As a society we love to hear about the weird, the odd and the bizarre. And we like our information in a 10-pack usually. TopTenz delivers with a collection of Top 10 Bizarre lists.
Nowadays we take colors for granted, but historically they’ve been hard to come by. Pigment-makers…
An Ig Nobel Prize is to science what a Darwin Award is to survival. These…
Initially known as the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), the FBI came into being in 1908.…
Many places around the world are eerily distinguished by the presence of dead bodies laid…
Fighting climate change – a widely-used euphemism for the ongoing climate catastrophe – is humanity’s…
Ghost ships, or phantom ships, make up a big part of the seafaring lore that…
When people talk about cults, we often mention the most tragic stories that make major…
The notion of a utopia—a perfect, egalitarian, and harmonious paradise on Earth—has been a recurring…
They say truth is stranger than fiction, and in most cases it’s also more interesting.…
The United States is great for a lot of reasons, and most people who live…
Missing persons cases can be difficult to crack. However, most people go missing one at…
On the whole, humans like to eat animals that have suffered—be it “humanely,” in state-of-the-art…
If you’ve ever been on the internet, you have probably seen someone pass around a…
Nowadays we take colors for granted, but historically they’ve been hard to come by. Pigment-makers…
Death is unfortunate enough as an event in human lives. Yet some practices that either…
Even though it’s been going on two centuries since Robert Cornelius took both the first…
In today’s world, almost everyone is taking selfies on a regular basis. It doesn’t seem…
As the old saying goes, “you do the crime, you do the time,” but for…
Conspiracy theories are very popular today, but they are not a new phenomenon. There have…
In the centuries prior to the French Revolution, French authorities used a variety of methods…
Hey! Has anyone checked out your DNA? If so, we’re not surprised. Experts say that…
We’ve all heard various sayings that decry revenge as being a worthless act that’s beneath…
While it has been boasted that P.T. Barnum created the original freak show, the truth…
When you think of the term “freak show” you might imagine scenes from a bygone…