Aside from Bloody Mary, the infamous half-Spanish Tudor tyrant who killed more than 300 Protestants, there are several other ancient tyrants throughout history that you should know about. If this piques your curiosity, keep reading. Let’s get into the grim details of ten of the most brutal lesser-known tyrants of history. 10 Tamerlane Tamerlane is one of the most dangerous and evil men in history, yet many honored this man for his work in theater and literature....

As we move through the month of November, men all over the world participate in the globally recognized tradition of “No-Shave November,” in which they continue to grow out their facial hair for the entire month. Originally created to raise money for cancer prevention and research and to raise overall awareness for the cause, many have adopted this tradition to just grow their facial hair for an entire month and see how good (or mostly bad) it looks....

Including the most massive galaxies that seem to kill themselves only to reignite, black holes that unexpectedly mother stars, and electrical processes that could feed extraterrestrials, these obscure but fascinating forces are shaping the universe. 10 Huge Galaxies Are Blowing Off Steam Some of the earliest galaxies were absolute monsters, producing stars at unsustainable rates. But they avoided “burning themselves out” by jettisoning their own gas. Researchers analyzed this galactic “wind” in SPT2319-55, a galaxy 12 billion light-years away, which appears as it did when the universe was a billion years old....

Luckily, things aren’t as bleak as they seem. Even at the worst times, amid deepening divisions, there are still heroes. People who find themselves faced with unimaginable horror yet still manage to dig deep and do the right thing. Here are 10 people who stood up to death and destruction and, in doing so, proved that humanity is still capable of amazing actions. 10 The Bataclan Savior On November 13, 2015, the world was shaken by the worst terror attack that Europe had seen in a decade....

10 Pyrrhus Of Epirus In 280 BC, as Rome was conquering Southern Italy, the Greek city of Taras (modern-day Taranto) called for the aid of Pyrrhus (c. 319–272 BC), a Greek commander and king of the city of Epirus in present-day Northwest Greece. Pyrrhus answered Taras’s call and crossed the Adriatic with his army. His military talent defeated the Romans in two battles. In doing so, Pyrrhus paid a high price, exhausting his military resources....

As famous as gorillas are today, there was a time in which they were no more tan a myth. Explorers would return from African jungles and tell stories about hairy, giant man-beasts of terrible strength and temper, with a nasty habit of abducting and raping women! Such stories were dismissed by scientists as nonsense, and as a result, the gorilla was unknown to science until quite recently. It is believed that the first gorilla report comes from Greek explorer Hanno, from the 5th century BC....

10 Sherlock Holmes If you can only name one 19th-century literary character, it’s probably Sherlock Holmes. The hugely popular detective wowed audiences with his insane adventures and superhuman powers of deduction. Some have even credited the imaginary investigator with bringing the art of forensics to real-world crime fighters. So what could possibly defeat the greatest detective who ever “lived?” His own creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In an odd turn of events for a massively popular author, Doyle absolutely hated Holmes....

10The Triune Formula Known as the “Great Commission,” Matthew 28:19 describes Jesus sending his disciples out to preach the Gospel, instructing them, “Teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” In other words, the three persons in one God. This formula is an important piece of scriptural evidence for the doctrine of the Trinity. However, the rest of the New Testament refers to baptism only in the name of Jesus....

10 Pigments With Colorful Histories 1 Mummification and embalming Masters in matters of mummification, the ancient Egyptians used a combination of spices, among other things, to preserve the bodies of the deceased. After extracting the brain through the nose and removing the organs (or dissolving them by injecting resin into the abdomen), the bodies were cleansed with a mix of spices. Myrrh was the most crucial component; it was used as an insect repellant on the bodies and the surrounding environment....

10 Isaac EbeyHead And Scalp The Ebey family is buried in the Sunnyside Cemetery in Coupeville, Washington. Isaac Ebey, the patriarch of the family, is at the center of a bizarre mystery. Ebey was one of the first white settlers on Whidbey Island in Washington State. In a letter to his brother, Ebey called the island “a paradise of nature.” In fact, it was such a paradise that it shouldn’t have been surprising that someone else had gotten there first....

