10 Harriet Jacobs Born in 1813, Harriet Jacobs was frequently the victim of brutal sexual assaults from her master, James Norcom. Even when Jacobs took a lover and had two children with him, Norcom’s sexual advances continued. Finally, it got to be more than she could bear. In 1835, she went to hide with friends. Jacobs knew the odds were slim that she’d make it to the North, so she hid in a cramped crawl space in her grandmother’s attic on the North Carolina plantation....

10 Funeral Pyre In 1967, Sao Boonwaat was the ambassador for Burma in Ceylon (known today as Sri Lanka). He’d previously served in an official capacity in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and France, and he represented Burma in the International Atomic Energy Agency Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Boonwaat caused international headlines when he shot and killed his wife, Shirley, over an alleged affair with popular night club singer Rex de Silva....

Many of us think of them as dark, gray, cold places that must have been miserable to live in, but in their heydays, they were brightly colored, warm, and comfortable. We imagine them bustling with armed men, but in times of peace, most castles had fewer than 20 soldiers in their garrisons. And many of us forget that their interiors would have been dominated by wooden structures, all of which have long rotted away....

10Randy Quaid And The Star Whackers The Hollywood Star Whackers are dangerous killers at the center of Hollywood’s most evil conspiracy—at least according to Randy Quaid. The Golden Globe–winning actor and his wife, Evi, claim there’s an evil organization out to murder Hollywood stars. Quaid claims the Whackers have knocked off Michael Jackson, David Carradine, Heath Ledger, and Chris Penn. They framed Mel Gibson and Robert Blake (renowned superstar), and they might be after Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan....

These reports have seemingly been around since the start of aviation, appearing to reach an absolute peak over the skies of battle-weary Europe during World War II. Then, as the war ended, the sightings, aside from random, rare incidents, stopped almost overnight. Here are ten such claims of real-life encounters with real-life gremlins. 10 Early Reports In The Spectator Perhaps the first written account of strange creatures bothering Britain’s Finest in the air came in The Spectator in the early 1920s....

10Man Of Few Words In many ways, Arnold Schwarzenegger has built a career on being a man of very few words. Many fans don’t realize just how few those words are: In the first Terminator movie, the titular killing machine has only 18 lines, which comes to fewer than 100 words. Financially, though, this worked out for the actor. With his relatively low salary of $750,000 for The Terminator, Arnold was still raking in about $7,500 per word....

Warning: Spoilers ahead. 10Meredith Has Alzheimer’s Much of Grey’s Anatomy’s early storyline revolves around Ellis Grey’s battle with and eventual demise from Alzheimer’s and her daughter Meredith’s fear of developing the same disease. However, according to one fan theory, Meredith already suffers from the dreaded disease, and all of her friends and family in the show are the embodiment of the emotions she has forgotten to feel. The theory further has it that all of Meredith’s voiceovers are her telling bedtime stories to her three children, which might explain why the plot lines of most of the episodes are so over the top and dramatic....

10Hanging Out With Elvis In 1956, Elvis Presley arrived in Hollywood. Over the course of 18 months, he starred in four movies, the idea being that these films would be slowly released while Elvis was serving a two-year stint in the army, keeping his profile as high as possible. During this time, Elvis was especially interested in talking to anybody who had been close friends with one of his favorite actors, James Dean, who had died in a car accident the previous year....

Since taking office, Prayuth has done and said some rather bizarre things. His actions have run the gamut from B-movie comedy fodder to moves straight from the playbooks of dictators. Here are ten examples of Prayuth Chan-ocha’s bizarre and varied antics. 10 He Asked Reporters To Talk To A Cardboard Cutout In January 2018, Prime Minister Prayuth was in the news after asking reporters to talk to a cardboard cutout of him during a press conference....

This system employs tactics that range from surprisingly subtle to shockingly blunt, but it’s all done to defend the Chinese government’s perceived national interests. Often, that means silencing government critics and activists or stemming the flow of information when negative domestic news breaks. Most Internet users in China know that some censorship is happening, although they can’t do much about it. China uses many methods to control online information, including some that seem downright crazy....

