After spending $257,000 to raise their son, arranging his marriage, financing the wedding, and paying for his honeymoon, Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad are demanding a grandkid — or else.ANINewsUP/TwitterSanjeev Prasad and Sadhana Prasad demand a grandchild within one year — or $643,000 in damages. Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad were overjoyed when their son finally tied the knot. He was their only child, after all, and the retired Indian couple had used their life savings to raise him.

"The residents used knives to slaughter the crocodiles. The crocodiles were caught and dragged outside and stabbed to death. It was so horrid to see."Antara/Olha Mulalinda Nearly 300 crocodiles of endangered varieties were recently slaughtered at a breeding ground and sanctuary in Indonesia after a local man was killed by one of the animals a week prior. Immediately following the July 14 funeral of a local man known only as Sugito, who was killed by a crocodile when he entered the sanctuary in Indonesia’s Sorong district, a mob of some 600 angry locals made their way to the breeding pond and killed a total of 292 crocodiles.

After a fire broke out at Madame Delphine LaLaurie's house in 1834, witnesses discovered a secret torture chamber where she had viciously beaten, starved, and killed countless enslaved people.The home at 1140 Royal Street in New Orleans looks elegant. Sophisticated even. But the story of LaLaurie Mansion — so named for its mistress, Madame Marie Delphine LaLaurie — is one of torture and death. Wikimedia CommonsThough it looks peaceful today, LaLaurie Mansion was once the site of true horrors.

Captain Sully didn't land his flight on the Hudson River by himself — he had the help of a very talented co-pilot named Jeff Skiles.Larry Marano/Getty ImagesJeff Skiles poses in the cockpit of a 1958 DC7 on November 17, 2011 in Miami, Florida. When people think of the emergency plane landing into the Hudson River known as the “Miracle on the Hudson”, people usually think of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger — the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549.

In her lifetime, Annie Jump Cannon identified half a million stars. How many can you identify?Source: Wikipedia In her lifetime, Annie Jump Cannon identified more than 500,000 stars. This is without a doubt a remarkable feat for anyone, least of all a young deaf woman who spent her 19th century childhood with her head not just in the clouds—but in galaxies. Annie’s mother fostered her interest in astronomy when she was a child, teaching her to identify the constellations and making certain she had plenty of books to read on the subject.

Once the highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood, Herman Mankiewicz co-wrote "Citizen Kane" with Orson Welles before succumbing to alcoholism in 1953.Herman J. Mankiewicz saw Hollywood as a gold mine. Moving to the West to take a screenwriting job in 1926, he invited more East Coast writers to share in the film industry’s easy money. “Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots,” Mankiewicz telegrammed to a friend.

Because of her affair with Goebbels, Lída Baarová was shamed in the press worldwide, hounded by the Gestapo, barred from acting, and eventually arrested and threatened with a death sentence.UFA (Universum film) Lida Baarová in the 1930s. Czech actress Lida Baarová was found dead a couple days after the fact in her Salzburg, Austria, apartment in 2000, surrounded by memorabilia. Among the playbills and photographs documenting her life in the spotlight, none featured her most infamous lover: Joseph Goebbels.

"On this occasion, we meet on those same Pacific waters in which Japan and the U.S. once met in battle, but this time as allies and fellow researchers.”Ocean Exploration TrustThe survey marked the first time the USS Yorktown was viewed in real-time. On June 4, 1942, in the midst of World War II, an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet attacked the Midway Islands in the Hawaiian Archipelago. Thousands of American and Japanese forces battled for four days in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in a key American victory that enabled the U.

Joseph Stalin1892, age 13Laski Diffusion/Getty Images Saddam HusseinCirca 1947, age 10 (approximate)Laurent VAN DER STOCKT/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Kim Jong-unDate of original photo unspecifiedSouth Korean protesters hold a picture of a boy, believed to be Kim Jong-un, during a rally in Seoul on February 19, 2009. JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images Benito Mussolini1897, age 14 (approximate)ullstein bild via Getty Images Vladimir Putin1960, age seven or eightLaski Diffusion/Getty Images Adolf HitlerCirca 1890, age 1 (approximate)German Federal Archives Osama Bin LadenDate unspecifiedPinterest Bashar Al-AssadDate unspecifiedPinterest Vladimir LeninDate unspecifiedHulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images Che GuevaraCirca 1934, age 6 (approximate)Apic/Getty Images Mao Zedong1913, age 19Wikimedia Commons Kim Jong-ilDate unspecifiedPictured with this parents, North Korean leader Kim Il-sung and his first wife, Kim Jong-suk.

Built in the 12th century in Slovenia, Predjama Castle is carved into a 400-foot cliffside with nine miles of complex tunnels beneath it — that once helped a local 'Robin Hood' to evade capture.At the center of a 400-foot cliff in southern Slovenia juts Predjama Castle, fortress built into a mountainside over a complex system of underground caves. Indeed, it is the largest cave castle in the world — and has stood for over 800 years.