These Stephen Hawking quotes and photos will expand your mind, feed your soul, and make you believe that absolutely anything is possible.  "People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."Flickr "Quiet people have the loudest minds."Flickr "All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. Perhaps that is why I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

Now recognized as the deepest blue hole on Earth at a depth of 1,378 feet, the Taam Ja' ocean sinkhole located in Mexico's Chetumal Bay has surpassed the competition by hundreds of feet — and experts still don't know how deep it goes.Alcérreca-Huerta et al., Front. Mar. Sci. 2024An aerial drone photograph of Mexico’s Taam Ja’ Blue Hole, now known to be the deepest ocean sinkhole in the world. First discovered in 2021, Mexico’s Taam Ja’ Blue Hole was originally believed to be 900 feet deep.

After struggling with severe drug and alcohol addiction since the age of 13, Cory Monteith died tragically on July 13, 2013.On July 13, 2013, just a few months after he had admitted himself into a substance addiction treatment facility, Glee star Cory Monteith was found dead in his room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Since he was just 31 years old, the heartbreaking news of Cory Monteith’s death was a shock to his loved ones and fans.

After walking 600 miles to Canada in 1830, Josiah Henson returned to the United States to free over 100 more slaves.Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic SiteJosiah Henson’s memoir inspired the title character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In June 1862, during the dark days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln checked out The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin from the Library of Congress. Published a decade earlier, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a runaway bestseller by Harriet Beecher Stowe that pushed scores of Americans to rethink their attitudes toward slavery.

Sol Pais, the young woman who threatened Columbine High School with a shooting before killing herself, is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to "Columbiners."Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department via Getty ImagesSurveillance footage of shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in the cafeteria at Columbine High School. April 20, 1999. It’s been 20 years since the Columbine High School massacre stunned an entire nation. Much in the same way that many claim that the peace-and-love 1960s died with the Manson Family murders of 1969, the calm and prosperous 1990s may very well have died with Columbine.