While 2,224 people set sail on the Titanic, many more were scheduled to make the voyage, but for one reason or another, never did. The reasons were as varied as the people who were on board. Though the builders of the Titanic spared no expense on accommodations, still, several people canceled their Titanic passages when they discovered their cabins to be unsatisfactory. For example, Colonel J. Warren Hitchens, and Mr....
Another celebrity who died when he was only 27 years old, he was the lead singer of Nirvana and an iconic alternative rock and grunge star. Despite numerous personal problems, some of which related to the fame he found in life, he produced influential music and found success with an entire generation of fans before committing suicide in his home. After his death, the fascination with Cobain’s life has continued to this day....
The motives for living in a tree may vary, but it’s scientific fact that trees provide incredible health benefits. Trees not only give us the essential oxygen we need to breathe, but recent studies show that they actively remove deadly pollution from the air. Also, being in a natural environment surrounded by trees improves psychological well-being. It makes people feel less rage, exhaustion, and depression. In Japan, they even have a word for this: shinrin-yoku (“forest bathing”)....
It is estimated that there are about 400 to 500 species of sharks in the world’s oceans. While sharks are top predators of the oceans and can be very dangerous, they rarely become aggressive toward humans—only about 12 species have been known to attack people. However, they have caused some deaths and given other people permanent scars and disabilities, but they are not the man killers of myth and Hollywood....
10 Start Each Day By Eating A Spoonful of Vaseline If you’re using Vaseline on just your skin, you’re missing out. The creator had some different ideas. He wanted people to eat it. Vaseline has a weird history. It came into the world when some oil workers were scrubbing a weird, gooey residue off of their drills and thought to themselves, “What if we rubbed this stuff all over our bodies?...
SEE ALSO: 10 WTF Facts That Prove Columbus Shouldn’t Have His Own Holiday 10 The Mysterious Green Glow On October 11, 1492, Columbus recorded something strange in his journals, and we’re not talking about his tendency to refer to himself in the third person, which takes a special sort of personality. Columbus noted an odd phenomenon so faint or so far away that only one other person had been able to see it when he pointed it out from the deck of the Santa Maria....
This is true whether we’re talking Wolverine, Captain America, Thor, the Metal Men, Superman, Deathstroke, Flash, Dr. Doom, Wonder Woman, Luke Cage, or the Fantastic Four or whether we’re referring to superpowers, costumes, or weapons. If we take a closer look, we find that one or more of the 10 real counterparts of comic book particles and elements on this list come into play in these comic book characters’ lives and universes, and what a difference they make!...
SEE ALSO: 10 Ways The Queen’s Death Will Be Bizarre 10 The Queen’s Death Queen Elizabeth II has been on the throne for 67 years. For over 80% of the British population, she is the only monarch they have ever known. Transitioning after such a long reign would be difficult under any circumstances, but in comparison with other kingdoms, the British have spent the better part of a century ensuring that Queen Elizabeth II is directly linked to the British identity....
10 The Universe Shouldn’t Exist According to certain studies, the universe should not have survived more than one second. For example, the big bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter, canceling each other out. Instead, slightly more matter was produced, creating the entire observable universe. We can’t definitively explain this. In another theory, the universe is in the Higgs field, which gives particles their mass. A large energy field stops our universe from falling into the valley, a deeper field, where the universe couldn’t exist....
I know this site has a worldwide audience, so if you attend school outside the U.S. and would like to share your ghost stories, please do so in the comment section and perhaps a list of viewer-submitted haunts will appear sometime in the future. I apologize for the two year delay, but at long last here are 10 haunted universities from around the world! The location is the former White Dove Hotel in Aberdeen....
The individual enjoys the attention and sympathy that she receives for having a sick child as well as the praise for being such a devoted mother. In the United States, 2.5 million cases of child abuse are reported annually. It’s estimated that 1,000 of those cases involve MSBP. The women on this list were all accused of harming or even killing their children, with MSBP to blame. However, MSBP has proven to be an extremely controversial diagnosis, with some psychiatrists arguing that it is overdiagnosed and may not even exist as a syndrome....
