Man-Eating Bunyip Monster, Girl Lived in Tree for 738 Days, Freeze Your Dead Body

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5. This bird brain was busted smuggling dozens of birds through JFK International Airport. But would you believe this has happened more than once?

4. Imagine being so attached to someone that you couldn’t take a break from their thoughts. Would you enjoy it, or would it be too much?  For one set of conjoined twins, this was their everyday life.

3. Do you have $220,000 to spare? If you do, you can get your body frozen in the hopes that one day in the distant future, we’ll have the means to revive people’s dead bodies. Welcome to the future.

2. If you believed in a cause and wanted to do something about it, how far would you go? Julia “Butterfly” Hill went above and beyond, quite literally, as she sat in a tree in California’s redwood forest … for 738 days.

1. Ever heard of the Bunyip monster? According to Australian aboriginal folklore, the bunyip waits in waterways for passing livestock to devour—and sometimes will feast on women and children, as well. Find out when the first sighting was, what this thing looks like, and why the aboriginals feared it so much.