If it weren't for bad luck...

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Los Felis Mansion
The Los Felis mansion is the home of a very gruesome murder. 57 years ago, Dr Harold Perelson went on a murderous rampage, attacking his family before committing suicide. He struck his wife to death with a hammer, severely beat his 18-year-old daughter, and then ended his own life by drinking a glass of acid.
For over 50 years the house has remained untouched. Recently the house went up for sale. With the house up for sale, photographer Alexis Vaughn has managed to capture these creepy images showing the house in same state as when the frenzied attack took place.
The house is still full things belonging to the Perelson family as well as the buric acid bottle that Dr Harold Perelson used to commit suicide after going on his rampage.

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Galileo’s Middle Finger
The finger was removed by one Anton Francesco Gori on March 12, 1737, 95 years after Galileo’s death. It now sits in the Florence History of Science Museum.

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Stabbing His Own Heart
Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann, a German surgical trainee in 1929, is famous for an experiment he performed on himself. Without any direction, he put himself under local anesthetic, incised a hole in his arm and pushed a catheter all the way up his limb and shoved it into his heart. He performed the procedure on himself with two feet of cable after which he walked to the X-ray room. He was fired after this stunt, but was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Medicine for developing a procedure that allowed for cardiac catheterization. (Source)

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