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Hawaii, America’s island paradise, is the opposite of dreary. Honolulu is a Pacific metropolis that hosts millions of tourists every year, a majority of whom want to spend lazy days under the limitless sunshine. These tourists do not think about danger or human predators while they sip mixed drinks or surf the waves on Waikiki Beach. Between 1985 and 1986, however, true darkness reached Honolulu. During those years, Hawaii’s first known serial killer, the Honolulu Strangler, took five lives....

SEE ALSO: 10 Haunted Asylums With Extremely Dark Pasts 10 Self-PortraitsBryan Charnley As his schizophrenia worsened, Bryan Charnley spent the last year of his life experimenting with different doses of medication and drawing self-portraits. He drew a note on each portrait to explain his thoughts, which revealed the torment inside his mind. His first portrait was a realistic picture of his face. For the second portrait, he added vibrations to represent the thoughts escaping from his head....

Luckily, cannibalism isn’t very popular today and is relegated to marginalized cultures and a few depraved individuals. But every once in a while, someone comes along and shocks us with an insatiable thirst for the blood of their own kind—for human blood. This isn’t just another serial killer list with Jeffrey Dahmer or Albert Fish; these are various Americans from vastly different walks of life, forever linked by one life decision from which they would become inseparable: They each chose, for different reasons, to eat the flesh of other people....

10D.A.R.E.’s Influence If you went to school in the United States during the 1980s (or the 1990s in Great Britain), there is a good chance you came across the program D.A.R.E. The acronym stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education and the program was formed by a former police officer with the help of Los Angeles schools to get teens to do fewer drugs and be better people. It fit with the message of the era as put forth by Nancy Reagan, which is that the best way to avoid doing drugs was to “just say no....

10 Filtering information It goes without saying that every second of every day, we’re constantly flooded with information—so much information that it’s impossible to take it all in. Without looking, do you know what color socks you put on this morning? What about what the first person you saw today was wearing? If not, don’t worry, your memory isn’t fading yet! Our brain works constantly to filter out information we don’t need to consciously be made aware of....

10 We Know Where She Disappeared When mentioning Amelia Earhart’s final flight, no one seems to point out exactly where she vanished over the Pacific. It’s a bit strange that her approximate location is no longer common knowledge, especially considering how closely her entire expedition was monitored. Earhart disappeared during a particularly challenging leg of her journey. Having departed from New Guinea on July 2, 1937, in a Lockheed Electra, she was aiming for Howland Island....

There are lots of goods and services we buy because advertisers have convinced us to do so. These things were not considered problems until businesses and advertisers persuaded us that they were. They offered us the solution in exchange for our cash. 10 Antiperspirant A century ago, it was absolutely normal to sweat and smell. Then Edna Murphey came along with Odorono, the first commercially successful antiperspirant. Edna did not invent the antiperspirant, though....

10 Fortingall Yew The 5,000-Year-Old Tree In the heart of Scotland stands one of Europe’s oldest trees, the Fortingall Yew. Experts speculate that the tree may be 5,000 years old. It is named for the small village in which it is found—Fortingall, in Perthshire. The land surrounding Fortingall contains some of the most amazing archaeological sites in Scotland, from plague burial grounds to the remains of a 1,300-year-old monastery. While the Yew first sprouted long after the first people moved to Scotland over 12,000 years ago, it’s probably as old as the first settlements at Fortingall....

The real mystery comes from the app’s questionnaire, which asks users their “intentions” and then, as is so often the case, seemingly produces those desires out of thin air with coordinates. The internet is full of stories, photos, and videos from Randonautica users who have stumbled upon some creepy business. Here are some of those stories. The ten times when Randonautica has been sketchy AF. 10 A Shooting Victim A teen named Mykena on TikTok shared a video of themselves immediately following their Randonautica quest....

When it comes to many things, such as income, fitness, IQ, and more, most of us would love to be in the top ten percent. However, there are times when having more (or being on top) is much worse. Below, we will list ten times when you don’t want to be in the top ten percent. 10 Food Waste For the sake of all of us, we must limit food waste....

