Author: Karl Smallwood

When Karl isn’t writing lists for Toptenz, he’s the researcher and writer for Factfiend.com, a website dedicated to sharing facts that weren’t on the front page of Reddit three days ago like all those other fact based sites. Fact Fiend is also on Youtube.

The little guy is a colloquial term we use to refer to someone who doesn’t have million of dollars worth of backing and an army of lawyers, the people on this list may seem rather different, but they all have one thing in common. Someone with more money and power than them stole their idea…

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When it comes to the internet it’s sometimes quite hard to trust or believe what you’re reading and we’d guess that everyone reading this has a particular site that they’d trust over all others. We’re not here to talk about those, we’re here to introduce you to 10 places online that are actually pretty damn…

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Absolute power corrupts absolutely, says just about everybody who can’t think of their own damn line. But cliched as it may be, it’s usually true, especially in these ten cases. When nobody has the ability to overrule a psychopath with power, everybody loses. Except the psychopaths, who tend to do OK in such cases.

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If you didn’t commit the crime you were convicted of, a pardon would truly be a gift from Heaven. Unless, of course, you’re already in Heaven when it happens. Post-mortem pardons are almost always a cases, made even worse once you realize even a freakin’ turkey can get pardoned in a timely manner.

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Any idiot can rob a bank or shoot somebody; it takes a truly creative criminal mind to pull off some of these petty, yet ingenious, illegal acts. What they’re doing may be against the law, but you still have to respect anybody willing to risk a criminal record with such interesting ideas.

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One of the easiest ways to make your product recognizable and successful is to slap a celebrity’s face on it, because famous people are never wrong about anything. Sometimes, celebrities become unwilling endorsers, with their likeness slathered all over stuff they want nothing to do with. It’s like identity theft, only without all the maxed-out credit cards.

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The Chain Chomp is one of the most enduring foes in the Mario series, for newer players they pose one of the first real challenges they’ll ever face in game. However, due to the fact they’re chained up, avoiding one is usually just a matter of jumping like a boss. Few people realise though that…

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It’s an oft repeated fact that there is no word in the English language that rhymes with either, “Orange”, “Purple” or “Elephant”, is that true? Probably not because people make up new words all the time. Well Eminem, yes, that Eminem, thinks that’s a load of crap too, but for a different reason, that reason…

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