However, there is more to the IRS than simply collecting taxes. They do some quirky things. As you’re about to find out, the agency is more interesting than it looks. 10 The IRS Uses Outdated Computers To Process Your Taxes The IRS oversees one of the major revenue streams of the US government. So it is very surprising that the computers it uses to process our taxes are not up-to-date....
SEE ALSO: Top 10 Scariest Filipino Monsters 10He Complained That Gang-Rapists Didn’t Let Him Have A Turn While campaigning for the President, Duterte shared a story about a hostage situation that happened while he was mayor. “They raped all of the women,” Duterte said. “There was this Australian lay minister . . . I saw her face and I thought, ‘Son of a bitch. What a pity.’ ” He wasn’t upset because she was raped, though—he was upset because he wasn’t invited....
Perhaps the Sun was worshiped for good reason; after all, life here would not exist without it. For those in ancient times, the realization of their reliance on the Sun for their harvests, and in turn their survival, was evident in their ancient writings. If anything did deserve our utter respect and adulation, you could make a strong argument that the Sun might just be such a body. Here are ten reasons why the story of Jesus, and indeed the tales that predated it, might be the telling of the annual journey of the Sun through the zodiac....
Imagine reading that Obama had ordered the killing of an American citizen—a teenager—without any arrest warrant, immediate reason or trial by jury. There’d be uproar, right? Apparently not, because its already happened. In September 2011, the administration signed off on the remote execution—by missile—of Anwar al-Awlaki’s sixteen year old son. Now, Awlaki was an Al-Qaeda operative into the recruiting game in Yemen, but by the time the missile was deployed, he’d been dead for two weeks....
In earlier times, some poets had wild pasts, with debauchery, alcohol, drugs, incest, and even murder providing the background to their lives and the material for their poetry. And who knows, maybe today’s poets are just as wild and are keeping their mouths shut. Very wise. 10 Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe was born around 1564 in Canterbury. A gifted student, he received a scholarship to Cambridge. The university was concerned about his frequent absences and considered withholding his master’s degree....
10 Scientists Identify A New Body Part Way back in 1879, a French surgeon named Paul Segond wrote a paper that described a “pearly, resistant fibrous band” along the ligaments within the human knee. The paper was promptly forgotten until 2013, when scientists discovered the anterolateral ligament, a knee ligament that plays a part in common knee problems and injuries. The discovery, shockingly overdue considering how often the human knee is scanned and treated for injuries, was written up in the Journal of Anatomy, published online in August 2013....
But in their rush to make a movie, producers don’t always get the details right. Sometimes, they even get facts so wrong that they insult or even vilify their subjects. 10The Imitation GameTuring Becomes A Traitor Alan Turing was the British genius who cracked the Nazis’ Enigma machine during World War II, hugely benefiting the Allies. He was also gay, so the UK government prosecuted him and drove him to suicide in 1954....
Abuse: A woman has almost nothing but Red Bull for months. A New Zealand woman had some extra weight after a pregnancy and really wanted to shed those pounds quickly, so she did what any reasonable person would do, she started consuming almost exclusively Red Bull. She drank it mostly to suppress her appetite, but of course it also gave her energy without her needing to eat food. While the diet is very bad for her and has given her health problems, including a stroke, she did manage to lose a lot of weight very quickly....
10 Mount ShastaCalifornia, USA Throughout history, Mount Shasta has been the focus of several religious legends. The Klamath tribe believed that Mount Shasta and nearby volcano Mount Mazama were avatars of the gods who spewed fire at each other in epic battles. Llao, the god of the Below-World, wanted the beautiful daughter of the Klamath chief for his wife. But the girl rejected Llao because of his horrible underworld appearance. Angered, Llao promised to seek his vengeance on her people....
If you love the thrill of banked turns, loops, dips, and steep drops, here are adrenaline-inspiring roller coasters worth trying out on your next travel adventure. 10 Eejanaika, Fuji-Q Highland Park, Japan Home to six headline-attracting roller coasters, including the record-breaking Takabisha, and one other under construction, Fuji-Q Highland Park is every roller coaster lover’s paradise. Watch this video on YouTube In particular, the 250-foot (76.2-meter) tall 4th Dimension Eejanaika coaster provides intense moments from the very start to finish....
