Xbox Live recently banned Josh Moore for violating its gamers’ code of conduct. His offense? Filling out his Xbox Live profile. You see, Mr. Moore lives in West Virginia. More specifically, in FORT GAY, West Virginia. As Microsoft says, the word “gay” is always offensive. Never mind that several US townships incorporate the word into their name, many people have “Gay” as a first or last name, and some homosexuals do identify themselves as “gay....

Project Nutmeg has historical significance because it was the top-secret project that gave birth to the Nevada Test and Training Range. Prior to testing atomic devices on US soil, nuclear bombs were tested in the Pacific Ocean at what was called the Pacific Proving Grounds. While this afforded the US a remote (and huge) area to test secret atomic devices, the cost involved in sending men, materials and equipment half way around the world, was staggering....

10 Chronic Illness If we’re being unkind, our picture of the very poor probably involves junk-food addicts wheeling their way around Walmart, puffing on a cigarette and vaguely trying to remember when they last did any exercise. But this image has almost nothing to do with reality. A long-term Gallup study found that those in poverty are just as likely to eat healthily as the rest of us, only slightly less inclined to exercise, and equally clued-up about nutrition....

SEE ALSO: Top 10 Catalysts for World War III Claiming that World War III is just over the horizon is as crazy as it gets, but the state of the world is showing some eerie similarities to the pre–World War II global picture. And history is a creature of habit. 10 An Unexpected Invasion On February 27, 2014, Russian soldiers strapped on their marching boots and took over several airports in Crimea....

10Denver Is Radioactive Background radiation from natural sources is everywhere. It comes from cosmic rays, the Earth, and even our own bodies. And though we’re all exposed to it, some places on the planet are more radioactive than others. For instance, residents of Denver, Colorado get about four times as much cosmic radiation as those in who live at sea level, giving them an extra 115 millirems of radiation per year....

10McCarthy, Alaska When it comes to small towns, McCarthy, Alaska, is about as small as it gets. In 1983, 22 people lived in the former mining town about 400 kilometers (250 mi) away from Anchorage. One of the people living there was 39-year-old Louis Hastings, an out-of-work computer programmer. Hastings had moved to the town about eight months earlier from California to work on a cabin that he owned. On February 28, 1983, Hastings spent the night playing the board game Risk with his friend Chris Richards....

Here are ten of the sneakiest predators to be found in nature. 10 Amazing Mummified Animals We Have Found 10 Assassin Bug vs Spider Spiders are superbly adapted predators. They dominate their little worlds with their quick movements, venomous attacks, and subtle senses. Generally any little bug that blunders into a spider’s web is in for a bad time. For the Giraffe Asssassin Bug however they actively hunt down spider webs, and turn the tables on the web-spinner....

10Beauty Products Humanity’s quest for perfection has led to a thriving industry that is projected to reach $265 billion by 2017. With such large sums at stake, it is no wonder that a variety of bizarre treatments have entered the market. There is certainly no lack of customers willing to try anything to look better than the rest. When it was discovered that semen contains a compound called spermine, which has powerful antioxidant properties and can delay aging and smooth wrinkles by up to 20 percent, some entrepreneurs put two and two together and made facial creams out of the stuff....

The era is shrouded in mystery, and new archeological discoveries continue to push the boundaries of our current beliefs and understanding regarding mankind’s cultural evolution, technological developments, and other accomplishments. However, with each new discovery, we seem to uncover a multitude of new mysteries, which not only make us question our current belief systems but also our current societal prowess. 10 The Red Deer Cave People The discovery of 14,000-year-old bones belonging to numerous members of a strange pre-modern human species in China’s Maludong (Red Deer Cave) in 2012 electrified the scientific community....

10 Kit Lambert The Who is one of the most innovative and popular bands of all time. However, their first manager, Kit Lambert, has remained an almost unknown figure in spite of playing a big role in the The Who’s history. He also led a life almost as wild as the band members. The first contribution of Lambert and his business partner Chris Stamp (more on him in later) was to give the group its name....

It might sound like a made-up word, but the smoot unit of measurement is a huge deal, especially in Massachusetts where it first originated. In 1958, a 1.7 meter (5.5 feet) tall fraternity pledge called Oliver Smoot agreed to be used to measure the 620 meter (2,000 feet) long Harvard Bridge which connects Boston and Cambridge. After repeatedly lying down on the bridge and having his position marked in chalk, it turned out that the bridge was 364....

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Lazy, entitled millennials, selfies, slash fiction, a vacuous culture focused on nothing but remakes—every era has its problems, but those of the second decade in the 21st century seem especially odd. Forget eternal stuff like wars and terrorism; it’s the small things that show just how uniquely dumb our modern world is, right? Maybe not. Take a look at almost any symptom of our time here on Earth, and you’ll find that it has plenty of historical antecedents....

10 Drunken Surgeons Alcohol was a vital commodity during the Civil War and was primarily used as an anesthetic during amputations. However, use quickly became abuse. Some took the occasional nip to dull their fears, while others, including the surgeons who were operating, got flat out drunk. Phoebe Yates Pember, a Confederate hospital matron, once wrote of a patient who was brought in after his ankle had been crushed by a train....

We like to think that these murderers will eventually be hunted down and caught—but of course, this is not always the case. Some serial murderers elude capture for years, even decades—and some are never caught. Any one of the ten people below may still be roaming the streets today: On February 9, in a suburb of Salt Lake City, an Hispanic woman was attacked and murdered while alone in her apartment....

10 ‘Dinosaurs Abandoned Their Eggs Like Lizards’ In the past, the general census was that dinosaurs abandoned their eggs after birth like reptiles, but newer findings have shown that many dinosaurs cared for their young, like modern-day birds. Fossilized dinosaur burrows and nests reveal a lot about their behavior. Nests vary from simple pits to complicated constructions with mud rims. They appear in large groups or alone. The nests and the clutches of eggs reveal information about the dinosaur’s nurturing behavior....

But as research is gradually finding out, babies are capable of much more than we usually give them credit for. 10Hearing All The Sound Frequencies At The Same Time We assume that a baby’s sense of hearing is just a primitive version of an adult’s. Sure, they turn around when you make a sound, but they can’t really understand the difference between talking and other sounds. While that’s true for the most part, it’s not because babies are not as good at hearing as we are but because they’re tuned to a whole different type of hearing....

10 The Oteros When Dennis Rader first saw the Puerto Rican Otero family, he became transfixed. His main focus was on mom Julie Otero and her 11-year-old daughter, Josephine. Rader hatched a plan to attack on the morning of January 15, 1974 when only Julie, Josephine, and youngest son Joseph Jr. would be home. Rader was caught by surprise when he entered and found Joseph Otero, the family patriarch, still home....

Okay, maybe we weren’t all great navigators like Christopher Columbus. The reality of most map-guided journeys was a screaming match with the other half over which turnoff to take and where the next opportunity to make a U-turn was. No one can argue that GPS has made our lives easier. In fact, it’s probably saved a few marriages. But are there any dangers in turning off our brains and turning on the GPS?...

10 Antibiotic-Resistant Duodenoscopes Duodenoscopes are devices that are supposed to drain fluid from pancreatic and bile ducts. However, they are unruly when it comes to sterilization. The scopes have a sort of elevator-like movement which allows them to move within the body, draining fluid as needed. As a result, cleaning the scope is quite laborious. Although any good medical professional would clean such instruments, many did not—which was a mistake that proved deadly....