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So perhaps it should come as not too much of a surprise that when he challenged me to come up with a list for Listverse about beers, here is the resulting list about bears. Close, but not quite. Enjoy! 10 Teenage Bear Trippin’ On Hallucinogenic Honey The Turkish Kaçkar mountains near the Black Sea and the foothills of the Himalayas are the only locations in the world where an indigenous species of rhododendron plant produces a potent hallucinogenic neurotoxin called grayanotoxin....

Here is the publisher’s description of the book: “Providing an astonishing array of information, The Ultimate Book of Top Ten Lists contains the best of everything from serial killers, scientific oddities, and historical events to little-known facts about everyone’s favorite celebrities, films, and books. There are even practical lists on how to save time and money and how to survive anything from a cocktail party to a bear attack. From the Oscars to Fantasy Football, everyone loves to debate rankings of the best and worst....

Pop culture loves loving back two decades. The 2000s saw an 80s resurgence, while the 90s craze of the 2010s is just now subsiding. So we’re due for a fond look-back on… 2001? God, I’m getting old. The following rings in 2021 with the best albums of 2001, in no particular order. 10 Strange Collaborations In Music 10 Is This It (The Strokes) The Strokes occupy an odd place in rock history....

10 Blind People Dream People who become blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion. It is hard for a seeing person to imagine, but the body’s need for sleep is so strong that it is able to handle virtually all physical situations to make it happen....

Minecraft is a simple game with simple rules but the blocky nature of the world in which it is set has not stopped players creating amazingly detailed recreations of both real world and fictional settings. Here are ten of the best places you can visit without leaving your laptop. 8 Innocent Kid’s Games That Went Horribly Wrong 10 Denmark Most Minecraft players make do with building small homes to keep the Creepers out....

The latter make the headlines more often. But ordinary civilians frequently stumble across artifacts that are unique, change history, or add considerably to scholars’ knowledge. 10 The Trajan-Augustus Coin In 2016, seasoned hiker Laurie Rimon fancied a walk in eastern Galilee. When she passed through an archaeological site, a yellow glint caught her eye. In the grass was an old coin. After handing it over to authorities, Rimon was surprised to learn that it was around 2,000 years old....

Since then, astronomers have captured some of the universe’s most incredible objects and phenomena in their lenses. Some astronomy photos have even gone down in history. 10 Amazing Astronomical Events Caught On Camera 10 The Birth Of A Solar System Previously, the process that forms planets was only known through mathematical models and computer simulations. Then, in 2014, astronomers were able to photograph the process in greater detail than ever before....

SEE ALSO: 10 Facts About The Ugly Side Of The Modeling Industry 10 Culkin Forget the Christian name? Nope – they both suck equally! I am not actually sure what to say about the Culkin Tribe. They are just so bad that nothing really registers in my mind when I think about them (except an odd picture of Michael Jackson). 9 Jean-Claude Van Damme We have to applaud his abilities with martial arts, but wow – couldn’t they just pay a good actor to learn to fake it?...

With commercial-free programming becoming the standard for television audiences, many people see those advertisements as nothing more than a nuisance to skip. But others still enjoy watching them – the funny ones especially. Maybe you couldn’t care less about football or movies, but you still watch the Super Bowl and the slowly dying Academy Awards because those live events often feature cutting-edge, highly-anticipated promotions that can set the tone for the rest of the year in advertising....

Grotesque is a 2009 Japanese splatter horror. The story follows the lives of a young couple who are snatched off the streets whilst on their first date, and are subjected to horrific torture by their insane kidnapper. Because of extremely disturbing footage, including eye gouging and amputation scenes, Grotesque is banned in many countries, including the UK. The film has been criticized for involving little narrative or character development, unlike successful splatter horrors such as Hostel or Saw....

10 How to boil an egg The perfect hard-boiled egg should have a moist and bright center – it should not be pale yellow and powdery and there should definitely be no signs of green around it (this signifies overcooking). To perfectly boil an egg, you need a pot which is large enough to hold the number of eggs you want to cook without them touching – but do not let it be so big that the eggs can move around the pot....

