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Not really creepy or strange, sorry..

The space shuttle Challenger exploding not long after take off fascinated/horrified me as a kid. Seeing the huge fireball I just presumed the crew were fried in an instant. Thanks to a random YouTube recommendation the other day I now know they survived the blast just fine and spent their last minute or so dropping to earth in their metal box at 200mph and were killed by the impact when the cabin hit the ocean. From about 2 mins 15 in..

 

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Been reading about Stalin's Russian and obviously some horrific things happened under his rule. I had no idea about the Nazino Affair though. Basically, Stalin signed off on a group of around 2000 people who were petty criminals or political prisoners being moved to a 'specialist settlement'.
The idea was that they'd eventually produce habitable land. They were given some flour and sent on their way.
As you can imagine, chaos ensued. Anyone that tried to escape were hunted 'for sport' by guards and due to the widespread hunger, the people eventually turned to cannibalism. One eyewitness survivor recounted this grim tale:
' On the island there was a guard named Kostia Venikov, a young fellow. He fell in love with a girl who had been sent there and was courting her. He protected her. One day he had to be away for a while, and he told one of his comrades, "Take care of her," but with all the people there the comrade couldn't do much really.... People caught the girl, tied her to a poplar tree, cut off her breasts, her muscles, everything they could eat, everything, everything.... They were hungry, they had to eat. When Kostia came back, she was still alive. He tried to save her, but she had lost too much blood. '

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39 minutes ago, MixuFixit said:

This starlings that were all found mysteriously dead were just shit at flying and accidentally hit the ground.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/16/police-answer-mystery-of-hundreds-of-starlings-found-dead-on-road

Mass suicide. Realised they were in Wales.

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1 hour ago, MixuFixit said:

This starlings that were all found mysteriously dead were just shit at flying and accidentally hit the ground.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/16/police-answer-mystery-of-hundreds-of-starlings-found-dead-on-road

Meanwhile there's a sparrowhawk nearby that's eaten so much it's exploded.

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