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AI has the potential to greatly improve our lives or to hurt us. With more industries and jobs being linked to AI, we have to accept that it is becoming an integral part of our society. These 10 incidents show how AI can simply shock us by what it does in the real world. 10 When It Predicted The Pregnancy Of A Teenage Girl These days, malls and superstores use data mining, which is the foundation of artificial intelligence, to keep track of customers and their choices so that the items most likely to sell can be recommended to specific shoppers....

Many times, one twin will commit a crime and blame it on the other. Sometimes, they will not pass blame but will just refuse to talk. Twins have tried escaping justice this way. Sometimes, they are successful, and sometimes, they are not. 10 Hassan And Abbas O. A set of twins identified only as Hassan and Abbas O. escaped prosecution despite one or even both of them being involved in a jewelry heist....

10Mass Extinction Off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, deep beneath the depths of the Gulf of Mexico, lie the remains of one of the most important and well-known events involving a meteorite in the history of the entire planet. Known as the Chicxulub Crater, a 125-meter hole is all that remains of the meteor responsible for the largest mass extinction event in history. Roughly 66 million years ago, a meteorite roughly the size of Staten Island crashed into Earth....

Nature may separate the warring parties, forcing one or both to retreat. At other times, it delivers the decisive blow, causing a crushing defeat to one army or navy and favoring the other. Or it just prevents the larger force from decimating the smaller or less advantaged one. 10 Typhoons Thwarted Mongol Attempt To Invade Japan In 1274, a Mongol fleet of 500–900 vessels carrying 30,000–40,000 soldiers left China to attack and capture Japan....

But it is not just the shopping that might kill you. To make it through Black Friday, you need to be prepared for not only angry shoppers, but deadly shootouts, horrific road rage, and revengeful ex-employees. Even being a good samaritan can get you killed on Black Friday. 10Isidro Zarate It was four in the afternoon on Black Friday 2016. Thirty-nine-year-old Isidro Zarate was sitting in his car while his wife Lisa was inside a Walmart in San Antonio, Texas....

It’s admittedly become a cliché, but no list of Welles’ triumphs is complete without his greatest. Whether it’s the best film ever made will always be a somewhat subjective question, but no one can argue that Citizen Kane is not the most influential film ever made. After a long interregnum following the coming of sound, it put the director back at the center of film-making, and inspired everyone from François Truffaut to Steven Spielberg to make films that expressed – for better or worse – a personal, authorial vision....

The idea of karma is that a person’s actions, positive or negative, will accumulate and result in what will happen to them in the future. Even if we don’t prescribe to this belief system, most of us would hope that a criminal will somehow end up punished for their crime someday, no matter how long it takes for that to happen. Thankfully, the universe has answered our hopes and wishes because sometimes, it provides incredibly satisfying karma almost instantly....

Almost all stigmatics are women, notable exceptions being, of course, Saint Francis and Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, who was canonized in 2002. They are usually Catholic and may display all or only some of the wounds said to have been inflicted on the cross. Some have even claimed to have lived for years without any form of sustenance except communion wafers. Almost all stigmatics also receive visions of Heaven or, disturbingly, Hell or converse with angelic messengers....

Sometimes, the body was simply interred in the ship. Other times, the body was placed inside and the vessel was set on fire to cremate the corpse of the person being honored. Such burials are being unearthed all the time using new technologies to detect the ships. 10 Trondheim, Norway Most ship burials are mysteries when they are first unearthed because the ship itself (at least the wooden frame) is almost never intact....

10John Favara In 1980, 51-year-old factory worker John Favara lived in the Howard Beach section of Queens in New York City, where he had the misfortune to encounter several members of the Mafia, including his neighbor, John Gotti. At the time, Gotti was an up-and-coming figure in the Gambino crime family, which he would later lead as “the Teflon Don.” On March 18, Favara was driving home from work when he hit and killed the mobster’s 12-year-old son....

