True Crime Fan Experiences Worst Nightmare When A Stranger Hands Her This Note

Risking It All

“I slumped sideways and started shaking and crying, I closed my eyes and increased the vigor so people would pay attention,” recalled Julie. The convulsions might have put her in hot water as someone who falsely seized, but she would rather have that reputation with these strangers than being robbed. Everyone on the BART train was soon looking at her...

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The More You Know

  • Tarantula bites are about as painful as bee stings.
  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
  • In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.
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