But they do leave interesting things in their wake. Uprooting ancient artifacts and freeing the biggest alligator is just the start. The superstorms also solve cold cases, creep out the Internet with monsters, and leave behind incredible survivors. 10 Incredibly Strange Facts About Hurricanes 10 Island-Hopping Cows Cedar Island is home to wild herds of horses and cattle. After Hurricane Dorian swept into North Carolina in 2019, locals decided to check on the animals’ well-being....

Top 10 Most Bizarre Videos 10 Too Terrifying For The Exorcist Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin, best known for writing the theme to Mission Impossible was asked by William Friedkin to produce the soundtrack for The Exorcist, which he was directing. Schifrin wrote the theme and it was placed in a trailer. However, then the unexpected happened. In his own words: “The people who saw the trailer reacted against the film, because the scenes were heavy and frightening, so most of them went to the toilet to vomit....

Ceuta is an 18.5 square kilometres (7.1 sq mi) autonomous city in Spain and an exclave located on the north coast of North Africa, surrounded by Morocco. Separated from the Iberian peninsula by the Strait of Gibraltar, Ceuta lies on the border of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Morocco claims Ceuta, along with the Spanish autonomous city of Melilla, and a number of Mediterranean islands which border it, which has led Spain to erect a 3 meter high border fence around the city topped with barbed wire....

I have put this at the top of the list because most people, in the public or scientific community, just don’t believe this method works. Nonetheless, companies claim that this is an amazing method with 99% accuracy and was found in an ancient tomb. Earth, air, fire and water within the spirits of the parents to be are believed to influence their luck and, therefore, give them a baby of the gender they want....

10 Learn a topic to debunk The majority of “hot topics” are debated by people with very little knowledge of the subject. A good example of this is global warming – the majority of people you speak to on this subject will tell you how we must change our habits to prevent global warming, but few will know what “anthropogenic global warming” is. Spend a little time learning what the real experts on these faddish topics say and you simply can’t go wrong....

Many of these inventions and tests did not work, even though they were believed to. Others were controversial. Some were just plain stupid. 10 The CIA Memo In 1980, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released an elaborate and hilarious memorandum detailing the characteristics typical of gay men. The idea was that the agency would identify these attributes in whoever they were investigating and use it to blackmail them as gay....

Should Creationism Be Taught In Schools? My answer: I think that there is a sufficiently high percentage of people who believe in some form of special creation that the belief system could be explained to students. I don’t advocate it being taught as “truth” against the scientific theories of creation, but there is no reason that only one idea must be taught. So I think it certainly could be taught in social studies class, or religious education class (in religious schools), but definitely not in Science class....

10 Playing Football Football might be a beloved sport to millions of people today, but not to King Edward II and many of his successors. In the 1300s, King Edward II banned football because it distracted people from practicing archery, a much more appropriate pastime for the people of England. Considering the fact that the King was gearing up for war with Scotland, the ban is understandable. Besides, football back then was not as organized as the football of today....

If these top secret and once-denied projects were more factual than authorities would have originally had us believe, then what should we make of some of the other, albeit bizarre, allegations of top secret projects and programs that operate in the shadows of governments, funded by the “black budget?” Here are ten such programs. Some are more believable than others, no doubt, but all are intriguing to the max....

Each of these ten early films of turn-of-the-century (the 20th century, that is) celebrities brings history to life as it shares glimpses of a famous man or woman who contributed greatly to our own time and lives. 10 Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller In a sequence from a 1930 newsreel film, now on video, Anne Sullivan (1886-1936) explains how she taught Helen Keller (1880-1968) to speak. Keller, who is also present in the film, demonstrates....

10Kill Bill Bill Fights Black Dynamite One thing that kind of rankled about the Kill Bill movies is that we never truly saw Bill in action. We were told that he was the best of the best, a legendary swordsman and stone-cold killer with no equal—except for Beatrix Kiddo, of course. With a setup like that, everybody was expecting a showdown, or, at the very least, a display of his skills....

10The Chinese Supercity Bigger Than Many Countries With a land surface area of 790 square kilometers (305 mi2) and a metropolitan area population of over 20 million, New York is considered one of the largest cities on Earth. Jing-Jin-Ji in China laughs in the face of such paltry numbers. A planned project to link Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei (Jing-Jin-Ji is a play on their Chinese names) into one giant megacity, it would house approximately 130 million people and be bigger than nearly half the world’s countries....

Top 10 Movies About Italians That Don’t Involve The Mafia 10 Shondor Birns Organised Crime is a dangerous game. If the authorities catch you, your habits will blow up in your face. If your enemies catch you, your face will get blown off. Very few mobsters live a long, stress-free life and die of old age. Shondor Birns managed to survive the ‘golden age’ of gangster history—the 20s and 30s—and succeeded in the equally violent 50s and 60s....

But what about our animal friends? Sure, they usually stick to relatively predictable patterns of behavior within their species. But not always. Although this isn’t the stuff of movies (except maybe a National Geographic special), here are 10 times that animals threw out the rule book and did something really unexpected. 10 Orangutans Eating Meat Orangutans are ostensibly vegan, thriving on a diet of mostly plants, fruit, and leaves. They do end up eating quite a lot of bugs as well, of course....

While rampage killers are often seen as an exclusively American phenomenon, this is far from true. Indeed, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Latin America have all experienced horrific rampage attacks since at least the 19th century. Some of those tragic events will be discussed in the following list. 10 The Azerbaijan State Oil Academy Shooting Azerbaijan is not a country that regularly makes international news. When it does, it is usually in conjunction with the long-simmering conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is claimed by both Azerbaijan and Armenia....

10The Crusade Against Markward The crusades arguably went off the rails with the crusade against Markward of Annweiler. A thoroughly anticlimactic and forgotten event, it seems to have been the first time a Pope declared a crusade with an obviously political motivation, rather than any religious justification. After Emperor Henry VI died, his infant son was declared king of Sicily, which was entrusted to the care of Pope Innocent III. However, Henry’s steward Markward of Annweiler claimed that Henry had made him regent of Sicily in his will....

Diane Durre was killed when an enormous Taco Bell sign fell over onto a truck in which she and her husband were sitting. The 75-foot (23m)-tall sign was torn apart at a welded joint about fifteen feet above the ground by an especially strong gust of wind, and the entire structure then crashed down on the truck. Her husband was treated for minor injuries, and the dogs in the back of the truck were unharmed....

We are fast approaching a point where the only thing limiting the capabilities of 3-D printers is the human imagination, and as you are certainly aware by now, the human imagination gets pretty eccentric. From the good to the bad and the very ugly (including some that defy all categorization), this list gathers ten of the most bizarre things ever 3-D printed…so far! 10 Unborn Babies One use of 3-D printing may be a surprise to you....

This list is more completely named: Ten Bizarre Things That You Did Not Know About Christmas (And Probably Didn’t Want To). I love Christmas, and I love bizarre, morbid, and just plain weird trivia. I tried to have a varied selection of somewhat obscure trivia in the hopes that you would learn something about Christmas that not only did you not know, but hopefully that you really wish that you STILL did not know....

Mount Erebus is Antarctica’s second largest volcano and has been observed to be continually active since 1972. Atop the mountain are a number of ice towers formed as a result of steam emissions from volcanic activity. Many of the ice towers constantly emit steam giving them the appearance of chimneys jutting out of the icy volcano’s frozen sides. In addition to these chimney-like pillars the volcanic mountain is home to a variety of ice caves, formed naturally in a number of ways, all resulting in glowing blue, eerily cavernous subterranean chambers....