A self-defense glove designed for ladies in London, circa 1850.

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31 December 1853, a New Year's Eve dinner, hosted by the future first director of London’s Natural History Museum Sir Richard Owen, and the artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, was held inside the mold of a life-sized Iguanodon sculpture in Crystal Palace Park.

The spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum). The spectral bat is the largest bat species native to the new world.

During the American Civil War, diarrhea was the leading cause of death. Soldiers adhered to a code of honor, refraining from shooting at those in the midst of nature's call. Of the nearly 750,000 soldiers who perished, 95,000 succumbed to diarrhea or dysentery. (Read more in 1st comment)

Baltic Sea Anomaly: Since the discovery of a mysterious structure researchers claimed that it had not been created naturally.

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In 1836, the directors of the Bank of England received an anonymous letter, in which the author claimed to have direct access to the gold in the bank. (Read more in 1st comment)

Found in Florida! So one of the owners of a hotel, Judi was walking on the beach this morning cleaning up the junk that washed into shore and finds a bottle with a message in it. (Read more in 1st comment)

In the the Middle Ages hemorrhoids were treated with a hot iron - The treatment was to burn them with a hot iron. There is even a story about a monk who, suffering from hemorrhoids while working in the garden, sat on a stone that miraculously cured him of the problem.

A Russian scientist named Anatoli Brouchkov injected himself with a 3.5 million-year-old bacteria strain that he pulled out of the permafrost at Mammoth Mountain in Northern Siberia in 2009. It is believed that bacteria called Bacillus F could extend life. (Read more in 1st comment)