gnostek1 / 5U.S. representative Michael Myers , second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents
01Congressman Michael Myers was caught on tape saying 'money talks and bullshit walks' while pocketing $50,000 in cash.
02Senator Harrison Williams was filmed agreeing to use Senate influence for a fictional titanium mine in exchange for bribery.
03The sting used a fake company, 'Abdul Enterprises,' and a fabricated sheikh persona maintained for nearly two full years.
gnostek1 / 2A carpet beater
01Carpet beaters were beaten against rugs suspended on clotheslines, releasing clouds of dust into the beater's face.
03By 1930, carpet beater production in Britain had fallen by over 90% from its 1895 peak.
gnostek1 / 2Anthony "Tino" De Angelis
01Inspectors measured oil levels by dipping rods into tanks — De Angelis pumped oil between tanks to fool simultaneous checks.
02The fraud's 1963 collapse triggered losses that bankrupted brokerage firms Ira Haupt & Co. and Allied Crude Vegetable Oil.
03Total borrowed against nonexistent oil reached $175 million — roughly $1.7 billion in today's money.
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01Cassander executed Roxane and her son Alexander IV — Alexander the Great's only child — in 309 BC.
02He had Olympias killed by relatives of her own victims, keeping his own hands technically clean.
03Cassander founded Thessalonica, named for his wife — a city that still exists — while erasing a dynasty.
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01A specialized organ behind each eye generates heat, warming the retina by up to 28°C above seawater.
02Warmer retinas process light signals faster, giving swordfish a crucial reaction-speed edge over cold-blooded prey.
03Swordfish can reach 60 mph, making the heated-eye system essential for tracking fast-moving targets in dim water.
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01Receiver was built in seven days for the 7DFPS game jam in 2012 by Wolfire Games.
02The game models hammer, safety, cylinder, and magazine as independent mechanical states that interact realistically.
03Its procedurally generated levels mean no two runs share the same room layout or enemy placement.
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01X-rays taken in 1947 confirmed the rapier passed through his liver and stomach undamaged.
02He performed the skewering publicly in Zurich, witnessed by physicians who could find no trickery.
03He died in 1948 — not from blades, but from a swallowed steel needle causing an aortic aneurysm.
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01Gigante was acquitted of mob charges in 1969 partly on psychiatric grounds; he kept the bathrobe act running for another 28 years.
02The FBI recorded him conducting precise, lucid mob business in whispered conversations seconds before resuming the shambling routine.
03He finally admitted the insanity was feigned in 2003, two years before his death, voiding decades of psychiatric testimony.
gnostek1 / 8Chapel interior
01František Rint bleached and arranged the bones of roughly 40,000 people between 1870 and 1872.
02The chandelier contains at least one of every bone in the human body — 206 types, repeated thousands of times.
03The ossuary was created after a 13th-century abbot scattered soil from Jerusalem across the cemetery, making burial there the most coveted in Bohemia.