The "carefully gathered collection of hands” found in a 3,500-year-old temple may have been exchanged for gold. DAI / ÖAI under CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0The cache of a dozen hand bones found in the courtyard of an Egyptian palace in 2011. Archaeologists excavating a northern Egyptian site known as Tell el-Dab’a in 2011 made a shocking and grisly discovery. Beneath the courtyard of an ancient palace, they unearthed a cache of 12 severed, skeletal right hands.

Known as a "nice guy" who was able to charm countless women, Shawn Grate was eventually revealed to be a brutal killer who murdered at least five victims.Ashland County Sheriff’s OfficeBetween 2006 and 2016, Shawn Grate brutally raped and murdered at least five women in northern Ohio, ultimately landing him on death row in 2018. On September 13, 2016, Ashland police received a phone call from a woman who whispered that she’d been kidnapped and was tied up mere feet away from her sleeping abductor.

Tehran at dusk Source: Flickr While Iran has seen waves of great political reform–and to some, regression–over the past several decades, both the monarchy and the current republic have used architecture to shape and reflect Iranian identity, especially in its capital city, Tehran. Iranian architecture has a continuous history dating back to 5000 BC and is marked by its cosmic symbolism, inventiveness and geometric balance. During the Pahlavi dynasty, much of the architecture imitated European styles at the risk of losing specifically Persian identity.

While some of the octopuses appeared to throw objects to clean their dens or discard food, more than half were recorded throwing objects after fighting, mating, or grappling with another octopus. John Turnbull/FlickrThe scientists studied the behavior of the gloomy octopus (Octopus tetricus). While observing hours of video taken near octopus dens in Jervis Bay, Australia, scientists noted a strange phenomenon: Sometimes, the octopuses gathered objects and flung them at other octopuses.

From the longest ear hair in the world to the most rattlesnakes held in a human's mouth, these slightly insane human records will blow your mind.Think you’ve got a party trick worth boasting about? It probably couldn’t compete with these absolutely crazy and insane human records: Insane Human Records: Longest Ear Hair Indian citizen, Anthony Victor, holds the record of the most ear hair. We’re not quite sure how proud one should be about this fact, but Victor has hair measuring up to 7.