Bundy claimed he was an innocent man, but evidence including eyewitness testimony, fibers, hair analysis, and hotel receipts had landed him on death row. The night before his execution on January 24th, 1989, at Florida State Prison, he finally confessed to all of the murders. These are the final days of Bundy. A man who will always be known as beyond evil for many more decades to come. See Also: 10 Creepiest Real-Life Stories From People Who Met Ted Bundy...
Despite this great and powerful history, all signs point toward the disturbing conclusion that the story of the United Kingdom is nearing its end. 10 Cutting Down Trees To Stop Climate Change This is one story that seems too crazy to be true. For a number of years, the UK’s biggest power supplier has been producing “sustainable” energy by cutting down American trees, turning them into pellets, and shipping them on cargo barges across the Atlantic Ocean....
10The Wizard Of Alderley EdgeEngland The story of the Wizard of Alderly Edge dates back in print to 1805, but the tale likely goes back much farther. A Mobberley farmer was headed to Macclesfield to sell his pure white horse. Along the road, he was approached by an elderly man who offered to buy the horse. The farmer refused, but when the horse did not sell, he headed back to the stranger....
10Mysterious ‘Sounds’ In Space The video above presents five mysterious “sounds” from space, three of which are definitely within our solar system. All of the sounds are actually radio waves or plasma waves translated into sound that humans can hear. First, we hear the eerie sounds that NASA’s Cassini spacecraft detected as radio emissions from Saturn’s poles in April 2002. The variations in frequency and time corresponded to activity in Saturn’s auroras, like the radio emissions from our own northern and southern lights....
10 Philip Masters Philip Masters passed away in the Bronx in 2007 at the age of 70. The story he left behind, however, was one of raw determination. His actions helped to locate the sunken ship of history’s most notorious pirate. During the day, Masters appeared to be your average worker, albeit one with well-rounded resume. Some of his job titles included a cabdriver, a jewelry salesman, and a stockbroker. He also used his varied skills and his ability to learn new tricks for his nighttime and weekend hobby—tracking the wreck of the Queen Anne’s Revenge, Captain Blackbeard’s ship, which began its life as a French slave ship before Blackbeard (aka Edward Teach) took over ownership in 1717....
One of the main reasons these stories have become so legendary is because they feature one or more letters written by an anonymous individual whose identity has never been uncovered. It’s fairly common for authorities to receive anonymous letters in prominent criminal cases, but while they often turn out to be hoaxes, the letters sometimes have an eerie credibility to them. 10The Disappearance Of Beverly Potts On the evening of August 24, 1951, 10-year-old Beverly Potts left her Cleveland home to attend a summer festival at Halloran Park with a friend....
But genetics also has its lighter side. Some of the traits that have been passed from generation to generation without dying out appear to have little or no benefit to mankind from an evolutionary perspective. But they do make a good talking point. See Also: 10 Fruits, Nuts, And Vegetables You Did Not Know Were Man-Made 10 Tongue rolling Around two thirds of people are able to roll each side of their tongue together to form a tube shape, without the least effort, whilst the rest are cursed with flat tongues....
10Earth’s Plasmasphere The plasmasphere is the inner portion of Earth’s magnetic field, and it’s fabulous. Recently, astronomers have found a constant flux of particles between the two electrically charged regions, forming a terrestrial version of the solar wind. As solar UV radiation strikes the atmosphere, it kicks off a gigantic ionic rave. Tiny electrons are whipped up and ionize other particles, creating a magnetic stew high above Earth’s surface. The flow is somewhat modest in cosmic terms....
10 The Book Was Crowdfunded Long Before Kickstarter In the late 1630s, Reverend Joseph Glover decided to move from Sutton (in London, England) to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with his wife Elizabeth Harris Glover. Joseph and Elizabeth desired the greater religious freedom that Massachusetts Bay would provide. To prepare for this move, Joseph gave sermons to raise money and, with that capital, he bought type so that he could start a printing press....
