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>In 1908, a woman's car broke down in the Belle Isle Bridge of Detroit, Michigan>Behind her was Byron Carter, the founde...
29/04/2022

>In 1908, a woman's car broke down in the Belle Isle Bridge of Detroit, Michigan

>Behind her was Byron Carter, the founder of Jackson Automobile Company, who stepped down to aid her by turning the hand crank which used to power the cars of that era

>The engine abruptly started and the crank handle struck his face which broke his jaw, and he died as a result of the accident

>Following the accident, Henry Leland, the founder of Cadillac and Byron's close friend, decided to remove hand cranks from his vehicles and hired Charles Kettering for this purpose

>By 1911, Kettering had created a working prototype of self-starting engines but it had a problem

>The engines were deafiningly loud due to knocking, so Kettering turned to Thomas Midgley Jr. who found a solution in the form of TEL (Tetra Ethyl Lead) within 1921

>Midgley and Kettering patented TEL, declined public talks to strategically avoid mentioning the use of Lead in reports and advertising and formed Ethyl Corporation with 3 of America's largest corporations

>5 of the company's workers died mysteriously within 2 months of operation and several others became extremely sick (Midgley himself was recovering from Lead Poisoning in Florida in 1923 and actively avoided going near the company plants)

>But Ethyl Corporation continued to deny the risk of Lead Poisoning, suppressed public health concerns and by the 1950s, they had ensured that practically every automobile in the world used Leaded Gasoline.

>Charles Kettering even went on to hire pathologist Robert Kehoe to assign him the task of proving that low-level Lead exposure was safe and absolving the companies producing Leaded Gasoline from responsibility for the deaths and brain damage of the fuel plant workers

>By 1970s, Lead Poisoning had killed over 100 million people, caused a loss of nearly 800 million IQ points and triggered an environmental disaster as Lead concentrations in the environment went up by 1000 times

>Midgley's killing campaign was far from over as General Motors, one of the 3 companies that formed Ethyl Corporation, had also tasked him to create a safer refrigerant for the company's fridges after his success with TEL

>In 1928, Midgley engineered a non toxic and non flammable substance called Dichlorodifluoromethane (General Motors marketed the compound as Freons)

>The widespread use of Freons in aerosols, solvents, and refrigerators resulted in another environmental disaster known as "Holes in the Ozone Layer"

>In 1940, Midgley contracted Polio and became physically incapacitated, so he designed a mechanical bed with ropes and pulleys to assist him in getting up

>Midgley became a victim of his own innovation in 1944 when he died from strangulation after being trapped between the ropes of his mechanized bed.

~TheUndercoverGestapo

The Museum Of Death, established in San Diego in the 90s, offers viewers to see artifacts surrounding the subject of dea...
13/10/2020

The Museum Of Death, established in San Diego in the 90s, offers viewers to see artifacts surrounding the subject of death; including serial killer photos, crime scene photographs and even taxidermy. In the late 1999, the owners of the museum had acquired a large amount of materials from the Heaven's Gates cult incident.

Heaven's Gate, aka Human Individual Metamorphosis (HIM), was an American religious cult based near San Diego, California. It was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, who often referred themselves as "The Two" or "The UFO Two". This cult group members had participated in a mass su***de, a coordinated series of ritual su***des, in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp. Just before the mass su***de, the group's website was updated with the message:

"Hale–Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate ... Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion—'graduation' from the Human Evolutionary Level. We are happily prepared to leave 'this world' and go with Ti's crew."

Applewhite's fanaticism started back in 1970s after he got fired from the University of St. Thomas in Houston for an alleged relationship with one of his male students. Along the way, he met Bonnie Nettles, a nurse who had interest in biblical prophecies. Together, they got absorbed in this weird fantasy that they had met in a past life and they had been assigned a divine goal by Extra-Terrestrials. When they started recruiting people for their cause, Applewhite opted to writing, which combined aspects of Millennialism, Gnosticism, and science fiction. He even had declared that he believed himself to be Jesus' successor and the "Present Representative" of Christ on Earth.

