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Scattered somewhere among all those oft-repeated claims, though, are the truly unbelievable ones that most people don’t know. These facts sound so crazy that you’d probably have to look them up yourself to make sure they’re true. 10 Your Brain Can Actually Rust It’s said that if you don’t use your brain for a long time, it may catch rust. Of course, this refers to metaphorical rust, indicating that consistent mental practice is essential to keeping our cognitive abilities sharp....

10Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower is considered one of America’s most successful military leaders, serving as Supreme Commander of the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. But the task of taking the fight to the Nazis meant long periods of separation from his wife, Mamie. Perhaps that’s why Ike began the affair that was soon being gossiped about all the way back in Washington. Photos of Eisenhower often showed him accompanied by his lovely secretary and driver, Kay Summersby, often standing just a little too close....

This is a particularly timely list as the mainstream media has recently begun drawing attention to QAnon when a reporter recently asked the president what he thought about “his” suggestion that Mr Trump is working to end a deeply entrenched child sex trafficking cabal in the deep state with Hollywood complicity. Additionally, Netflix recently released a show Cuties which has horrified many with its extreme pro child sexuality content. These are 10 films featuring children performing explicit actions on screen ....

10Joyce McKinney In the late 1970s, former Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney’s actions shocked the UK—and led her straight to prison. Her strange tale of sexual obsession involves a kidnapping at gunpoint, chaining her victim to a bed for three days of forced sex, and continuing to stalk him many years later. When she was 25, McKinney met 19-year-old Kirk Anderson through a drama course both attended at Brigham Young University, resulting in a brief affair....

See Also: 10 Shocking Myths About Electricity 10 Cocaine And Tasers In February 2015, Florida police tased Calvon Reid to death. Wynmoor retirement community residents called authorities, and indicated that Reid, 39, had been injured and needed medical attention. After Reid refused the officers’ help, they tased him multiple times in the chest. Witnesses recall hearing Reid cry “I can’t breathe” and “they are going to kill me”. Reid’s death was ruled a homicide and led to the abrupt retirement of the Coconut Creek police chief....

10Cookbook Contains Explosive Recipes In 1978, a cookbook named Woman’s Day Crockery Cuisine was released in the U.S. Despite the fact that all of the book’s recipes underwent thorough testing before publication, an employee at the publishing company eventually found a significant flaw in one of the recipes. Specifically, anyone who followed the book’s steps for making Silky Caramel Slices would be greeted by a violently exploding slow cooker. The publisher stated that a simple typo was to blame: water was a crucial ingredient in one step but was apparently omitted from the instructions....

10A Frayed Nation If you look at a map of Israel, there’s a good chance that it will have several defined regions marked off. On the western side is a small strip that runs along the Mediterranean Sea and ends in a border with Egypt—the Gaza Strip. On the eastern edge is a large, gourd-shaped chunk known as the West Bank that juts in from the Jordanian border. In 1993, the Palestinian Authority was given control over a smattering of territories in the West Bank that cover about 11 percent of its total area....

10 Ursula Kemp Ursula Kemp was put on trial on March 28, 1582, with 13 other women suspected of witchcraft. According to the charges, Kemp, a village midwife, had cursed a mother who had chosen the services of a different midwife. Not long after the baby was born, it reportedly died after falling out of its cradle. Remembering the heated words that had been exchanged between the two women, the local magistrate targeted Kemp with accusations of witchcraft....

It’s not strange to hear a certain billionaire has invested in a sports team, bought a mansion, or owns a yacht. It is what society expects the upper class to spend their cash on. On the other hand, spending hard-earned or trust fund money on gold-plated toilets, ghost detectors, and dinosaur skulls may seem like eccentric splurges to most people. Here we discuss ten of the strangest financial habits of the rich, from the frugal ones to the frivolous ones....

Despite this, socialism seems to be slowly making a comeback. Bernie Sanders is the first self-styled democratic socialist in the Senate, and a recent poll indicates that a higher percentage of young people have a more positive opinion of socialism than capitalism. 10Mark Twain, American Author Mark Twain is best known for his books The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. However, especially towards the end of his life, he took several radical views....

