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Top 10 Most Gruesome Inventions And Innovations 10 Vaccinations Were, Well Vaccines Online bullies call them anti-vaxxers but they were once dubbed “antivaccinationists,” and they’ve been around much longer than covid-19, and obviously, they’re people who oppose vaccinations and vaccines or simply believe “my body my choice” when it comes to vaccination. In spite of the fact that vaccinations are considered to be one of the top ten achievements in the area of public health in the 20th century, and have saved countless millions of lives, still people have opposed it for longer than it has officially been around....

10 Bizarre Origin Stories About Your Favorite Foods You would think that by the 21st century, people would have a good understanding of what not to eat—and we do. That doesn’t mean people all over the world aren’t regularly betting their lives on these ten dangerous foods you can actually eat. 10 Blood Clams You’re always going to be taking a risk whenever you ingest a filter feeder like clams, but the dangers tend to skyrocket where Blood Clams are concerned....

By the 1970s, video games were more widely available, and some of the best games of that decade were incredibly important. These ten games were developed and released in the ’70s, and they helped pave the way for every game that followed. 10 Ancient Board Games That Inspired Modern Games 10 Galaxian (1979) In 1977, the world was gifted with Star Wars, and the film inspired people all around the world....

Kenneth Anger’s short film is a highly stylized depiction of the occult and drug culture prevalent in the late-1960s Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. The casting features members of the Church of Satan, including its founder Anton Lavey, an albino LSD dealer, and Bobby Beausoleil. Bobby Beausoleil was a musician and scene figure amidst the occult happenings circuit at the time the film was made. Less than a year after appearing in the film, he committed the first of a string of murders perpetrated by members of the Manson Family, a commune/cult headed by infamous sociopath Charles Manson that he had fallen into....

But . . . from time to time a little gem has emerged unscathed from the mire of new releases; a gem that surprises us with its brilliance, twists and turns, or just simply new ideas. This list looks at ten recently released movies in the horror genre that give us some hope that at some point in the future, saner heads will prevail in the entertainment industry and these types of moving pictures will become the rule, and not the exception to it....

Most Egyptologists believe the Great Sphinx on the Giza plateau is about 4,500 years old. But that number is just that – a belief, a theory, not a fact. As Robert Bauval says in ‘The Age of the Sphinx’, “there was no inscriptions – not a single one – either carved on a wall or a stela or written on the throngs of papyri” that associates the Sphinx with this time period....

One of the strangest photos that has ever been taken of space is that of the Eagle Nebula. The photo itself is supposed to show the birth of a star from the gaseous clouds. However, when the photo was shown on CNN, hundreds of calls came in from people reporting they could see a face in the cloud. When the color of the photo was adjusted, a large human form seemed to appear within the cloud....

Originally from modern-day Lebanon and Syria, they established colonies throughout the Mediterranean and gave birth to Carthage, which threatened to crush the fledgling Roman Empire. The impact of these enigmatic ancient Easterners is inescapable—even today. 10Phoenician Blood Endures The Phoenician civilization may be lost to time, but the genetic legacy of these ancient seafarers lives on today. National Geographic’s Chris Tyler Smith tested the DNA of 1,330 men from Phoenician hubs of Syria, Palestine, Tunisia, Cyprus, and Morocco....

Misinformation from the past has led to several myths about the human brain. Here are the top 10 myths about the human brain and how they are debunked. 10 Brain Size Affects Intelligence Bigger is better, right? That’s not really the case when it comes to the human brain. Intelligence is not determined by the size of the brain but instead by synapses, which are connections between neurons in the brain....

SEE ALSO: 10 Politically Incorrect Vintage Cartoons 10. Little House on the Prairie 1935, Laura Ingalls Wilder This book is considered off limits now because of its treatment of American Indians (the Osage figure prominently in the story). Despite the fact that Laura Ingalls Wilder gives us a important historical look at social perspectives through this book, it is still considered bad. The book is based on decades-old memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s childhood in the Midwest region of the United States during the late 19th century....

