Jan 7 In the 1980s, a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
Jan 7 In 2011-2012, the photographer Alejandro Cartagena (Mexico) waited on a bridge every morning to capture Mexican carpoolers on their way to work.
Jan 7 TIL in 1978, a researcher played a deceased elephant’s calls from a hidden speaker. Her family responded by frantically searching and calling out for her, with the daughter continuing for days. Moved by their grief, the researcher decided never to repeat the experiment.
Jan 7 Picture of Naima Jamal, an Ethiopian woman currently being held and auctioned as a slave in Libya
