10 More Archaeological Discoveries Made Possible By Global Warming

But once these items are released from their icy tombs and are exposed to the elements, they rapidly decay and disappear. Scientists and archaeologists around the world are racing against time to find these emerging artifacts before they are lost. Here are 10 more archaeological discoveries made possible by global warming. 10A 30,000-Year-Old Giant Virus Inspired by scientists who had been able to regrow wildflowers from 30,000-year-old seeds, two French biologists, Jean-Michel Claverie and Chantal Abergel, wondered if they could do the same with a virus....

January 19, 2023 · 13 min · 2598 words · Kimberly Dechant

10 More Embarrassing Video Gaming Moments

Every year at E3 has some weird and wacky moments, but 2010’s event really took the cake. From Microsoft’s conference promoting the Kinect (notably the terrifying tiger from Kinectimals) to Ubisoft’s conference being “crashed” by people firing invisible lasers at each other, 2010 was a very awkward and weird year. But the winner was Konami’s conference. The conference can be best described as odd. Konami’s highlights included countless technical faults, some bizarre hosts, Glee popping in for a musical number, a bunch of Mexican wrestlers fighting onstage, one of Silent Hill Downpour’s representatives trying to glare a hole into the back of his associate’s head, and some awkward introductions to new Konami games including Ninety-Nine Nights II Ramble....

January 19, 2023 · 6 min · 1180 words · Timothy Mccrary

10 More Reasons To Hate Clowns

See Also: Top 10 Clowns You Don’t Want To Mess With 10 They Really Lurk In The Woods In 2016, the Great Clown Scare hit the United States. Reports started pouring in; civilians across several states insisted that clowns were trying to lure children into the woods. Photos appeared on Facebook showing the scary criminals leaning out behind trees or blatantly standing out in the open. Undoubtedly, most of the stories and photos were fake....

January 19, 2023 · 9 min · 1860 words · Amber Macek

10 Most Bizarre Planets You Ve Probably Never Heard Of

The Kepler spacecraft has discovered the most exoplanets, which are planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. As you’ll notice, many planets are named Kepler because of this. Although we find tons of new exoplanets every year, many are just cold lumps of rock orbiting distant, unknown stars. Occasionally, however, a planet is found that is bizarre enough to make even the most seasoned astrophysicist gape in awe. We’ve rounded up 10 of them for you....

January 19, 2023 · 8 min · 1512 words · Harold Berger

10 Most Dangerous Jobs That Ll Make You Rich

These aren’t typical desk jobs where the most danger you’ll face is a “Karen” calling you at the customer service desk. No, we’re talking about serious bodily harm. And you may not be swimming in a pool filled with cash Scrooge McDuck style, but you can do pretty well for yourself. The most dangerous jobs require a level head, no matter the situation you find yourself in. The men and women in these roles usually undergo constant training to ensure they can perform the job well....

January 19, 2023 · 7 min · 1424 words · Joseph Scherer

10 Most Unexpected Airport Luggage Detections

However, the people on this list took unexpected luggage to the next level. Check out these crazy things that airport staff members have discovered all across the world. And next time, take a closer look at that seemingly normal person sitting next to you on the plane—especially if they appear to be napping. 10 Human Skull Remains In 2013, security officials at Fort Lauderdale airport detected fragments of a human skull and teeth in the luggage of two women....

January 19, 2023 · 8 min · 1544 words · Joann Ginn

10 Movies Better Than Shawshank Redemption

This 2010 blockbuster was praised for its immersive storyline and wonder technical features. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Ken Watanabe, this film did amazingly successfully both at the box office and in the eyes of critics and viewers alike. The premise of the movie is simple but unravels to be more complicated and detailed than initially presumed. A skilled thief that uses technology that allows him to enter the human mind via dream invasion, is hired to carry out his toughest task, “inception” or implanting an idea in the mind of a victim and making him think it is his own....

January 19, 2023 · 5 min · 979 words · Mary Blevins

10 Mysteries Surrounding Royal Children

10 Marie Antoinette’s Missing Son For about 200 years, no one could say what happened to the son of Marie Antoinette, queen of France. The eight-year-old uncrowned king was called Louis XVII. He was locked up in the Temple prison in Paris during the French Revolution, an event that resulted in both of parents losing their heads to the guillotine. Two years later, legend has it that he was reportedly smuggled from the prison....

January 19, 2023 · 11 min · 2333 words · Curtis Tarr

10 Mysterious And Brutal Ancient Killings

SEE ALSO: 10 Brutal Facts About The Most Humane Method Of Execution 10 Man Murdered On A Dune In 2005, a construction crew found human bones in Sydney. Located in the suburb of Narrabeen, the skeleton belonged to an aboriginal man in his thirties. He turned out to be Australia’s earliest spearing victim. Scientists from all fields came together to reconstruct his life and death. Chemical analysis showed that the young man lived on a diet of seafood, coastal birds and seaweed....

January 19, 2023 · 10 min · 2114 words · Jose Rajan

10 Mysterious Things We Have Discovered In Space

We rarely have answers to these mysteries. All we do is brainstorm over what they could or could not be. Nevertheless, some are so weird that we have considered them as evidence of the existence of some intelligent life out there. 10 Oumuamua In October 2017, astronomers detected a mysterious object floating through our solar system. They named it Oumuamua. It flew close to the Sun—reaching one-fourth the distance between the Sun and the Earth—before suddenly accelerating and escaping from our solar system....