On a good day, these people are rewarded with incredible sights most will never see. On a bad one, though, the punishments are severe. In the pitch dark beneath the surface of the world, some have become lost and trapped. They’ve found themselves stuck in dark, claustrophobic spaces, making a desperate bid for survival in a real-life horror story. 10 The Mossdale Cavern Disaster John Ogden and five of his friends were 3....

The purported inventor of the “Anodyne Necklace”, Chamberlen claimed that the necklace would help “children’s teethe as well as woman’s labour”. It is no shock that children during the eighteenth century often died as infants, and as many times during infancy the baby is teething, it may have seemed natural that the teething itself was the source of illness and death. The Anodyne Necklace was invented to simply place around a baby’s neck to prevent infant death during teething....

10 Kalinga’s Traditional Tattoos Apo Whang Od, a 93-year-old woman from the mountains of Kalinga, is considered to be the last traditional tattoo artist of the Philippines. During her younger years, she marked many fearless tribal warriors with symbolic tattoos using only two bamboo sticks and a small citrus fruit locally known as calamansi. Also known as batuk, these traditional tattoos were more than just a visual decoration for the Kalinga tribe....

10Maura Murray In February 2004, Maura Murray was 21 and a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. On February 7, Maura’s father arrived in Amherst to help his daughter shop for a used car. That night, Maura borrowed his car to attend a dorm party, leaving at around 2:30 AM to return the car to her father’s motel. At around 3:30 AM, she struck a guardrail in Hadley, Massachusetts....

SEE ALSO: Top 10 Codes You Aren’t Meant To Know 10 Forest Fenn’s Buried Treasure When wealthy art dealer Forrest Fenn contracted cancer, he resolved to leave a legacy that would remind people he had once been here. He buried more than $1 million worth of gold and treasure in a mountain range north of Santa Fe. In 2011, Fenn released a memoir containing nine riddles that give away the location of the buried treasure....

This week, we look at a few commendable stories regarding children who impressed with their skills or heroics. There are also a few touching reunions. A boy in the hospital is comforted by the arrival of his canine best friend, while a musician reunites with his long-lost guitar after almost 50 years apart. 10 Reunited And It Feels So Good Canadian rocker Myles Goodwyn was reunited with his beloved Gibson Melody Maker guitar....

10The Mummified Animals Scandal Mummified animals were a big deal in Ancient Egypt, serving as offerings to the gods. In fact, there was a whole industry centered around rearing dogs, cats, crocodiles, and monkeys for mummification. Once suitably wrapped and preserved, the animal corpses would fetch a hefty price from pious Egyptians wanting to win favor in the afterlife. But in 2015, the University of Manchester and Manchester Museum unearthed a scandal when they began X-raying the animal mummies in their possession and found that many of the mummies didn’t actually contain an animal!...

10 A Roman Legion Fought In China In 53 BC, Marcus Crassus led a Roman army against the Parthian Empire in modern Iran. He had intended to spread the Roman Empire to the east, but the Parthians proved stronger than he imagined. The Romans were defeated, Crassus was beheaded, and his soldiers were executed. One legion, though, may have escaped alive—by running east instead of west. According to one theory, a Roman legion may have joined the Hun army as mercenaries and gone to war against the Chinese....

SEE ALSO: 11 Tips For Outrunning The Cops As part of our ongoing effort to see how much we can put into our Google search histories before the FBI breaks down our doors, we’ve investigated all the most iconic ways to dispose of a body and found out exactly what would happen if somebody tried these methods in real life. 10 Dissolving A Body In A Vat Of Acid Breaking Bad makes getting rid of a body look easy....

The condiment can be an obsession and is certainly the source of some very unusual facts. 10Early Versions Did Not Use Tomatoes Though ketchup today uses tomato as a base, early versions did not. They were made from anchovies, shallots, oysters, lemons, or walnuts. Perhaps you find walnut ketchup a tough nut to swallow or find shallots and oysters too fishy. Other people from long ago shared similar thoughts, so back then, mushrooms were the most popular type....