10 Popular Films Adapted From Crazy Sources
Lots of iconic stuff is adapted from other iconic stuff – Jaws the movie from…
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10 Questions Science Took Forever to Answer
The scientific method is all about getting to the bottom of questions large and small.…
10 Promising Advanced Concepts in Renewable Energy
It’s the consensus of the scientific community that not only is global climate change actually…
Top 10 Questionable Deaths Ruled as Suicides
Sometimes, when people take their own lives, it’s not difficult to understand how it could…
Top 10 World Records That Took Forever to Break
Records are made to be broken. Some, however, take way longer than others. You can run the world’s fastest marathon in about two hours or so, which is nothing. Get back to us when you’ve entered the Guinness Book for something that requires COMMITMENT.
Top 10 Cases of Zero Tolerance in Schools Failing Miserably
On paper, Zero Tolerance in schools sounds good. Classroom violence and brutality has gone too far, and by gum we won’t let it stand even one more time! However, in practice it fails far too often, as perfectly innocent accidents and misunderstandings get treated like major crimes, ruining lives for little reason other than “we gotta look tough, dang it.”
Top 10 Incredibly Controversial Police Shootings from the Past Ten Years
It’s always a horrible casualty when a police officer is forced to shoot a suspect to death. But when word gets out that the shooting might not have been necessary at all, things become even worse. And when you realize that this kind of thing happens a LOT, that pit in your stomach drops deepest of all.
Top 10 Fascinating Firsts In the World of Entertainment
Entertainment today is so advanced, and evolves at such a rapid pace, that it’s easy to take it all for granted. Here’s a tribute to the trailblazers of the past, the ones who helped make our high-tech, high-def world possible in the first place.
Top 10 Notable and Notorious Exploitation Films
Exploitation films are not for the weak of heart, weak of stomach, or weak of anything really. Filled with blood, guts, violence, and horrible death, these movies are made specifically to churn stomachs and make you glad you’re not any of the characters. here are ten of the worst.
Top 10 Strange and Fascinating Facts About Ice
We rarely think of ice unless we’re using one to cool down our drinks, or cursing when we slip on some and fall on our butts. But there’s way more to frozen water than meets the eye, both on our world and far beyond.
10 More Notorious “One-Hit Wonders” Who Had Multiple Hit Songs
Sometimes, history will unfairly relegate certain people to categories into which they do not belong,…
Top 10 Weirdest Statues On The Planet
Not every statue is of a heroic warrior, or is a symbol of freedom, love, and hope. Sometimes, statues are just, well, bizarre. They’re the kinds of things that, if you ever learned what the sculptor was thinking about as he chiseled away, you might never sleep again.
Top 10 Entertainers Who Succeeded Despite Natural Disadvantages
If you heard that someone, say, had no hands, that probably would disqualify them from being a master pianist, right? WRONG. As these people prove, anyone can be successfu at anything, even if their own bodies and minds are working against them.
Top 10 Story Songs All About Death
The story song is one of the most difficult feats for writers of lyrics to…
Top 10 People Who Went Missing For Years (And Turned Up Alive)
Recently, three women who had been kidnapped separately over a decade ago were found alive and…
Top 10 Harrowing Transportation Disasters (That Were Barely Averted)
Major disasters involving planes, trains, buses and ocean liners get plenty of media coverage, which…
Top 10 Famously Limited (Bad) Actors Who Can Actually Act
Some actors are chameleons. Upon first viewing of any movie Gary Oldman has ever been…
Top 10 Documentarians Who Were Sued By The Subjects of Their Films
There exists an odd relationship between documentarian and subject, one that some say can border…
Top 10 Popular Films Adapted From Crazy Sources
Lots of iconic stuff is adapted from other iconic stuff – Jaws the movie from…
Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Hip-Hop Culture
When most people hear the term “Hip-Hop,” they think of the musical form that, within…
Top 10 Ridiculous Reasons That People Were Thrown In Jail
Nobody wants to be a jailbird when they grow up, but people who do end…
Top 10 Most Bizarre Coincidences In Professional Sports
Since sixteen and three-quarter billion pro sporting contests take place each year worldwide (give or…