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Some have even grown so powerful that they’ve not only expanded their illegal activities across multiple continents but have climbed so high that they literally exited the Earth’s atmosphere. They’ve crossed paths with the media, law enforcement, celebrities, and even prime ministers in their ride to the top. 10 Trying To Blow Up The Police In 2010, police in California decided that a notorious motorcycle club like the Vagos required round-the-clock surveillance by their gang enforcement unit....

Due to their peculiar characteristics, a large number of natural events occur in specific areas of the Earth, where conditions are propitious.[1] But many atmospheric phenomena—including the rarest of all—are capable of occurring anywhere on our planet, at any time. So, as expected, this list compiles some of the most amazing and least known processes in the sky that humankind has witnessed, directly for your consideration. 10 Positive Superbolts Normal lightning can contain a billion volts....

Here are the top 10 outlandish Star Wars fan theories. 10 Jar Jar Binks Is the True Villain of “Star Wars” All Lumpawarroo, a Redditor, wanted to do was justify Jar Jar Binks’s character. I mean, how much crap can a character take? The Gungan is awkward, clumsy, kind of racist, an outcast; he is so obviously flawed it’s not even funny (I mean, it is, but…). Anyway, Lumpawarroo believed that Binks is the way he is because he’s actually the true villain of Star Wars....

Original Story By: Alan Le May Ethan Edwards, an ex-Confederate soldier from the Indian Wars, finds that his family has been massacred and his niece captured by the Comanches and vows to bring her back and kill everyone of the Indians who did this to him. He travels for five years in order to find her and when he does realizes even though she has been found she has become one of them....

10Unbreakable Bones A broken bone is a fantastic way to ruin your entire day (your entire several months, really). Despite being the hardest substance in the human body, bone is definitely not invulnerable. Unless you find yourself with an extremely rare mutation of the LRP5 gene, that is. LRP5 is responsible for the density of your bones. Researchers have known for a while that mutations in this gene can lead to lower bone density, or osteoporosis....

The Alamo is remembered for many things, including the famous battle cry reminding Texans they should remember it. The old Franciscan mission is located in San Antonio, and was the sight of one of the most famous battles in American history, when 188 men, including Jim Bowie and Davey Crockett, tried to fight off the powerful Mexican army of Santa Ana. What most people probably do not know is the legend of a massive treasure of gold and silver said to be buried somewhere on the grounds of the Alamo....

This list is of outstanding songs many casual listeners will not be familiar with, and placed #1 on the Billboard US Hot 100 chart. Please feel free to post how many of the selections you have heard along with your comments. (An explanation: I based this list on an American chart only because my knowledge of the music history of other countries is not adequate enough to do otherwise.) Songs are arranged by date, most recent first....

Top 10 Biggest Lies People Tell Every Day 10 Slavery For something so sweet, the widespread popularity of sugar has a dark and bitter origin story in slave labor. Sugar cane originated in the West Indies and Brazil. At one time it was simply a luxury spice among wealthy Europeans. As they colonized the ‘New World’, particularly the British, a huge profitability that helped finance the growing American colonies was recognized in this spice and it became known as ‘White Gold’....

10 The Anatomy Inspectorate For many people, Victorian England was a tough place and time to be alive, but body-snatchers and resurrection men were doing a brisk trade that made it just as dangerous to be dead. The practice of body-snatching was so widespread that steps needed to be taken to help keep the dead resting in peace. The Anatomy Inspectorate was an organization created to help keep the peace. Medical schools and hospitals still needed corpses for dissection, but it was widely agreed that they needed to ethically procure them....

There were a lot of space-related stories over the last few days. Mars, in particular, had a busy week with news of an underground lake, a dust storm for the ages (more on that below), and efforts to name a new Martian rover. (Yes, they thought of “Rover McRoverface.”) We also check out some bizarre animal behavior, Olympic Games for robots, and footage of the world’s loneliest man. 10 DARPA Plans Olympics For Tiny Robots The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a new initiative to develop tiny robots that would work in tough environments where large-scale robots are not effective....

