10The Metric System There are only three countries in the entire world that don’t use the metric system of measurement: Myanmar, Liberia, and the United States. Liberia has since partly adopted it, and Myanmar is currently in the process of transition, making the US the lone holdout. A proposal to switch to the metric system was recently brought before the state legislature in Hawaii, but it failed to gain enough support....
Far from being idiots, people with savant syndrome are often extremely intelligent, even though that intelligence is focused on one or two specific areas. As one researcher put it, a savant’s mind is simply organized differently, with an “island of genius” amid the sea of a broader mental disability. Savant syndrome proves that the human mind is capable of far more than we give it credit for. 10 Tommy McHugh For most of his life, Tommy McHugh was a con artist, criminal, and drug addict....
SEE ALSO: 10 Pieces Of Celebrity Gold Hiding On YouTube 10 Grandpa Kitchen Why you’ll love it: The Channel Grandpa Kitchen Feeds Indian Orphans, And Cooks In The Open Air Grandpa Kitchen is a more recent addition to Youtube, only joining in late 2017, but they have already amassed almost 200 videos, and they have over 5 million subscribers. Based in a village in Telangana, India, the channel is run by a father and son who are local to the area....
SEE ALSO: Top 10 Eerie Tales About Creepy Dolls 10Patty Reed’s Doll A doll doesn’t need to be cursed or possessed to give someone the creeps. It might just have a strange facial expression or be missing body parts from years of moving around. Or it may have witnessed repeated acts of cannibalism. Such is the case with Patty Reed’s doll. Patty, eight years old, was traveling to California in 1846 with her family and other pioneers, a group known to history as the Donner Party....
10 Talking Vaginas And Deadly Sex Back in the day, during medieval times, French writers were known to publish comical tales known as fabliaux. Many of these stories were extraordinarily crude, full of sex and poop. With such ridiculously titled tales as The Mourner Who Got F—ed At The Grave Site and The Knight Who Made C—ts and A—holes Speak, it’s easy to see how the fabliaux stand apart in history....
10 ‘The Erlenmeyer Flask’Gloria Ramirez The Episode: In the first season’s finale, a man’s body emits a poisonous gas after paramedics perform a needle decompression. The paramedics in the ambulance die, and the man escapes. Of course, the guy in the ambulance is later revealed to have alien DNA, but in a way, the real story behind that toxic blood is even more bizarre. The True Story: In 1994, a woman named Gloria Ramirez with cervical cancer was admitted to Riverside General Hospital....
Ted Turner’s labor of love bombed at the box office, probably because no one likes him, but the film is actually very good and very accurate. Edelman’s score is, by far, the greatest thing about it. They toned down the violence but still show tons of people getting blown up and shot down. The real theme of the film is intended to be the glory of the Union holding off the Confederacy, and the gentlemanly manner in which the sides fought (not true)....
See Also: Top 10 Places With Surprising Poop Problems These serial poopers pulled down their trousers and took a literal dump on public decency. Some have been caught and publicly shamed. Others remain smelly and elusive. Hopefully, this list can shed the light needed to bring the mysterious serial poopers to justice. As a society, we cannot let such a scatological scourge exist—that is, unless we want the poop of strangers invading our own homes!...
“Curly Bill” was so-called because of his head of thick, curly black hair. After the death of “Old Man” Clanton, he became the leader of the “Cowboys” gang of cattle rustlers in Tombstone, Arizona. He also worked for a while as a tax collector for Cochise County Sheriff John Behan. Curly Bill was a heavy drinker who became even more rambunctious when drunk. One night, while drinking with other Cowboys, he was asked by Marshal Fred White to give up his pistol....
10 Fast And Furious 6Vin Diesel And The Rock Become Giants Dwayne Johnson, also known as “The Rock,” joined the Fast and Furious franchise as Luke Hobbs, a special agent tasked with hunting down and stopping Vin Diesel and his heisting ways, in the fifth movie. After the smash success of that film, Johnson was brought on for the sixth Fast and Furious movie. This time, the big difference was that he would be working with Diesel and his crew of criminal misfits....
