Ancient fossils — of both humans and animals — are more common in limestone than people may think.Kidipadeli75/RedditThe human mandible even appears to still contain some teeth. When a couple in Europe renovated their home, they chose to tile their floors with a popular limestone called travertine. But then their dentist son visited and noticed something strange: the unmistakable shape of a human jawbone sitting in the freshly laid stone. He posted a photo of the mandible on Reddit, where the odd find has drawn fascination — and plenty of questions.

The nearly 10-foot stone statue was discovered near Ak-Bulun village in the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan.Tuul & Bruno Morandi/Getty ImagesThe stone statues known as Balbal served as memorials and were often used as grave markers by early inhabitants of Central Asia. On Oct. 15, 2022, potato farmer Erkin Turbaev was working his field near the Northern Tian Shan mountains in Eastern Kyrgyzstan when he came upon what he believed to be a large rock that broke his plow.

These horrific war crimes reveal a humanity that isn't good or bad, but absolutely sadistic.Xinhua/Getty ImagesA victim of Japan’s infamous Unit 731. Human nature is an amorphous thing: Optimists and pessimists can look at the same human history and present diametrically opposed assessments of the human spirit. The optimist will point to acts of selflessness and historical displays of a collective will toward waging progress in making their case that human nature is essentially “good.

One of the minds behind the first electromechanical computer, Grace Hopper also pioneered a computer language that revolutionized the future of programming — which is still in use today.During her time in the United States Navy, Grace Hopper made an astounding number of technological contributions. Ironically, she only did so after being deemed unfit to serve due to her age and weight. Hopper resourcefully found a way to enlist, anyway, and worked to advance computers that changed history forever.

Following years of depression and addiction, movie legend Judy Garland died of a barbiturate overdose in London at age 47 on June 22, 1969.“I’m always being painted a more tragic figure than I am,” Judy Garland said in 1962. “Actually, I get awfully bored with myself as a tragic figure.” But in the summer of 1969, her tragic legacy was cemented with her untimely death. Judy Garland died when she was just 47 years old, yet she’d lived many lives.