SWAT teams frequently invade US citizens’ homes in the middle of the night, frightening homeowners and their families and endangering innocent people’s lives. As indicated by these 10 SWAT team assaults that went awry, the results can be catastrophic and even fatal when highly armed police units burst into citizens’ homes. 10 Roberto Franco In Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota in 2010, a SWAT team broke into the wrong house, killed the family’s dog, handcuffed the children, and forced them to sit near their dead, bloody, beloved pet for over an hour....

Many things that people commonly fear rarely cause fatalities or injuries and shouldn’t be thought about with nearly so much anxiety. However, there are many other things lurking much closer within reach that are much more dangerous than you would imagine at first. Some of the items on this list can kill you before you realize that you’ve already made a big mistake. 10 Rabies Will Sneak Up On You When You Least Expect It Rabies can be really sneaky and should be taken very, very seriously....

10 Hellhound’s Heaven Tucked away in Dartmoor’s Wistman’s Wood, this supposedly haunted forest in Devon contains hundreds of twisted trees and moss-covered stones. A common story involving Hellhound’s Heaven concerns a hooded figure in dark robes that walks with a pack of hellhounds. If any human dares to enter the forest, the spectral man threatens to steal their soul. Besides the ghost of Hellhound’s Heaven, Dartmoor is awash in eerie legends....

We occasionally forget that not only are cops risking their lives to keep the public safe but they are also human. While US law enforcement has its share of bad apples, it is fair to say that most of the men and women who join the ranks of the police are there to serve and protect. The best police officers do not simply chase down felons. They also engage with citizens, forge relationships within the community, and work hard to gain trust and respect....

However, stories of shockingly decadent and outrageously lavish lifestyles have always drawn a lot of interest. From rivalries to grand gestures to simply showing off, these are 10 times rich people tried to top each other. 10 Alice and Alva Vanderbilt Many families are competitive, but few have taken their rivalries to the level of sisters-in-law Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt (married to Cornelius Vanderbilt II) and Alva Vanderbilt (married to William Kissam Vanderbilt)....

10There Is An Alien Satellite Hovering Over Earth This conspiracy theory states that a 13,000-year-old satellite called the Black Knight is orbiting our planet. As the story goes, Nikola Tesla was the first man to discover its existence after he began receiving radio signals in 1899 which he believed came from space, a claim also made by amateur radio operators in the early 20th century. Later on, newspaper reports in the 1950s and ’60s detailing the discovery of a mysterious object in space coupled with supposed photographic evidence helped to fuel belief in the Black Knight’s existence....

The Door to Hell, as local residents at the nearby town of Darvaza have dubbed it, is a 70 meter wide crater in Turkmenistan that has been burning continuously for 35 years. In 1971, geologists drilling for gas deposits uncovered a huge underground cavern, which caused the ground over it to collapse, taking down all their equipment and their camp with it. Since the cavern was filled poisonous gas, they dared not go down to retrieve their equipment, and to prevent the gas escaping they ignited it, hoping it would burn itself out in a couple of days....

As you’ll see, even famous and powerful people vanish. Some are believed to be victims of crime; others are just the accidental missing. But despite any efforts to find the 10 famous individuals listed below, they were never heard from again. 10 Sean Flynn The son of actor Errol Flynn and actress Lili Damita, Sean Flynn made attempts at a number of different careers, including actor and musician. However, it was as a photojournalist that he finally seemed to truly find success....

10Lawsuits All companies tend to be slightly trigger-happy when it comes to suing other people. But Microsoft really decided to sink low when they sued a 17-year-old boy. The multimillion-dollar company threw a fit in 2004 when Mike Rowe created his own website and named it MikeRoweSoft, as he thought it would be a clever, but innocent, pun. Microsoft felt differently and threatened to sue Rowe for copyright infringement. Mike Rowe asked for a settlement if he was forced to give up his website, and Microsoft offered him a measly sum of $10....

10 Couperin’s Mysterious Barricades Appropriately for a list of mysteries from the history of music, we begin with a work bearing a title that explicitly declares to be about something mysterious, the subject of which has never been conclusively identified to this day. Francois Couperin’s 1717 harpsichord piece Les Barricades Mysterieuses has provoked ongoing speculation about what exactly the “mysterious barricades” of the title refer to. Some have suggested that it alludes to material items like women’s clothing, masks worn at a royal performance of Couperin’s work, or even to freemasonry....