For centuries, Maya populations living in the jungles of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula harvested sacred honey that served as the backbone of much of their trade, medicine, and religious rituals.Instituto Nacional de Antropología e HistoriaA Maya lid used to plug a hollow log where bees were housed in order to collect honey. Just this week, archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced the discovery of a treasure trove of centuries-old Maya artifacts, including beekeeping tools used to harvest honey from the culture’s “sacred bee,” the Melipona beecheii.

In 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead in a pool of blood at the bottom of the staircase in her home. Two years later, her husband Michael Peterson was convicted of her murder — but many believe he didn’t do it.NetflixMichael Peterson (center) during his 2003 trial for the murder of his wife, Kathleen Peterson. In 2018, Netflix released The Staircase, a documentary that catapulted a regional North Carolina murder mystery to national attention.

Operating in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s, Francis "Mickey" Featherstone was one of the most feared hitmen in the Irish American mob.TwitterFrancis T. “Mickey” Featherstone was a member of the Irish mob until he was framed for a murder he didn’t commit and turned informant. Mickey Featherstone was second-in-command to Jimmy Coonan, leader of the Westies, an extremely violent Irish mob that operated in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Equal Earth projection hopes to put an end to distorted world maps for good.Tom PattersonEqual Earth projection map. An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past. In a study released earlier this month in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, cartographer Tom Patterson and his colleagues, Bojan Šavrič and Bernhard Jenny, presented a solution to this long-held problem: how to make a map of the world that accurately portrays the size and shape of the Earth’s landmasses.

In the 1980s, Philadelphia mob boss Nicky Scarfo presided over one of the deadliest periods in Mafia history and ordered the murders of nearly 30 members of his own organization.Bettmann/Getty ImagesPhiladelphia Mafia boss Nicky Scarfo with his nephew, Philip Leonetti, behind him after they were acquitted for murder in 1980. Nine years later, Leonetti turned state’s witness and helped put Scarfo in federal prison. Nicky Scarfo became the boss of the Philadelphia Mafia in 1981 after a long period of peace and prosperity within the crime family.