Researchers guess the ancient people crossing the Bering Land Bridge from Asia brought the Australian DNA with them.Wikimedia CommonsA member of the Guaraní Kaiowá tribe in Brazil, one of the Indigenous people found to have ancient Australian DNA. Deep in the genetic codes of Indigenous people in South America, researchers have made a startling discovery: several tribes carry a piece of ancient Australian DNA. Researchers first noted the astonishing link back in 2015, but a new study from the University of São Paulo has confirmed that Australian DNA is even more widespread in Indigenous South Americans than originally thought.

From escaping slavery as a young man to arresting 3,000 outlaws as a deputy, the story of Bass Reeves is the stuff of legend.Contrary to what classic Westerns might lead us to believe, one in four American cowboys was actually African American. But we don’t necessarily get that reality when the only image of a cowboy that we have in our minds is John Wayne or The Lone Ranger. But interestingly enough, the inspiration behind The Lone Ranger may have actually been the real-life Deputy U.

Wide skirts were all the rage among Victorians — but the extremely flammable nature of crinolines meant that women routinely burned alive while wearing them.They say pain is beauty. But for many Victorian women, beauty was death. While following the trend of wearing wide-hooped crinoline skirts in the 19th century, thousands of women burned alive. After coming into style in the 1850s, the fad was embraced by women across the social spectrum who enjoyed the freedom of wider skirts.

El Chapo's safe house in the Sinaloa capital of Culiacán is located across from a school with a neighbor on only one side and has been unoccupied since his 2014 escape.NetWorthSpace/TwitterAt 2,800 square feet, the home was estimated at $183,000. Currently serving a life sentence in the United States for kidnapping, drug trafficking, and murder, Joaquín Guzmán is best known as “El Chapo,” the former leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel. While he languishes behind bars, the Mexican government has raffled off a former safe house that El Chapo escaped in 2014.

While much of the mythos of the origin of skateboarding is centered around teenage boys of Southern California, there was a strong contingent of female pioneers who helped shape skateboarding since it’s inception. Below we take a look at some of the women who influenced skateboarding culture in the 60s and 70s: Onlookers watch a skateboarding contest in Torrance, California in 1977. By the late 1970s, skateboarding was growing in size and reach, including to some famous Hollywood heroines.