January 19, 2023 · 9 min · 1910 words · Janet Cason

10 Mythical Things That Actually Existed

Let’s give our skepticism a dose of reality and take a look at ten (and a bonus and competition) supposedly mythical things that actually existed, or that have had real world equivalents. Theories as to what inspired stories of dragons include lost crocodiles and dinosaur bones, but we can’t call these real dragons because humans never encountered dinosaurs, and crocodiles are too small. That’s where the Megalania comes in, an ancient relative of the Komodo Dragon that terrorized the Aboriginals of Australia....

January 19, 2023 · 7 min · 1403 words · Ricardo Lamb

10 Naturally Leaning Towers That Rival The Tower Of Pisa

Surprisingly, it is not the only leaning tower around. It just happens to be the most popular. Some leaning towers are even more tilted and have more impressive histories and backstories than the Tower of Pisa. 10 Minaret Of JamGhor, Afghanistan Built in 1194, the 65-meter-high (213 ft) Minaret of Jam has a slant of about 3.47 degrees, which is less than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. However, the minaret is 9 meters (30 ft) taller than the Tower of Pisa, which was built over a century later....

January 19, 2023 · 9 min · 1849 words · Jessie Fortier

10 Nightmarish Facts History Somehow Forgot

January 19, 2023 · 0 min · 0 words · Veronica Mccrary

10 Notable People Who Foresaw Their Own Deaths

A smaller number of people have foreseen their own deaths and proven to be absolutely right though, suggesting that there is more to premonitions than we know, and sometimes those who have that sense of impending mortality are notable public figures. Top 10 TV Shows That Predicted The Future And Got It Right 10 Martin Luther King Jr. Possibly the most famous example of someone appearing to know that they were going to die is that of Martin Luther King Jr....

January 19, 2023 · 10 min · 2098 words · Valda Castillo

10 Notorious Crimes Committed By The Yakuza

One thing that many readers will notice is that the nature of the yakuza’s crimes are not as shocking and vicious as the crimes of mafias in other countries. Instead, these crimes should speak to the nature of criminal culture in the Land of the Rising Sun. 10 The Murder Of Ryoichi Sugiura The two largest families in the yakuza are the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Sumiyoshi-kai. The Yamaguchi-gumi has about 25,000 men, and the Sumiyoshi-kai boasts a membership of 10,000....

January 19, 2023 · 14 min · 2855 words · Daniel Owenby

10 Odd Ways Space Feels Just Like Home

10You Can Go Fishing There are at least half a million pieces of debris orbiting Earth, some moving as fast as 28,000 kilometers (17,500 mi) per hour. When an object moves that quickly, it can damage space equipment or vehicles even if it’s only the size of a paint chip. Over 17,000 items of space junk are bigger than a coffee cup, which could have a disastrous impact with active missions....

January 19, 2023 · 14 min · 2877 words · Richard Stiles

10 Of The Fiercest Orders Of Medieval Knights

Here are ten of the most powerful Orders of Knights that the medieval world had ever known. 10 The Order of Santiago The Christian religious Order of Santiago was founded in Spain sometime around 1160. The primary purpose of the order was to fight Spanish Muslims and protect pilgrims traveling to the shrine of St. James at Compostella. The rules of this Christian military-religious order were based on those of the Augustinian monks and the Templars....

January 19, 2023 · 10 min · 1943 words · Lindsey Allison

10 Of The Most Fascinating Thieves Of All Time

10Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Remy Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Remy, also known as Comtesse de la Motte, was a French thief who became famous through the “Affair of the Diamond Necklace.” When her husband was unable to provide the extravagant lifestyle she wished for, she quickly decided to take matters into her own hands. At the time, any citizen dressed appropriately was free to enter Versailles, and Jeanne, of course, took the opportunity. There, she took a man named Retaux de Villette as her lover, and she later met Cardinal Prince Louis de Rohan....

January 19, 2023 · 13 min · 2762 words · Joann Mcmurray

10 Of The Most Intriguing Coins Of All Time

10 50 Centavos Leper Colony CoinColombia, 1921 Most people probably don’t know much about leprosy, because it hasn’t been portrayed accurately in media. Leprosy, now known as Hansen’s disease, is actually very difficult to contract from someone. Nevertheless, it is a serious disease and was feared to the point where people were placed in leper colonies to keep them away from the general public. In some cases, special coinage was minted for fear that the infected might spread the disease through physical contact....

January 19, 2023 · 10 min · 2067 words · Marjorie Savage

10 Of The Richest Tax Exempt Organizations

The overwhelming majority of these are called 501(c)(3) organizations, after the section of that IRS code that exempts them from taxation. The rules to achieve and maintain 501(c)(3) status—or any of the more than two dozen other 501 sub-statuses—are complicated and convoluted. Generally, these organizations should not exist for the purpose of enriching themselves or their shareholders, they should not be political in nature, and they should be charitable or contribute to social welfare....

January 19, 2023 · 13 min · 2597 words · Edith Parsons