Terminally ill 23-year-old man dies after Reddit-backed around-the-world trip

Today we learned that Jake Villanueva, the 23-year-old who posted about his terminal cancer on Reddit last summer and was rewarded with $30,000 in donations to travel around the world, has died. Back in June 2012, 23-year-old Jake Villanueva of Vancouver took to Reddit to do an AMA (ask me anything) on his condition and…

Prychodzko was looking through his telescope when he noticed a large, glowing object in the sky, a “planet” he presumed, with something orbiting around it. He held his iPhone to the telescope viewer and shot a few seconds of video. Prychodzko thought the phenomena was unusual so he contacted his nephew on the phone. When…

Two American pilots sent to intercept a mysterious plane. As they approached the plane they radioed back to the ground to report that the aircraft was a P-40 and bore markings that had not been used since the attack on Pearl Harbor.

A letter, written in 1918, days before the end of the War, was sent by a soldier to his 9 year-old nephew. The soldier never returned home but 63 years later, the letter mysteriously found its way home.

The famed Indian rope trick – a myth, a product of mass hypnosis, or was it really magic? The trick, involving a coil of rope extended skyward, has yet to be duplicated by modern day magicians despite centuries of exhaustive study by scholars and expert magicians.

In 1587, a colony of 118 men, women, and children became one of the earliest attempts to colonize the new world – America. Traveling from Britain to Roanoke Island, near Chesapeake Bay on North Carolina’s coast, they were the first true attempt at colonization of the New World. Not long after settling, they became one…

Here’s a collection of rare iconic pictures of famous people you never would have thought you’d see together.

Is it weird that this makes me hungry? For his ongoing celebrity portrait series, San Francisco-based artist Jason Mecie has created a portrait of Kevin Bacon (Footloose, Apollo 13, Stir of Echoes, etc.) made out of bacon. Yeah, I know – who would have ever thought you’d feel compelled to eat Kevin Bacon’s face…

Is this a hoax or did the guy who hung the Christmas lights for the city of Brighton in the U.K. find a creative way to vent his frustrations with his job. In the video below, you’ll see that certain “hidden” pictures and word phrases become visible when the lights are viewed from a certain…

Decay, a newly released movie filmed by Luke Thompson, a University of Manchester physics Ph.D. student and first-time filmmaker, was shot on location at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. It’s a low-budget “B-horror” film but the dark corridors at LHC give it a pretty eerie vibe and make it a pretty interesting watch. Set at the…