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10Lobsters And Crabs Do Feel Pain For a long time, pro-animal activists have decried the practice of boiling lobsters alive when cooking them. They attest that this is an inhumane practice akin to torture. Those who enjoy lobster have always explained away the practice of live boiling by claiming lobsters—and other similar crustaceans—cannot actually feel pain. According to recent research though, it looks like the animal rights activists might have had a point after all....

One such cult is called the Order of Nine Angles. This organization has links to neo-Nazi and left-wing anarchist groups, plus its strong adherence to the “Left-Hand Path” has earned it accusations of human sacrifice and murder. Examining this group involves a peek in at the world of true radicalism—a world where Satanism, extremist politics, and hard-line Islamism cohabitate. 10 Origins The Order of Nine Angles (ONA) was founded in Great Britain by a man named Anton Long....

10For Cash This is the first and most obvious reason a person might fake an illness. Imagine you have a family and become too sick to support them. Wouldn’t it seem reasonable that someone might try to help you out in your time of need? Sadly, there are people out there who are perfectly willing to fake illnesses to dupe generous well-wishers. Mandy Hargraves was one of these people. A 34-year-old mother of two, Hargraves was estranged from her husband and struggling to make ends meet....

10 Earth The Waterworld Approximately 71 percent of Earth’s crispy outer layer is covered with water, though that still leaves a good amount of dry terrain for postcard-worthy landscapes. Go back several billion years, however, and our planet was the real-life Waterworld. Any extraterrestrials zipping through the solar system 2.5 billion years ago would have glanced down on a brilliant blue sphere. At this time, Earth was an almost uninterrupted ocean, with only 2–3 percent of the surface above water....

10Corpse Brides In China, it’s never too late to find love—even after death. While few and far between, ghost weddings are an old tradition for those who died single. It’s believed that they’re a way to appease the spirits; in other words, they think the ghosts will be too busy honeymooning to haunt anyone. The way it works is the families of two recently deceased singles agree to bury the dead together, partnering them in holy, postmortem matrimony....

However, for most people, Prohibition was a merry period marked with increases in drinking, gambling, and corruption. Above all, Prohibition encouraged high levels of creativity in attempts to get around the law at all levels of society. 10 The ‘Dry Boss’ Who Pushed Prohibition Through Wayne Wheeler was born in 1869 on a farm in eastern Ohio. One day, a drunken farmworker accidentally speared young Wheeler’s leg with a pitchfork, an incident that likely pushed him toward an almost evangelical antipathy for drinking....

10 Legendary Reasons We Have Music 10 Friends Friends is most fondly remembered for, well, friendship, and great one-liners. The hugely popular show gave us “Smelly Cat”, Pivot!, a holiday armadillo, Chanandler Bong and so much more. There are many funny songs by Phoebe, but a truly surprisingly awesome musical moment happens when The Pretenders frontwoman, Chrissie Hynde, sings “Angel of the Morning” in Central Perk. Chris Isaak also has a cameo role in the show and sings “Smelly Cat” with Phoebe, letting loose his incredible vocal range....

Within the Bible, especially the Old Testament, we get a glimpse into the lives of the people who lived nearly 3,000 years ago. It is equally a historical and cultural record as it is a religious one. Because of this, we can find all sorts of delicious things within the text: rules for food (Kosher), the oppressive state of Roman rule (Cesar), and even the sexual habits of people at the time....

10His Cigars The classic image of Winston Churchill includes a giant cigar stuck between his lips. Churchill developed his love of cigars as a young man, when he traveled to Cuba to report on an ongoing rebellion against the colonial Spanish government. For the rest of his life, he smoked eight or nine cigars every day. However, he almost never took a puff, preferring to chew on the end until it went out, then relight it and start again....

10 The Hunger GamesReally Caking On The Makeup In the first Hunger Games film, we’re introduced to Katniss Everdeen, an archer who is destined to achieve great things, and Peeta Mellark, a cake baker who is just along for the ride. The two residents are forced to compete in the Hunger Games, a yearly trial that pits different towns’ tributes against each other in a battle to the death like Battle Royale....

