Edmund Hillary was the first person to climb Mount Everest, but he couldn't have done it without Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty ImagesEdmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay drinking tea in the Himalayas after reaching the summit of Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary became the first person to climb to the top of Mount Everest — but he wasn’t alone. Just after he set foot on the summit, he was joined by his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay.

The theory that supports this is known as the “nocturnal bottleneck hypothesis.” Wikimedia CommonsA prehistoric rat-like mammal. Mammals were once nocturnal creatures, a new study finds, and it’s thanks to the dinosaurs that we no longer are. The study, published in the Nature Ecology & Evolution Journal, describes how the extinction of the dinosaurs drove mammals into the daytime. Because dinosaurs were primarily active during the daytime, ancient mammals would have been primarily nocturnal to avoid an unfortunate run-in with something that could eat them.

Archaeologists believe that the vessel sank sometime in the 19th century when ships were as prevalent as "Amazon trucks."St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum/FacebookArchaeologists work to examine the shipwreck, which appeared in Florida around Thanksgiving 2022. After two hurricanes battered a beach at Daytona Beach Shores in Florida, local residents started to notice wooden structures poking out from the sand. Now, archaeologists have announced that they believe the storms revealed a lost 19th-century shipwreck.

Over the course of five years, 50,000 prisoners died at Bergen-Belsen. Even after the British liberated it in 1945, another 13,000 former inmates died as they were simply too ill to recover. These bodies were killed just before the Nazis left the camp. They were Jews, Roma, and common law prisoners who opposed the Nazis. 1945. Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images Alongside the inmate are the female barracks at Bergen-Belsen. 1945. Keystone-FranceGamma-Rapho/Getty Images Many of those pictured in this mass grave were women and children.

Built 600 years ago, the ruined medieval castle still stands in the Bas-Rhin département of France today — in all its crumbling granite beauty. The historical château was constructed sometime between 1246 and 1264 A.D. by Eberhard d'Andlau.Andia/Universal Images Group/Getty Images After being sold off for parts in the late 1700s, the castle was purchased by the count of Andlau in 1818. It was then that restoration efforts finally began.