True Crime
In 2014, two Wisconsin teenagers attempted to murder their friend to appease a fictional character.
The Slender Man stabbing
This poet wrote "Hope is the Thing with Feathers."
Emily Dickinson
St. Peter's Basilica can be found here.
Vatican City
A traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live insect larvae.
Casu Marzu
This part of the brain is responsible for memory, attention, perceptual awareness, "thinking", language, and consciousness.
Cerebral cortex
This ancient man, who bled to death and later froze, was said to have been murdered based on evidence of an arrowhead to the shoulder.
Ötzi (also known as the Iceman)
This Italian scholar wrote many sonnets based off of his adoration for a woman named Laura.
Francesco Petrarca
This city is located in both Asia and Europe.
Istanbul
This country is known as "the land of no rivers."
Saudi Arabia
Tail bone
A German radiology technologist who became obsessed with one of his patients and later went on to keep her corpse even after she had passed.
Carl Tanzler (also known as Count Carl von Cosel)
An American poet who is often referred to as the "father of free verse."
Walt Whitman
This many timezones are in Canada.
This country is the largest producer of oxygen.
Siberia
The human heart beats this many times per day.
100,000
Known as America's first male serial killer.
H. H. Holmes
The first African American (woman and poet) to receive a Pulitzer Prize.
Gwendolyn Brooks
This amount of countries border Russia.
Fourteen
In this country, it has become normal for citizens to socialize and hang out in cemeteries.
Denmark
Blood makes up this percent of your body weight.
An American woman who wanted to "have killed more people—helpless people—than any other man or woman who ever lived."
Jane Toppan
Best known for "The Wasteland."
T. S. Eliot
The world's busiest airport is located in this city in America.
Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
The name of a festival in Japan that is all about death.
Try-Before-You-Die Festival (Shukatsu Festa)
The average human brain weighs this much.
Three pounds