Few cultures in history have been as fascinating to modern people as Ancient Egypt. What most people today don’t realize is just how long that civilization lasted. The length of time between the building of the Great Pyramid and the end of Ancient Egyptian civilization was longer than the time between the end of that…
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No one knows what the first prank ever played on someone else was, but it probably had something to do with one caveman hiding a Mastodon steak from his buddy. These days pranks are a lot more elaborate and, sometimes, far more dangerous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn1GwfDusVQ&ab_channel=TopTenzTopTenzVerified This is an encore of one of our previous lists, as presented by our YouTube…
Someone once said that space is the final frontier. That may be true, but there are going to be a lot of things to sort through before anything truly becomes final. There is a lot of stuff going on in space, and some of what we have already discovered is absolutely mind-blowing. 10. Giant Booze…
Every so often people learn a fact and take it for granted that it’s true. You can live your whole life believing this fact until the day comes when you discover it’s absolutely untrue and never was true. It can be quite surprising when it happens. But the fact is, we all fall prey to…
Nature can be unpredictable sometimes. Humans routinely build settlements near major waterways, lakes and oceans because historically water has been vital for any settlement. Whether for fishing, travel, or trade, many major hubs of early civilization were ports and resorts. But that also meant they were at risk of falling prey to things like earthquakes,…
The idea of a gender reveal party is a fairly new one. They seem to have sprung up in the last decade or so and have spread like wildfire, sometimes literally. The point of a gender reveal is to gather your friends and family together to make a surprise announcement about the gender of the…
In the year 31 BC, Augustus Caesar declared himself Emperor and the Roman Empire was born. It extended all the way to the year 1453 when Constantinople finally fell and the Empire was over. That’s a good run by anyone’s standards. But with nearly 1,500 years of history, there’s been plenty of opportunities for myths…
When people refer to ancient empires these days, especially the biggest ones, Rome is invariably brought up. The fall of the Roman Empire is used as an example of greatness toppled by its own avarice, pride, greed, foolishness, or whatever other vice is being explained. The thing is, while the Roman Empire did conquer vast…
Few cultures in history have been as fascinating to modern people as Ancient Egypt. What most people today don’t realize is just how long that civilization lasted. The length of time between the building of the Great Pyramid and the end of Ancient Egyptian civilization was longer than the time between the end of that…
As we’ve already seen, humans have a rich history of making bad choices before they know better. We will regularly play with and use deadly things until we take a step back and realize what we’re doing. Sadly, the cost of learning this lesson is often paid in lives. 10. Lawn Darts One of the…
The word “delicacy” gets used a lot to describe foods that are often less than appetizing. It has become a sort of diplomatic way to describe something that no one would want to eat unless they had to, more often than not. Some delicacies, like grubs for instance, seem to have been borne from necessity…
Our solar system is not nearly as old as the universe at large, but it’s still quite a mystery to us. How did we come to be? What made this solar system the only one we know of capable of supporting life? (That we know of.) There are billions of years of history to pick…
The human body is by far one of the most mysterious things in the entire universe. As far as we know, of the billions and stars and planets out there, nothing like us exists anywhere. Nothing capable of creating language and technology like humankind has, and nothing that has evolved to be as intelligent or…
Mankind has been fascinated by the idea of an afterlife for thousands of years. The mystery of what awaits beyond this life is one none of us can ever have a definitive answer to. But there’s lots of speculation, and even a few sightings of things that may have come from beyond. Unfortunately for those…
In the modern age, everyone is familiar with the look of a castle and the general idea of how one worked. Unfortunately, most of this knowledge stems from pop culture. We know castles because we saw Jon Snow or Aragorn defending them. The real life castles are more foreign to us and some of their…
Ancient Greek culture has fascinated the world since it could first be considered ancient. The mythology, the politics, the people, the battles, and more. But history works a little bit like the telephone game. Stories get told and retold enough times, and suddenly myth is born. What seemed like fact is, in fact, myth. 10.…
No matter what kind of climates, landscape, scenery, or conditions you enjoy there is probably a place somewhere on Earth that will meet your needs, environmentally speaking. And while one Canadian forest may not look too much different from another, and one chunk of desert in Africa may not look too much different from another,…
In 2020, in the grips of a full-blown pandemic, fast food restaurants in America still pulled in $239 billion in revenue. The previous year it was $273 billion. That would rank fast food as the 44th biggest country in the world by GDP if it was being compared that way, ahead of Egypt, Portugal and…
Life is a learning process. When we discover new things it takes some time to figure them out and how to use them. Humans are, by nature, mistrustful of new things. New foods, new technology, and new ideas. No matter how innocent something may truly be, there will often be naysayers convinced it’s a cause…
The night is dark and full of terrors, but so is your house. Even though most of us look at home as a sanctuary, as a place to protect us from the stresses and dangers of the outside world where we can relax and watch Netflix in our underwear, it’s not without its own unique…
Keeping soldiers healthy on the field of battle is a monumental task that few people ever fully appreciate. Preparing and transporting food, keeping supply lines open, making it portable and edible in the worst of conditions is almost impossible. Throughout the history of warfare, it has not been easy. But the military does try. Sometimes…
No one knows what the first prank ever played on someone else was, but it probably had something to do with one caveman hiding a Mastodon steak from his buddy. These days pranks are a lot more elaborate and, sometimes, far more dangerous. 10. YouTuber Shot Prank videos have long been a popular subgenre of…
For years it’s been pretty standard to use wood or bricks, maybe some siding and shingles, if you want to build a house. That’s far from all you can use, though. Turns out there can be quite a lot more diversity in making houses than you’d at first believe. 10. Coffee Every day Americans take…
Mankind has been fascinated by the idea of an afterlife for thousands of years. The mystery of what awaits beyond this life is one none of us can ever have a definitive answer to. But there’s lots of speculation, and even a few sightings of things that may have come from beyond. Unfortunately for those…