Sultan Kosen and Jyoti Amge met for the first time and posed for photos despite their almost 6-foot height difference. Hurriyet Daily NewsSultan Kosen and Jyoti Amge pose seem entirely unimpressed by their 6-foot height difference.
The world’s tallest man and the world’s shortest woman posed for a photo-op on Saturday, against the backdrop of the Great Sphinx of Giza. The tallest man on earth Sultan Kösen, an 8-foot-3-inch-tall farmer, towered over the diminutive Jyoti Amge, an actress from India, who measures just 2 feet.
What happened on this day in history: The "Sun King" of France is born in 1638, a former Charles Manson disciple attempts to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, and more.1638: King Louis XIV Is Born Louis XIV is born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, to Louis XIII and Anne of Austria.
Ascending the throne at just four years old, Louis XIV was the king of France from 1643 to 1715 and was called the “Sun King” because he made himself the center of French society and life.
Be it time travel or, god forbid, spaghettification, these are six leading theories on what might happen to a person if they go inside a black hole.At the center of most galaxies lies a massive black hole. Image Source: NASA
Only “seen” when swallowing up an unfortunate gas cloud or wayward star, black holes remain an enigma. With one of these bodies at the center of most galaxies—including our own—many scientists spend their whole careers trying to understand what happens to objects that become entrapped in their startling gravitational pull.
Between April 11 and April 12, 1981, Glenna "Sue" Sharp and three others were brutally killed in the resort town of Keddie, California. To this day, the murders remain unsolved.Plumas County Sheriff’s Office Cabin 28 at Keddie Resort, 1981. The former Sharp home was condemned and demolished in 2004
On the morning of April 12, 1981, Sheila Sharp returned to her home at Cabin 28 in the Keddie Resorts in California from the next-door neighbor’s house.
Jemma Lilley strangled the autistic teen with a wire until it broke, and then stabbed him with various blades until he died. Facebook/Personal PhotoMurderer Jemma Lilley and her victim, Aaron Pajich.
A British woman who strangled, stabbed, and buried the body of an autistic teenager in Western Australia says she did so to scratch murder off of her “bucket list.” And now she’s been sentenced to life in prison, according to the BBC.