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Swiss astrologer Karl Ernst Krafft was arrested when it was discovered that he had made a prediction about Adolf Hi**er that had come true. Using the stars, he predicted that at some point over three days in November 1939, the N**i leader's life would be in danger. On the second day, a bomb meant for Hi**er exploded in a Munich beer hall where he had just been speaking.

"We don't really know who first came up with the idea for looking at things in nature and divining influences on humans," NASA astronomer Sten Odenwald told Time. "There's some indication that cave art shows this idea that animals and things can be imbued with some kind of spirit form that then has an influence on you, and if you appease that spirit form, then you will have a successful hunt. That was taken over by the idea of divination, where you can actually look at things in natu

While it's become incredibly common and is not considered as serious a sin now, one prominent Catholic, mathematician Aquila Ponticus, was excommunicated from the church in 120 A.D. for practicing astrology. Some Catholic popes in the Middle Ages even officially denounced astrology to discourage the faithful from even looking into it.

The Earth wobbles on its axis in a phenomenon called "precession," which means that the sun is "in" the constellations of the Zodiac at slightly different times than the widely accepted astrological calendar that was decided so long ago. If you want to check to see what your actual sign is with the movement of the Earth taken into account, check this Space article.

Data analysis by Vocativ (via Yahoo! News) found that more world leaders are Scorpios than any other sign, with 22 powerful representatives. Scorpios are known for their independence and ambition, which may assist them in climbing the ladder.

Specifically: Cape Farewell, Greenland, is the windiest place on the planet. According to a researcher who led an expedition there in 2007, the winds are so strong that that flying over the region is "stomach-churning." According to satellite data, winds reach 44.7 mph 16 percent of the year and 29 percent of the winter. It is believed that these strong winds carried Viking explorers from Iceland and Greenland to North America, making them the first Europeans to discover the continent.

The United States has more tornadoes than any other country. Oh, and they're also stronger and more violent in America than anywhere else. The majority form in an area known as Tornado Alley, which includes Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, North Dakota, and Minnesota.

Landslides occur when masses of rock, earth, or debris move down a slope, and mudslides are a common type of landslide which moves at a very rapid pace. Mudslides usually start on steep slopes and can be activated by natural disasters, including wildfires or after heavy rains. In the United States, landslides, and mudslides result in 25 to 50 deaths each year, and can carry rocks, trees, vehicles, and even entire buildings.

The coldest temperature ever reported was in Antarctica on August 20, 2010. The temperature fell to -135.8°F, or -94.7°C. That's almost 10 degrees colder than the previous record. As the temperature was captured by satellite, not thermostat, it wasn't able to be included in the Guinness Book of World Records. According to an ice scientist who reported the temp, he said that it was more fitting for Mars than for one of Earth's poles

A heatwave hit northern California's wine country in September 2017, during Labor Day Weekend, and straight-up turned grapes into raisins. As temperatures hit up to 109° Fahrenheit, the scorching heat evaporated water from the berries and shut down the vines' entire metabolic process. It was estimated that wine vineyards lost up to 50 percent of their crop due to the unprecedented heat. Though September heat waves are not uncommon in California wine regions, for one to come that early in the month is highly unusual, and negatively affected several vineyards.

From July 25 through September 23, 2001, red-colored rain fell down on Kerala, India, and it baffled the entire world. A few days before the blood rain started, people reported a sudden flash of light and booming sound in the sky. People also said that trees shredded shrunken and wrinkled burnt leaves. After scientists studied this phenomenon, it was determined that there were red particles found in the rain, which were actually spores from lichen-forming alga

The Iran Blizzard of 1972 is known as the deadliest blizzard in history. The storm lasted a full week from, February 3rd to 9th, and resulted in the deaths of approximately 4,000 people. Southern Iran received as much as 26 feet of snow, and about 200 villages were completely buried and wiped off the map, which resulted in no survivors in the outlying areas of the country which were hit the hardest