Foreign enlistment in the American Civil War

"One-quarter to a third of the Union Army was foreign-born, or 543,000–625,000 out of 2 million troops; an additional 18% had at least one parent born abroad, meaning close to

half the Northern army had some foreign origin.

By contrast, only several thousand foreigners served with the Confederacy, comprising just 5% of its armed forces. The significant manpower advantage to Union forces proved decisive to its victory, with some historians claiming the North would otherwise not have prevailed." (source)

Boa constrictor giving live birth

"Red Army soldiers don't believe in 'individual liaisons' with German women," wrote the playwright Zakhar Agranenko in his diary when serving as an officer of marine infantry in East Prussia. "Nine, ten, twelve men at a time - they rape them on a collective basis."

In this map it can be seen that eastern Germany's DNR was effected the most by the actions of Russian soldiers

Women sitting in a gathering held by the Taliban

In Ancient Greece, prostitutes wore special sandals that printed a message in the ground reading, “follow me” to advertise their services"

Solar-powered lasers are installed in the Saudi desert to help guide the lost to water sources

A Colt 38 revolver from 1938 that automatically takes a photo each time the guns trigger is pulled

Extraordinary video of the inflight mating of a queen bee. The ejaculation of a drone bee is so powerful that his endophallus ruptures and he quickly dies