The Giant Who Stood Almost 8 Feet Tall, The African Slave Who Became A Samurai, And More From All That's Interesting

This little-known 19th century giant once carried a full-grown horse over a four-foot fence. [2ZZSXQM.png]( The Giant Who Stood Almost 8 Feet Tall, The African Slave Who Became A Samurai, And More From All That's Interesting This little-known 19th century giant once carried a full-grown horse over a four-foot fence and even lifted a 2,800-pound ship anchor to chest height. [29 Photos From The Monterey Pop Festival That Announced The Hippie Movement To The World]( [Experience the "Summer of Love" in full bloom.]( [The Boy In The Box — Inside The Creepy Unsolved Mystery]( [Though several theories have emerged over the years, the mystery of the boy in the box has been unsolved for over 50 years.]( [This Rare Star Explosion Puts Most Supernovae To Shame — And NASA Captured It]( [See the wild explosion of a unique kind of dying star.]( [How Otto Skorzeny Went From Hitler's Favorite Commando To An Israeli Hitman]( [From rescuing Mussolini for Hitler to becoming a hitman for Mossad, Otto Skorzeny's life was complex and full of twists.]( [Before Andre The Giant, There Was Angus MacAskill]( [Standing at almost 8 feet tall, Angus MacAskill was the world's first renowned giant.]( [The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Now Three Times The Size Of France]( [The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now 16 times larger than previously expected, making it roughly three times the size of France.]( [How "White Death" Simo Hayha Became The Deadliest Sniper In History]( [Simo Hayha hid in snowbanks, and held snow in his mouth to conceal his position, in order to get the most confirmed kills any sniper has ever gotten.]( [33 Haunting Images Of Hiroshima In The Immediate Aftermath Of The Atomic Bombing]( [The full weight of the tragedy, brought to life.]( [Meet The Tardigrade — The Universe's Most Resilient Animal]( [They can reduce their metabolism by about 99.99 percent so that food becomes unnecessary. In this state, they could survive for 100 years.]( [Yasuke: The African Slave Who Rose To Become History's First Black Samurai]( [Japan was not ready for Yasuke.]( [Mary Bowser: The Former Slave Who Helped Bring Down The Confederacy]( [Experience one of American history's greatest revenge stories.]( [The Forgotten Black Cowboys Of The Wild West]( [Though in many ways Hollywood has whitewashed the Wild West, some of the first settlers were freed slaves who traveled west and became the black cowboys of the American frontier.]( [The Cult Of Rajneesh And The Largest Act Of Bioterrorism In U.S. History]( [They created a deadly toxin that they called "salsa" and used it to perpetrate the largest bioterror attack that the U.S. had ever seen.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Update Subscription]( [All That Is Interesting On Pinterest]( [All That Is Interesting On Twitter]( [All That Is Interesting On Instagram]( [All That's Interesting On Facebook](