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10Robert PatchToy Truck What would your childhood have been without toy trucks? Boy or girl, plastic or wood, chances are you’ve had some experience with these tiny vehicles. At age five in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Robert Patch decided he wanted a toy to play with that could easily be assembled and disassembled by a child. He wanted the toy to be able to change into different types of trucks. For example, it could be a dump truck but easily change into a semi-truck....

There is no single reason why businesses and governments trick us into thinking these things work. It could be about the money, convenience, or some problem with the underlying technology. Nevertheless, read on; you will be surprised by what you will find. 10 Hotel Thermostats Have you ever lowered the temperature of your hotel air conditioning system yet still felt hot? That must happen a lot, considering that many hotel thermostats do not work....

Times have changed over the last few centuries. With that in mind, here is a list of ten things that, in all likelihood, most people reading this have never done and never will do. 10 Wash Your Clothes By Hand Anyone who has ever had a family will tell you one thing about laundry: It never ends! The laundry is one household chore that always seems be waiting for you no matter how much you do it....

We hope when we are hardest hit in those times that something or someone might turn things around. So here you go! A list of 10 miracles that really did happen. 10 Letter To Santa Answered We have all been in a place in our lives when things were not going well. At the very least, we have seen friends or loved ones in that tough spot. It is truly awful when someone hits a rough patch and cannot provide for a family, especially children....

Some of these rituals are better known than others. Here is a list of 10 wedding traditions from around the world that are unusual yet interesting in their own ways. 10 France In France, when people got married (especially couples who were young), friends and family gathered at the house of the newlyweds and banged on pots and pans while yelling and singing. The newlyweds had to come out and serve these visitors drinks and snacks and sometimes even give them money to make them go away....

Not every story that comes out of the Great Depression is a sad one, though. When times were at their toughest, people pulled together and helped each other out. Those who had something to share gave what they had to those in need. As a result, some of the most inspiring stories came out of one of history’s darkest times. 10 An Anonymous Man Took Out An Ad Offering To Send People Christmas Money Right before Christmas 1933, an ad showed up in an Ohio newspaper....

This week, we have several stories that highlight friendship, whether it is between two lifelong pen pals, a woman and a dog, or even complete strangers. There are also two positive medical developments and a few inspiring tales of people who overcame huge obstacles. 10 Extinct Flower Found Again A drone discovered a Hawaiian flower which was thought to be extinct. Researchers from the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) used the flying machine to explore the remote areas of Kalalau Valley on Kauai....

Well, the groups of young women highlighted here are more than just mean. Most of them are cold-blooded killers who engaged in acts of barbarism that would have made Attila the Hun blush. Included in here are wannabe vampires, psychotic lesbian lovers, aspiring occultists, and run-of-the-mill brats. Binding all of these murderers together is blood—the blood of their innocent victims, many of whom considered their killers friends up until their last moments on Earth....

10 APA Psychologists Reverse Engineer Anti-Interrogation Techniques The US military has always been concerned about their soldiers being captured behind enemy lines. In order to deal with this problem, they had military psychologists come up with a program to teach soldiers how to resist torture. This program is called SERE, and stands for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape. Unfortunately, after 9/11, many of the higher-ups in the CIA and the Department of Defense decided that we were the ones who needed to extract information—no matter how it was accomplished....

Towards the end of Edison’s life, he was quoted as saying he wished he respected Tesla and his work more than he had. Too bad, at that point the damage had been done: Tesla died broke and lonely, while Edison died wealthy and with great self-esteem. While they had worked together, Edison had often called his ideas “impractical” or mocked them (if he wasn’t plain threatened by them). It seemed Edison knew that he had this brilliant young mind under his thumb from the moment he came to America to work for him....

But what if the history of the origin of human beings had been different? What if the environmental conditions that forced us to evolve had been distinct or if our ancestors had been others? We now take our physical nature for granted, including our appearance and abilities. But had human evolution followed another path, it is likely that our appearance would not be “human” at all. In this list, we will see from a scientific point of view the 10 most radical bodies that humans would have had under other evolutionary conditions....

Lobbying is bribery for rich people. Only instead of being super-illegal it’s encouraged, and instead of letting them bend the law it allows them to simply change it. Take gun control. In the months after Sandy Hook, it looked like there would finally be some movement on this issue. Public support for new laws was over ninety percent, both sides of the house seemed interested and it looked like a vote would sail through....

10 Nika Riots We’re all familiar with the riots that can follow a big sports match. Some people riot when their team loses and some when their team wins. But what we think of as riots are nothing compared to those in the ancient world. For the Romans, horse racing was big business. The richest sportsman who ever lived was Gaius Appuleius Diocles, a Roman charioteer of the second century AD who amassed a fortune equivalent to billions of dollars today....

10 Learn A Hard Language Want to really stand out when applying to be part of the CIA or MI6? Then study a language like Arabic, Chinese, or Korean. These are among the hardest languages for English speakers to learn and among the ones in highest demand for intelligence agencies. Granted, it does take several years to learn them, but the obstacles really aren’t so bad. After all, if you can’t handle learning a new alphabet or memorizing a few thousand characters, what makes you think that you can handle a small army of henchmen led by an evil madman intent on taking over the world?...

You’ve likely heard of Angelina Jolie’s knife collection or Nick Offerman’s passion for woodworking. There are many stars, however, who keep their interests hidden. These obscure celebrity pastimes will blow your mind and make you want to throw out your stamp collection! 10 George Clooney Makes Shoes Eager George Clooney fans flooded to Reddit for the star’s AMA in 2014, where he discussed anything from playing basketball with Leonardo DiCaprio to getting pranked by Brad Pitt....

In my recent article, Top 10 Korean Foods You Have To Try, I explored 10 of the most delicious and satisfying Korean foods. In today’s list, we look at dishes that most of us living outside of Korea find very unusual. Despite this, it is worth trying all of the dishes if you get a chance as they are such unique and tasty aspects of Korea’s amazing culinary heritage....

Canaan Banana Canaan Banana served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 18 April 1980 until 31 December 1987. A Methodist minister, he held the largely ceremonial office of the presidency while his eventual successor, Robert Mugabe, served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. Banana was later convicted on charges of sodomy and imprisoned. He died 2003. Mr Banana is pictured above on the right. To his left is evil despot Robert Mugabe....

Statistics In the month to today we have had our first list reach more than 200 comments (in an amazing 2 days). The list was, of course, Top 15 Beatles Songs. We also published our 300th list and passed the 10,000th comment mark. We are ranking in the top 19,000 websites over all with Alexa, and are now in the top 3,000 blogs according to Technorati. We are averaging over 45,000 page views per day and have over 2,000 RSS subscribers....

Language: Russian Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases, it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness....

Traditionally on my birthday (August 31) I write an extra vanity list about myself. Previously I have done a list of my favorite books, films, and lists. This year I want you to tell me what to write my list on. I will take all suggestions and pick my favorite (it is my birthday after all!) After three years of running we finally decided to start managing our own ad campaigns (well, at least some of them)....