Heinz Hitler, Adolf Hitler's nephew who fought on the eastern front, was captured by the soviets and (not surprisingly) tortured to death

William Patrick Hitler, Adolf Hitler's nephew who fought against Germany during WWII


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_a...Hill_abduction

not sure if posted, more human experimentation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_M...xperimentation

Tons of great articles, I'm a complete Wikipedia addict and there were obviously tons of good ones here.

I had actually heard of alot of them and even visited some of the pages before.

A few trends I've noticed in this thread.

1. Alot of interesting stuff seemed to happen in the 1980. Is this just a product of the average age of people on the forums?

2. Alot of interesting stuff happend in Russia. I think this is a product of us just not being as familiar with their history/lore as we are our own.

My contribution:

The 1812 New Madrid, Missouri earthquakes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1812_New_Madrid_earthquake

A super powerful series of earthquakes over a 4 month period spanning 1811-1812. Very unusual as these were intraplate earthquakes and created a series of really bizarre phenomenon: fissuring and ejections from the ground, strange glowing from gases being released, and weirdest of all it caused the Mississippi river to flow the wrong direction for a period of time.

A+++++++++++++++++ thread

One of my all time favorites;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

Did he sign it, ''I'd cut off my dick to get a date with you. Love, Marshall Applewhite'' ?

so insane how many times hanssen should have been found out but then wasnt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_botnet

So cool but scary at the same time. If our enemies had the money they could pay these people to start some serious attacks against our country. I'd feel uber powerful if I was in control.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks

Beat an esteemed senator to near death on the Senate floor:

"Two days after the speech, on the afternoon of May 22, Brooks confronted Sumner as he sat writing at his desk in the almost empty Senate chamber. Brooks was accompanied by Keitt and Henry A. Edmundson of Virginia. Brooks said, "Mr. Sumner, I have read your speech twice over carefully. It is a libel on South Carolina, and Mr. Butler, who is a relative of mine." As Sumner began to stand up, Brooks began beating Sumner with his thick gutta-percha cane with a gold head. Sumner was trapped under the heavy desk (which was bolted to the floor), but Brooks continued to bash Sumner until he ripped the desk from the floor. By this time, Sumner was blinded by his own blood, and he staggered up the aisle and collapsed, lapsing into unconsciousness. Brooks continued to beat Sumner until he broke his cane, then quietly left the chamber. Several other senators attempted to help Sumner, but were blocked by Keitt who was brandishing a pistol and shouting "Let them be!""

Also, here's another cool one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Crater. Cliffnotes: Union forces own Confederates by building huge explosive mine underneath Petersburg, blow it up, then own themselves by not sending in black troops who were trained for the aftermath, troops sent in immediately run into the crater and get picked off by Confederate troops left above.

Finally, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_boats. This has been posted on 2p2 before but surely some have missed it.

Prion diseases really suck:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Dann

The Chicago Tylenol Murders

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders

In 1982 some nut in Chicago went around poisining bottle of Tylenol and killed 7 people and caused nation wide hysteria and recalls and stuff. This case is pretty much the reason we have all those protective tamper indicator seals on drugs and alot of other things now.

The perpetrators were never caught.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Screwjob

BRET SCREWED BRET!

along the same vein as Unit 731, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele

Plz read the thread before posting "new" links, a lot of these have already been posted itt multiple times

I was born in 1975 and this is the earliest memory I have of a major news story. I remember my mom opening medicine and spending like 10 mins. trying to pull all this cotton out of a jar getting more and more angry by the second, lol. They used to stuff the bottles with cotton, it was so hard to get out.

LOL. You realize that if you do that, it would take 3 days to get through the thread?

If you are too lazy to read the thread, don't post in it.

Yeah yeah don't **** up my thread bro

That has nothing to do with it. There's 500 links in the thread. Is someone supposed to click on every link and read them to make sure they don't post an older one?

Anyway, here's a good link on Hurricane Andrew. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_andrew

Slight overexaggeration, but okay.

Regardless, looking at your post it is pretty obvious I don't have to click on your link in order to make sure I don't repost. These wikipedia pages tend to have these nice things called "names" in the web address.