Considering all of their portraits feature them clad in ridiculously pimpin’ robes carrying golden scepters with a crown full of jewels atop their head, you’d imagine that the majority of British Monarchs died comfortably on a bed stuffed with swan necks while a servant beat a poor person to death with a sack of diamonds…
Author: Karl Smallwood
One of our favorite things to do here at TopTenz is watch old movies and look objectively at fight scenes to try and figure out exactly what was going through a given character’s mind, moments before they had their ribs pulverized to dust by a punishing uppercut from the main hero or villain. What we’ve…
According to the esteemed font of scholarly knowledge known as, Wikipedia, the Earth is an oblate spheroid. However, according to the Flat Earth Society who have the word “Earth” right there in their name, the Globe is actually a big flat disk, gravity is a lie and NASA is the most powerful commercial entity on…
Despite the fact that they’re hilariously easy to debunk and disprove, conspiracy theories always seem to dominate any discussion of the six booty calls we as a species paid to the moon. And that’s a real shame, because there are so many other awesome, sometimes controversial facts about the moon landings that are so much more…
At the time of writing this article, there are currently 721 Pokémon, about 151 of which are actually any good depending on how much of a tool the person you ask is. With nearly a thousand different Pokémon out there it’s understandable that not all of them are going to be winners. As it turns…
Last week we published a list of 10 character from the Marvel universe who could hurl a Subway sandwich to Saturn and as expected, the first comment was someone telling us we were stupid for ignoring the upper pantheon of characters who can destroy entire realms of reality. So we decided to write a sister list…
In the Marvel universe there’s something called the “strength scale”, against which all heroes are measured and ranked in terms of their “raw physical strength.” At the upper end of this scale there are over a hundred heroes who supposedly possess an “incalculable” level of power. This of course makes ranking the top 10 strongest characters…
Virtually every military unit on Earth has its own motto, and as you can imagine a lot of them are pretty awesome. Apparently for some units, merely being badass wasn’t enough and as a result, they have mottos that wouldn’t look out of place on the cover of a power metal album. For example, consider the…
You know that McDonald’s is kind of evil, because there are more column inches and pseudo-scientific documentaries dedicated to that fact than there are as to whether or not jet fuel can burn hot enough to melt steel. But we felt that there was just a little more life left in this idea thanks to…
Wikipedians is the colloquial name given to the fine, upstanding men and women who devote their free time to updating, fact-checking and otherwise maintaining the eternal font of information that is Wikipedia. Despite their lofty and noble pursuit of maintaining a free encyclopedia containing all of human knowledge, sometimes Wikipedians argue. Luckily for us, sometimes…
A while back we published a list about the walking advertisement for broken collarbones that was Bruce Lee, and you guys loved it. So we decided to sit down and give everyone’s favorite Hong Kong hero, Jackie Chan, the same treatment. After spending weeks meditating under a waterfall while listening to ’80s rock, this is…
Given that Game of Thrones is a TV show full of dragons, the fact that it’s full of historical inaccuracies shouldn’t be surprising. But since much of the show and accompanying books are based on actual historical events, surely there’s an air of truth to some of it, right? Well, yes and no, as we’re…
It’s kind of a given that the President of the United States should be pretty smart. Despite what hack comedians will tell you about George W. Bush, an idiot can’t just walk into the White House and run the country. But even by the standards of the office, some of America’s most impressive minds could…
As we’ve already discussed, twice, there’s a fine line between dedication and obsession. What one person would consider to be a perfectly normal hobby like owning the same VHS tape 500 times, another person might see that as a tad bizarre or even god forbid, excessive. However, we think that kind of enthusiasm for anything…
By now we’re going to guess that approximately all of you have seen this video of Lars Anderson kicking more ass with a bow and arrow than all of Legolas’ scenes in the extended edition of the Lord of the Rings combined. While many have been quick to point out that Anderson’s abilities and claims in…
As we’ve discussed in a previous list, there are actors out there who literally only took on major film roles because their kids wanted them to. Today we wanted to continue on that theme and discuss ten awesome stories of husbands going to ridiculous extremes, just to do something nice for their wife. For example,…
We like to try new things here at TopTenz and this is another first for us. Two of our favorite authors have agreed to have a verbal fight to decide who are the most difficult video game bosses. The talented writers defending their choices are Karl Smallwood and Dustin Koski. Both are long-time writers for our…
Buster Keaton lived such an extraordinary life that boiling it down to a 10 item list would be both unfeasible and offensive to the memory of a man we really don’t want to be haunted by. So we’re going to tighten our focus and list 10 facts about Buster Keaton that prove what we’ve suspected…
As we’ve endeavoured to prove on Toptenz and our sister sites, learning is all kinds of awesome and we should all try to do it as much as possible. With that said, you’d think that learning in a place full of dragons or under the tutelage of an aging Japanese man would be at least…
Hey, remember in 2013 when practically every news source on Earth was sharing a story about Samsung paying a billion dollar fine to Apple in nickels? Then remember when it was actually revealed to be a hoax and almost nobody covered it because they’d already got their page views and felt no need to correct…
Logos are a ubiquitous part of the urban ecosystem. With so many companies bombarding us with so many logos in every facet of modern life, it’s easy to tune them out or ignore them altogether. But if you look a little deeper, some of the logos you see every day have some interesting stories behind…
Most people who earn a “genius” reputation are known only for their genius. Any part of them that threatens to erase their genius in favor of a reputation as a world-class prick gets swept under the rug. Which isn’t fair; it’s entirely possible to be both a world-changing genius and a horrible piece of trash. As you’re about to find out.
When we picture the world of corporate corruption we always imagine men in impeccably well tailored suits who work for a huge, faceless oil or drug company, or something along those lines. We never think of the various companies that make up the dairy industry as being shady — they work with cows and make ice…
We think it’s fair to say that we at TopTenz have a man crush on Bruce Lee, and judging by how popular the articles and videos we’ve dedicated to him are, we think that’s a feeling you share. So we reached out to the biggest Bruce Lee fan we had on staff and asked him…