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1. Adnan Oktar is a popular Islamic creationist cult leader. He has a very popular tv show (Building Bridges) in Turkey on which he is surrounded by Versace-wrapped blondes called kittens that call him master and talk about Kim Kardashian.

A human body could be skeletonized in less than four days in highly oxygenated deeper water.

Grief, fear and despair are part of the human condition. Each of these emotions is useful, says Miriam Greenspan, if we know how to listen to them.

Sometimes you don’t need a horror movie to get the goose bumps. In fact, all it takes to get your palms sweaty and feel that uneasy tingliness creeping over you is to take a walk on the weird side of the internet.

Over on Reddit, deep sea enthusiasts, sailors, and former Navy folks are sharing scary stories of deep sea terrors. From giant beasts in watery depths to bizarre finds in the great, wide ocean, here are a few creepy stories about the sea to keep you on dry land for a long, long time. #oceanterrors #seafarerstories #deepseamysteries #sailortales #marinehorror #creepysea #underwaterunknowns #nauticalnightmares

Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who knew that what Hollywood needed was new audiences—namely, young people—and that meant cultivating new talent and new ideas. Fueled by money from their invention of the superstar TV pop group the Monkees, they set off on a film-industry journey that would lead them to form BBS Productions, a…

1. Ducks will sometimes become cannibalistic due to boredom, lack of ventilation, or faulty nutrition. They can only be stopped by cutting off their “mouths.”

1. Anybody, dead or alive, traveling into France requires a passport. In 1974, the Egyptian government had to issue a passport to Pharaoh, Ramesses II to transport his body to France for restoration. Eerily, his body also received full military honors when it arrived at the Paris airport.