Despite their slight size, bees are an integral part of the world's agriculture. This macro bee photography provides us with a better understanding of them.Source: Twenty Two Words There are literally thousands of different bee species flying around out there, and it is biologist Sam Droege’s job to identify and document them, as head of the USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Program. Located in Maryland, the program collects and carefully archives every detail of each species, including those so tiny that they can’t be discerned by the naked eye.

Up to 350,000 Jews were gassed to death at the Sobibór concentration camp in Poland. But a prisoner uprising forced the Nazis to burn it to the ground.Imagno/Getty ImagesCountless Polish Jews gathered before being executed on the death camp site believed to be Sobibór. Unlike Dachau and Auschwitz, Sobibór was never a political prison or a concentration camp for forced labor on a mass scale. It existed, from its moment of creation, solely to kill human beings.

The Violent Bigfoot Encounter That Saw 400-Pound Beasts Attack Flickr/Old White TruckOregon has the second-most Bigfoot encounters by population in the U.S. Despite an undeniable roster of hoaxes that presumably comprise the majority of Bigfoot sightings, reports like this 1924 incident on Mount Saint Helens in Washington State boggle the mind. It was here that a group of prospectors claimed to have encountered a group of seven-foot-tall ape-men which nearly killed them all with boulders.

From torture to witches to dismemberment, "Cat got your tongue" has origins more sinister than you ever imagined.Wikimedia Commons We hear the question “Cat got your tongue?” all the time when someone teases another person about being at a loss for words. As the surprising story behind this common phrase reveals, it turns out that rendering someone literally speechless is precisely where the question “Cat got your tongue?” comes from.

Neck Coils Another relatively well-known example of extreme tribal traditions, neck coils are still commonly worn by Kayan women in Burma. Those who have worn them for a very long time can fit upwards of 20 coils around their necks. Village elders can wear as many as 25 coils at a time. Source: My Overland Adventure Like with the lip plates, the coils are worn starting in childhood. Kayan women start off with fewer coils (between 5 and 10) and, as the body gets used to them, more are added.