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Let’s get one thing clear before we begin: at the risk of sounding controversial, TopTenz does not endorse drug abuse. It will ruin your life, and you should be doing more productive things with your time anyway, like reading TopTenz lists. That being said, animals that do drugs are hilarious. Some animals do them for [...]
Posted by Mark Hill on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 4:30 am
Filed under Animals, Humor · Tagged alcohol, Animals, Ants, bees, birds, chimpanzee, cigarettes, Drugs, elephants, fruit flies, hallucinogenic, horses, jaguar, Mark Hill, monkeys, Opium, poison, TopTenz
Most people would steer clear of any snakes or oversized spiders that crossed our paths. We have a sort of logic when it comes to animals that tells us “Bigger = Deadlier.” And in the case, say, a King Cobra versus a garden snake, that argument checks out. But more often, you will often find [...]
Posted by Simon Griffin on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals · Tagged Animals, Ants, frogs, hornets, Jellyfish, octopus, poison, poisonous creatures, scorpions, Simon Griffin, snails, snakes, spiders, TopTenz
There are just too many creepy places in America for this list to be the top 10, but these 10 destinations are all near the top of the list in terms of all-in-all creep factor. With Halloween fast approaching this list is appropriate and if you live near any of the places you may want [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, History, Travel · Tagged Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, creepy places, Cultural anthropology, death, Estes Park, Fall River, Francis Sorrel, ghost video car commercial, ghosts, halloween, haunted, haunting, J. Frank W. Stewart, John Bell, Kate Batts, legend, Legends, lizzie borden, Myrtles Plantation, mystery, poison, prison, Sarah L. Winchester, Sorrel Weed House, Stephen King, terror, The Shining, urban legend, urban legends, waverly hills, Waverly Hills Sanatorium, White Lady, winchester mystery house
Update: With the recent (April 2010) eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano in Iceland, this list is more interesting than ever. The volcano has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air, reducing air quality and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. The [...]
Posted by Katherine Watt on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 6:10 am
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There is reason animals are called animals, and that is because they are wild. They are hard wired for survival, and if the heavens made them one of the most adorable, docile looking creatures on earth, that has absolutely nothing to do with this drive. Most animals will do whatever is necessary to remain free, [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, November 30, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals · Tagged Animal, Animals, attack, chimp, chimpanzee, chipmunk, creatures, cute animals, deadly animals, death, dolphin, dolphins, elephan, hippo, hippopotamus, loris, Nature, pets, platypus, poison, polar bear, predator, rabies, siberian chipmunk, slow loris, stingray, swan
When eating, we generally find food that we think tastes great. Others like to focus on how healthy a certain food is before eating it. In any case, food is essential to all of our being. It is speculated that the body can only last two weeks without eating before it starts to break down [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Friday, August 14, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food, Photos · Tagged almonds, Apple, capsaicin, cashews, cassava, cherry, chilies, cyanide, deadliest, death, food, habaneros, Health, kill, mushrooms, poison, potato, pufferfish, tomato, top 10 toxic foods, toxic, toxic foods, yuca
A tragedy is defined as an event that results in great loss, misfortune, and usually death. They can surround an individual’s endeavors in which they suffer extreme consequences from a disastrous flaw or lifestyle, but often an unpreventable natural occurrence sets the stage for utter catastrophe. The most common examples are earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, [...]
When it comes to the movies, we very rarely think of wine. Our villains are usually into some kind of illegal substance, and our heroes either don’t drink because they’re heroes, or they’re anti-heroes and drink scotch, bourbon, whiskey, or some other liquor straight. However, I’ve managed to compile a list of movies that do [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, May 4, 2009 at 2:15 am
Filed under Food, Movies · Tagged a walk in the clouds, Add new tag, arsenic, arsenic and old lace, big sleep, bottle of wine, brandy, cary grant, casablanca, cyanide, french kiss, glass of wine, Hitchcock, merlot, movie, Movies, Notorious, poison, princess bride, sideways, Silence of the Lambs, strychnine, The Princess Bride, top 10 wine, vineyard, vino, wine, wine cellar, winery, wines
No visit to a new country would be complete without trying the native moonshine. Just as culinary tastes differ throughout the world, as do beverages. Most countries share the old favorites of beer and wine, but here’s a list of poisons solely unique to particular regions – for good reasons. 10. Argentinean Maté Although not [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food · Tagged absinthe, alcohol, Argentina, banned, beer, brand, cachaca, calabash gourd, cocktail caipirinha, concoction, crimes, culinary tastes, France, guinness, liquor, list of poisons, mate, moonshine, ouzo, pisco, poison, rakia, Russia, russian vodka, sake, vodka, water, wine
Most countries have laws against them. In most places around the globe it is illegal to capture, breed, or sell them. Yet world wide there is a fascination with owning wild, bizarre, exotic, and most of the time dangerous pets. What are this fascination with being different and the need to own something illegal and [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Friday, September 26, 2008 at 5:35 am
Filed under Animals · Tagged alligator, Animal, Animals, baby turtles, Bizarre, camels, chimps, constrictors, crocodile, dangerous pets, exotic pets, kinkajou, monkeys, ostriches, pet, pet store, pets, poison, red tailed boa, salmonella, scorpions, snakes, tigers, Turtle, Venom