But here are ten types of jewelry that even the most trend-conscious over-accessorizer might have some second thoughts about. 10 Human Hair When my own grandmother passed away, we were tidying her belongings, and I came across a finely woven necklace. Apparently, it’s called “micro macrame” (yes, that’s a thing!). It was incredible and very intricate, a complicated and incredibly ornate combination of swirls, twists, and knots. It clearly took some artisan with better eyesight than mine a great number of hours to create....

There are lots of unbelievable facts about the wall. Like that time the Chinese government wanted to turn it into a highway. People also claimed that it was visible from space 200 years before the first human traveled into space. 10 The Chinese Government Once Considered Converting The Wall Into A Highway The Chinese government once wanted to turn the wall into a highway. This was revealed in the February 1931 edition of the Modern Mechanix science magazine....

10The Liver Jar When an uncle died, a family that wishes to remain anonymous inherited a lump of stone. For the next 20 years, the terracotta pot did garden duty as an ornament, occasionally forgotten in the shed. One day, somebody realized the capsule-shaped rock had a rather Egyptian face. Removing the Pharaoh-resembling relic from its perch on a Dorset patio, it was taken for evaluation. Surprisingly, what the family thought was just a decorative ornament, turned out to be a 3,000-year-old artifact from ancient Egypt....

10Taarof Taarof is the Iranian practice of performing a gesture of respect and deference, although it is generally understood that such a gesture should be refused. For example, in some establishments, it is considered polite for the shopkeeper to refuse payment from a customer of a higher social rank. The customer understands, however, that the proper response is to insist upon paying. The shopkeeper may refuse payment several times before allowing the customer to convince him to accept....

The ones on this list were, at one time or another, used for unusual and sometimes bizarre things that go beyond simple exploration. So let’s go deep and discover all the possibilities you can choose from the next time you find yourself in a cave. 10 Dancing, Cockfights, and Moonshining The Lost Sea, the largest underground body of water in the United States, is near Sweetwater, Tennessee, in Craighead Caverns, but this feature is not the only one that the caverns offered in times past....

The first edition of The Guinness Book of Records was published in Great Britain on August 27, 1955. Just four years before its publishing, Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, conceived the idea for the record book while on a hunting trip in Ireland. Beaver and his hunting companions entered a debate about the plover. They wondered if it was Europe’s fastest game bird after a failed attempt to shoot one....

Chrysippus was a Greek stoic philosopher. He spent his life thinking about the world and how it works. During his lifetime, he devised various theories on topics such as ethics, mathematics, physics, epistemology and religion. His favorite topic of thought was, without a doubt, logic. He made it onto this list because of the humorous way that he died. He fed a donkey some wine and watched it eat figs from a tree....

This week, we are exploring a few delayed Christmas miracles: a remarkable escape, a few generous St. Nicks, and a standoff that ends with a song. Also, 2019 will be a historic year for space exploration if the current rate keeps going. 10 New Horizons Phones Home New Horizons communicated with NASA to confirm that it performed a successful flyby of Ultima Thule, the most distant space object that humanity has ever explored....

If China gets their way, we’re going to see our world completely change—possibly even within our lifetimes. America’s influence will wane, and for the first time in history, the world’s greatest power will be the People’s Republic of China. We don’t have to speculate about what that world’s going to be like. China has made it clear how they want to reshape the world in their image and what a world would look like with the People’s Republic of China in charge....

These telescopes allows us to decipher wavelengths that are longer than optical light, revealing light (or colors) that we can’t see with our own eyes. But ALMA, which means “soul,” is also a time machine. It looks into the past to verify scientific theories of how the universe formed over 13 billion years ago. It also propels us into the future as we search for new worlds and for the alien life that inhabits them....

Whatever their intentions, this list proves that many businessmen and corporations wouldn’t hesitate to trademark actual people if they got the opportunity. It is an interesting read. 10 SEAL Team Six On May 2, 2011, operators from the US Navy’s SEAL Team Six raided compound in Pakistan, killing Osama bin Laden. Two days later, Disney applied for a trademark on the SEAL Team Six name. Disney planned to use the name for a TV show it planned to make about the US Navy SEALs....

The finds are often surprising and coincidental because nobody would expect to find such items in the statues. But as we are about to find out, the items are often deliberately hidden inside. 10 Two Letters Were Found In The Buttocks Of A Statue Of Jesus A few years ago, two letters were found hidden inside the buttocks of a 240-year-old statue of Jesus in St. Agueda, Spain. After a preservationist made the discovery, the team removed a part of the sculpture to reveal two notes inside the buttocks....

10Tom Bombadil Was The Witch-King Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, but many people find his inclusion in the books perplexing, while others find his exclusion from the films rage-inspiring. However, most people would say that Bombadil is without a doubt amoral at the very most, and certainly not evil. He saves the hobbits from Old Man Willow, puts them up in his home, and later saves them from the Barrow Wights as well....

10Lydia AngiyouBear Wrestler Lydia Angiyou stands 155 centimeters (5’1”) and weighs about 40 kilograms (90 lb). She isn’t exactly what you’d call “intimidating,” but appearances are deceiving. This is one Inuit lady you don’t want to mess with. The 43-year-old was walking through the town of Ivujivik, Quebec when she spotted her nephews and seven-year-old son playing in the streets. But instead of laughing and smiling, the kids were terrified, probably because a 300-kilogram (700 lb) polar bear was heading their way....

A Pharaoh never let his hair be seen – he would always wear a crown or a headdress called a nemes (the striped cloth headdress made famous by Tutankhamen’s golden mask (pictured above). In order to deter flies from landing on him, Pepi II of Egypt always kept several naked slaves nearby whose bodies were smeared with honey. Both Egyptian men and women wore makeup – eyepaint was usually green (made from copper) or black (made from lead)....

Hard for humans to pronounce, with a deep glottal stop after the first “A”, the Aalaag conquered Earth easily to set the stage for Gordon R. Dickson’s 1987 novel, Way of the Pilgrim. Considered within their own ethos, the Aalaag are extremely just masters — mistreatment of their human “cattle” by one of their kind is a serious offense. But they demand obedience and a rigid code of conduct that rankles the human spirit....

20 Blivet A blivet, also known as a poiuyt, is an undecipherable figure, an optical illusion and an impossible object. It appears to have three cylindrical prongs at one end which then mysteriously transform into two rectangular prongs at the other end. 19Bezold Effect The Bezold Effect is an optical illusion, named after a German professor of meteorology, Wilhelm von Bezold (1837-1907), who discovered that a color may appear different depending on its relation to adjacent colors....

While the technical quality of sci-fi leapt forward during the 1990s, the decade features a depressing dearth of really good sci-fi in this post-Star Wars era. Many of the movies that Hollywood produced in the 1990s made from great sci-fi books or other established source materials should have been better in execution—much better: The Postman, Starship Troopers, Contact, Sphere, The Phantom Menace, Lost in Space, Star Trek Generations, Judge Dredd, Aliens3 and Godzilla....

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But… what about in real life? Here are ten real-life plot twists that will make your head spin! 10 Jennifer Pan Bich (pronounced “Bick”) Ha and Huei Hann Pan, a Vietnamese couple, had the real-life representation of a successful family. They had two kids, Jennifer and Felix, and worked in the auto parts manufacturing business. They had expensive cars and a great house, and their kids made great grades. On November 8, 2010, the family, excluding Felix, who was not home at the time, were robbed at gunpoint by David Mylvaganam and Lenford Crawford....