Sometimes, brilliant scientists toil away in their laboratories for decades without ever achieving their goals. Other times, they accidentally leave their petri dishes out while on vacation and the resulting mold just so happens to be penicillin. Here are four other accidents that changed the world forever.
With roads turned into rivers and parking lots turned into ponds, Houston's massive flooding has thrown the city into chaos. These cataclysmic photos survey the wreckage while experts warn that, if infrastructural changes aren't made, this could soon happen all over again.
If a tiger is bearing down on you, then the moment before your death will look like just that. But if you're taking a selfie onboard a plane just before it starts to crash, your last moments will look thoroughly, heartbreakingly mundane. Some saw it coming and some didn't, but everyone here perished just after these photos were taken.
You expect the hottest inhabited place on earth to be a desert. You don't necessarily expect there to be a volcano. And you almost certainly don't expect vivid veins of yellow and white with pools of blue and green to mark the terrain. Find out which of Earth's hotspots ranks first, and the story behind those strange colors.
Oppressive taxation, seizure of your bank account, agonizing mock execution, public lashing, kidnapping and slavery, if you're lucky. Shooting, stabbing, stoning, beheading and live burial, if you're not. The complicated past and sinister present of life under ISIS.
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