10Nearly Voting Against Itself At The United Nations Every year, the countries of the United Nations gather to pass judgment on the continued embargo of Cuba by the US. The vast majority vote to condemn it while a handful abstain. The only two countries that always vote against the motion are the US and Israel. In 2015, those two were nearly whittled down to one. Not because Israel chose to abandon its stalwart ally but because the US almost abstained....

10The Body In The Car In July 2015, the story of a supposed alien hybrid government agent, who had been found decomposing in a car, appeared on several online media outlets. The man, who was eventually identified as Jeffrey Alan Lash, was found with over a thousand guns, as well as other weapons such as knives, machetes, and a bow and arrows. He also had seven tons of ammunition and cash amounting to $230,000....

10He Wanted To Be Spider-Man All of us have fantasized about possessing superpowers, but for most of us, these are just idle daydreams. Michael Jackson was a little more serious about his obsession. In the late ’90s, he tried to purchase Marvel Comics, which had filed for bankruptcy. His dream was to produce a Spider-Man movie starring himself. Unfortunately for Michael, this venture failed, and the role of Spider-Man went to Tobey Maguire and film finally came together....

Their most famous spokesmen, such as George Adamski and his friend George Hunt Williamson, wrote best-selling books and lectured across the country during the 1950s. Though their popularity faded in the ‘60s and their stories were blatantly fake and unscientific, there’s no denying that the original contactees were a strange, interesting bunch. 10 Buck Nelson The host of an annual UFO convention on his own Missouri farm, Buck Nelson was a humble, plainspoken man who self-published in 1956 a ridiculous pamphlet entitled My Trip to Mars, The Moon, and Venus....

10 Bizarro Fiction If we’re going to talk about bizarre literary movements, then we have to discuss the up-and-coming genre that is bizarro fiction. Self-described as “literature’s equivalent to the cult section at the video store,” bizarro fiction prides itself in offering readers the finest in fun, low-brow weirdness. Such weirdness has proven successful with its target audience of weird readers, receiving praise from famous literary oddities like Chuck Palahniuk. The movement began officially in 2005, when three independent publishing companies by the names of Eraserhead Press, Afterbirth Books, and Raw Dog Screaming Press tapped into a strong demand for bizarre and unusual fiction....

10Congress Broke Their Own Insider Trading Laws Insider trading is one of those super-immoral practices that only rich guys get to indulge in. Basically, it involves using non-public information (such as an upcoming major law change) to play the market and net yourself an obscene amount of money, something that is very definitely illegal. Unless, that is, you happen to be a member of congress. In 2010, it was revealed that congress people and their staff had been looking at proposed legislation, then using that information to make a killing on the stock market....

Psychological warfare is a blend of propaganda and actual tactics that can create a firestorm of terror in the mind of the enemy, long before the first arrow is shot or the first bomb is dropped. Carl von Clausewitz remarked in his work On War that the goal of warfare is to disarm the enemy and make them submit to the will of those conducting the war.[1] Sometimes, through the use of psychological warfare, this can happen easily, without a fight....

Conservative senators taking bribes, televangelists with three mistresses in tow are scandal mainstays. They are rightly pilloried, and I encourage the practice. But Alan Colmes once stated that hypocrisy is “essentially a conservative disease, something liberals can’t catch”. Nonsense. Hypocrisy is a sad part of the human condition. Wherever there is dogma and orthodoxy, there is hypocrisy from some, and liberals are no more immune than anyone else. A forgiving press can hide a lot of symptoms, but liberals have their share of embarrassing self-righteous tools who don’t practice what they preach....

10Toxic Byproducts From Computer Waste Are Polluting Third World Countries Every year, we buy tons of iPhones, laptop computers, and other handy gadgets, throwing out the old to make room for the new. Many people give their old computers to donation centers with the hope that someone else will at least get some use out of them, but this practice actually creates an immense amount of electronic waste, most of which gets imported to third world countries....

However, even those can be tainted by the problems of the real world. The only thing worse than realizing your favorite kids’ movie is not as good as you remember is finding out that it has a body count. 10 E.T. Was How Steven Spielberg Coped With Anti-Semitism Elliott and E.T. are one of the most iconic cinematic duos of all time. For many kids, one of their first heartaches is watching E....