The earliest perfumes were composed of all-natural ingredients. Perfumes for the gods were composed largely of resins (frankincense, opoponax, and myrrh) and precious woods, while perfumes for the body added floral and fruity touches. Toward the end of the 19th century, scientists began discovering that the outcome of many of their experiments resulted in odors previously unknown, and there began the development of modern perfumery. For the first time in history, natural ingredients, though still taking a front row, began to be supplemented with exciting new chemicals....

Despite such witticisms, weather—in general, an effect of wind and sun (on Earth, at least)—is vital to our welfare and, indeed, our very existence, and it is taken so seriously, by farmers, researchers, and almost everyone else, that a whole branch of knowledge, meteorology, is dedicated to its study. Although we tend to think that the weather offers little that is unknown to us, new meteorological phenomena, as well as weather-related phenomena, do occasionally occur....

Manderlay 2006IMDB | Trailer Budget: $14,200,000 Box office sales: $78,378 Loss: 99.45% Of all the other bombs, this film was rated the highest at just over 7 stars on imdb. It is set in the 1930’s in southern USA on a property called Manderlay. Shockingly slavery is still being practiced even though it has been outlawed 70 years previously. There was some controversy involving the death of a donkey on set (the scene was later cut from the movie)....

The “Fact”: He had a supernatural birth According to North Korean historical literature, Kim Jong Il was born in a log cabin inside a secret base on Korea’s most sacred mountain, Mt. Paekdu. At the moment of his birth, a bright star lit up the sky, the seasons spontaneously changed from winter to spring, and rainbows appeared. This contradicts way less interesting Western accounts of his birth, which state the dictator was born in a guerilla camp in Russia, while his father was on the run from the Japanese....

10 Times Popular Culture Actually Killed People 10 Goth Who knew we’d still be seeing goths two whole decades into the 21st century? Why won’t they die? Well, in fairness, they seem to already be dead. It is mildly ironic that the go-to trend for outcast, non-conformist types turns out to be one of the most wide-spread, long-lasting subcultures of the 20th and 21st century. But goths don’t care. They don’t care about much of anything (except running out of ‘midnight onyx’ lip gloss)....

10 Napoleon’s Retreat From MoscowRussian Campaign Determined to convince Tsar Alexander I to stop sending the United Kingdom raw materials which enabled them to continue the war effort against France, Napoleon decided to invade Russia, a decision which haunted him for the rest of his life. After he and his Grande Armee finally arrived in Moscow on September 14, 1812, Napoleon was disheartened to see that the Russian military, as well as the civilian population, had fled the city....

One explanation, according to what Agent Mulder might call a “non-believer,” is that the Mothman is nothing that can’t be found in the natural world; in particular, a barn owl. This particular owl does, after all, fit all the Mothman criteria: their wingspan, when fully extended, makes the bird seem larger than it actually is; their eyes (which also appear to be mounted on headless torsos) reflect a distinctly eery red when flashlights or headlights glow upon them; and they emit a kind of screeching sound for which the Mothman is also known....

Recent discoveries uncovered fields where none were ever seen before, the spot where the planet’s poles might flip, and how to control brains and make wormholes. Magnetic fields also create and sometimes solve fascinating riddles in space. 10 Magnetic Moths Australia’s animals take the prize for strangeness. The country can now add the world’s first magnetic moths to the menagerie. Bogong moths will not stick to a magnet, but they have been exposed as the first nocturnal insects to use Earth’s magnetic field during migration....

Top 10 Images That Show The Positive Side Of The Coronavirus Pandemic Being confined to home for weeks on end, with limited outside activity permitted has inevitably led to a boredom, as people across the world try to fill in their time in isolation. In most European cities, citizens are confined to their own small apartments within massive apartment blocks, without the opportunity to head out into the back yard which will be enjoyed by Australians and New Zealanders....