer

#31 This Lil Squirt Of Lotion Looks Like A Tiny Cat

#32 F R E E H I M

#33 Muppet Hanging On My Hook??

#34 Let Her In

#35 Lil’ Ducky In The Soup

#36 Woman Dancing In The Shadows

#37 Wow, They’re Identical

#38 This Almond In My Salad Looks Very Unimpressed

#39 The "Duck" In Avenida Place Hotel

#40 This Suspicious Chicken

#41 Suspicious Vampire

#42 Butter When I Opened It!

#43 Joyful Onion Lady

#44 This Robot Holding On While Sinking Into Quicksand

#45 This Popcorn Looks Lika A Sitting Puppy

#46 Even My Coffee Cup Didn’t Want To Get Up This Morning

#47 Drinking Tiger Looks Like Giant Tiger Face

#48 Clouds Art Once Again

#49 Two In One

#50 Pulled The Door Handle Off And He Was As Shocked As I Was

#51 Fuel Cap Casts The Shadow Of Batman

#52 👌

#53 Little Frightened Guys

#54 I Spilled Some Milk And The Puddle Looks Like A Derpy Ghost!

#55 As A Plumber, This Is Me Walking Into Every Job

#56 Found This While Scrolling Through Facebook

#57 I Found This Rock Amusing

#58 Do You See Him?

#59 Banana Peel

#60 Can't Unsee

#61 This Box Has Seen Better Times

#62 10/10 Cosplay

#63 No Crumb Left Behind!

#64 That One Guy That Hates His Job

#65 Virtual Reality

#66 Dog's Ear

#67 Smash My Thumb Last Week Now It Looks Like Nuclear Fallout

#68 Homer As Seen Through A Hotel Room Peep Hole

#69 Donkey

#70 There’s Someone In My Head, And It’s Not Me (Brain MRI)

#71 This Bicycle's Shadow Looks Like Alien Playing On Saxophone

#72 Found This Beauty Scrolling Facebook Today

#73 Compost Surprise

#74 Cloud That Looks Like A Duck

#75 Almost Every Morning My Coat Hanger Gives Me A Mini Heart Attack

#76 Is It Just Me? My Kid Says I’m Nuts

#77 Raphael

#78 Sad Parfait

#79 This Puddle Looks Like A Silhouette Of Someone From Behind

#80 Everything Reminds Me Of Her

#81 Tormented Souls In My Cream/Chocolate Dessert

#82 If You Litter, You Won't Like What's Next

#83 Mr Couch Would Like You To Sit

#84 Eric Cartman Appearing From Sunlight Reflected Through A Crystal

#85 My Shoe Laughed At Me

#86 Face In The Floor

#87 Woman’s Hair Or Dog With Glasses?🤔🤔🤔

#88 Kids On TikTok Self Diagnosing With Pareidolia Thinking It's A Mental Illness

#89 Looked To My Right At A Stoplight And Noticed This Family Of Boxes Staring Wistfully At The Sunset

#90 USB-Chan Is Best Waifu

#91 Porg Trying To Swallow A Banana

60 Freaky Scientific Facts That Sound Fake But Aren’t

Ilona Baliūnaitė — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:00:57 +0000

#1

I’m a nurse, worked in an AIDS clinic for a while, before anti-retrovirals. All our patients passed away. Now it’s a manageable chronic illness, at least in the US.

#2

One I never see people post is Oxygen.

The oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere only exists because of life. Without life continually replenishing it, it would eventually disappear.

The thing is, oxygen is *reactive*. It isn't inert like the nitrogen in our air. It's gradually pulled from the atmosphere when it bonds with rocks, volcanic gases, organic material—producing such hits as CO2, rust, and fun things like *fire.* If photosynthetic life stopped, free oxygen in the atmosphere would steadily decline as it was “used up” in chemical reactions.

Earth had almost no free oxygen before microbes evolved photosynthesis and began releasing it as a waste product. Over millions of years, that waste gas built up until it reached today’s level of ~21% of the atmosphere.

The kicker is that oxygen was actually toxic to most life at the time. It led to the "Great Oxygenation Event", which triggered one of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions. It’s a bit like if human-produced pollution and waste gas accumulated until it was so thick it was impossible to breathe and k****d off most life, but new life evolved that needed our pollution to live.

When free oxygen is hit by ultraviolet radiation, it breaks apart and forms ozone. The ozone layer exists because of atmospheric oxygen, and it protects the surface from that ultraviolet radiation. No oxygen, no ozone, and a lot more skin cancer. Or worse.

