Horrifying facts

1. In 2016, a North Korean teenager named Jong Yol-ri was chosen to go to the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong. He used this event to escape North Korea and start a new life in South Korea.

TIL you can substitute human blood for eggs in baking.

Your history textbook is full of drama, political intrigue, even romance -- but there's one genre they seem to go out of their way to leave out: terrifying, underwear-ruining horror. And trust us, there's easily an underwear-load of it. If it's true that those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it, then for the love of God, please pay very close attention to the following ... #history #wtf #weird #creepy

1. In the 60's US Army did an experiment, where two people Dave Dobson and Bob Selden without nuclear training had to design a nuke with only access to publicly available documents. They succeeded.

01. In 2016, a 10-year old boy named Caleb Schwab was decapitated when he was ejected from his raft on Verrückt, a 168-foot-tall water slide.

01. Charles VIII of France fell in a coma after he hit his head on the lintel of a door while leaving a game of Tennis and died hours later.

Comment “Yes” if you have ever experienced this 🧐

1. About 13 paintings were stolen from an art museum in Boston in 1990 by two thieves dressed in police uniforms, who tricked museum security into letting them access the gallery. Value of the paintings lost was over $500 million, making it the largest private property heist in history. The case still remains unsolved.

TW: gore and death. nealashitposts posted this crazy and disturbing story from their childhood about why their mom would never sleep...

1. Spring-Heeled Jack is a mysterious boogeyman that was said to ring residents of Londons’ doorbells dressed as a bear, a ghost or a devil and scratch them with metal claws before leaping away with unnatural agility. Sightings of him stretched from 1837 to 1904.