SEE ALSO: 10 Foods We Eat That May Lead To Poisoning Or Death 10 Hemlock Hemlock or Conium is a highly toxic flowering plant indigenous to Europe and South Africa. It was a popular one with the ancient Greeks, who used it to kill off their prisoners. For an adult, the ingestion of 100mg of conium or about 8 leaves of the plant is fatal. Death comes in the form of paralysis–your mind is wide awake, but your body doesn’t respond, and eventually, the respiratory system shuts down....

10Public School 186 It would be impossible for Manhattan’s Public School 186 to be any more in the middle of civilization. Businesses are open across the street, there isn’t a free parking space in sight, and people stroll by nonchalantly. It’s boarded up, but it’s the trees growing out of the windows which give away the fact that no one has used the building for over 40 years. Inside, piles of rubble and scattered animal corpses complete the look....

10Thales Of Miletus Thales was a philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer. Aristotle believed him to be the original philosopher and first in the line of great Greek thinkers. He was certainly thought of as one of the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece. Then, as now, people asked, “If he’s so clever why isn’t he rich?” So Thales used his knowledge of the weather to predict one year’s olive crop and buy up all the oil presses, making himself a fortune....

Since entering the Republican presidential race in June 2015, Trump has gone from a rank outsider to leading the field. He’s crushed candidates whose dust he should be eating. He’s shaken off scandal without even taking a hit. While we’d never claim to endorse anything he stands for, it’s becoming harder and harder to dismiss him. Here’s why. 10He Plays The Media Like A Pro By any logical reasoning, Donald Trump’s campaign should have gone down like the Titanic the moment it launched....

10John Francis John Francis’s nickname is “Planetwalker,” and for good reason. In 1971, he witnessed an oil spill in San Francisco, which made him so irritated with humanity that he refused to ride in any motor vehicles for the next 22 years, preferring to walk around the country instead. As if that wasn’t enough, Francis decided to be completely silent from 1973 until 1990. Instead of speech, Francis communicated through writing, gestures, and his trusty banjo....

Ever hear a child ask stupid questions like: “What if birds pooped lying down?” Although most of us would laugh and ignore those questions, some scientists make a serious face and say, “Well, let’s find out.” To know what we’re talking about, here are some of the most hilariously unnecessary scientific studies ever conducted. 10 How Different Are Apples And Oranges Really? We’ve been comfortably using the supposed differences between apples and oranges in arguments at parties ever since someone came up with the simile ” ....

Sometimes, these individuals and groups want more than to commit acts of violence. Sometimes, they try to plan full-scale uprisings or form revolutionary groups. Here are 10 such attempts, ranging from the absurd to the chillingly orchestrated. 10 Chevie Kehoe And The Aryan People’s Republic1997 Chevie Kehoe, Daniel Lee, and Faron Lovelace were charged in 1997 with planning to overthrow the US government and take over territory to make a “new republic limited to whites....

10Ritual Sacrifices In India Many sacrificial harvest ceremonies are no longer practiced, but lately, there has been a rash of ritual sacrifices in India. As many as four bodies were found between 2011 and 2015. Human sacrifice has long been practiced in remote areas of India, though it’s no longer condoned or accepted. In The Golden Bough, James Frazier wrote of a tribe in India who would sacrifice strangers for their crops....

10 Plant-Eating Spider Spiders are renowned for their aggressive predatory habits, but we will start this list with an ironic discovery that might just seem anticlimactic were it not so remarkable. There is a plant-eating spider on this planet. Native to areas with acacia vegetation in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Costa Rica, Bagheera kiplingi feeds on protein and lipid-rich Beltian bodies, small extensions found on the tips of the acacias on which this species lives....

SEE ALSO: 10 Sex Myths We All Believe Turns out historical men (and women) were light-years ahead of us in the pleasure department, thanks to inventions like: Lady substitutes are recorded as far back as the seventeenth century, when French sailors devised the Dame de Voyage: a collection of curvaceous rags that could only ever resemble a woman to a homesick Frenchman. But it wasn’t until vulcanised rubber was patented that the more familiar model came about: in 1904, alchemist Rene Schwaeble recorded meeting a ‘Dr....

10 Benjamin Evan Nelson With today’s technology, many parents are turning to online companies to find babysitters. They feel as though it’s a safe alternative because these companies perform background checks on the childcare providers. However, some predators still slip through the cracks, as was the case with Benjamin Evan Nelson. The 27-year-old resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, placed an ad on Care.com offering childcare services. Care.com is considered to be a reputable company with 16....

Their development is actually so unusual that some people believe it’s a possibility that ancient Egypt was a potential destination for extraterrestrial life. It would be a great explanation for every advanced methods that the Egyptians must have used to accomplish all they did. Granted, definitive physical proof that aliens indeed visited Egypt in the past might very well be covered up by world governments, but there are still signs that point to alien contribution to ancient Egypt, and these are ten of the most exciting:...

A 74-year-old avowed socialist with strong trade union links who wants to raise taxes, Sanders’s resume should be anathema to the American public. Yet his support is skyrocketing. While Hillary Clinton remains the favorite to win the nomination, there are signs that Sanders could be the one leading the Democrats into the next election. 10His Poll Numbers Are Surging When Sanders joined the race, he was expected to crash and burn....

McCallum became very well-known once he began appearing in “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” television series as Illya Kuryakin starting in 1964. The spy craze started by the James Bond film series was in full swing and McCallum appeared in teen magazines, comic books, records, ViewMaster reels, posters and toy boxes. After the series ended, he did mostly guest-star work, but he has achieved new attention as Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard on the hit show “N....

Mia Washington had twin boys but her husband is the biological father of only one. Washington had an usual case of birthing fraternal twins with two separate fathers. This story has become more common because of occasional in-vitro treatment tales of lab error in which a few eggs were contaminated with the wrong sperm, however, Washington’s story unfolds much more naturally. She first became pregnant when having a little fun with either her husband or lover....

In 1997 the first “Son of Sam Law” was passed in New York, and today, more than 40 states have such laws. It was passed after reports circulated that serial killer David Berkowitz, also known as Son of Sam, was offered a huge amount of money for the rights of his story. The law prohibits an accused or convicted criminal to profit from any work detailing his or her crimes....

10How Alligators Move Silently Through Water With hardly a ripple to give them away, alligators move gracefully through the water whether they’re diving, surfacing, or rolling around. But they don’t have flippers or fins like fish or other aquatic animals, so how do they accomplish their expert maneuvers? Like airplane pilots, they use controls to adjust their position. However, for an alligator, those controls are special muscles that alter the position of its lungs within its body cavity....

For some, their life of solitude was born out of tragedy. For others, it seems to have been simply a lifestyle choice. Here, we examine ten nonreligious hermits and their extraordinary lives. 10 The Leopard Man Of Skye Tom Leppard was certainly an extraordinary-looking man. His entire body was covered in tattooed leopard spots. At one time, he held the world record for tattoos. Leppard had spent 30 years in military service, and on his discharge, he found it difficult to mix with other people....

The craze produced a countless number of frauds and hoaxes. But in spite of its dubious scientific credentials, Spiritualism lasted well into the 1920s. Contained here are just 10 of the weirder stories that swept the United States during the fad’s heyday. 10 The Farmer And The Spirit-Machine Jonathan Koons, a farmer who lived in rural Ohio, was originally skeptical of Spiritualism. By 1852, Koons had changed his mind and began to declare that he and his nine children—including a baby not even a year old—were all mediums....