When the giantess Angrboda bore three monstrous children with the trickster god Loki, Odin banished them, rightfully fearing they'd spark the doomsday event known as Ragnarök.Wikimedia CommonsAngrboda and her monstrous children, Hel (left), Jörmungandr (center-left) and Fenrir (right). For centuries before the spread of Christianity, Norse mythology offered vivid narratives of dramatic deities to the people of northern Europe. Many of these stories are focused on the complicated lives of the jötnar — a legion of supernatural giants — and their apocalyptic clashes with the gods.

The thieves say they will only return the 128-year-old stone chair if a historic Confederate association agrees to fly a Black rights banner outside their headquarters.White Lies MatterThe Jefferson Davis chair was presented to the Alabama town of Selma in 1893. Since 1893, a three-foot stone chair memorializing the Confederacy has stood at Confederate Circle in Selma, Alabama’s Old Live Oak Cemetery. Last month, however, it disappeared. The stone chair, which weighs about several hundred pounds, was dedicated to former Confederacy President Jefferson Davis and was first discovered missing sometime between midnight and 3 a.

According to the study's predictions, 1.4 billion Facebook users will have died before the year 2100, leaving precious personal data behind.Jaap Arriens/NurPhotoThe study brings up ethical considerations about what to do with one’s personal data once they die. If you use the internet even a little bit, you likely have digital footprints everywhere, some of which are probably in the form of personal profiles on social media. But what happens to all these footprints of personal information after you die?

Two new studies reaffirm what coffee-lovers have always known: three to five cups a day makes people live longer.Joe Raedle/Getty Images You know what they say: Three to five cups of coffee a day keep the doctor away! Or, that’s what they should say. Two new studies, published Monday, have reaffirmed what people have known for centuries: your daily cup of joe gives you life. To reach this conclusion, researchers in the first study surveyed 520,000 people in ten different European countries — making this the largest-ever project examining the connection between coffee and mortality.

Between 1970 and 1973, Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. helped "Candy Man" Dean Corll kidnap, rape, and murder at least 28 boys — six of whom he killed himself.When Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. was introduced to Dean Corll in 1971, he had no idea that he had been targeted by one of America’s most vicious serial killers. As fate would have it, Corll saw something promising in Henley that he hadn’t seen in other boys, and he became a twisted mentor of sorts for the troubled 15-year-old.

Elissa Wall, who was forced to marry her first-cousin when she was 14 years old, is suing Warren Jeffs and his church for millions.YouTube14-year-old Elissa Wall and her 19-year-old cousin, who she was forced to marry in 2001. On Elissa Wall’s wedding day, she wore a sparkly tiara and a white dress that was sewed by her mother and sister. She rode a horse-drawn carriage to the Nevada hotel where the ceremony was held in 2001.

Ferdinand Magellan Florida TodayFerdinand Magellan. Although Ferdinand Magellan never set out to complete this accomplishment, Magellan’s voyage to the East wound up being the first successful circumnavigation of the globe. Magellan was born in Sabrosa, Portugal, in 1480. His adventurous spirit had been with him since childhood when he and his brother traveled to Lisbon at just 12-years-old. From 1505 to 1519, Magellan led several expeditions and was injured in various battles.

We call it an epidemic today, but for centuries medical experts encouraged the use of heroin.Wikimedia CommonsMedicinal heroin bottle, circa 1920s. Opium — the yellow/brown dried poppy juice used to make morphine and heroin — has been numbing pain and claiming addicts longer than any other drug known to man. Though today they’re mostly associated with the deadly epidemic quickly spreading across America, opiates — specifically heroin — didn’t always have such a bad rap.

The graffiti depicts ships, initials, and several people being hanged — including one that might be Napoleon himself.English HeritageThe door features 50 pieces of graffiti carved between 1789 and 1855. For more than a century, St. John’s Tower at Dover Castle in England has been inaccessible, except by ladder. So researchers were astounded when they recently retrieved a door from the tower and discovered that it was covered with dozens of carvings made by English soldiers during the Napoleonic Era.

Uli Derickson saved dozens of lives acting as a peacemaker after Hezbollah members hijacked TWA Flight 847.June 14, 1985, must have seemed a morning like any other to Uli Derickson. A flight attendant for Trans World Airlines, Derickson and the rest of the crew were preparing for what should have been an uneventful flight from Athens to Rome. But shortly after liftoff, the crew of TWA Flight 847 discovered that this flight was going to be far from ordinary.