On March 19–20, 1997, Marshall Applewhite taped himself in Do's Final Exit, speaking of mass su***de and "the only way to evacuate this Earth". After asserting that a spacecraft was trailing Comet Hale–Bopp and that this event would represent the "closure to Heaven's Gate", Applewhite persuaded 39 followers to prepare for ritual su***de so their souls could board the supposed craft that would take them above the level of humans, both physically and spiritually. To kill themselves, members took phenobarbital mixed with apple sauce or pudding and washed it down with vodka. Additionally, they secured plastic bags around their heads after ingesting the mix to induce asphyxiation. All 39 were dressed in identical black shirts and sweat pants, brand new black-and-white Nike Decades athletic shoes, and armband patches reading "Heaven's Gate Away Team". Each member had on their person a five-dollar bill and three quarters in their pockets. The 39 adherents, 21 women and 18 men between the ages of 26 and 72, are believed to have died in three groups over three successive days, with remaining participants cleaning up after each prior group's deaths. On March 26, 1997, deputies of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department discovered the bodies of the group, including that of Applewhite's, in a house in the San Diego suburb of Rancho Santa Fe.

Bonus Fact: In July 2018, American rapper Lil U*i Vert posted promotional art for his upcoming studio album Eternal Atake, which had incorporated a reworking of the Heaven's Gate "Keyhole" logo. The band Porcupine Tree referenced the cult in their 2000 song "Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled", which features the cult leader's speech. Another band named Andrew Jackson Jihad mentioned Heaven's Gate in one of their songs titled "Do, Re, and Me" on their 2014 album "Christmas Island."

~TheUndercoverGestapo

Although historically Europeans have been known for their condemnation of the savagery of cannibalism throughout the wor...
09/10/2020

Although historically Europeans have been known for their condemnation of the savagery of cannibalism throughout the world and especially in the Americas, Europeans at home, were actually participating in their own brand of cannibalism.

Medical cannibalism in Europe can be traced back to the Roman Empire in the 2nd century AD. According to a 15th century philosopher Marsilio Ficino, Romans drank the blood of slain gladiators to absorb the vitality of strong young men and suggested adopting the practice by drinking blood from the arm of young persons. Sharing the same tradition for several hundred years, and peaking in popularity in the 16th and 17th Century, human remains became a common ingredient used in medicine in the Europe. Because the remains of a body were thought to contain the spirit of the person, it was commonly believed that by consuming the body parts one would receive the strength of the person. Europeans including priests, scientists and even royalty consumed medicine containing human blood, bones and fat. The mummys remains were crumbled and ground into powder, sometimes combined with alcohol or chocolate, to cure a variety of ailments from headaches to internal bleeding.

To meet up with the increasing demand of mummies, grave robberies became a rampant issue. Mummies were stolen from Egyptian tombs, and skulls were taken from Irish burial sites. Gravediggers robbed and sold body parts. Because of this barbaric practice, which saw its end in the late 18th century, mummies, as a whole, have become extremely rare.

~TheUndercoverGestapo

Buying apartments "En Viager," or "for life," is a very common practice in France which involves transferring ownership ...
07/10/2020

Buying apartments "En Viager," or "for life," is a very common practice in France which involves transferring ownership of a property to a third party purchaser (like an ordinary sale and purchase) but instead of paying the full price, the purchaser pays an annual rent to the vendor (generally older) for the duration of the vendor’s life. The elderly owner gets to enjoy a monthly income from the buyer, who gambles on getting a real estate bargain for a very cheap price - provided the owner dies in due time.

In 1965, a 47 year old lawyer named Andre-Francois Raffray had made a "En Viager" deal with a 90 year old Jeanne Calment (the oldest supercentenarian whose age was well documented by the Guinness Book of World Records) that he would pay her 2,500 francs (about $500) a month for rent until she died and then would move into her grand apartment in Arles, Northwest of Marseilles in the southern part of France. But in 1995, Raffray died at the age of 77, having paid Calment to a staggering amount of $184,000, which was equivalent to a thrice of the entire estate's price. And he could never live in the apartment as Calment was still alive. After Raffray's death, his wife had to keep paying the monthly check on his behalf untill Calment died in August of 1997 at the age of 122, outliving her husband, daughter and grandson.