10The Blue Mountain Shootings Most people get nervous about the idea of an isolated cabin because a murderer could come in at any time, but what if the killer is already living there with you? One such case happened around midnight on October 2, 2013, in Oregon’s Blue Mountains. Fourteen-year-old Dillan Dakota Easley had been staying in a hunting cabin with his foster father, his foster father’s uncle, and two other men....

This sharing of liquors has led to a cornucopia of craft cocktails and pieces of modern alcoholic artwork. Have you ever stopped to wonder just where your favorite drink comes from? If you are a history buff who loves alcohol, this list is for you. 10 Old Fashioned For whiskey connoisseurs, this is the ultimate cocktail. A great-tasting, well-balanced cocktail that is essentially a celebration of whiskey on your palate....

Here are ten catastrophic toilet events you should probably not think about if you are a nervous pooper. 10 Python in the Pan Many people have a fear of being watched when they are on the toilet. Usually, though, this is a fear of someone peeking through the ridiculously large gaps on the doors in American public restrooms. Sometimes, however, it is not a human eye that might be peeping at you....

That mind, though, was also plagued with madness. Tesla has been called eccentric, but that hardly scratches the surface of his problems. He was, by all modern definitions, cripplingly mentally ill. Behind his genius was a man who struggled through intense delusions and compulsive behavior, a man tormented by his own mind. 10 He Had A Family History Of Mental Illness Tesla was born into a family filled with mental instability....

As his influence has grown, intriguing stories have come out about him. Besides his public career, Putin has lived a life more unusual than anyone could wish to have. 10 Putin’s Chronic Tardiness In 2013, Pope Francis made his first visit to Russia. There, he was supposed to meet Vladimir Putin, but something strange happened. For 50 minutes, Pope Francis simply waited. Finally, Putin arrived after making the Pope wait for almost one hour....

At least, that’s the cynical view. But there’s a more positive way of seeing things. A way which suggests that aging is less of a slow decline and more of a doorway through which unexplored regions of awesomeness lie. 10You Get Fewer Colds How many times have you caught a cold this year? As most of our readers are in the 18–35 range, we’re going to guess around three. That’s standard for young people....

10Walter Duranty Walter Duranty was head of the New York Times Moscow bureau for four years in the early 1930s. At best Duranty was overly soft on communism, at worst he was a propagandist who deliberately covered up the starvation of millions. Duranty was in Moscow during the period known as the Holodomor, when the Soviet Union deliberately starved at least two million Ukrainians to death (other estimates are as high as 12 million)....

10 Zenigata Heiji Invented by the Japanese author and music critic Nomura Kodo (1882–1963), Zenigata Heiji was a feudal policeman of the Edo period. Living in a spartan tenement, he was a goyokiki, a poor assistant of low status, for a higher-ranking doshin (“police official”) named Sasano. As Zenigata Heiji was not a samurai, he was forbidden to carry a sword or bladed weapon. Instead, he would throw heavy coins at bullet-like speeds to stun his opponents or use a jutte (heavy truncheon) to disarm criminals without spilling blood....

10 USS Scorpion In February 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion departed from Norfolk, Virginia, and headed toward the Mediterranean. It had almost a decade of reliable service behind it, and there were no qualms about the journey as the sub set out to the open sea. Three months later, the Scorpion ran into unknown trouble, and its broken pieces ended up scattered on the ocean floor. On May 27, 1968, family members of the Scorpion‘s crew waited in vain on a dock for their loved ones to return....

Then there are some amazing incidents where guards in danger are actually saved by the inmates they’re guarding. 10 Unidentified Officer Lee Correctional Institution On September 14, 2012, at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina, 120 inmates gathered up their makeshift weapons and took an unnamed corrections officer hostage at around 5:00 PM. The group of maximum-security prisoners then locked him in a closet in a dormitory, and the scene developed into a tense standoff....