The Fabled 'Lion-Killing' Apes Of The Congo, Inside The Miracle On The Hudson, And More From All That's Interesting

[All That's Interesting]( The Fabled 'Lion-Killing' Apes Of The Congo, Inside The Miracle On The Hudson, And More From All That's Interesting [A Brazilian Man Dug A 130-Foot Hole In His Kitchen Floor To Search For Gold — Then Fell Into It And Died]( [João Pimenta da Silva had a "prophetic dream" that there was gold buried under the floor of his home in Ipatinga, Brazil, so he spent a year digging a hole in his kitchen — and then plunged 130 feet to his death while trying to climb out of it.]( [The Inspiring Story Of The Miracle On The Hudson — And The Heroism Of Pilot Sully Sullenberger]( ["I thought that was it. As soon as I heard, 'Brace for impact,' and to the point of hitting, I thought, 'That's it, it's over. We're done.'"]( [Do Bondo Apes Exist? Here's The Truth Behind Those Legends Of 'Lion-Killing' Apes]( [While searching for the Bondo ape, researchers came across a number of unusual and compelling clues, including footprints that were considerably larger than a gorilla's and fecal droppings that were about three times larger than a chimp's.]( [Jeff Gillooly, The Violent Ex-Husband Of Tonya Harding Who Tried To End Nancy Kerrigan's Skating Career]( [Jeff Gillooly's role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan was so well-known that his last name became the verb "to gillooly," meaning "to hit someone in the kneecap."]( [The Little-Known History Behind Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have A Dream’ Speech]( ["Don't use the lines about 'I have a dream,'" an advisor told Martin Luther King Jr. the night before his now-iconic 1963 speech. "It's trite, it's cliche. You've used it too many times already." Read the true story behind the civil rights activist's most famous speech — and how it almost didn't happen:]( [​​​​Scientists Find 'Alien' Life Forms Thriving In An Abandoned Uranium Mine In Germany]( [Decades after the mine's closing, its keepers noticed strange life forms beginning to take root on its walls and called in scientists to investigate — and what they found reveals the incredible tenacity of life on Earth.]( [Scientists Just Found The Deepest Fish Ever Discovered — Five Miles Below The Surface]( [These snailfish have gelatinous bodies which help them manage the extreme pressure more than 27,000 feet below the sea and also lack the swim bladders that other fish use to control buoyancy, which helps them to swim to great depths. Once there, the suction-feeding snailfish can feast on the small crustaceans that live in deep ocean trenches.]( [Coal Miners In North Dakota Just Stumbled Upon A 7-Foot Mammoth Tusk In Incredible Condition]( [A team of miners found the tusk 40 feet below the surface in an old stream bed at North Dakota's Freedom Mine, which produces millions of tons of coal each year.]( [Meet Woof, The Pug Who Just Hiked All 48 Of New Hampshire's 4,000+ Foot Mountains]( ["I can't tell you how many times I've heard, 'If the pug can do it, I can do it.' [It has] been really fun to watch him really turn into a little hiker."]( [Researchers Just Stumbled Upon The Bones Of A Giant Jurassic Sea Monster In The Drawers Of A British Museum]( [This enormous creature had a short neck, four strong flippers to propel itself through the water, and a massive crocodile-like skull "with huge protruding teeth like daggers — as big, if not bigger than a T. rex, and certainly more powerful."]( [Unsubscribe]( [Update Subscription]( [All That's Interesting On Instagram]( [All That's Interesting On Facebook](