Bonus fact: The 2014 comedy/drama film "My Old Lady" was based on this case.

~TheUndercoverGestapo

Carrie Chapman Catt, also known as Carrie Lane, was one of the main reasons behind the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendm...
04/10/2020

Carrie Chapman Catt, also known as Carrie Lane, was one of the main reasons behind the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment (which dealt with the inclusion of women's suffrage rights) to the US Constitution in 1920. Her unusual pre-nuptial legal contract with her 2nd husband George W. Catt provided Chapman 4 months of free time each year to work exclusively for the suffrage. The pre-nuptials also meant that her husband could counter any comments that he should "Get his wife under control" because doing so would be a violation of a legally binding contract which would have called for a court order. Some people had also speculated that the pre-nuptial contracts were just a publicity stunt to show that her husband was openly supportive of Chapman's works. Whatever the reason might be, there's no denying that this contract was one of the key factors behind Carrie's success. She was able to advocate for Feminism and Women's Rights for more than 25 years without any additional legal repercussions.

Bonus fact: To urge USA's participation in a world organization for peace, Charlie Catt had embraced a peace movement which enlisted the co-operation of 11 national women's organization in the Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. She actively supported the League of Nations, relief for Jewish refugees from Germany, and a child labor amendment. After the World War II, she had placed many competent women in the positions of power by using her influence.

~TheUndercoverGestapo

In 1951, Mary Reeser, an elderly woman from New York, was found dead in her apartment. It was neither a natural death no...
03/10/2020

In 1951, Mary Reeser, an elderly woman from New York, was found dead in her apartment. It was neither a natural death nor a random murder. Her body was found fully cremated with a leg still intact. The perplexing thing was the fact that the rest of her apartment was relatively unaffected. While the cremation experts claimed that the body had been burned for 3-4 hours at a temperature of 3000 degree Celcius, there was no mark of a fire in her house except the ceiling, which had turned black because of immense heat.

Two theories had been proposed to explain this bizzare event.
1. Spontaneous Human Combustion, where the human body kind of explodes spontaneously and generates immense heat without causing any fire.
2. A more logical theory claims that a cigarette was to blame for her fiery demise. They believed that Reeser’s own body fat (she weighed around 170 pounds) provided fuel for the fire, which was lit by a smoldering cigarette in her hand as she fell asleep.

~SecretNaziSympathizer

Hello! Ma Baby is a Tin Pan Alley (a collection of dominating New York City music publishers and songwriters between the...
02/10/2020

Hello! Ma Baby is a Tin Pan Alley (a collection of dominating New York City music publishers and songwriters between the late 19th and early 20th century) song written in 1899 by the songwriting team of Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson, known as "Howard and Emerson". It's a song about a man, who fell in love with a woman he never met and only knew her via a telephone. It's the oldest song in records that mentions a telephone. The song is best known today for being used as the introductory song in the famous Warner Bros. cartoon One Froggy Evening (1955), sung by the character Michigan J. Frog. The song has also made appearances in The Simpsons, The Family Guy, Space Balls, The Office (American sit-com adaptation), Lego Ninjago and Red Dead Redemption 2 (video-game).

Bonus fact: The song falls under the category of C**n songs, a genre of music (was popular from 1880 and 1920) that presented a stereotype of black people, with white men giving performances in blackface and making recordings. White women performers was known as C**n Shouters.

~TheUndercoverGestapo

Permanent alterations of the body have been a part of the human culture from the beginning of history and have served as...
01/10/2020

Permanent alterations of the body have been a part of the human culture from the beginning of history and have served as a way of differentiating oneself and one's tribe or clan from others. Induced deformation of the Cranial vault is one such tradition which may have been in practice 30,000 years ago in the Meso-American civilizations, mostly in the Mayan civilization.

