In the last year, we've brought you the most interesting news from around the globe, dealing in a vast and diverse array of issues.
Dinosaur ‘Mummy’ Unveiled With Skin And Guts Intact

When this dinosaur — a member of a new species named nodosaur — was alive, it was an enormous four-legged herbivore protected by a spiky, plated armor and weighing in at approximately 3,000 pounds.
Robert Clark/National GeographicJack The Ripper Identified? Diary Containing Confessions Proven Authentic, New Research Claims

Smith’s research claims to have proven that the diary was actually found in Maybrick’s former home in Aigburth and that it was written by Maybrick himself in 1888 or 1889.
Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesNASA Scientists Discover Mysterious Life Forms Hibernating Inside Giant Mexican Cave Crystals

Apparently, these microbes have been hibernating there for up to 50,000 years, eating iron, sulfur, and other chemicals to survive.
Alexander Van Driessche/Wikimedia CommonsD.B. Cooper Mystery Finally Solved Thanks To New Physical Evidence?

This new physical evidence may shed light on the fate of D.B. Cooper after his daring mid-flight robbery of a commercial airplane in 1971.
Wikimedia CommonsCouple Gone Missing In 1942 Found In Melting Swiss Glacier

Lost Languages Discovered In One Of The World’s Oldest Libraries

A team of researchers photographed the manuscripts using different parts of the light spectrum and ran the images through an electronic algorithm, letting them see the oldest writings on these parchments, and discovered a number of ancient writings, including one in Caucasian Albanian, which hasn’t been used since the 8th century.
JTB/UIG/Getty ImagesBalmy 77-Degree Oasis Found In Antarctica

The volcano’s heat combined with the continent’s below freezing temperatures created the surprisingly pleasant conditions.
Bettman/Getty ImagesAncient Ruins Older Than The Pyramids Discovered In Canada

The team began investigating the area for ancient settlements after hearing the oral history of the indigenous Heiltsuk people, which told of a sliver of land that never froze during the last ice age.
Grant Callegari/Hakai InstituteGiant Trove Of Hidden Nazi Artifacts Found In Argentina

Among the disturbing items were magnifying glasses engraved with swastikas, a bust of Hitler, a box of harmonicas, and a scary-looking medical device used to measure heads (a pseudoscientific technique used by Nazis to distinguish “Aryans” from Jews).
Twitter/APScientists Finally Solve Mystery Behind Antarctica’s Blood Falls

A new study finally explains that the red liquid is water containing oxidized iron that originates from a strange million-year-old lake beneath the ice.
Wikimedia CommonsNASA’s $1 Billion Probe Just Sent Back Photos of Jupiter Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

Now, at about 415 million miles from Earth, it has made its fifth close flyby of the Gas Giant and the images of Jupiter it sent home are breathtaking.
Gervasio Robles/PUBLIC DOMAINGirl Finds Sword In Lake Where King Arthur’s ‘Excalibur’ Was Thrown, According To Legend

The sword was later revealed to have been owned by a Cornwall resident who threw it there in the 1980s as part of a Celtic ritual.
SWNS.comScientists Finally Figure Out What Killed Off History’s Most Terrifying Shark

The nature of the extinction event is uncertain, but researchers suggest that it involved habitat loss due to shifting sea levels.
Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesKidney Stones Fly Out Of People On Roller Coasters, Surgeon Discovers

1,200-Year-Old Viking Sword Discovered On Norwegian Mountain

Why the Viking was traveling in this desolate countryside, and how the sword, an incredibly valuable tool and commodity at the time, came to be left there, we will never know. However, researchers theorize that it may have been left there after a Viking got lost during a particularly horrible blizzard.
Einar ÅmbakkHospital Serial Killer Known As “The Angel Of Death” Murdered In Prison

A Teen Magazine Printed An Anal Sex Guide And People Freaked Out, Especially This Lady

Numerous conservatives spoke out against the article on social media, including one blogger who burned the magazine in her backyard.
YouTube/ScreenshotSome Are Saying This Video Shows The Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Alive And Well

The video was shot in the Tasmanian bush in November 2016, but the cameramen are keeping the location of this sighting a secret to prevent others from disturbing the animal.
Wikimedia CommonsJury Convicts Killer Of First Missing Child On Milk Carton Four Decades Later

