If you’re reading this site, you’ve gone through some school of some sort and have experienced the unintentional hilarity of school rules being followed to their extremes. Rest assured, unless you went to one of these ten schools, you most likely haven’t seen anything yet. 10. UK School Bans Triangular Flapjack Proving that the insanity…
Author: Michael Allison
Modern technology has become more personal and a bit intrusive in our lives. Spending a few hours away from a smart device — not to mention TopTenz — is pretty hard for people. For better or worse, scientists are looking at your addiction and saying, “Hmm, we can top that.” 10. Intelligent Glasses Translate Foreign…
“When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” means that when people have a certain tool, they tend to use it for everything, even in situations when it doesn’t make any sense. Lasers are the modern equivalent of that hammer, except it turns out that they can be used in just…
While Hollywood presents assassins and assassinations in various outlandish and implausible ways, they do manage to get several facts right. One of those is the fact that assassinations are usually commissioned by large shady organisations with plenty of money, secrets, and power. And what shady organisation has more money, secrets and power than the government? Governments…
If you were ever going to commit a robbery (don’t,) you’d probably use a gun or a knife, right? Well, tell that to these jokers, who couldn’t find an actual weapon, but still wanted to rob something. So, they just grabbed the first thing they could find, and hoped for the best. For the most part, they didn’t get it.
Much like superheroes, every religion worth their salt has a cool origin story that explains how the world came to be. Some are pretty straight-forward (a powerful being created the world with magic and then they were done,) whole others sound like something out of the mind of a hyperactive eight-year-old. Here are ten of the latter.