The Mexico based Mayans practiced this skull deformation tradition on their children. They would place the head of a month old infant between two planks and continuously put pressure to deform the Frontal bone. This bizarre custom would go on for 6 months and the children would have to endure it continuously. Two different styles of artificial cranial deformation were prevalent in Mayan culture, and indicated the wearer’s rank. "Oblique Deformation" was for the people with higher social status and "Erect Deformation" was for the general populace.

It is believed that the most obvious reasons to claim skull deformation as a widely accepted practice were because people with elongated skulls tended to be more intelligent, acquiring higher status and believed to be close to the spiritual world. It was practiced on newborn infants commonly as their skulls were more prone to molding.

Bonus fact: The earliest written reference of artificial cranial deformation comes from Hesiod, a Greek poet who lived between 750 and 650 B.C. In his Book Of Mythology, Hesiod referred to a tribe from either Africa or India called the "Makrokephaloi”(or“Macrocephali"), which roughly translates to“The Big Heads.”

~LittleBoyVictim

Vulcan point is an island in the middle of a lake, which lies inside of a volcano. The volcano is sorrounded by a bigger...
30/09/2020

Vulcan point is an island in the middle of a lake, which lies inside of a volcano. The volcano is sorrounded by a bigger lake which is also in the middle of an another bigger island that is situated in an archipelago of the Pacific ocean. The archipelago is more commonly known as The Philllipines.

Let's try that again but geographically. Lake Taal is situated on the Filipino island of Luzon. Within the lake is the Taal Volcano, the 2nd most active volcano in The Philllipines and a part of the Pacific's "Ring Of Fire". And on the top center of the volcano (almost a 1000 feet above sea level) lies a water basin which is known as a caldera. The caldera itself is filled with water, making it into the world's largest Crater lake. At the center of the crater lake is a tiny island, the Vulcan point. It's only one of the 2 "Third Order Islands" on Earth besides an unnamed one in Canada.

Unfortunately, the Taal volcano errupted on 12 January of 2020, which led to the deaths of as many as 39 people. And the Crater lake might have disappeared. So, further tourism programs of the place have been cancelled indefinitely.

~TheUndercoverGestapo

Karosta prison, a former Soviet era military prison, which is now a part of Latvia, is the most bizarre prison-turned-in...
30/09/2020

Karosta prison, a former Soviet era military prison, which is now a part of Latvia, is the most bizarre prison-turned-into-hotel in the world.

Guests there can opt for the“Full Prisoner Experience", which involves uniformed officers who will give you death threats, verbally abuse you and subject to physical exercise to make you relish an all-in-one Communist-era prisoner experience.

~SkinnyPolishWhore

In the late 19th century lived a monk named Tai Jin. The poor guy suffered from a condition known as hypertrichosis. Als...
29/09/2020

In the late 19th century lived a monk named Tai Jin. The poor guy suffered from a condition known as hypertrichosis. Also known as "Werewolf Syndrome" because of the insane amount of body hair that grows on affected areas.

It might have helped his self-esteem to know that, according to legend, he was the best fighter in all of China.
No comfort for Chewbacca here.

Tai Jin was abandoned at the monastery as a baby because of his body hair. The monks raised him and trained him. He eventually dedicated himself to one form of martial art. Legend also has it that upon meeting the 12 masters of Shaolin, the boy threw a dagger into the ceiling, killing a would-be assassin. He explained to the masters that he could hear 13 people breathing, not just 12.

~AuschwitzPrisoner

In the year 2000, a woman named Mary Morris was murdered. Similar to the first Terminator film, three days later, anothe...
28/09/2020

In the year 2000, a woman named Mary Morris was murdered. Similar to the first Terminator film, three days later, another woman also named Mary Morris was also killed - while on a 911 call screaming for help. Both women looked similar. No robbery or apparent motive. The murderer was never caught.

~SecretNaziSympathizer

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