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While most people found the explanations for these scientists’ deaths perfectly acceptable, some began to investigate further, and the conspiracy theory that they were being “eliminated” was born. Many of the scientists were found to have had “secret” ties to the intelligence communities, and it was argued that they were being targeted intentionally. Here are ten such people. 10 Dr. Rodney Marks Australian astrophysicist Dr. Rodney Marks died from acute methanol poisoning....

See Also: 10 Creepy Mysteries That Are Still Unsolved, Including The Poisoning Of The Titanic Cast Fact: Silent Screen Star Survives And Makes a Profit Off The Tragedy Dorothy Gibson was a pretty big deal in her time. A star of the silent-screen, alongside such luminaries as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, the first class passenger was a household name by the time she stepped on the Titanic. She had become popular as a comedienne in Miss Masquerader (1911) and Love Finds a Way (1912)....

10The Mechelen Incident German military planners were convinced that attacking France and Britain head-on was near suicidal. Franz Halder, the chief of staff of the Army High Command (OKH), concocted an unimaginative advance eerily similar to the Schlieffen Plan of 1914 which ground to a halt. Halder’s intention was to make Hitler see the futility and senselessness of such an attack, which would commit half a million German troops to attacking in January 1940, gaining a static frontline, and waiting two years until another offensive could take place....

10The Tower Of Babel Was A Gigantic Ziggurat Even amid all the iconic tales of Genesis, the story of the Tower of Babel stands out. In nine short lines, it tells us how the uppity men of Earth decided to build a tower so big it could feature as a set piece in MI:5. To prevent that from happening, God messed up all their languages. Since we’d have probably noticed an ancient mega-tower in the Middle East by now, the story has to be a fable, right?...

10Fedex Logo Subliminally Tells Us They Are Fast The Fedex logo is basically just the company’s name: “Fed” in bold purple writing and “Ex” in bold orange. There’s nothing particularly clever about that. So why has such an unassuming logo won dozens of awards? For its use of negative space. In the FedEx logo, the “E” and the “x” are positioned in such a way that an arrow is formed in the space between them....

A staggering 75% of the earliest movies, the silent films, are considered lost today. And a group of independent filmmakers at missingmovies.org are highlighting the problem of how more recent movies—even from the 21st century—can go missing due to rights issues, effectively hiding away the elements required to produce new copies. Fortunately, lost films are found and restored every year. Let’s take a look at ten lost films that were found recently....

SEE ALSO: 10 More Macabre Folktales From Around The World However, there are a number of macabre tourist attractions throughout the world that many of us would have nightmares about visiting. In fact, it’s hard to imagine how some of these attractions were ever established, let alone enjoy ongoing popularity. Displays of murder scenes, rat-infested temples, and voodoo markets are just some of the bizarre tourist attractions that some travelers have on their itinerary....

10 Youth Unemployment Youth unemployment is a major problem in many countries. In the United States, youth employment has gone down in the past five years, but it is still at 11.1 percent, while the overall unemployment rate is just 5.5 percent. In Canada, the youth unemployment rate is 15.5 percent, while the national average is about half that. It’s even worse in Europe, with almost a quarter of people between the ages of 18 and 24 unemployed....

Basically, if the sea levels drop drastically (whether it be through Global Cooling – more on that soon – or sinking of the mid-ocean ridges), it could reduce the area around the Continental Shelf (the most productive part of the oceans) causing a “marine mass extinction” meaning all the little fishies, sharks, whales and almost all the life in the big blue dies. If that’s not bad enough weather patterns can change drastically leading to mass extinctions on land (That means us!...

See Also: Top 10 Codes You Aren’t Meant To Know Medical terms are sometimes humorous and used to explain some hilarious medical scenario. Others are used to hide more offensive or derogatory statements. And then there is the distinct category of slang used to describe the condition of dying patients, hide controversial medical procedures from their relatives or just refer to the annoying habits of loved ones. 10 John Thomas Sign The John Thomas, JT or Throckmorton‘s sign is a slang used by physicians to refer to the position of the penis in the X-ray scans of a man’s pelvis....

