The Unbelievable Story Of The Oldest Woman To Ever Live, The Real-Life Scam Artist Who Inspired "The Wolf Of Wall Street," And More

Explore this week's most popular stories on All That's Interesting. [Archaeologists In Germany Just Unearthed A Roman Fort Built To Keep Out Barbarians 1,700 Years Ago]( [For 140 years, rumors circulated that a magnificent Roman fort once stood in the city of Aachen. Now, residents finally have confirmation that the rumors are true.]( [Inside The Astonishing Theory That 1 In 200 Men Today Are Directly Descended From Genghis Khan]( [The infamous conqueror is believed to have impregnated hundreds of women in his lifetime — and researchers believe as many as 16 million people may be descended from Genghis Khan today.]( [The Oldest Person To Ever Live Reached 122 — And Regularly Enjoyed Red Meat, Chocolate, Wine, And Cigarettes]( [Reported to have lived 122 years and 164 days, Jeanne Calment was allegedly the longest-living human of all time — despite heavy consumption of chocolate, cigarettes, and red wine.]( [A 60-Year-Old Ohio Cold Case Has Finally Been Solved, Thanks To A Key Eyewitness' Deathbed Confession]( [In June 1964, an Ohio fisherman pulled a severed human arm out of a gravel pit. In the following days, more dismembered remains appeared in waterways in the surrounding area. And while police identified the parts as belonging to 43-year-old Daisy Shelton, they were unable to identify her killer — until now.]( [Workers Restoring Dunes In A Belgian Park Just Unearthed Three Concrete Bunkers From WWII]( [The bunkers were uncovered in Willemspark in Knokke, Belgium when workers removing invasive plants from the sand during a dune restoration project struck concrete just inches beneath the ground's surface.]( [The Only Surviving Example Of A Traditional Māori Parrot Feather Cloak Has Just Been Restored]( [Over 100 hours of work went into restoring the only known complete Māori kahu kākāpō, a traditional cloak made from the feathers of a rare flightless parrot native to New Zealand.]( [The Shocking Story Of Danny Porush And The Multi-Million Dollar Stock Fraud Scheme That Inspired 'The Wolf Of Wall Street']( [After dropping out of college, Danny Porush floated between jobs, working for a variety of small businesses until he met Jordan Belfort. When he learned how much money Belfort was making selling stocks out of a boiler room, he agreed to partner with him — even after Belfort admitted the business was "half a scam."]( [Quetzalcoatl, The Aztecs' Feathered Serpent God Credited With Creating Humankind]( [The plumed snake god of wind, knowledge, and agriculture in ancient Mesoamerican lore, Quetzalcoatl was one of the most important deities in the Aztec pantheon.]( [The Legend Of Rat Kings, The Tangled Balls Of Rodents From Your Nightmares]( [A rat king forms when the tails of many rodents become tangled together, creating a disturbing creature that moves as one swarming mass of terror.]( [Jared Fogle, The Former Subway Spokesman Who Turned Out To Be A Child Predator]( [His seemingly inspiring weight loss story was masking a dark secret.]( [James Maybrick, The 19th-Century Cotton Merchant Who Became One Of The Leading Jack The Ripper Suspects]( [James Maybrick became one of the leading Jack the Ripper suspects when a diary that allegedly belonged to him contained details only the killer would know.]( [Archaeologists In Germany Just Unearthed A Burial Staged To Look Like A Man Driving A Chariot Pulled By Cattle]( [In 2023, archaeologists in Magdeburg, Germany, discovered a 6,000-year-old "complex Neolithic burial landscape" containing multiple burials.]( [The Unsolved Murder Of Lindsay Buziak, The Real Estate Agent Who Was Stabbed To Death During A Property Viewing]( [On February 1, 2008, 24-year-old Lindsay Buziak got a call from a woman with a heavy accent requesting to view a $1 million home near Victoria, British Columbia. Though Buziak thought it was odd that she'd been singled out for such a big sale so early in her career, she agreed to meet the woman and her husband. It was the last thing she ever did.]( [The History Of The Codex Gigas, The 13th-Century 'Devil's Bible' Complete With An Eerie Drawing Of Satan]( [The Codex Gigas is the largest medieval manuscript in history, but it's not just the size of the book that makes it remarkable.]( [Listen To The History Uncovered Podcast]( [On October 14, 1912, Teddy Roosevelt — running for an unprecedented third term — set out to give a speech at the Milwaukee Auditorium in Wisconsin. En route, he crossed paths with a saloon owner named John Schrank, who was convinced that Roosevelt had assassinated President William McKinley in 1901. And so Schrank waited with the crowd and fired at Roosevelt with a Colt revolver.]( [Become An All That's Interesting Member]( [For just $4.99 a month, you'll enjoy all our content without ads, receive a quarterly letter from the editor, and get exclusive access to premium podcast episodes.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Web Version]( [All That's Interesting On Instagram]( [All That's Interesting On Facebook](