Because oxygen wouldn't really be in the atmosphere without life, it's also a potential biosignature. If we ever detect a planet with a stable, oxygen-rich atmosphere (especially alongside gases it shouldn’t chemically coexist with) it’s strong evidence that something is actively producing it... possibly even life.

#3

Apparently there’s a cloud somewhere in space scientists believe is made out of the same chemicals as alcohol

There’s a booze cloud in space.

#4

Every single thing they learn about the platypus.

theytookthemall:
We all know how weird they look, and that they lay eggs, and they're mammals but don't have nipples, and the males have venom.
Many people don't know that the platypus is one of three known mammals to have a sense of electroreception (the others are the echidna, and a type of dolphin). As far as we know the platypus and echidna (which is much less reliant on electroreception) evolved the sense entirely separately from any other animal; the nerve that goes to the electroreceptors in their bill is the trigeminal nerve, which is homologous to the trigeminal nerve in humans and other mammals.
Even fewer people know -- though few are surprised -- that the platypus genome is WEIRD. Like, real weird. The overwhelming majority of mammals have two sex chromosomes: XX, or XY. The platypus has TEN sex chromosomes, so male platypus are XY XY XY XY XY.
They also lack the SRY gene, which in most other mammals is the key to sex determination - it's pretty much what tells a developing fetus to start developing testes, which in turn leads to testosterone production and so on. Until very recently we didn't know how sex determination worked in platypus, but we've recently discovered that they do have a gene called AMH, which is another gene that contributes (but does not initiate) sex determination in mammals. That's weird, and also interesting that AMH is found on the 'oldest' chromosome, X1, which also is more homologous to the Z chromosome, from the ZW sex-chromosome set that is found primarily in birds. This suggests that there was separate, convergent evolution in monotremes and other mammals. There's also some random reptilian homologies thrown in there, too, just for good measure. It's really true that everything we learn about them makes them seem even stranger.
Bonus facts if you made it this far: they also have cheek pockets like hamsters, and can use their tail to carry nesting materials!

#5

We almost didn't make it. At some point, the main human population dwindled to less than a thousand individuals.

#6

Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse.

#7

Apparently we don't just get baby teeth and adult teeth, there's a third set that doesn't usually develop, and there's a human trial in Japan of a therapy that aims to change that - regrowing teeth in adulthood is straight science fiction to me, and I'm happily baffled.

#8

Somewhere deep in the ocean, there are sharks that were alive in the year 1550....

#9

Peritoneal dialysis. So dialysis is normally a machine that replaces a kidney. But peritoneal dialysis is when you get a bunch of clean fluid injected into your abdominal cavity and let it slosh around all day. Then at the end of the day you place a drain to let this fluid that's now kinda like urine slosh out.

Somehow this works almost as well as a real kidney.

#10

Quantum Entanglement, I guess quantum physics in general. There are very fundamental things we just don’t understand.

#11

Blind people (born that way) can't get schizophrenia. At least no case has been documented. That just really disturbs me.

Edit: You have to be born blind to not get schizophrenia, and no, blinding people will not magically cure them of the condition.

#12

Just the vastness of space. And that it’s expanding. Into what? Into nothing? That doesn’t work in my brain.

#13

Split brain experiments.

People had their left and right brain hemispheres disconnected from each other, usually as a treatment for epilepsy. The scientists would give the patients tasks to complete or questions to answer to study how the split brain operated.

Your brain has different functions on the left side of the brain than right. For example, speech and language is exclusive to only one side. The brain halves are not symmetrical in terms of functionality.
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“The split-brain experiments studied people whose Corpus Callosum had been surgically cut to treat severe epilepsy. This disconnected the left and right hemispheres so they could no longer communicate normally. Researchers like Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga then tested what each half of the brain could perceive independently.

The most famous finding came from vision experiments. If an image was flashed only to the left visual field, it went to the right hemisphere. Since language is usually centered in the left hemisphere, the patient often could not verbally say what they saw. But their left hand, controlled by the right hemisphere, could still point to or grab the correct object. This showed the information existed in the brain even though the speaking part could not access it.

In one famous split-brain experiment, a command was shown only to the patient’s right hemisphere, such as:

“Walk over there.”

The patient stood up and began walking. When researchers asked why, the speaking left hemisphere had never seen the instruction because the hemispheres were disconnected. But instead of saying “I don’t know,” the patient confidently answered something like:

“I’m going to get a Coke.”