But it is possible for meetings to be radically more interesting than what we are accustomed to. If the definition of a meeting is allowed to include conferences and assemblies, then there is no shortage of meetings in which you certainly wouldn’t fall asleep. So here are ten occasions when people “sat around a table” and changed the course of history. 10 The Congress of Vienna The year was 1814....

SEE ALSO: 10 Executions That Were The First Of Their Kind 10 Drowning The “surface struggle” for breath Death by drowning has a certain dark romance to it: countless literary heroines have met their end slipping beneath the waves with billowy layers of petticoats floating around their heads. In reality, suffocating to death in water is neither pretty nor painless, though it can be surprisingly swift. Just how fast people drown depends on several factors, including swimming ability and water temperature....

This week was a veritable newsgasm, with major stories pouring in from all over the globe in surging rivers of newsiness. There were major political upsets in Taiwan and Switzerland, ethically dubious science headlines from China, and the potential discovery of the US’s worst-ever serial killer. To top it all off, we also saw Ukraine and Russia potentially trigger World War III. Ready to have your mind comprehensively blown?...

As we finally began the countdown to Christmas, many of us were forced to pause and wonder if we’d actually be around to see it. Kim Jong Un’s North Korea once again threatened to turn the whole world into a smoking pile of radioactive rubble following Pyongyang’s latest missile launch. More on the eternal Korean crisis below, but first, let’s look at the other crazy things that were happening around our fragile world....

This week, nearly all Western eyes were fixed on Florida where the US suffered its deadliest school shooting since the Sandy Hook massacre. Despicable as this atrocity was, it wasn’t the only major story out there. In Africa, political eras were coming to a close, while corruption scandals were gripping entire nations elsewhere. There was even time for at least one major scientific breakthrough. All in all, another crazy week....

The final week before we plunge headlong into summer was a crazy-significant one even by the standards of this column. In Ireland, voters repealed the part of the constitution banning abortion, marking the second major about-face for this once devoutly Catholic country. Elsewhere, chaos in Italy erupted in a last-minute surprise, and two separate shock waves were sent through the US media. Let’s jump on into the murky water hole marked “this week’s news....

10 Life And Earth Have Evolved Together Most of us think that Earth formed, and then life developed in the seas. That’s basically true, but no one knows for sure how life first developed. Once it arrived, life immediately started influencing the planet’s surface. Without plants to break rock up into sediment, for example, there wouldn’t be as much material for plate tectonics to turn into continents. Without plants, Earth might have ended up as a water world....

10 Reality-Based Television Shows In the early 1970s, filmmaker Craig Gilbert approached Santa Barbara housewife Pat Loud about having a camera crew film her family’s daily life for a TV show. At first, Pat rejected Craig’s idea because participating in the show might strip her family of their privacy and disrupt their daily lives. Eventually, though, Pat changed her mind, seeing the show as an opportunity to restore happiness to her life....

Racial prejudice has always haunted the United States, and it continues in many corners of the country today. Although the conclusion of the US Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment abolished the institution of slavery, individual states remained free to write their own brutally racist laws (aka “Jim Crow laws”). Here are 10 disturbing facts about the Jim Crow era in the United States. 10 History Of Jim Crow The history of Jim Crow laws dates all the way back to the early 1800s when slavery was still legal in the United States....

10 ClappingColleges In The United Kingdom The National Union of Students Women’s Campaign, a feminist college student group in Britain, announced in March 2015 that they would ban clapping at their future conferences held at UK colleges. The feminist group claimed that the act of clapping could “trigger some people’s anxiety,” and therefore should be banned from all of their conferences. Instead, the feminist students instructed those who attend conferences to use jazz hands—to wave their hands silently in the air—when they wished to display approval....