22 Unbelievable Facts will make you say “Holy Sh*t” Yet They Are All True!
12 There are houses for sale in Detroit that cost $1 apiece.
The mortgage crisis and the bankruptcy of the American automobile industry have caused large-scale unemployment among the Detroit locals. The financial crash has forced wholesale foreclosure of the properties among the people who are unable to repay the loans taken from the bank or who simply walked away from the house after the value of the property dropped lower than the value of the loans taken on them. Banks are selling off the properties usually located in the worst neighborhood for a few dollars each. (source)
13 A woman has a blood vessel in her eye that spells out the word “love”.
The mother of the YouTube user LivingOak posted a video of her mother looking to the right. Shockingly, LivingOaks’s mother’s burst blood vessel on the eyeball spells “Love” in a cursive style!(source)
14 In 2011, Richard Handl was arrested in Sweden for splitting an atom in his kitchen, he claimed that it was his hobby.
Amateur scientist, Richard Handl wanted to create a working ‘nuclear reactor’ at home. He managed to get the requisite radioactive elements such as radium, americium, and uranium. Handl, who claimed to be interested in ‘Physics and Chemistry’ was curious to find whether he could split atoms at home. He kept a meticulously detailed blog about his experiments. Before conducting his ‘atom-splitting’experiment, he called up Swedish Radiation Safety Authority to confirm that he was not doing anything illegal. He was arrested after that call.(source)
15 The skin of all human beings is covered in stripes from head to toe. They’re called Blaschko’s Lines. They are invisible to human eye.
Blashchko’s lines are lines of normal cell development in the skin that traces the migration of the embryonic cells. The stripes follow a V-shape over the spine, S-shape over the abdomen, an inverted U-shape from the breast to the upper arm, and perpendicular lines up and down the arms and legs. These lines don’t follow any blood vessels or nervous structures. These stripes are invisible to human eye . However, certain skin diseases follow the Blaschko’s lines. These lines can be seen under the UV lights.(source)
16 An elephant-sized sloth existed and went extinct only 10,000 years ago. It was one of the largest land mammals, measuring up to 6m(20ft) and weighing 4 tons.
The Megatherium or the elephant-sized sloth were endemic to South America that lived around 5 million to 11,000 years ago. Though they were not huge as a dinosaur or even a woolly mammoth, they could still hold their own place in the list of the biggest land animals. They were extremely strong animals with well-built muscles but were not known for speed. They had long arms ending in claws. Scientists speculate these was used to grab the trees and pluck the leaves.There is a suggestion that the animal may have been a meat eater as well. Megatherium were part of anteaters, armadillos, and modern tree sloths.(source)
17 In the process of trying to catch serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet police ended up solving more than 1000 unrelated crimes, including 95 murders and 245 rapes.
Andrei Romanov Chikatilo was a prolific serial killer nicknamed Butcher of Rostov. He committed sexual assaults, mutilations, and murders by luring unsuspecting women/girls and boys to secluded spots. His crime spree lasted 12 years and was spread over Russia, Ukraine and Uzbek. He confessed to a total of 56 murders and was tried for 53 of the killings. Major Mikhail Fetisov of Moscow police led the investigation of the murders, as a result of this investigation, various unrelated crimes, including murders and rapes was solved.(source)
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