The significant part is that the patient was not lying or joking. They genuinely believed the explanation they gave. Their brain automatically generated a reason that felt real and coherent to them, even though the true cause of the action was hidden from the part of the brain responsible for speech. The brain is designed to make sense of our experience. The ‘thinking’ part of the brain couldn’t access the reason the decision was made, so it invented one. Apparently convincing enough for the patient to feel as though it actually happened that way. That’s what made the experiment so unsettling and influential; It suggested that humans can sincerely experience invented explanations as genuine motives.”
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I love listening to philosophers, scientists, neurologists, and ordinary people deconstruct this phenomenon. I’ve spent a good chunk of time becoming familiar with these specific experiments, yet the implications never fail to fascinate me.

#14

Haplodiploidity.

At it's simplest, it's a weird way of determining gender. In Hymenoptera (ants, wasps, bees etc.), if an egg is fertilized, it becomes female but if it's not fertilized, it becomes male. So males only have half a set of DNA, all from their mother.

That's pretty simple but the effects on evolution are earth shattering. Those ridiculously huge colonies of ants and bees? Wouldn't work without it. The quirks of it basically mean that a worker bee shares ~2/3rds of it's DNA with it's sisters but it only shares 50% of it's DNA with it's own sons. That means it's more beneficial from an evolutionary perspective, to raise your sisters, than your own sons and so workers actually benefit from NOT reproducing themselves, leading to these giga-colonies where self interest has been twisted into selfless co-operation.

And that's before it can be twisted even further through the unique form of parasitism known as Dulosis.

Honestly, I could fill this whole thread with just stuff about ants. Hymenoptera saw the rules of evolution and decided they didn't want to play that game, they'd make their own version.

#15

In Gabon, central Africa, there's a layer of rock known as the Francevillian Formation. It was laid down on a seabed about 2 billion years ago, something like 1.4 billion years before the beginning of multicellular life as we know it. In this rock there are grooved, spiral-shaped impressions of various sizes, the largest about 17 centimeters in diameter, and they kinda look like late Precambrian animal fossils other than the fact that they're too old by a factor of three.

Some skeptical scientists have suggested that they are probably just mineral concretions (similar to manganese nodules that we find on the ocean floor today), as some crystals also leave impression patterns like this as they form and interact with surrounding minerals. But there is also evidence that at that place and time, an inland sea combined with nearby volcanism caused nutrients to be trapped and concentrated, encouraging unusually prolific cyanobacteria growth and raising the local oxygen levels well above the Earth's average at the time- perhaps the ideal chemical environment for weird evolutionary experiments. So we *might* be looking at the fossils of some bizarre strain of life that got an early start on multicellularism 1.4 billion years ahead of time, before going extinct when its anomalously hospitable environment naturally disappeared.

#16

The fact that your brain basically rewrites your memories every time you remember them:) Like… there’s a chance some of your strongest memories aren’t even fully accurate anymore. That genuinely freaks me out a bit.

#17

A certain tick bite can cause you to become allergic to meat.

#18

Gamma ray burst.

One could be coming to microwave our entire planet into sterility and we won’t know until it happens.

#19

Lobster are biologically immortal and the only reason why they pass is because they exhaust themselves, either because of molting being too taxing, not getting enough food, get eaten, or get sick.

#20

Ants measure distance by counting their steps. Scientists proved this by taking some ants out of a line and putting tiny stilts on them. Those ants then over shot the food source they were going too.

#21

MRI, magnetic resonance imaging. Let’s take a big magnet, throw in some intermittent radio waves, measure which atoms are flipping upside-down, and then make a 3D image.

#22

Prions.

midgetyaz:
A protein just bends the wrong way and all the proteins around it start doing it, too. And that's not how the body is suppose to work.

#23

There's a species of salamander that stabs its ribs through the sides of its body to ward off predators.

#24

Mantis shrimp's punch. That impossible punch similar to a .22 bullet, 1500+ newtons of force and the cavitation bubble that reaches tempreature hotter than the surface of sun. All of this in under 3 milli second. WHAT.

#25

The discovery of The Great Attractor. A massive gravitational anomaly that is pulling everything in its neighborhood, including the Milky Way Galaxy towards it at rates of +/- 700km per second. We have no idea what it is, because we can't observe it through our own galactic zone of avoidance, but it's estimated to be roughly 10^16 solar masses.

#26

Genghis Khans conquests resulted in so many passings carbon emissions significantly dropped over a century or so.

