10Reliant Robin The Reliant Motor Company was founded in 1935 in Tamworth, England, and the small auto manufacturer produced three-wheeled vehicles from the start. Three-wheeled automobile are classified as motorcycles in the UK and thus are cheaper to register and insure. But as so often is the case with cheap motoring, there’s a catch. The Robin’s catch is that it rolls over. Almost everyone can recall a childhood memory of falling off their tricycle and scuffing a knee, and the Robin is exactly like that but with far worse consequences....

Morgan Spurlock’s documentary Super Size Me highlighted in graphic detail just how unhealthy the food at McDonald’s is. Numerous doctors and scientists have also published reports about the damage that a simple burger and fries can do to the human stomach, heart, and other organs. As it is often open very late, McDonald’s has been the scene of several bizarre and horrific crimes. This list shows in 10 different cases just how dangerous fast food can be....

In Illinois in 2008, a woman had to have her dachshund, called Roscoe, put down after the dog gnawed off her big toe while she slept. Mrs Floyd, 56, woke up too late because nerve damage from diabetes had left her with no feeling in her toes. [Source] By the time an average American child leaves elementary school, they have seen 200,000 violent acts and 40,000 murders on television....

When people talk about the humble beginnings of video games, the word ‘Pong’ gets thrown around far too much. Pong was an early arcade game that came about in 1972, and was commercially available for home use in 1975, but it certainly wasn’t the first. In actual fact, the first ever interactive electronic game was made 25 years earlier, in 1947. This was just two years after the end of World War II, and the missile displays that were used in the war inspired Thomas T....

Cigarettes are the single-most traded item on the planet, with approximately 1 trillion being sold from country to country each year. At a global take of more than $400 billion, it’s one of the world’s largest industries. The nicotine content in several major brands is reportedly on the rise. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Health Department revealed that between 1997 and 2005 the amount of nicotine in Camel, Newport, and Doral cigarettes may have increased by as much as 11 percent....

Insane Clown Posse is a hip hop duo consisting of professional wrestlers, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, AKA Joseph Bruce and Joseph Ustler. Their sound is best described as horrorcore (a sub genre of hip hop with ultra violent, horror themed lyrics), with a later influence of rock. While original, the band appears in countless ‘Worst Ever’ lists, most notably Blenders 50 Worst Artists in Music, in which they took out the number one spot....

Cults tend to have members who blend in almost perfectly with society, who seem normal, even charming. The leaders tend to be extremely enticing, which is how they get thier members in the first place. Yet, for the most part, they operate under the radar, unseen and unheard of by most normal people. Some cults have managed, however, to spread into the mainstream, and recruited (or even produced) actual celebrities!...

Leaning Tower Illusion The two images above are identical, yet the tower on the right appears to be leaning more steeply. The reason for this is because the visual system treats the two images as if part of a single scene. Normally, if two adjacent towers rise at the same angle, their image outlines converge as they recede from view due to perspective, and this is taken into account by the visual system....

The reptiles also hang around in trees, use pool noodles, and make for surprising mummies. While they continue to eat people at a disturbing rate, crocodiles could help mankind in unusual ways. They have a future as prison guards, and their blood holds the key to defeating HIV. 10 Bloody Baptism Ethiopia’s second-biggest lake is called Abaya. The murky water obscures a vast population of crocodiles. The reptiles are underfed because the lake’s fish are disappearing....

But as it turns out, we don’t quite have everything figured out. There are extremely simple questions that nobody’s been able to figure out how to answer—some that sound so simple and obvious that you’d almost feel stupid asking them in the first place. 10 Why Is the Alphabet in That Order? For all the time we spend teaching kindergartners the order of the alphabet, we don’t actually know what the order is for....

Even today, when adjusted for monetary inflation, 1939’s romantic epic Gone with the Wind remains the highest-grossing film in cinema history. But what would have happened had other lead actors and actresses been cast in the lead roles of these movie classics? Would it have worked, or would they have flopped? Here is a list of ten of the most popular romantic films and the pairs who were almost originally cast in the lead roles....

But for this list, we have decided to focus on motion pictures over documentaries. Ten feature films that, along with their soundtracks, perfectly evoke an era of music. Here are ten brilliantly realized movies that came to define a genre. 10 Quadrophenia (1979) The Who is widely considered to have written some of the greatest rock operas of all time. Although Quadrophenia did not hit the silver screen until 1979, it remains the archetypal movie for the British mod movement of the mid-1960s....

10 Robert Balfour Robert Balfour became the fifth Lord Balfour of Burleigh on the death of his father, Robert Balfour, in 1713. As a young man, this fifth Balfour did something that his aristocratic parents—his mother was Lady Margaret Melville—took great exception to. He fell in love with a woman below him in the rigid Scottish social hierarchy of the day. Balfour’s parent’s reacted by sending him abroad. Before his departure, Balfour told his young paramour that if she married in his absence, he would murder her spouse....

People can come up with the most bizarre ways of committing crimes, from streaking across the field at a football game to dressing like a clown to commit armed robbery. Just in the last year, there have been some of the most unusual crimes imaginable. And not surprisingly, there is a “Florida man” story—and a Florida woman one too. So let’s get to the ten most bizarre crimes of 2022....

So while the 2010s obsession with all things 1990s wasn’t surprising, it seemed like more than that. The ’90s became idealized as perhaps our last decade of smooth sailing. The Cold War was ending, the Internet Age was beginning, and liberal democracy was poised to proliferate indefinitely. We were out of danger and full of hope. Here are ten things that defined the 1990s—a decade that feels more like a century ago than a mere generation....

Indeed, you may not realise that flight has evolved in animals, enabling species such as fish, mammals, reptiles and amphibians to develop the ability to be airborne. I’ll preface that, without getting too technical, by saying there’s a few varieties of flight; powered, unpowered and externally powered. But in our urban modern world, some of these will come as a surprise. Top 10 Fish That Hunt Land Animals 10 Wild Turkeys We tend to associate turkeys more with Thanksgiving than the skies....

Warning: These Roman treatments don’t work, so don’t try them. 10 Acne Acne was probably the scourge of nearly every Roman teenager, so the Romans tried to come up with a cure. Crocodile meat was effective at getting rid of spots, even freckles, when combined with cyprus oil. If the pimples persisted, the Romans suggested taking a bath with oil and sour cheese to remove the pimples. Leek leaves could get rid of pimples when rubbed on the skin....

However, there are some agencies and departments that have some truly bizarre roles. They may try to control their citizens, their environments, or even the planet. Sometimes, they’re just trying to save us from ourselves . . . or aliens. 10 Shanghai Commission For The Management Of Language Use Translating Chinese to English could be a nightmare for Chinese citizens. Some Chinese with a fair knowledge of English bypass the translation problem by translating word for word, which is the origin of the grammatically incorrect yet popular phrase “long time no see....

More recently, children’s stories are often seen as nothing more than casual entertainment meant, at best, to inspire a love of literature in the youth. And they do that, beyond doubt. But, some children’s stories contain powerful lessons intended for readers of all ages. Contrary to what one might think, sometimes important issues don’t require big words and complicated sentences. Sometimes, direct simplicity can elevate the subject matter to the realms of the profound....

Steganography is more ancient than codes and ciphers and is the art of hidden writing. For example, a message might be written on paper, coated with wax, and swallowed to conceal it, only to be regurgitated later. Another way is to tattoo the message on the shaved head of a messenger and wait for the hair to regrow to cover up the ink. The best stenography uses innocent everyday objects to carry messages....