First aired in 1984, Dragon Ball is the oldest series on this list. It enjoyed high popularity during its time, and would later receive two sequels. The revised edition aired today is not as well-known, as newer anime conquer the scene. Simply put, Dragon Ball and its follow-up series follow the quest of young Gohan to find the seven magic dragon balls, and later to save the world from various foes using super natural powers....

Many stories include zany explanations of how faster-than-light travel is possible. The reality is that physics prevents this. There are no cheats. Even close-to-light travel runs into all sorts of interesting relativistic problems involving mass and energy. Our only possibility is to use wormhole portals. Such a wormhole would have to be carefully controlled, which is beyond our present capabilities, and we would have to somehow manage to create a twin wormhole far off at our desired destination, which might require someone else at the other end....

Dementia 13 1963, Francis Ford Coppolla John Haloran has a fatal heart attack, but his wife Louise won’t get any of the inheritance when Lady Haloran dies if John is dead. Louise forges a letter from John to convince the rest of his family he’s been called to New York on important business, and goes to his Irish ancestral home, Castle Haloran, to meet the family and look for a way to ensure a cut of the loot....

We’ll start light, because the list gets heavy pretty quick. Bao Xishuan is listed by Guinness as the tallest man in the world (7ft, 8.95 in), and his arm extends 1.06 meters. In 2006, the Mongolian herdsman got the call from Chinese vets that his wingspan was urgently needed at the Funshun aquarium. And no, it didn’t involve basketball. The doctors had repeatedly failed to remove painful plastic shards that two dolphins had swallowed, and the animals were slowly starving....

10 Studies Proving Everything You Believe About Millennials And Boomers Is Wrong That generation is my own: Generation X. Remember us? We’re the folks born roughly between 1964 and 1981. We’re the ones in the middle lane with a child car seat NOT texting while driving. While Twitter teems with Gens Y & Z and septuagenarians post cat pics to Facebook, you haven’t heard much about us Gen Xers lately (Karens notwithstanding)....

10 Antozonite Antozonite is a variety of the mineral fluorite with color that shades from dark violet to black. It’s not unusual for a mineral to have a nickname, but antozonite has several. In German, it is known as “stink-fluss” and “stink-spat.” In English, it has earned the names “stinkspar” and “fetid fluorite.” This rare form of fluorite is infamous for its smell. When antozonite breaks or is crushed, it reeks....

Ian Fleming probably didn’t realize what a seed he was planting when he created James Bond. Almost immediately after his big screen debut, Bond had a whole generation of imitators following him on TV and film. There were suddenly spies everywhere—some surreal and campy, others sophisticated and witty, some hip and groovy. There was even a wedding of the spy with the western. By 1970, the anti-establishment sentiments of the hippies had fully taken hold in pop culture, and the spy craze was suddenly no more....

Here are ten tales of gemstones and the myths around them. Top 10 Rarest Gems 10 Emeralds Emeralds have long been sought after by humans. Pliny the Elder tells a story that shows the complex psychology of gemstones. Ismenias the flute-player was overly fond of glittering gems and send away for an emerald ring – but the ring-maker returned some of the gold he paid for it. The flute-player was displeased....

Some research has sparked controversy and criticism. Sometimes, large corporations are also found to be funding these studies for their own personal gain. 10 Drugs Are Not Addictive In 1979, Bruce Alexander of Simon Fraser University conducted a study to prove that drugs are not addictive and that the environment causes addiction instead. The study, known today as Rat Park, involved an experiment where Alexander kept some rats in one of two cages....

But just because we all agree that something is awesome doesn’t mean that it’s going to be around forever. Right now, free speech is under assault across the world. And unless we do something to defend it soon, we’re gonna find ourselves living in a world where the “free” part of free speech is only ever used ironically. Here’s why: 10 The War On Online Comments You may have noticed that the Internet is a pretty nasty place....