#27

Humans are the best developed species for distance running. We out perform any other species in the long run.

#28

The smell of grass being cut is it’s distress signal.

#29

A good portion of us have no inner monologue

Edit: I think some folks are confusing aphantasia with inner monologue - which is also interesting but not quite as confusing.

#30

There are more cells in what you consider your body that are not you (bacteria) than cells that are you.

#31

Until the WNT1 pathway is down-regulated during late childhood, in preparation for puberty, the human body is still capable of regrowing amputated fingertips. This pathway remains active in some species which are capable of regrowing entire appendages, or even their entire bodies.

#32

Supposedly people who have been deaf from birth but who aren't mute do not make the same sounds when sneezing as people who are not deaf. The implication is that the sound you make when you sneeze is learned. That freaks me out because I feel like it is sort of an unstoppable innate sound that I've always had.

#33

That one fungus that literally takes over an insect's brain and walks its body to the highest available point from which it can more effectively propagate itself.

#34

There are an unfathomable number of unfathomably small particles called neutrinos passing through all of us, and Earth, all the time.

The only way we(humanity) have found to detect them without interference is to build giant underground water tanks that essentially watch for the tiny bit of light that is produced when one of them collides with a water molecule.

Working in IT, I'm confident that very rarely, one of them strikes a PC component, be it in a server or consumer devices, and flips a bit.

#35

We don't know how effective the rabies vaccine is. We know it works pretty well, likely somewhere between 80% and 100%, but for obvious reasons it's impossible to test on humans, and rabies is difficult to determine exposure, because it isn't the most transmissible disease and often times the infected animal isn't even recovered. So a possible exposure may not have been an exposure at all.

#36

I work with cancer cells from people that died several decades ago. They're still going strong. We can freeze and thaw them indefinitely. Ship them all over the world. Probably the most popular ones have generated 1000s of times the weight of their original body.

None of this is possible with cells from healthy tissues, unless you genetically make them cancerous.

#37

The chameleon plant. Like what. How can it know what other plants look like without vision?

"Boquila trifoliolata, a South American chameleon vine, has been documented to mimic the shape, size, and color of artificial plastic plants, even when no chemical or genetic cues exist for it to copy."

#38

Different animals experience time at different rates. Smaller animals with faster metabolisms experience time more slowly.

#39

If we were to zoom in as far as possible until we get to the smallest unit of measurement possible, Planck's Length, and then tried to zoom in even further beyond that - the amount of energy required to do so would be so locally-dense that it would create a singularity (black hole).

#40

Sharks are older than trees.

#41

3 trillion fish are ended yearly, and the vast majority are by letting them suffocate, which is extremely painful and takes tens of minutes.

Just to compare, 100 billion humans have ever lived.

#42

In the grand scheme of things our impact on this world and the universe will not matter in anyway at all. In relation to our world we are a blink of an eye, and to the universe beyond even detectable. We are self important to a fault and yet as insignificant as what ever exists that’s smaller than a quark.

#43

The fact that we are mostly empty space at the atomic level. Everything you touch is basically energy fields interacting.

#44

A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms.

#45

Mushrooms are not plants or animals. What am I even eating?

#46

The speed of light is constant regardless of reference frame.

#47

If you take all the atoms in every person and shrink them down to just the nucleus. The worlds population would fit in something the size of a sugar cube.

#48

Siphonophores.

Most deep sea creatures sound fake and freak me out tbh.

#49

Volcanic snails with metal shells.

#50

There's an extreme case of convergent evolution where a bird species independently evolved...twice...at separate times.

#51

The speed of light and the speed of gravity are about the same. If the sun were to disappear, we would maintain current orbit for about 8 minutes, and then drift off into space when we see the sun blink out as we all start to pass away.

#52

If you have never seen it the double slit experiment will twist your brain.

#53

Wireless signal transmission sounds like magic.

#54

You can be so sick that the only cure is having another person’s poo medically inserted into you.

#55

Chickens are living dinosaurs.

#56

About half the population is infected with a brain worm that stems from cats. T gondii causes massive changes in the behavior of mice and will cause them to run straight towards cats to be eaten.

It’s not clear whether this changes behavior in humans. There’s some correlation that’s been found but nothing solid.

#57

Carcinization. Everything eventually evolves into crabs. It’s the optimal form.

#58

Our eyes have their own immune system and our body could theoretically reject them.

#59

The more we dig into the nature of reality, the more unfathomable it becomes. It's almost as if the universe has left us a hint.

