Andy Warhol is best remembered–and most reviled, pending your taste–for his screen prints, specifically those of Campbell’s soup cans.
We have all seen the ways that Warhol has souped up the soup cans–the next time you’re at the Museum of Modern Art, check out his 1962 piece, aptly titled “Campbell’s Soup Cans”–but we haven’t all seen Warhol in the grocery store, coveting the cans for himself before reproducing them on canvas.
From its 3,000-year-old origin story to its putrid stench, these Bigfoot facts might make a believer out of you. The first Bigfoot discovery is often credited to British explorer David Thompson in 1811British explorer and fur trader David Thompson traveled more than 60,000 miles by canoe, horse, and foot during his travels of the western part of North America. On Jan. 7, 1811, he recorded a curious set of footprints at the mouth of the Whirlpool River in Alberta, Canada.
At least two people died trying to reach the infamous Into The Wild bus on Alaska's Stampede Trail after hiker Chris McCandless died there in 1992.In 1992, two moose hunters stumbled upon an abandoned bus in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness. Inside the rusty, overgrown vehicle, they found the body of 24-year-old Chris McCandless, a hitchhiker who had left everything behind to pursue an off-the-grid life in Alaska.
Since then, many have been lost, injured, and even killed attempting to retrace the young transient’s journey in hopes of reaching the infamous abandoned Fairbanks City Transit bus number 142, better known as the Into The Wild bus.
After it was caught in a powerful snowstorm in 1895, the Africa and its crew of 11 vanished, never to be seen again — until now. Inspired Planet ProductionsThe Africa disappeared in 1895 along with its entire crew and had never been seen since.
Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick, a husband-and-wife filmmaking team, were out on the waters of Lake Huron on a Saturday afternoon in June when they made an astonishing discovery: the wreck of a ship that had been lost for 128 years.
Now, if you ever want to tell someone to "go to Hell," you finally know where to send them. Wikimedia Commons A sign welcoming you to Hell, Michigan.
When Hell froze over in January 2014, the unofficial mayor of Hell rejoiced. John Colone, a local business owner, told CNN that “Just imagine how many things are getting done now.”
The joke is that people say they plan to do something only when “hell freezes over.
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes was the heart of TLC and one of the top rappers of the 1990s before she was tragically killed in a car crash in Honduras.FacebookLisa “Left Eye” Lopes was just 30 years old at the time of her death in 2002.
Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes was one of the most prominent American musicians to come out of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Notable for her standout performances as a member of the R&B group TLC, the rapper served as the group’s chief lyricist and her influence can still be felt today, as songs like “No Scrubs,” “Waterfalls,” and “Creep” nostalgically hearken back to the turn of the 21st century in a uniquely endearing fashion.
Opium dens first sprung up in the Chinatown district of San Francisco in the 19th century. While they were eventually outlawed, these lounge-like establishments flourished across the West for close to a century. Opium smokers in China in the early 20th century. Circa 1901.Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images Opium comes from the sap of a specific "opium" poppy. China. Circa 1900.Michael Maslan/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images Chinese people smoking the "evil poppy" in an opium den.
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If you’ve already powered through the third season of House of Cards, you’ll probably remember the monks who spent weeks creating an awesome sand painting in the middle of the White House. In reality, Tibetan Buddhist monks have been creating sand mandalas (mandala means “circle” in Sanskrit) for more than 2,500 years. The process remains one of the religion’s most distinctive and beautiful traditions.
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Jack the baboon worked on the railway system in South Africa for 9 years without ever making a single mistake. Wikimedia CommonsJack operating the railway switches.
When James “Jumper” Wide worked for the Cape Town — Port Authority Railway service, he developed a habit of leaping from one railway car to the other, even when the trains were moving.
One day in 1877, he misjudged his jump by a little too much and fell under the moving train.
The man stopped to relieve himself on the side of the road when he noticed the bear, and decided to take a selfie with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg-mSCTDz3M
A man in India was mauled to death by a bear, after attempting to take a selfie with it. Prabhu Bhatara, a taxi driver from India, was headed home from a local wedding when he pulled over to relieve himself on the side of the road.