"We just broke into a dance, we were so happy."FRED SPOOR, LEAKEY FOUNDATION Buried under layers of volcanic ash in Northern Kenya, a skull the size of a lemon was recently uncovered by scientists. It belonged to a baby ape that lived 13 million years ago and is remarkably preserved — complete with impressions of the creature’s brain on the inside and its adult teeth that had yet to grow in.

Go back to a time when MTV still played music videos.On a spring day in 1986, millions of people across the United States tuned into MTV — and found their screens flooded with images of raucous concerts, sunny beaches, drunk coeds, wet T-shirt contests, and neon bathing suits. Spring break had arrived in the American living room. The MTV broadcast offered viewers a front row seat to springtime debauchery, and captured the rapidly accelerating spring break trend.

"It’s a known legend, people know that it’s still out there in deep water. Everyone will be after it, won’t they?"When the Merchant Royal sank in 1641, it took a payload of 100,000 pounds of gold and 400 bars of Mexican silver down with it. The British vessel hasn’t been seen since, but a UK fishing crew near Cornwall recently found a trace stuck in its nets: the ship’s big, rusty anchor.

Barbro Karlén believed she was different as a child but didn't know why until she read the diary of Anne Frank — and realized she had lived as Frank in a past life.YouTubeBarbro Karlén claims to remember details from Anne Frank’s childhood before the Holocaust. Throughout history, many have questioned whether reincarnation can happen, either from generation to generation or across time. And Swedish writer Barbro Karlén is one of many who believes it exists.

The Most Beautiful Butterflies: Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly The Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly is predominantly found along the eastern edge of North America and can add the illustrious title of Tennessee’s official state butterfly to its resume. Aptly named, the butterfly is covered in black and white stripes and has triangular wings. The Peacock Butterfly Unsurprisingly, the Peacock Butterfly derives its name from the peacock-like embellishments on its wings: donning violet and cerulean dots, its red wings resembling a peacock’s feathers.

For the last 200 years, the stone has marked the Franco-Belgian border in accordance with an 1820 treaty.Facebook/Mayor David Lavaux of ErquelinnesThe historic stone dates back to 1819, when it was originally put in place. A Belgian farmer accidentally encroached on the country of France recently when he moved a hefty stone out of the way of his tractor — and inadvertently grew his country’s border by seven and a half feet.

Wikimedia CommonsThe martyrdom of St. Alban by Matthew Paris. Though the stories of Christian martyrs are mostly apocryphal, their dramatic deaths at the hands of ancient pagans have never ceased to be intriguing, stomach-turning and, for the faithful, proof of God’s power. In these popular religious myths, persecuted Christians encounter dragons and endure horrifying acts of brutality in order to prove their faith and earn their sainthood. Here seven of the most astounding — if not ridiculous — tales of Christian martyrs:

Over the course of four days, serial killer Danny Rolling terrorized the college students of Gainesville, Florida in a murderous rampage.Danny Rolling lived an unhappy life. A tortured soul since birth, Rolling, a.k.a the Gainesville Ripper, passed on the horrifying abuse he had endured onto his victims. Over the course of four days in 1990, Rolling went on a rampage where he murdered five University of Florida students in a spree that terrified the nation.

Alexander and his army first marched through the city in 331 BC while chasing Darius III, the king of Persia, back to Iran.The British MuseumQalatga Darband. When Iraqi archeologists were examining spy plane photographs of the country’s landscape, they were shocked to find evidence of an ancient city. Fox News reports that researchers at the Iraq Emergency Heritage Management Training Programme first discovered this ancient city while examining declassified satellite photos.

In June 1969, Dennis Lloyd Martin walked off to play a prank on his dad and never returned, sparking one of the largest search efforts in modern American history.On June 14, 1969, what would be any parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Six-year-old Dennis Martin ran into the woods while playing a game near his father’s campsite — and vanished forever. At 5 a.m the next morning, the search for the six-year-old began in earnest.