This man paid $145,000 in rent for an apartment he didn't live in just to freeze time and catch his wife's killer.

In 1999, Satoru Takaba's wife, Namiko, had her life taken in their apartment.

The police had no solid leads, and the case went cold.

Usually, families move out and try to forget. But Satoru refused.

He believed that one day, technology would catch up to the killer.

So, he kept the lease.

For 26 years, he paid the rent every single month on that empty, silent apartment.

He kept the bloodstains on the floor. He kept the footprints. He turned the room into a time capsule, waiting for science to improve.

And in late 2025, his investment finally paid off.

Police returned to the apartment and used modern DNA technology to analyze the preserved bloodstains that had been sitting there for two decades.

They found a match.

The DNA belong to Kumiko Yasufuku, Satoru’s own high school classmate.

It turns out, she had held a grudge for decades because Satoru had rejected her romantic advances back in school.

The Dark Forest Theory suggests that the universe might be silent for a terrifying reason.

Imagine the universe as a dark forest where every civilization is a hidden hunter. No one knows who is friendly and who is dangerous.

If you make noise, something stronger might hear you. If you discover another civilization, you can't know whether it comes in peace or poses a future threat and revealing your location could mean destruction.

So the safest choice is silence.

Maybe we haven't found aliens not because they don't exist but because everyone is hiding

I thought fish had bad memory.

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The largest seed in the plant kingdom comes from the coco de mer palm. Often referred to as the "love nut", or "double coconut", its peculiar bodily shape has inspired legends and a rich mythology, involving walking trees, death, and aphrodisiac properties.

My Great Pyrenees, Winry, managed to break her lower canine on her kennel. She had to have surgery to remove this thing. Everything below the small smooth part at the top was in her gums and jaw.