Police Identify The 'Boy In The Box' After 65 Years, The Surprising History Of The Christmas Tree, And More Popular Stories From ATI

Since being discovered in 1957, the "Boy In The Box" case baffled Philadelphia police. But now, the four-year-old victim has been revealed. [All That's Interesting]( [Police Finally Identify The Victim Of The Chilling 'Boy In The Box' Murder After 65 Years]( [The "Boy In The Box" was found dead in a cardboard box in Philadelphia on February 25, 1957. Over six decades later, his identity was finally uncovered.]( [The World's Largest Freestanding Cylindrical Aquarium Just Burst And Spilled 1,500 Fish Into Berlin's Streets]( [The 46-foot-high aquarium burst in the lobby of a Radisson hotel, unleashing a flood of water that injured at least two people and caused roughly 1,500 exotic fish to spill out onto the street.]( [How Irene Gut Opdyke Hid 12 Jews During The Holocaust — Right Inside The Home Of A Nazi Officer]( [Irene Gut Opdyke risked her life to save her Jewish friends during World War II.]( [Two Calves Just Ran Away From A Live Nativity Scene In North Carolina, Leading Police On A 16-Hour Search]( [It's unclear how the cows managed to escape their enclosure as their pen was locked and undamaged, with no holes or openings large enough for the cows to slip through.]( [The Disturbing Story Of Dennis DePue And The Brutal Murder That Inspired 'Jeepers Creepers']( [In April 1990, Ray and Marie Thornton were out for a casual Sunday drive along a rural highway in southern Michigan when a van suddenly sped past them erratically. Moments later, they saw that same van parked next to an abandoned schoolhouse — and the driver lugging what looked like a bundle of bloody sheets.]( [New Study Suggests Early Hominins Learned To Walk In Treetops — Not On Land]( [This questions the widespread belief that early humans evolved to walk on land after leaving the trees.]( [Former New York Police Officer Found Guilty Of Murder After Freezing His 8-Year-Old Autistic Son To Death]( [When 8-year-old Thomas Valva was brought to the hospital in January 2020, his body temperature was 76 degrees — 20 below normal.]( [Archaeologists Just Unearthed A Medieval Knight With A Deliberately Elongated Skull Underneath Notre Dame]( [Experts say "Le Cavalier" likely had a cloth band tied tightly around his head for the first three months of his life, elongating his skull to identify him as a member of a powerful family in 14th-century France.]( [The Unbelievable Story Of Laura Bullion, The Train-Robbing 'Thorny Rose' Of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch]( [Laura Bullion helped the Wild Bunch fence stolen goods, forge signatures, and gather supplies, but she also proved to be a master of disguise during the gang's robberies — and sometimes even dressed as a man to keep her true identity a secret.]( [Every Single Monk At A Buddhist Temple In Thailand Was Just Defrocked After Testing Positive For Meth]( [Thailand is currently undergoing a national campaign to fight drug trafficking, as cheap meth is pouring into the country from Laos and Myanmar and selling on the street for less than 75 cents per pill.]( [Archaeologists In Israel Just Unearthed A 2,200-Year-Old Greek Bullet Inscribed With A Message To Scare The Enemy]( [Experts say the bullet's inscriptions referencing victory and the names of two gods functioned as a kind of "psychological warfare."]( [An 'Extinct' Translucent Clam From 30,000 Years Ago Was Just Found Alive In California]( [The elusive mollusk was only 10 millimeters long and matched fossils of a species thought to have gone extinct 28,000 to 36,000 years ago.]( [The Surprising History Of The Christmas Tree, From The Vikings To The Victorians To The Present]( [For centuries, Christmas trees were seen as too pagan for Christian households. The General Court of Massachusetts even banned them in 1659, fining anyone who celebrated Christmas in any way other than attending church services. It wasn't until the second half of the 19th century that Christmas trees became widely accepted and popular in American households.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Update Subscription]( [All That's Interesting On Instagram]( [All That's Interesting On Facebook](