What then is so potentially dangerous about Q Anonymous? At its heart, the conspiracy theory holds that the Western elite is dominated by pedophiles who resort to amoral acts in order to hold onto their considerable power. Q believes see in President Trump a champion and fighter against elite pedophilia. As much as the coastal smart set wants Q Anonymous to be excoriated by every public figure, the revelations of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases make it very hard to completely write off the idea of organized pedophilia among the elite....
Not quite ready yet? Don’t worry: We want to help you. First of all, bookmark our author guide for later. You’ll want to read that thing through with a magnifying glass, because that’s seriously exactly what will get your list published. But while that’ll get you the whole way, sometimes it helps to have a few stepping stones to ease the journey. From one writer to another, here’s my process for writing for Listverse....
While you wouldn’t think that this would matter too much, since space, after all, is a big place, it is more of an issue than you might realize. The latest calculations estimate that there are over 20,000 man-made objects at least the size of a baseball hurtling around the Earth at over 28,000 kilometers per hours (17,500 mph). You don’t need to be a scientist to know that such speeds could cause a lot of damage....
But Pryor had a dark side. Despite his eventual fame and fortune, he struggled with his demons all his life. In his later years, he developed MS and died of a heart attack at age 65. Here are 10 surprising stories that you might not have known about the legendary funny man. 10 He Grew Up In A Brothel Born in Peoria, Illinois, in 1940, Richard Pryor, the son of a prostitute named “Gertrude” and a pimp named “Buck,” grew up in a brothel owned by his grandmother....
10The Sunset Limited Derailment On October 9, 1995, an Amtrak passenger train known as the Sunset Limited was making a routine trip from Los Angeles to Miami. At approximately 1:40 AM, it was crossing over a trestle in a remote desert area of Arizona when it suddenly jumped the tracks and derailed, sending four of its cars crashing 9 meters (30 ft) into a ravine. An attendant named Mitchell Bates was killed in the crash and over 100 people were injured....
The list that follows details just 10 examples of particularly gruesome deaths in the ancient world. They range from the brutal murders of Roman emperors by their own sons to the strange case of the “mummy’s curse.” 10 Aeschylus455 BC Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, was noted for such works as The Persians and the Oresteia (still frequently performed today). As such, one might expect a tragic ending for Aeschylus....
Nevertheless, some teachers become overly attached to their pupils and form inappropriate relationships with them. When the teachers get caught, they take the student and run. Together, they travel to different cities, states, and even countries. Fortunately, they are usually caught quickly. 10 Lisa Lavoie Twenty-four-year-old Lisa Lavoie befriended a 15-year-old student and gave him her cell phone number. They began texting, and the relationship soon became sexual. She warned the teen that she would lose her job if people found out about their relationship....
Miserliness is defined as extreme frugality with money. The miser may spend very little on himself but a lot on others, or a lot on himself and very little on others, or, typically, very little at all. Cato of Utica was known for being fiercely moral in a time when it seemed no one in Rome gave even the slightest passing nod to morality. 99% of the politicians were so corrupt that there was no real point in voting for any of them....
10Hel Hel is a Norse goddess who rules over a portion of the underworld. She was not born a goddess of the afterlife, though. The title was forced upon her when Odin cast her below the roots of the World Tree to rule over Niflheim—a cold, dark world of the dead—to thwart Ragnarok, the end of the world. The three goddesses of fate had prophesied that the children of Loki, Hel and her siblings, would cause the death of the Norse pantheon’s leaders....
SEE ALSO: 10 Creepy And Surreal Moments Caught On Video 10Edward Muscare’s ‘Pretty Woman’ It seems difficult to make Roy Orbison’s 1964 hit single about love and loneliness creepy, but this lip-synched rendition by a withered old man in a cheesy Mr. Rogers sweater manages to do just that. The “singer” would be unsettling enough with his constant glances toward the camera and his attempts at “dancing,” but there’s a truth behind this video that makes it much, much worse....