Wherever there is a crisis, the ‘Ndrangheta will be there to profit, destroying human lives and the environment along the way. Today, the ‘Ndrangheta are the world’s largest criminal organization, with annual revenue surpassing that of McDonald’s and Deutsche Bank combined. 10The Proto-Mafia Originally, the term “mafioso” had no criminal connotations. It meant “manly,” referring to a young man who was suspicious of central government. The island of Sicily had a history of being ruled by foreign invaders, and these mafiosi would band together to protect the people....

When you log on to your social media accounts, you expect to see some harmless videos, pictures, or postings. You might find a few angry rants but nothing to really concern you. However, an unfortunate few have logged on to discover that one of their friends was a killer or worse yet, that one of their family or friends had been brutally killed. 10 Jacob Rogers On the morning of March 2, 2015, 27-year-old Andrew Jones was sleeping on a couch in his apartment in Racine County, Wisconsin, when his 27-year-old roommate and supposed friend, Jacob Rogers, woke him up and shot him a few times....

10Jews Cannot Be Buried In A Jewish Cemetery If They Have A Tattoo “You shall not etch a tattoo on yourselves.” This passage is the reason most Jews do not get tattoos. But, as with all religions, not everyone adheres to every practice, and many Jewish people have body art. Nowhere in the Talmud does it say that a tattoo will keep a Jew out of a Jewish cemetery. The misconception that tattoos have anything to do with burial rites arose sometime in the 20th century, likely due to a specific policy one private cemetery may have had....

Yet it doesn’t have to be this way. Throughout the world, brave individuals have risked life and limb to conserve our greatest treasures. Sometimes, they’re professionals, like the Monuments Men. But mostly, they’re just ordinary folks who looked at the cultural vandalism unfolding around them and said “not today.” Here are their stories. 10The Syrian Archaeologists Defying ISIS On one side is a force of murderous fundamentalists with more firepower than many armies....

This was a campy, 1950s, giant monster movie. King Kong put this genre on the map, and with the advancements in technology, the special effects progressed beyond stop-motion by the time of this film. It came out one year after Japan struck freakin’ gold with Godzilla, and some American genius said, “We’re all afraid of spiders! Let’s make one big one!” It didn’t really work, though, because the poor dumb monstrosity couldn’t skitter-skitter-skitter down the streets like a real spider would....

However, not all hospitals can boast of this. In fact, the ten former medical centers on this list are definitely places you don’t want to end up in… whether injured or healthy. So let’s take a stroll through the hallways of these 10 creepy abandoned hospitals in Europe. 10 Brestovac Sanatorium High on the slopes of Mt. Medvednica, outside of Zagreb, Croatia, stands the ruins of a supposedly haunted sanatorium....

10 William Palmer Dr. William Palmer became known as the Rugeley Poisoner by the end of his trial in 1856, and his hanging at Stafford Prison, England, attracted a crowd of more than 30,000 people. Not all thought this womanizing doctor was guilty as charged, however—some people thought he was just an unlucky man judged on his lifestyle rather than his alleged crimes. Ultimately, Palmer was found guilty and executed for the murder of John Parsons Cook via strychnine poisoning, but it was thought that there were many, many more victims....

Note: One ape conspicuously absent from this list is the bonobo, which resembles a miniature chimpanzee. While their larger cousins are known for acts of demonic violence, the bonobo has never been observed killing a member of its own species. They are remarkably peaceful creatures, living in a society based on near-constant sex. 10Frodo The Baby Killer There are few things cuter than a young chimpanzee. With its expressive eyes and sweet nature, it is quite like a human infant....

Then again, it’s also worth noting that he was human, and to be human is to err. Over the years, historians and critics have found certain controversial quirks in the man’s life. 10His Sex Life “Was Gandhi gay?” questioned various newspapers across the globe, as private correspondence between him and a former associate, Hermann Kallenbach, surfaced in 2013. Gandhi and Kallenbach had lived together from 1907–1909 in South Africa. Gandhi’s letters to Kallenbach contained such statements as “My dear Lower House,” addressing Kallenbach, and were signed “Sinly yours, Upper House....

10 Chain Emails And Letters Chain emails and letters are those weird messages that instruct us to resend them to more people. Those who follow the instructions are often promised some sort of good luck. Those who do not are warned of impending bad luck, including death. Some messages also instruct the recipient to remit money to the sender and then forward the email or letter to several other people, who are also required to send money....