10The Origin Of The Word The word “kiss” comes from the Old English word cyssan, which technically means “to kiss.” No one is completely positive where cyssan comes from, but people suspect that it represented the sound people make when they kiss. The Romans had several words for several different types of kissing. Kissing the hand or cheek was known as basium, closed-mouth kissing was known as osculum, and a passionate kiss was known as a saviolum....

The records on this list explore feelings of anger, despair, and depression but also tackle dystopian futures, occult rituals, murder, death, and disease. In a sense, they are to music what horrors and thrillers are to movies. But the records here aren’t just gloomy either. Instead, these albums are also some of the best pieces of music from rock music history. 10 Turn Loose the Swans by My Dying Bride My Dying Bride was already an established force known for their slow and doomy metal sound when they released Turn Loose the Swans in 1993....

10 Memex In February 2015, DARPA announced that it was working on developing a search engine for the Deep Web. Most of the Deep Web is either inaccessible or only accessible through encrypted networks like Tor or 12P. While it is technically feasible for search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo to expand their indexing into the Deep Web, there are few if any commercial incentives for them to do so....

10Being Blonde Instantly Changes How Women Are Treated By Men The idea that we’re morally obligated to help other people when they’re in trouble is deeply ingrained in our society, though in practice, it rarely works out that way. Our inclination to help another person can be influenced by everything from whether we think people are watching to how busy we are. In 2010, New Zealand Star reporter Celeste Gorrell Antiss performed an experiment to see if people would be more inclined to help a blonde or brunette stranger carry some heavy boxes or assist her with car trouble....

See Also: 10 Craziest Privileges Serial Killers Enjoyed In Prison Becoming infatuated with someone who has committed a serious crime, such as sexual assault or murder, is known as Hybristophilia. This is the reason behind the thousands of letters sent to serial killers from their female admirers each year. Sheila Isenberg, author of ‘Women Who Love Men Who Kill’, explained, “If the guy’s behind bars, it’s always exciting. It’s easier to get a date or get attention from (killers) than, say, Brad Pitt....

And in no other place was this change faster than in Europe. As technology evolved, the borders of nations shifted, and entire states rose and fell. The 20th century in particular saw the shattering of ancient kingdoms and the birth of many new states, some of which failed to make it to the modern day. Ideologies led to new experiments and disastrous wars, and the human race saw the highest sustained period of migration in history....

10Grew Up A Hostage In Thebes Around 371 BC, Philip’s older brother (the king) Alexander II was forced to sign a peace with the city of Thebes after losing a war over control in Thessaly. A key condition was that 15-year-old Philip would serve as a hostage in Thebes. This would prove a blessing in disguise for the young prince, for what he learned in Thebes would be paramount for his later years as king....

Both accidents attracted public and government scrutiny because they involved the same aircraft: the Boeing 737 MAX 8. Both airplanes were new, indicating that maintenance was not the problem. They also had erratic takeoffs, suggesting that the problem had something to do with the airplane. The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), unique software that is supposed to prevent the 737 MAX from crashing, has been fingered as the culprit in both accidents....

A lot of the time, when terrorists are seen on the news, it is because their plots have been successful and have managed to injure or kill innocent people. However, sometimes, the terrorists’ plans don’t always pull through, and they are busted prior to the act being committed or are foiled by their own incompetence. Either way, terrorist groups have been a recurring problem, not just in the United States but in the entirety of the world for most of modern history....

When some people achieve success, it is deeply galling to their enemies. The only way those individuals can have reached the top is with witchcraft! Here are 10 times that famous people throughout history have been accused of witchery. 10 Anne Boleyn Few people have had as great an effect on British history as Anne Boleyn. When the marriage between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon failed to give the king the male heir he desired, he felt that God had cursed him for marrying his brother’s widow....