Heart Attack Gun: The U.S. Government Operation To Assassinate World Leaders Associated Press/The U.S. CapitolSenator Frank Church of Idaho and Senator John Tower of Texas exhibit a “heart attack” gun developed by the CIA at a Senate hearing in 1975. On Sept. 17, 1975, an extraordinary hearing took place in the U.S. Senate. Following the Watergate scandal and the erosion of trust in American institutions, many Americans demanded to know what the CIA had been up to.

“More than exceptional it’s epochal, one of those discoveries that marks the course of history.”MiBAC/FacebookThe crack in the stone jar revealed the hundreds of ancient Roman gold coins that were inside of it. Archeologists conducting a dig underneath the Cressoni Theater in Como, Italy on Sept. 5 were surprised by the astounding discovery of hundreds of gold coins that date back to the late Roman imperial era in the fifth century.

In addition to being a founding father and noted inventor, Ben Franklin once sent a letter now entitled "Fart Proudly" to the Royal Academy of Brussels.Philadelphia Museum of Art/Wikimedia CommonsBen Franklin conducting a lighting rod experiment. Have you ever farted at a really bad time? You know, like during a job interview or a big date? Most people have. And most people have developed a couple of tricks over the years to sort of disguise a fart when they know it’s coming.

Source: Berndnaut Smilde, Nimbus NP3, 2012, digital C-type print on dibond, 125×185 cm, courtesy the artist and Ronchini Gallery Imagine working numerous hours to accumulate the perfect combination of both moisture and dust. Eventually, a faint white fog forms, and you snap a photo of the pale indoor cloud. Moments later, the formation is gone, and you’re left in an empty room. Although meticulous and drawn out, this is life for Berndnaut Smilde, the brilliant artist who is well known for his stunning indoor cloud formations.

Prone to feeling claustrophobic? Then perhaps you can understand the predicament of the giant Pacific octopus above. But what you won’t be able to understand is how, after finding itself stuck on a fishing boat, that octopus somehow escapes via a tiny hole in the boat’s side. When making quick escapes like that, it also helps not to have a skeleton. Octopuses (yes, that’s a correct pluralization, too) have no external or internal shell or skeleton — except for their hard, parrot-like beaks — which gives them the creepy, though useful, ability to squeeze through tiny cracks and crevices.