Drunk executive who took a **** on an airline food cart.

Still one of my all time favorite stories.

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

This is definitely worth another post.

I remember reading In Cold Blood as a kid, when it first came out. Chilling stuff. The movie was good too. I had never heard of the Walker murders...sounds like their work.

this article attacks it head-on

http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/trum..._greatest_lie/

Might be basic knowledge for Americans, but I was hungover and read about conspiracy theories on Wiki, Marylin Monroe 's death is legit sicko: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Marilyn_Monroe

Missed it if it was posted before, but... holy ****.

Crazy.

Almost as cool, same phenomenon:

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

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

During World War II, he volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in order to gather intelligence and escape. While in the camp, Pilecki organized a resistance movement and as early as 1941, informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz atrocities. He escaped from the camp in 1943 after nearly 2 and a half years of imprisonment.

This is why I love this thread. Amazing stuff.

Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route

I don't think it was quite like that but on Mt. Hood in Oregon the roads would get like that with a sheer wall of snow at least 20' high.

How do they plow it?

Very carefully.

Not a wiki, but interesting imo. Bees can be trained, which is interesting in and of itself. In another study they trained bees to differentiate between Picasso and Monet (not using color). In another nother experiment they trained bees to count up to four. In this experiment they trained bees to differentiate between symbols being generally above or below each other, but then beyond that, to at least act as if they are aware of the difficulty of a task/assess their likelihood of successfully completing it.

Things like this can make it seem bees are smarter and more thoughtful than previously thought, but they rather make me feel like humans are probably dumber and more automatous than previously thought.

http://www.pnas.org/content/110/47/19155.full

Reading about MH370 a year on and found some very interesting stories I had no idea about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_...S-11_hijacking

North Korea hijacks a South Korean commercial plane and flies to North Korea, holding passengers hostage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

Iranian commercial plane shot down by an American missile cruiser, in Iranian waters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350

Attempted suicide by a pilot found to be suffering from a mental illness.

Betty Lou Oliver

I would have died.

Definitely recognized some of these from this thread.



We can all relate to the mouseover:

At the bottom left: The mystery of why, when I know I needed to be asleep an hour ago, I decide it's a good time to read through every Wikipedia article in the categories 'Out-of-place artifacts', 'Earth mysteries', 'Anomalous weather', and 'List of people who disappeared mysteriously'.

Ha, I was just reading xkcd, obviously thought of this thread, thought 'I've not seen the thread bumped recently', came to 2p2, thread is bumped by xkcd cartoon. The eternal circle is completed

I think the Lead Masks Case is definitely one of the more bizarre things I read itt.

That doesn't seem any weirder than like Heaven's Gate for instance. They were in some ridiculous cult and took cyanide or something and died.

I read an interesting theory a good while back that both men were poisoned by a thief who'd conned them and arranged to meet them at the location in advance, hence their taking of the pills. The lead mask story captivated me, when I first read it as a kid.

There are actual, real-life 'superheroes' in Seattle who wear costume and fight crime as a hobby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Jones

Short 10-minute video on him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5iKjVZbEUI

If nothing else, the animation is hypnotizing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster

A bit of Chinese history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms

My dad worked in an office with a paternoster lift when I was like 8 or something. It scared the hell out of me.

I once rode a Paternoster to the top / go-around and someone put a fake sticker on the wall that you're seeing when between stories, it said "DANGER! You will get crushed!".