This is bizarre: a man confessed and was executed for throwing a bomb through a bakery window. The bakery had no windows!

This is bizarre: a man confessed and was executed for throwing a bomb through a bakery window. The bakery had no windows!

A Confessing Sam is a term used in criminal psychology for a person that falsely confesses that they did a particular crime that has been highly publicized.

In other words, they are a liar who just wants a little bit of love and attention. Often, Confessing Sam's will maintain the fact that they are guilty, even when police rule them out as suspects.

One of the first instances of a Confessing Sam was Robert Hubert who claimed that he started the Great Fire of London of 1666.

Hubert claimed that he tossed a fire bomb into a bakery window, which started the fire that destroyed 80 percent of the city.

However, Hubert had a crippling condition that limited his physical ability and he was unable to throw any object, big or small.

Furthermore he was a sailor and wasn't even in London until at least two days after the fire started. If that isn't enough evidence against him, the bakery he claimed to throw a fire bomb through - didn't even have windows.

Despite the blatantly obvious fact that Hubert was innocent, he was found guilty in a court of law and sentenced to death.

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Liquid Water Beneath Greenland May Swell Sea Levels

The discovery of an aquifer the size of Ireland is likely to cause major changes in understanding Greenland's role in rising sea levels.



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Only Read This Post If You're On Your Phone

Close one eye and tilt your phone so you’re looking from the charger hole. Whooaaaaaaaaa.

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Ancient Spider Rock Art Sparks Archaeological Mystery

The ancients didn't just draw bison and mammoths: they drew spiders in webs, too.



via Discovery News http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-spider-rock-art-sparks-archaeological-mystery-131222.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Spacesuit Issue Delays Next Spacewalk Until Christmas Eve

The spacesuit issue is apparently a minor one and not dangerous.



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This Is How A Woman's Offensive Tweet Became The World's Top Story

The anatomy of the twitter-storm that cost media PR pro Justine Sacco her job.

At 10:19 a.m EST. Friday, Justine Sacco, a PR director at InterActiveCorp (IAC), posted this tweet shortly before an 11 hour flight from London to Cape Town, South Africa.

She only had about 200 followers, but someone emailed it to Valleywag editor Sam Biddle, who told BuzzFeed. He published a brief item about three hours after it was sent.

Via valleywag.gawker.com

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How would you feel if you couldn't fall asleep at all? This poor guy had to go through that.

How would you feel if you couldn't fall asleep at all? This poor guy had to go through that.

Paul Kern was a Hungarian soldier that fought in World War 1. He was an excellent solider and was awarded medals for fighting even when the last member of his squad was killed.

Despite his excellence, he too fell victim to a gunshot wound that should have been fatal. Paul Kern was shot in the temple, and had part of his brain destroyed.

That's right, a large chunk of Paul's frontal lobe was destroyed, which should have killed any human being. It didn't kill him. In fact, the only thing that changed in Paul's life that he was physically unable to fall asleep.

Doctors studied him and just didn't understand the fact that he was alive and the only problem with him is that he couldn't fall asleep.

Sedatives and sleeping pills couldn't even make Paul fall asleep. It may sound awful, but Paul didn't suffer. Part of his nervous system was also destroyed.

As a result, he became immune to his own exhaustion and insisted that he felt perfectly fine! He stayed awake until his death in 1955.

...and you thought you were a champ for staying awake all night during finals week.

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