When Adam Rainer turned 18 he was under four and a half feet tall. A little more than 15 years later he would be 7'1" — tall enough to be classified as a giant. It’s unclear if Adam Rainer, whose height was less than five feet when he was 21, ever wished that he’d grow taller. But if he did, his story would epitomize the expression “be careful what you wish for.

Jonathan Crenshaw claims that he stabbed Cesar Coronado in self-defense. But Coronado paints an entirely different picture.Miami-Dade County JailJonathan Crenshaw Jonathan Crenshaw may not have any arms, but that didn’t stop him from stabbing a man. Just after midnight on July 10 in Miami Beach, Fla., the 46-year-old homeless assailant stabbed a tourist from Chicago with a pair of scissors — using his feet. Police found the victim, 22-year-old Cesar Coronado, lying on the ground and bleeding from his left arm (reportedly the only place he was stabbed).

The Conqueror Was Filmed Downwind Of A Nuclear Weapons Test Site Turner Classic MoviesJohn Wayne as Genghis Khan in the supposedly cursed film The Conqueror. In the mid-1950s, John Wayne was one of the biggest actors in Hollywood, and he was set to star in what was sure to be a classic epic: 1956’s The Conqueror, which saw Wayne portray the 13th-century Mongol warlord Genghis Khan. Instead, the film ended up being a flop.

The enormous, prehistoric beast Elasmotherium sibiricum, known as the "Siberian unicorn", is now believed to have been alive far more recently than scientists thought.Artist’s rendering of Elasmotherium sibiricum, also known as the “Siberian unicorn.” Quick, look down at your nails or run your fingers through your hair. The essential building block of both, a durable protein called keratin, is the same thing that makes up a unicorn’s horn. Yes, a real one, the “Siberian unicorn” that are now making headlines again.

Before the Quest sank off the coast of Canada in 1962, it belonged to famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who died on board during his final voyage to the Antarctic.Wikimedia CommonsThe Quest in 1921. Researchers from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) just announced the discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s final ship, the Quest. Shackleton headed the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition aboard the Quest from 1921 until his untimely death in 1922. The vessel remained in service until 1962, when it sank off the coast of Canada during a seal-hunting voyage.