10Nobody Knows Who Built It When the Spanish Conquistadors arrived in America and saw Teotihuacan for the first time, the Aztecs were living there. They had moved their people in and taken it as a part of their empire—but they didn’t build it. It had stood for 1,000 years before the Aztecs and 500 years before the Maya ever came to Mexico. Nobody knows who built it. A group called the Toltects tried to take credit, but the city had been in Mexico for longer than they had, as well....

But what about the goofy kitchen gadget you impulse bought and only used once? Maybe the gadget only has one specific purpose, or you only use it during the holidays. Either way, at the end of the day, you can easily call these kitchen gadgets unnecessary. Before you venture out to purchase yet another pair of onion goggles, let’s explore the top ten kitchen gadgets that never should have been invented....

I have made this item 10 because it is more a case of correct dress rather than manners. First off, if your wedding is before 6 in the evening, you should not wear a tuxedo (black tie) or tails (white tie). You should either wear a formal suit or – if you want to be very proper – a morning suit. There is an excellent article here that will explain the rules of wedding dress for men....

Cheap here doesn’t mean inferior since these solutions are often better than the more expensive, high-tech solutions. This list is evidence that the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle is sometimes the best way to go. As the principle states, most things work best when they are kept simple. 10 Ways Technology Is Changing You For The Worse 10 Ostrich feathers and carmakers Carmakers put a lot of effort into ensuring your new vehicle rolls out of their factories with a spotless paintjob....

10 The First SOS One of the most enduring Titanic myths still thrown at unsuspecting trivia fans to this day is the claim that Titanic was the first ship to use the “SOS” distress signal. Like most myths and legends, there’s a grain of truth that has been twisted and distorted into a more dramatic-sounding tidbit. It comes from the account of a conversation between Titanic‘s wireless operators, Harold Bride and Jack Phillips, after the collision with the iceberg....

10 Jealousy Turns Fatal for New York Flagger It was springtime in 2021, and friendly construction flagger Lizbeth Mass was about to take her lunch break. Her boyfriend, Dwayne Walker, was there to visit, and friend Jose Reyes had stopped by with lunch. Naturally, Mass introduced the two. But Reyes became jealous and left. He returned with a gun and shot Mass six times. As Mass lay bleeding in the street, Reyes tried to flee the scene....

David Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion’s passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel. After leading Israel to victory in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Ben-Gurion helped build the state institutions and oversaw the absorption of vast numbers of Jews from all over the world. Upon retiring from political life in 1970, he moved to Sde Boker, where he lived until his death....

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the many “method actors” involved with this list. Method acting is the act in which someone researches and develops a character around its real life counterparts. This is evident in Leo’s role in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape where, at only the age of 19, he describes visiting a home for mentally challenged teens to investigate the mannerisms and behaviors of said teens. He has played in a variety of roles the range from action-oriented, to drama and portrayed J....

10The Phoenix Canal Killings In the early 90s, the body of a young woman was found dumped in the Arizona Canal running through Phoenix. Ten months later, another victim was dumped in the same place. The cases went cold until 2015, when the police got a new lead courtesy of forensic genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick cross-referenced the suspect’s DNA, provided by police, against DNA databases already established and available to the public....

Cleopatra VII, the last Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, has always been a cultural figure, renowned for her alluring beauty. This idea has been perpetuated by everybody from Shakespeare to film director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. However, Roman coins show Cleopatra to have masculine features: a large nose, protruding chin and thin lips – not any culture’s archetype of good looks. On the other hand, she wasn’t lacking in brains; contemporary sources note Cleopatra as being charismatic and clever, as opposed to possessing physical beauty....

Several people have vanished aboard cruise liners, leaving their friends and families heartbroken and confused. Here are 10 times that people mysteriously disappeared from cruise ships. 10 Ships That Simply Vanished Without A Trace 10 Amy Lynn Bradley While on a family cruise to the Caribbean, Amy Lynn Bradley mysteriously vanished from the Royal Caribbean International Cruise Line’s Rhapsody of the Seas. The American woman was only 23 years old when she disappeared from the vessel on March 24, 1998....

Though history has treated those individuals poorly, in some cases even considering them mere myth, modern medicine and genetics have helped us determine the true nature of these conditions—and that they’re nothing to be afraid of. Here are ten of those conditions, rare diseases that drastically change your appearance. 10 Argyria Unlike most entries on this list, argyria is not a genetic condition. It is caused by excessive exposure to silver and silver compounds, meaning it can begin to present at any age....

This year has been, in a word, difficult. A worldwide pandemic, wildfires, contested elections, and just about everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong, making 2020 one of the worst years of all our lives. This list highlights ten of the things that made this year one everyone should forget. More bad things happened, but for a large population of folks, these ten things were more than enough....

But the tragedy of September 11, 2001 isn’t the only reason we yearn for a time the Twin Towers still stood. The decade before everything changed was alluring in myriad ways that 9/11 only punctuated. Here’s a few reasons why 90s nostalgia is so widespread and worthwhile. 10 Famous People Who Avoided Death on 9/11 10 A Dominant Decade The 90s were essentially bookended by the fall of structural and symbolic behemoths: the Iron Curtain and the Twin Towers....

There’s a reason why midgets filled Teletubby costumes or why cartoons always cast a female voice actor to play any boy character. Because a real kid would screw that up, too. Kids don’t belong in the entertainment industry for myriad reasons, many having to do with the instant diminishing of enjoyment that comes with having one on a set, having to be responsible for one. Maybe it’s just a pet peeve, but these terrible child actors speak for themselves (when they really shouldn’t)....

NOTE: Many of the comments which are complaining about factual errors on this list are repeating myths already exposed on the previous list Top 10 Myths about the Middle Ages. Please read that list before commenting negatively. The tax rates in medieval England varied a lot, depending on the King and what was happening in society. The taxes seldom went above 15% but were more often closer to the 10% mark....

However, as time has proven, there could be come truth to them. At the same time, they could just be what they are: theories. Here are ten recently created conspiracy theories. 10 Mark Zuckerberg Is A Lizard The theory that Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is a shape-shifting reptilian first made rounds in 2010, when he was chosen as Time ‘s Person of the Year. The picture Time used showed Zuckerberg with green eyes and pupils that (according to some) seemed to run from top to bottom....

Walt was a creative and entertainment genius, not only in his own right, but also amassing a trove of talented artists who produced some of the longest standing film classics of the previous century. However, during Walt’s lifetime only a few of his animated features made a profit at the box office. The studio was often on the verge of bankruptcy. Together with his brother Roy, Walt managed to run a multi-million dollar entertainment empire with marketing prowess to be envied....

Fun fact: Not everyone who auditioned got to perform in front of Randy, Paula, and Simon. There were way too many people for that, and it would have taken forever. Instead, each contestant that made it on television went through a screening process that determined that they were… well, not good at singing, necessarily, but entertaining enough to be on TV—for better or for worse. Here’s a list of the best auditions that made it on TV… but not for the reasons they’d hoped!...

I, personally, believe that, in the future, the existence of intelligent Extra Terrestrial life in the universe will be seen to be self evident, and people will look back and laugh at the ignorance of the past, much in the same way we do today when we remember people used to think the earth was flat, or that it didn’t orbit the Sun. Slowly but surely scientists are beginning to agree that it is mathematically impossible for intelligent life not to exist with our planet in the endless expanse of the universe, and the trillions of planets it contains....