10 Naegleria Fowleri A friendly, and presumably harmless, microscopic blob is probably what comes to mind when most people hear the word “amoeba.” Harmless is certainly not a defining characteristic of Naegleria fowleri, however. Claiming the lives of almost everyone it infects, this is no friendly blob. Of the many different species of the genus Naegleria, Naegleria fowleri is, fortunately, the only one that poses a threat to humans. Unlike most things in lakes that can harm us, this single-celled organism must enter the body through the nose....

SEE ALSO: Another 10 Moral Dilemmas 10 Concentration Camp You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don’t he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don’t have any doubt that he means what he says....

10 Russia In this crime-ridden, ex-Soviet state, no longer does the government stuff their Armani suits with rubles, but the vandals and gangsters. The Russian mafia runs amuck, there are more gangsters than police, and a Russian is assassinated every 18 minutes, averaging 84 murders per day in a nation of 143 million. The nucleus of Russian crime is stationed in the Republic of Chechnya, a region within Russia just north of Georgia....

The animals we choose as pets are often inexpensive, but there are some critters out there that hardly anyone can afford. From cloned individuals to extremely rare breeds, these are the 10 most expensive animals ever sold. Top 10 Bizarre Home Menageries 10 Stag Beetle Most people are happy to pay a lot of money to get rid of insects. But some collectors still look at creepy crawlies with interest rather than disgust....

This list isn’t about those shows, however. The 1980s was filled with insipid creations capitalizing on wildly popular toys, movies and flavor-of-the-month stars. It had some great ones, of course. (My favorites were Robotech, Galaxy Rangers, Voltron, Sliverhawks, GI Joe and Transformers. Yep, I liked big robots and guns.) But the majority of them were turkeys. Why? Take any video game, popular show, person or toy and you can easily make a cartoon series about it....

We’re not saying they’re all true; in fact, most of them aren’t. But every once in a while, someone hits it right on the nose, and a whole slew of secret and previously classified information is revealed to the public. From scientific studies to consumerism to mind control, here are the top ten conspiracy theories that actually ended up being true. 10 Sex-Changing Frogs Alex Jones, a notorious conspiracy theorist, revealed his idea that chemicals in the water “turn the fricken’ frogs gay....

This film took far too many creative liberties to even still be considered a respectable or faithful adaptation. The only elements left intact are generic ones: the protagonist Cris’ ability to see into the future. The rest of the story is typical Hollywood drivel and an expansion upon the film’s main hook which shows the ironic unpredictability of a predictable future. The novelette on which it is based, “The Golden Man,” would have Cage’s character as a feral mutant-type creature with glowing golden skin and an ability to see into the future, and see the multitudinous outcomes of every decision....

Particularly profitable movies. Some films, of course, are impossible to describe in 10 words or less. For other films, however, those 10 words are the best bit of the movie—usually big budget action movies, where the concept is more important than the plot, assuming there is one, and the explosions are more important than the dialogue. Some of these film pitches would have done better to have just stayed in the elevator....

10 Crazy Conspiracy Theories Clouding The Music Industry 10Shannon Hoon September 26, 1967 – October 21, 1995 (28 Years, 0 Months, 26 Days – 27 Days Past 27) Watch this video on YouTube Best known as the front man of the band whose legacy has been reduced to the iconic 1990s music video image of the bee girl, Blind Melon’s Shannon Hoon missed out on the 27 Club by less than one month....

In many areas of the world, the AIDS virus has become associated with the gay community. This is because a large percentage of notable people who have died from AIDS were homosexual. The link between being gay and AIDS is not well understood. In 1969, an American teenager from Missouri named Robert R. became the earliest confirmed victim of AIDS. It remains unclear how Robert got the virus. The first person known to have contracted HIV and died outside of the United States is Arvid Noe....

The Beatles success was a bummer for the drummer they left behind. Bounced by the Beatles and replaced by Ringo Starr, Best felt the full pain of his exclusion when the band went nova in 1964, with six number-one singles and a hit film, A Hard Day’s Night. By 1968, the Beatles had the number-one song of the year with “Hey, Jude” and Best had a job with the British civil service....

See Also: 10 Deadliest Serial Killer Couples By Kill Count Although Toole was convicted of six murders and Lucas of 11, each separately confessed to many more—with the numbers reaching into the hundreds. However, not all of their confessions were credible. For example, Lucas falsely claimed that he had supplied the poison for the mass suicide of the Peoples Temple in Jonestown and that he had killed Jimmy Hoffa. In addition, he said that he had committed murders in Japan and Spain, although there is no evidence that he had ever left the United States....

After the termination of Project Stargate, a new program was formed, Project Farsight. As of 2017, Project Farsight is still an active CIA operation. However, with the declassification of Stargate, we’ve learned some bizarre things about it. Here are 10 of the project’s most stunning documents. 10 The Navajo Necklace Commonly found in the Stargate documents are handwritten records of remote viewing sessions with simple sketches and graphics. Also known as clairvoyance, remote viewing is the ability to use extrasensory perception (ESP) to “see” or “sense” a far-distant object, person, or place....

It is not just their unique features and abilities that tell astronomers more about space but also their absence. In recent years, several intriguing old mysteries about our own Moon have also been solved. 10 Moonmoons An unusual study posed a question so obvious that it is surprising that nobody asked this before. Can a moon have a moon? There are no such submoons in our solar system, but the notion produced interesting results and names....

Of course, very little gets that far. Most inventions that start out strong ultimately die out. These 10 brands and inventions were massively successful at first. But once the public’s interest in their novelty died out, these items bit the dust, too. 10 Inventions That People Really Regretted Inventing 10 TiVo In the dark days before devices like TiVo were introduced, it wasn’t easy to record live television. And just forget about pausing it to go to the bathroom or grab a snack....

Louise Fletcher Movie: Flowers in the Attic Fletcher – also famous for her role as the cold nurse in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest appears here as the evil grandmother who flogs her daughter, beats her grandchildren, and ultimately tries to poison them. Rebecca De Mornay Movie: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle De Mornay plays Peyton Flanders who seems to be the perfect nanny, but secretly she is out to wreck the lives of the family she is supposed to be helping....

10 Common Things That Were Once Banned 10 Splash Is Hearing No Butts About It Starting off with probably the most well known instance of censorship on the streaming platform so far is the 1984 film Splash starring Tom Hanks and his light hearted adventures with a mermaid. In the original version of the film, there is a very brief scene where the actress Daryl Hannah is seen running naked into the ocean, her butt visible to the camera....

10Curved Space The idea that space can be flat or curved is strange and maybe not even believable, but alas, it is true. Albert Einstein realized the space around gravitating objects is curved, which accounts for things like orbits (more on that next). One way to determine whether space is flat or curved is by testing Euclidean geometry in these spaces. This is geometry performed by Euclid, a mathematician from Ancient Greece that wrote up all the formulas you learned in high school geometry....

Have we learned from our asinine assumptions? You be the judge. With one uterus-unraveling exception, the following are more modern instances where the general consensus was generally nonsense. Top 10 Reasons The Dark Ages Were Not Dark 10 Pain, Pain, Go Away It started with the best of intentions. About three decades ago, a push began to find medications that more effectively relieved pain for chronic conditions (like back issues or arthritis), post-surgery recovery, and terminal illnesses (such as late-stage cancer)....

Top 10 Ways To Dispose Of Your Body After Death This list is about the stuff we can do to get our estate (and ourselves) ready for our inevitable demise, so we don’t become a burden to the ones we love. This list was inspired by a comment from a regular reader, Left_, who tragically lost a friend recently to the Chinese coronavirus. This brings the current pandemic very close to home....