#60

Planet 9. A theorized planet that could be 10x bigger than Earth out beyond the current outer planets. We have not found it but we can see evidence of its impact on the Kuyper belt.

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Fisherman Shares Terrifying Creatures Of The Deep Sea

#1 "I'm So Ugly, But That's Okay"

#2 "The Underwater Space Is Impressive"

#3 "Looks Like Cartoon Dragon. No Photoshop"

#4 "Scary Beauty In My Hands"

#5 It's Beautiful

#6 "Total Recall. Sea Edition"

#7 "The Beauty From The Sea Bottom"

#8 "These Fishes Remind Me Of Dwarfs From 'Lord Of The Rings'"

#9 "Anybody Home?"

#10 Chimaera

#11 "Lumpsucker. They Are Used As "Cleaner Fish" To Reduce The Parasite Burden On Salmon Farms In Scotland And Norway"

#12 "Another Pretty Creature From The Bottom Of The Norwegian Sea"

#13 "This Is Psolus Phantapus! Real Cool Guys From The Depths"

#14 "Zoom Photo. Look In Those Sad Eyes"

#15 "Fantastic Four. My Sea Edition. I Like This Fish"

#16 "Remora From Different Sides"

#17 "Nervous People Better Not Look"

#18 "Shell Pike. Beautiful Creation"

#19 "No Need To Invent “Monsters” Nature Has Already Done It"

#20 "Different Colors Of Lumpfish"

#21 "Natural Born Killer"

#22 "Big Sunfish. Bycatch. Fishing In Atlantic Ocean, Near Morocco"

#23 "Disapproving Look"

#24 "Did You Miss Me? I Returned Home"

#25 "Hellboy’s Fish"

#26 "Why Not A Velociraptor?"

#27 "When You Drink To Much Coffee"

#28 "Unusual Cod From Norway"

#29 "It's Monday Fish"

#30 "Photo Of Frilled Shark. Ideal Predator"

#31 "I’ll Be Back In Your Nightmares"

#32 "Hello Humans!"

#33 "Terrible Beauty"

#34 "Fish-Rubber Ball"

#35 "Fish With Ears"

#36 "I Hope You’re Not Eating At This Moment"

#37 "Pretty Wolffish. Tasty And Scary"

#38 "Submarine"

#39 "New Artifact For Stalker. Disgusting Beauty From The Depths. It's Alive"

#40 "This Is A Engraulis"

#41 "Rat Fish"

#42 Grenadier

#43 "This Fish Was A Catch In Greenland Sea"

#44 "When Somebody Didn't Get Enough Sleep Once Again"

#45 "Another Beauty Fish From The Depths Of The Sea"

#46 "Flatfish"

#47 "Strange Creature"

#48 "Amazing Sea Urchin. Norwegian Sea"

#49 "Abstract Composition From The Sea’s Bottom. Broken Shell, Sea Urchin And Something Yellow"

#50 "Anglerfish(Monkfish)"

#51 "Lancetfish. Teeth Like Little Swords"

#52 "From The Underwater Garden"

#53 "Beautiful Or Scary?"

#54 "Rising From The Depths"

#55 "Fish Without The Lower Jaw"

#56 "Greetings From The Norwegian Sea"

#57 "Another Strange Fish"

#58 "Ghost Shark"

#59 "It's Like Advertising... Advertising Toothpaste"

#60 "This Guy Again"

#61 "One More Strange Fish"

#62 "The Ling, Molva Molva, Is A Large Member Of A Family Of Cod-Like Fishes"

#63 "Sea ​​interpretation Of The 'Beauty And The Beast'"

#64 "Sad Sunday Fish"

#65 "Zombie Fish"

#66 "Nature Is The Best Author Of Nightmares"

#67 "Basket With Surprise"

#68 "Wolf-Fish. Look At These Teeth"

#69 "Successful Weekend"

30 Photos Of Dogs Growing Up Next To Their Owners

#1 Before And After Deployment

#2 Father, Daughter And Pets Take The Same Photo For 10 Years, And It’s Bizarre How Little Things Actually Change

#3 20 Years Later And Still Going Strong

#4 6 Weeks Vs. 6 Months

#5 14 Years And A Lot Of Grey Hairs Later

#6 Once The Boss, Always The Boss

#7 Before And After. That's Like Having A Pet Bear

#8 8 Weeks To 8 Months

#63 "Sea interpretation Of The 'Beauty And The Beast'"