Etan Patz was one of the first children to appear on milk cartons during the statewide manhunt for the missing boy.
National Child Safety CouncilResearchers Find Hidden Space In Great Pyramid Of Giza Using Cosmic Rays

The void sits above the pyramid’s Grand Gallery and is roughly 30 yards deep with a similar shape to the gallery below it.
Wikimedia CommonsJimmy Hoffa Mystery Finally Solved, Criminologist Claims

James Buccellato, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northern Arizona University, has a new theory that Hoffa was murdered at a home in Bloomfield Hills near where he disappeared, and that his body was then cremated at a nearby funeral home owned by the mob.
Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesUFO Hunters Capture Closest Photos of Area 51 Ever

From the peak of this mountain, this duo of UFO hunters used specialist telescopic lenses to get clear photographs of the buildings and vehicles inside the top secret government site.
YouTubeWhen You Die, You’ll Know You’re Dead, Say Scientists

New Footage Finally Reveals What Narwhals’ Tusks Are For

The video shows a narwhal using its tusk to stun its prey before eating it.
YouTubeIn First-Ever Australian Deep Sea Investigation, Researchers Discover Unbelievable Marine Life

Their inventory includes sea spiders the size of dinner plates, a faceless fish, glowing sea stars, fire-red horned shrimp, hermaphrodite lizard fish, a herd of sea pigs, and fish with photosensitive plates on its head.
Caroline HardingThe Mystery Of The 600-Year-Old Voynich Manuscript Has Been Solved, Says U.K. Academic

Now, Nicholas Gibbs, a British academic and expert on medieval medical manuscripts, claims that the document is actually a health guide for women looking to treat gynecological conditions.
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library/ Yale UniversityVets Surgically Remove Nearly 1,000 Coins From Sea Turtle’s Stomach

Tourists searching for good fortune fed the 25-year-old sea turtle 915 coins over the course of her life, chucking the money into the pool where she lives in Sri Racha, Thailand.
Faculty of Veterinary Science/Chulalongkorn UniversityFirst-Ever Footage Reveals Japan’s System Of Sex Slavery During World War II

Scholars estimate that, during World War II, the Imperial Japanese Amry forced as many as 400,000 “comfort women” from Korea and elsewhere in Asia into prostitution and sexual slavery.
YouTubeResearchers Uncover Ancient South American Combs Used For A Pretty Disgusting Purpose

It was a shock to many that the often ornately constructed ancient combs had a fairly unsavory purpose.
Bernardo Arriaza/Universidad De TarapacáA Real Grasshopper Was Just Found In The Paint Of A Van Gogh Masterpiece

The insect, missing its abdomen and thorax, was discovered on the canvas of Van Gogh’s painting Olive Trees, in the brown and green paint in the forefront of the image.
Wikimedia Commons50,000-Year-Old Extinct Lion Found Frozen In Time With Head Resting On Its Paw

The approximately one-year-old cub was frozen alive, with his head still resting on his paw.
The Siberian TimesReconstruction From Ancient Skull Reveals What Humans Looked Like 9,500 Years Ago

The museum used digital scanning and facial reconstruction technology to create a 3D rendering of the deceased’s head.
ATI Composite/Trustees of the British Museum/RN-DS PartnershipFor the last twelve months, we at All That Is Interesting have been providing our readers with a steady stream of some of the weirdest, most bizarre, and downright unbelievable and interesting news from across the world.
In the last year, we've told you about the uncovering of a mummified dinosaur, revelations on the possible identity of Jack The Ripper, and the discovery of hundreds of new species.
Above all, we've brought you the most interesting news from around the globe, dealing in issues as vast and diverse as history, science, nature, crime, and politics. Throughout it all, we've made sure to bring you stories that shock, excite, and inspire you.
These stories inform you of all the new, crazy discoveries we have been making about the past, and the world around us, as well as some of the strangest things humans have done.
Here is a roundup of some of our favorite news stories from the year of 2017. Hope you enjoy a look back at these strange stories and are geared up for another year of outlandish, interesting news in 2018.
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