What About The Dancing? Source: YouTube Honeybees have a brilliant means of communicating the location of pollination potential to the rest of the hive: they dance. It’s called the “waggle” dance, and it’s not quite twerking…but it’s not that dissimilar, either. After a particular foraging mission, the honeybees can zip back to the hive and, via their well-choreographed dancing language, tell the next round of worker bees where to go–or avoid.

Megan Hess and her mother operated a funeral home in Montrose, Colorado — but they secretly sold body parts behind the scenes.Montrose Daily PressMegan Hess outside her Colorado funeral home in an undated photo. For eight years, Megan Hess appeared to serve her community of Montrose, Colorado, as the owner of a local funeral home. But unbeknownst to her clients, she was actually selling their loved ones’ body parts, charging them for cremations that never happened, and giving them random sets of ashes instead of their relatives’ remains.

Built between 9500 and 8000 BCE in present-day Turkey, Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic place of worship that predates Stonehenge by over 6,000 years.Wikimedia CommonsA complex of megalithic structures built between 9600 and 8200 B.C.E., Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe has been called the oldest temple in world history. Other archaeologists had dismissed the site, but not Klaus Schmidt. When he came to Göbekli Tepe in 1994, he suspected that the unassuming hill hid an ancient secret.

Also known as the Catherine wheel, or simply the wheel, the breaking wheel crushed the limbs and bones of the condemned, sometimes over the course of several days.Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesThe breaking wheel has existed in many forms, some lying flat, others stood upright. Each is uniquely brutal. To this day, the breaking wheel stands as one of history’s most gruesome methods of execution. Largely reserved for the worst criminals, its purpose was to inflict maximum pain and suffering, often before a large crowd.

While Stede Bonnet is featured in the comedy series "Our Flag Means Death," the 18th-century Barbadian pirate lived a much wilder life than the show portrays.Charles Johnson/Wikimedia CommonsA depiction of Stede Bonnet made less than a decade after Bonnet’s death. The life of a gentleman was not always easy in the 18th century. Luxuries like a verdant plantation, voluminous libraries, and silk jackets lined with lace were not enough for Stede Bonnet.