But there’s another, less-reported, reassuring side to the news. The outlook might be sunnier than you expected, even regarding some of the scariest stories of all. (Note: Everything below is true at time of writing. If you’re reading this in 2019 as the house burns around you and the zombie hordes descend, don’t try to pin the blame on us.) 10ISIS, Boko Haram And Al-Qaeda Are Doomed In the decade after 9/11, Al-Qaeda gained a reputation as the most evil group on Earth....

10 The Murder Of Donald Goines And Shirley Sailor In a career that spanned only the first four years of the 1970s, Detroit-born author Donald Goines pumped out over 16 novels, nearly all of them following criminal characters in the underground world of African-American ghettos. Like the antiheroes in his novels, Goines lived a wild and tragic life. After he dropped out of school in the ninth grade, Goines joined the US Air Force during the Korean War by lying about his age....

See Also: 10 Wrong Words That Are Actually Right There are many reasons why this switch happens. However, most words appearing on this list came about due to pronunciation and spelling errors. People just had problems pronouncing a word so they just started calling it what they thought they heard or changed it to something else they could pronounce. 10 Ain’t Was Amn’t Ain’t is a weird word. Teachers hate it, people consider you old school when you use it and it is not allowed in formal letters (other contractions are not either)....

See Also: 10 Unsolved Crimes That Were Caught On Video 10Greensboro hit and run What was supposed to be a fun last-minute Christmas shopping trip, turned into a nightmare for a group of teenagers on 23 December 1988. Kenneth Lynn Dungee, Lavern Allen, Kenneth Newkirk and Darius Bannerman set off in a Plymouth Duster and planned to drive from Greensboro to Raleigh. Allen was driving and they were all laughing and talking while travelling along Interstate 40....

It’s likely that you’ve heard of conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. But you may not have heard of the conditions described below, which can alter the way you perceive the world or even make you think that your family members are impostors. 10 Akinetopsia Everyone knows about the common condition known as color blindness, so you may find it relatively easy to understand what it’s like to be missing some or all colors from your vision....

But generally speaking, we refrain from swearing in front of kids, those who we are trained to respect (elders, teachers, community leaders, etc.), and you know, like, in church, synagogue—whatever it may be for you. Still, the urge to let an expletive fly is sometimes so strong that you can’t help it. You just have to say it. If this is you and you are the caring type who believes that maybe you should stop using such language, there is hope....

10 Louis Boirault Machine Trench warfare, one of the more iconic battle strategies, was developed during World War I. With this form of warfare, people found new ways to overcome the terrain and get the upper hand on the enemy. One of these inventions, the Louis Boirault Machine, was called an “interesting ancestor of the tank.” The problem with conventional vehicles and trench warfare was that wheels and ditches rarely got along with one another....

10David Rice And Edward Poindexter At approximately 2:00 AM on August 17, 1970, the Omaha Police Department received an anonymous 911 call reporting a woman screaming at a vacant house. When police arrived at the house, there was no trace of any woman, but they did find a suitcase. They did not realize that the suitcase was rigged with a dynamite bomb. It soon went off, killing Officer Larry Minard. Shortly thereafter, 15-year-old Duane Peak was arrested....

10The Priest Who Helped A Hit Man Steal A Strad Everybody knows that gangsters and violins go together like pinstripes and tommy guns, but surely adding a priest to the mix would be a cliche too far? Well that’s precisely what happened in the curious case of the chaplain, the hit man, and the priceless Stradivarius. The whole thing started when mafia goon Frank Calabrese Sr. decided there was no way he was letting the government confiscate a 250-year-old violin that apparently once belonged to Liberace....

Nowadays, the technology is practically ubiquitous, and lasers—or, to give them their full title, light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation—are a cutting-edge tool used in developing all manner of brilliant innovations. With them, we are able to cool atoms to a fraction of a degree, create incredibly advanced systems of data storage, and even detect evasive astronomic phenomena like gravitational waves. Sixty years since their invention, laser technology remains as relevant and exciting as ever....