10 Erin Caffey Kills Entire Family Erin Caffey had a wish: she wanted to go out with her boyfriend James Wilkinson, but her parents stood in her way. So she took some initiative and planned the murders of her family. In March 2008, Erin Caffey’s boyfriend and his buddy, Waid, attacked the family house in the early hours of the morning. Her mother was killed and her father was maimed badly....
Between 1972 and 1973, one of Ressler’s monsters traveled the roads of Santa Rosa, California, looking for unsuspecting victims. During those years, at least seven young women were sexually assaulted, tortured, and murdered by an unknown killer. Known collectively as the Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders, this string of unsolved murders continues to haunt the minds of the Golden State’s cold case investigators. Was the killer an infamous butcher like Ted Bundy or the Zodiac Killer, or was he just another no-name sadist who eluded justice thanks to cunning and a whole lot of good luck?...
The animals in this list have found incredible ways to survive and thrive past problems that seem impossible o solve to the unaware observer. 10 Woodpecker Brain Damage The classic, bullet-like pecking of the woodpecker is perfect for punching cavities into trees to roost and nest in and to easily uncover and pluck out delicious insects and their eggs hidden beneath the bark. It’s difficult to think that blurring intense head hammering of up to 20 times a second, at up to 24kph (15 mph), wouldn’t give them horrible concussions, if not complete brain damage from all the concentrated physical stress....
10Indian Musical Connection In 2016, a student of Iron Age Irish music was shocked to discover the tradition alive in southern India. Long thought to be extinct, this ancient Irish music and its modern Indian analog revealed a 2,000-year link between the cultures. The breakthrough came when Australia National University’s Billy O’Foghlu discovered that modern Indian horns in Kerala were nearly identical to prehistoric European versions. O’Foghlu reveals: “The musical traditions of south India, with horns such as Kompu, are a great insight into music cultures in Europe’s prehistory....
The artistic Renaissance began earlier, but during this 20-year period Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Durer, and Botticelli created many of the world’s most famous paintings: The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, the Sistine Chapel, the Raphael Rooms, the Pieta, the Sistine Madonna, The Birth of Venus. The European discovery of the New World was also a rather big deal. The rap on the Romans is they stole their culture from Greece, but it’s not really true....
But for some people, the penalty of the law is not enough. They want the people who hurt them to suffer, beyond the weight of their crimes. Some people have put a little creativity into it and claimed their revenge in some brutal ways. 10Katie’s Revenge Katie Collman was ten years old when she disappeared. For five days, her family and the police looked everywhere for her, praying they could bring her back alive....
The Romans, though, had a different definition of “virtue” and “dignity” than we do today. Some of the laws the Romans were so proud of were a little bit strange, and some of them were outright insane. 10Wearing Purple Was A Crime Purple, in ancient Rome, was viewed as the most dignified and majestic of all colors. The emperors would dress themselves up each morning in the finest of purple togas, and they looked so good in it that they wouldn’t let anyone wear it....
Or is it? Turns out our voting choices are a lot less rational than we think. In fact, they can be influenced by stuff that’s certifiably insane. 10 Heavy Rain Boosts The Republican Candidate When Al Gore lost Florida in 2000, a lot of Dems tore themselves apart trying to figure out why. They could’ve just glanced outside. November 7, 2000, saw unseasonably heavy rain in Florida. Rain nearly always gives Republican candidates a boost....
The following products have been around for a very long time, some for a hundred years or more. They’ve become an iconic and ingrained part of our culture, and the little-known and fascinating stories behind their creation and marketing deserve to be told. It’s somewhat of a misconception that Dr Pepper was created by a doctor (we can’t imagine why), but it’s not too far from the truth. The inventor of the world’s oldest soft drink (in 1885) was Charles Alderton, a pharmacist at Morrison’s Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, Texas....
10 The West Bank Barrier The West Bank Barrier is a monolithic wall that separates Israel from Palestine. It’s 684 kilometers (425 mi) long and three times larger than the Berlin wall. Due to the troubles in the Middle East and it’s own divisive nature, the West Bank Barrier is probably one of the most dangerous locations in the world—and in 2005, Banksy tagged it. Both Israeli and Palestinian citizens woke up to find large murals painted on both sides of the wall....