10What Happened To The Blutfahne? In 1923, Hitler made a failed attempt to overthrow the German government and install his own in its place. Spurred on by political actions that implied Germany was taking the fall for starting World War I, the 35,000 members of the Nazi party were aiming high, but their failure set the groundwork—and the mythology—for the rise of their party years later. Hitler and 600 of his men attempted to take over a beer hall at which the Bavarian Prime Minister was speaking ....

In fact, they are changing the way pterosaurs looked, existed, and ultimately died out. Even so, their complete story remains mysterious and contentious. More than any other creature, pterodactyls can make researchers go a little crazy. 10 Flightless Young Scientists debate whether pterodactyls could fly directly after hatching. In 2017, a cache of eggs proved that there was no such independence. Around 16 eggs were perfectly preserved, allowing scans to reveal complete skeletons in 3-D....

10The Viruses We Carried Out Of Africa Helped Us Survive Thanks to the science of viral molecular genetics, we now know quite a bit about the bugs that infected us along our evolutionary path, and we have found that these hitchhikers have done quite a bit to help us along the way. For example, it was the evolutionary pressure they placed upon our immune system that made it as robust as it is today....

Sigmund Freud, the original man-with-couch, wasn’t the only member of that particular bloodline to make a lasting mark on the way people think about thought. Of course, his daughter Anna had some claim to fame as a candidate for least successful therapist ever. But, more on par with Freud’s own success, his influence’s scale and staying power, is that of his nephew Edward Louis Bernays. Edward Bernays was a Cornell graduate in agriculture who discovered a talent for swaying mass opinion (a process he would later describe with the phrase he invented and used as the title of one of his essays, “engineering consent”)....

10 The Disappearances Of Michael Mansfield And Ruth Martin During one six-month period in 1975, two different witnesses vanished before they were scheduled to testify against the same person in different cases. What’s particularly horrific about this story is that they lost their lives for witnessing relatively minor crimes. Nineteen-year-old Michael Mansfield was a student at Lincoln College in Illinois. His roommate was a fellow student named Russell Smrekar. However, Smrekar was expelled from the school after being charged with burglary for stealing a guitar and some record albums from a dorm room....

10Shareef Cousin On March 2, 1995, Michael Gerardi was leaving a New Orleans restaurant when a robber shot him in the face. Weeks later, 16-year-old Shareef Cousin was arrested after a former friend implicated him in the crime. This friend later admitted to naming Cousin to help reduce a sentence he was facing for unrelated robbery charges. In January 1996, Cousin was found guilty of murder, becoming one of the youngest people to ever be sentenced to death....

One of my main criteria for paying money to watch a movie is who is directing it. Instead of being intrigued with the storyline or getting excited by the trailer, I have certain directors that I will watch, no matter what the movie is about. A few of my favorites appear below. There are some of these movies I confess I haven’t seen, so I relied mainly on IMDB and the AMC film site to make the list....

Top 10 Innocuous Things Created By Eccentric Mad Men 10 John Ruskin—The Coy Wonder All good stories of English peculiarities should begin in the same way the story of John Ruskin begins here—Notable art critic and writer John Ruskin married his cousin in 1848. (That explains A LOT in this list’s wider context, does it not?) Ruskin’s genius is undoubted but this did not translate into charisma with the ladies....

Joe Crater was a judge from New York City who disappeared one evening in 1930. He had been vacationing with his wife in Maine, when he got a mysterious phone call. He told his wife he had to go back to New York for business, but would be back in a few days. On the evening of August 6, he went to a restaurant with his mistress and some friends, who watched him get into a taxi after dinner....

Karl Marx is the father of communism for which the Soviet Union is most famous – but in fact, he never stepped foot in Russia. That leads us to another fascinating factlet about communism: Communism is the third step of a three step plan – the first step is revolution (to remove the monarchy or government), the second step is the establishment of a ruling proletariat which is called “socialism” (a government of the people)....