Despite having little formal education, horse rancher Christopher Michael Langan has an IQ of between 195 and 210 and often lays claim to the title of smartest man alive.FlickrChristopher Langan is known as the smartest man alive due to his reported 200 IQ, and he’s spent his life developing a “theory of everything.”
Imagine the world’s most intelligent person. Are they examining a test tube? Gazing at a chalkboard full of complex equations?
British businessman Donald Crowhurst entered the 1968 Golden Globe Race to sail around the world, only to meet a tragic end in the Atlantic.Eric Tall/Keystone/Getty ImagesDonald Crowhurst
Donald Crowhurst was always an optimist and always a lover of the sea. He frequently took his family on short sailing excursions off the southwestern coast of his native Britain and into the Bristol Channel. Then, one day, he saw a way out of his financial problems caused by failed business ventures: An around-the-world sailing race that offered a sizable sum for a prize.
When Eddie Lincoln died of tuberculosis on February 1, 1850, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln were devastated — but it wouldn't be the last time they’d lose a child.Public DomainEdward “Eddie” Lincoln died just shy of his fourth birthday after suffering for months from tuberculosis.
The story of Abraham Lincoln’s life is threaded with tragedy. And one of the most powerful blows that the president suffered came when he lost his young son, Edward Baker Lincoln, in 1850.
Family planning and women's health organization Planned Parenthood has been the subject of multiple lies this year. Here are the facts to set you straight.Women at a 2011 Planned Parenthood rally in New York City. Image Source: Flickr/Charlotte Cooper
Heated social media campaigns erupted earlier this year after a video, allegedly showing a Planned Parenthood higher up addressing the sale of fetal organs and body parts, surfaced. Despite the organization’s letter to Congress outlining the substantial, deceptive editing of the video, anti-Planned Parenthood myths continued to circulate and intensify.
Erin Corwin thought her lover Christopher Lee was going to propose to her on June 28, 2014 — but instead, he strangled her and threw her down a mine shaft near Joshua Tree National Park.FacebookErin Corwin, seen here not long before her murder in a photo posted on her Facebook.
On June 28, 2014, Erin Corwin disappeared from her home near Joshua Tree National Park in California. Right up until that fateful day, her life seemed happy, at least from the outside.