Author: Karl Smallwood

Tobacco companies get a bad rap, presumably because they make profits by giving people all sorts of cancer. This article probably isn’t going to help their case, since we’re talking about nothing but the horrible depths they’ve sunk to keep cancer profitable, but it sure is interesting. 10. Free Cigarettes For Soldiers Smoking and the…

Lord Timothy Dexter is noted as one of the more eccentric beings in human history, his many quirks involve napping in his silk lined coffin when he was bored, writing a book with no punctuation and building a giant statue of himself in his garden proclaiming himself as the greatest philosopher in the world. He…

If you ever needed another reason to dislike rich people and celebrities, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy are you in for a treat today. Studies have shown that people who earn in excess of 70 thousand dollars a year are 30% more like to shoplift than people earning less than a quarter of that…

Ever wondered what it would take for someone to convince you to murder another human being? Well you’re probably insane and in serious need of help, the latter of which we can provide by telling you that all it would take is a lab coat. Scientists have discovered that we as humans are socially engineered…

George Clooney, along with having a face that looks like it was carved by angels with OCD, is also an avid prankster and has no qualms about pranking some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. When he and Brad Pitt were working on Oceans 11, in response to Pitt telling the crew to not make eye contact…

In the Pokemon series of games a new creature called Spinda was introduced in the third generation. The in game Pokedex entry for this Pokemon is as follows, “It is said that no two Spinda have the same pattern of spots.” This isn’t just a throwaway line, each Spinda you encounter has its spots…

Jigoro Kano, the man credited with creating judo, despite being the first and possibly greatest practitioner of a martial art that basically consists of trying to fuse a opponent’s collarbone with the pavement, was only 5ft 2 and weighed just over 90 pounds. Bear that in mind. Kano got the idea for judo while jujitsu…

One of the most decorated marines of all time is one Chesty Puller, his exploits are so legendary that other marines still, to this day, entertain other marines with hyperbolic stories about his manliness and general awesomeness. He is literally the Chuck Norris of the military world. If you have any doubts in your mind…

Nickelback is a running joke in the music industry. If you want to say something sucks, just compare it to Nickelback. For example “Dude, this TopTenz list sucks so hard it automatically made me like Nickelback on Facebook”. However, we feel that this hate is undeserved, so here are 10 reasons you should at the…

In a 2012 study, 66% of young people quizzed felt that the dictionary, the eternal sentinel of the English language, should contain “variant spellings” of words. This figure was linked, in part, to the ubiquitous nature of bad or poor spelling online. It’s rumoured (by me) that the second these children suggest that the dictionary…

As sound is basically just a wave, it’s entirely possible to completely and utterly eliminate it by blasting another sound of the exact opposite frequency at it, at the same volume. This is known as anti-sound. In fact there’s a machine that has been invented that is capable of blasting out anti-sound tuned to whatever…

Despite only having the strength level of an ordinary human being, the Flash is arguably one of the strongest people in the entirety of comic history. Not only is he able to move so fast he can literally make the universe stand still, but by accelerating his body to near or above light speed his…

Here at TopTenz, we have a strict no-swearing policy, which is why if you wish to learn our actual opinion of the Nazis, you’d have to piece together a bunch of NWA songs. For people unwilling to do that, we don’t like them very much. That said, the Nazis did give the world some of…

The original Godzilla suit (the big-ass rubber one from the 60’s) weighed in excess of 200 pounds. The guy who actually designed and made it, despite being the person who fucking made it, couldn’t walk more than 10 feet with it on. Haruo Nakajima, the guy who’d eventually go on to don the suit for…

The AC-130 (that big-ass plane from Call of Duty) packs enough weaponry to obliterate virtually anything from a mile up in the skies. Along with this however, it’s almost impossible to shoot down due to something colloquially known as “Angel flares”. These flares are so named because when the AC-130 drops them, they seem to…

Up to around 1950, radio announcers on the BBC, if they were on the radio after 8PM, were required to wear dinner jackets as part of their uniform. April 18th, 1930 is known in BBC history as “The Day There Was No News” as, for whatever reason, there was no news of any kind to…

Reddit, depending on who you ask, is either the greatest source of information and entertainment on the web, or a leaking cesspit of misogyny and sexism with a very good façade. To be honest, it’s a lot of both, which is what makes it so iconic and awesome. Whether you’re a budding Redditor, or simply…

Hermann Goerner was strongman who still to this day holds one of the heaviest deadlifts of all time at 727 pounds, for reference that’s over 2 Shaquille O’Neal’s, with one fucking hand. Hermann also only had one eye, since he lost one of them in WW1, during which he was also hit by over 200…

Elijah Wood, Daniel Radcliffe and Tobey Maguire are all often mistaken for each other. Being a total legend, Daniel Radcliffe once tested this theory by going out and signing autographs as Elijah Wood just to see if he could, he did this for an entire day and no one ever questioned him. So if you’re…

If a Roman gladiator kicked enough ass in the coliseum he would be presented with “The Rudis” a small wooden dagger that granted him his freedom. A gladiator known as Flamma (AKA, The Flame) won this favour 4 times for rage murdering any one who stepped in front of him. Each time he was given…

The strongest human being to ever walk the Earth was Angus MacAskill. The tallest true giant (a perfectly proportioned giant with no physical abnormalities) on record. Clocking in at an amazing 7ft 9, in his lifetime Angus reportedly threw men 10 clear feet, lifted horses up with one hand, emptied a half ton boat of…

In studies it has been shown that simply seeing vegetables on your plate, even if you don’t eat them, makes both the other food on the plate taste better and automatically makes you assume the person who made the meal is more caring and devoted. The lesson here is obvious, throw piles of lettuce onto…

Movies are a window to another world, 90 minutes for us viewers to switch off our brains and be entertained. However, when you take a closer look at some movies, the actions of the characters seems downright stupid, especially when there are obvious, much better options available to them. For example. 10. Jurassic Park: Why…

Throughout history there have been hundreds, if not thousands, of badass warriors who dedicated their lives to whupping ass. Not all of them get recognized, sadly. Here are ten people who you’ll probably not see in a history textbook any time soon, which is a shame, because those history books would be way more awesome…