However, there are some who have put these fears aside and operated on themselves. Ironically, in one incident, the fear of pain is the self-surgeon’s reason for doing so. To be clear, anesthesia is rarely used in self-surgeries, since the person performing the procedure needs to be conscious to see what he is doing. 10 Jan De DootOpen Cystolithotomy In 1651, Dutch blacksmith Jan de Doot performed open cystolithotomy on himself to remove a painful bladder stone....

10 Killer Traced With His Own Dogs Four years after the body of Shantay Huntington was found, the identity of the young woman’s killer was finally discovered. The 18-year-old woman had died of asphyxiation in May 2006. Her body, wrapped in a bed sheet and shower curtain, bound with duct tape, was discovered in a wooded area of Loxahatchee, Florida. She was miles away from Miami, where she had last been seen alive....

After breakfast, you check out the new user trolling you on Reddit. You ignore him and just take a selfie so that you can post it on Instagram later in the day. As normal as this sounds, some people cannot do all this because some of these websites and apps are blocked in their countries. 10 WikipediaTurkey Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey since 2017. The country blocked the site after Wikimedia Foundation, the publishers of Wikipedia, refused to delete two articles implicating Turkey in supporting terrorist groups involved in the Syrian Civil War....

Let’s say you’re environmentally-conscious but need to fly. Enter carbon offsetting: for the price of a coffee you can pay some third world farmer to quit burning coal, or some company to plant enough trees to cancel out the emissions from your trip. If it sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is. The whole practice of carbon offsetting is so fundamentally flawed that eco-writer George Monbiot compared it to pushing food around your plate “to create the impression you have eaten it....

10There Used To Be A 27th Letter The ampersand (“&”), used today by the likes of Barnes & Noble and Dolce & Gabbana, was once the 27th letter of the alphabet. Its invention dates to the first century. Roman scribes, who wrote in cursive, joined together the e and t in the Latin word “et,” which meant “and.” The character was introduced into the English alphabet in the 19th century. Although its pronunciation remained “and,” its name changed thanks to school pupils....

The 24-hour news cycle has a tendency to focus on dramatic, headline-grabbing stories. Oftentimes, this means a lot of Good Samaritans do not get the recognition they deserve. So, with that in mind, let’s focus on a few heartwarming acts that will restore your faith in humanity. 10 Heartwarming Stories Of Last Wishes Being Fulfilled 10 The 70-Year-Old Who Sailed the Ocean On February 6, Frank Rothwell completed a staggering 3,000-mile voyage across the Atlantic Ocean....

10Secret Documents Cache An investigation by the FBI of 67-year-old Robert Harwin, an analyst with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), “which creates maps and interprets images from satellites and drones,” led to agents’ discovery of a cache of classified and secret documents and computer discs. Harwin, who had top-secret clearance, lives in Maryland. One of Harwin’s colleagues informed the FBI that Harwin had carried “a heavy plastic bag out of NGA facilities” in Springfield, Virginia, on several occasions....

10 Trying To Take A Hot Air Balloon Into Space If scientist James Glaisher had had his way, the first manned spaceflight would have taken place 100 years before Yuri Gagarin’s. That’s because 1862 was the year that Glaisher and Henry Coxwell set off in their hot air balloon for the “aerial ocean” above. Their government-funded flight took off from Wolverhampton on September 5. Almost immediately, things went horribly wrong. Approximately 8 kilometers (5 mi) above the Earth, the temperatures dropped to -20 degrees Celsius (-4 °F) and the animals that Glaisher had brought to observe died....

When we say “unbelievably named,” we actually mean humorous, rude, or downright bizarre names for places which are actually inhabited or visited by human beings. However, some of these places actually have amazing and rich histories, which are worth reading in their own right. Read on to discover ten of the rudest-sounding places in the British Isles . . . with unbelievable stories. 10 Brown Willy Brown Willy is a hill that can be found in the county of Cornwall, the southernmost county of England....

Some of the sayings and idioms on this list are only minor deviations, while a few are technically wrong but, over time, have been accepted as correct. Others are changes so flagrant that they mangle the entire sense of the phrase. The next time someone misuses one of these sayings, you’ll be able to figuratively—or literally (it’s your choice)—blow their mind with the original meaning. 10 A Moot Point “Moot” is often misunderstood as “mute” in this phrase, or to take it a step further as Joey does in Friends, it’s “moo” because it is like a cow’s opinion (in that it doesn’t matter)....