"DHead XLVI" was part of a 47-portrait series by Bowie and found at a thrift shop at the entrance to a landfill just outside Toronto.Flickr/stratopaulDavid Bowie died of cancer in 2016 at 69 years of age. David Bowie was an artist of astronomical talent. The singer modified his musical persona for decades, influencing both fashion and music itself in the process. Unaware he also painted, somebody donated a portrait of the late singer to a Canadian thrift store in 2018.

Joseph Dituri, also known as "Dr. Deep Sea," has lived in an underwater lodge for 74 days and plans to stay until June for an even 100.InstagramFans drop by to check on “Dr. Deep Sea,” Joseph Dituri, in his underwater lodge. A Florida professor just surpassed the record for the longest time spent living underwater, and he plans to keep going until he reaches 100 days. Joseph Dituri, a 55-year-old professor of biomedical engineering at the University of South Florida and a 28-year veteran of the U.

Found on a courtyard wall, these charcoal drawings depict an intense gladiator battle, an animal hunt, and the outlines of three small hands.Parco Archeologico di PompeiThis gladiator graffiti offers a glimpse at what Pompeii’s children witnessed in the doomed city not long before its destruction. Children often draw the things they see: dogs, flowers, their families, and so on. Children thousands of years ago, naturally, did the same thing. And recently, archaeologists working in Pompeii uncovered graffiti likely left by some of the city’s youngest residents, which depict scenes of what they once witnessed, including gladiator fights.

Abigail Williams was one of the first people "afflicted" during the Salem Witch Trials and one of the first to accuse others of witchcraft. Then she vanished.Abigail Williams was 12 years old when strange things began happening to her and her cousin, Betty Parris. It was January 1692 and Williams was living with her uncle Samual Parris and his family in Salem Village, Massachusetts when she and Betty began having, “fits.

In 1821, Gregor MacGregor made a fortune off of European elites by selling them shares in his fake utopia — then got off scot-free.National Portrait GalleryGregor MacGregor, Prince of his fabricated kingdom of Poyais. As Europe raced to conquer vast tracts of undiscovered land in the Americas, a Scottish conman named Gregor MacGregor hatched a plan to capitalize on the lucrative colonization game. In 1821, MacGregor fabricated a colony called Poyais on the Bay of Honduras in Central America and scammed the British into investing in it.