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Or do you? Though we’re taught only the great and good ever make it to the top, the truth is that you don’t have to be intelligent, eloquent, or important to shake things up. In some cases, you don’t even need to exist. 10The Phantom Politician Who Became A Government Minister The year 2007 was a good year for Andre Kasongo Ilunga. At only 34, he’d risen from an obscure backwater town to become Minister of Foreign Trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first democratically elected government....

Hippocrates was a physician in Ancient Greece. He is thought by many to be the Father of Western Medicine. He was an incredibly forward thinking man who developed ideas that were ahead of his time. He was outspoken in his belief that illness was not caused by the displeasure of the gods, but had actual physical causes. He acknowledged that lifestyle, diet and environmental factors all affected physical health. It sounds obvious to us now, but that is because we have over 2,000 years of his influence to thank....

10 Howard Lewis Howard Lewis of Pontypridd, South Wales had been married to his wife, Elizabeth, for 34 years. For the last five years of her life, Howard took care of Elizabeth, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. One Saturday morning in 2005, Howard woke up to his wife breathing strangely before she finally went still. He was going to call an ambulance, but instead, he went out to buy a newspaper and pretended nothing happened....

Plenty of historical and cultural milestones only began when one joke spun out of control. The lives of millions of people were shaped just because one person wanted to try his hand at comedy. That might be the funniest joke of it all. 10 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Was Meant To Be A One-Off Parody In the early 1980s, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird were bored. They had met a year earlier in hopes of becoming comic book cartoonists....

Not only is it a time to celebrate cooler temperatures and beautiful landscapes, but it is also a time to celebrate plentiful crop harvests and various holidays. While many people typically associate the autumn season with Halloween and Thanksgiving, many other days are celebrated during this time of year, such as Yom Kippur, Eid al-Adha, Dia de los Muertos, and Diwali. This list contains 10 popular autumn activities and events that took a tragic turn for those involved....

10 Wilhelm ReichOrgone Born in 1897, Wilhelm Reich was a psychiatrist enamored of the works of Sigmund Freud. He briefly worked with Freud and later started his own practice in 1922. By 1940, he had moved to the United States and fully developed his theories. According to Reich, he had scientifically proven the existence of a compound that he described as a form of energy in the body that was the physical manifestation of the libido, building up in the body until it was successfully discharged through an orgasm....

Unfortunately, a lot of the wisdom attributed to these seven is bogus. Some of it may have been said, but it was said be a different person. Some quotes are garbled versions of what they said that distort their meaning, and some are total fabrications by people who want to win an argument and think creating a fake quote is a good tactic to use It is difficult to rank order bogus quotes, so this list does not attempt to do so, though #1 is definitely the most egregious....

Recent polls indicate that approximately 20% of Americans believe that the U.S. has never landed on the moon. After the Apollo missions ended in the seventies, why haven’t we ever been back? Only during the term of Richard Nixon did humanity ever land on the moon, and after Watergate most people wouldn’t put it past Tricky Dick to fake them to put America in good standing in the Cold War....

Such conspiracy theories gave rise to claims of a “shadow world government,” as well as theories on the Illuminati, who they are, and what their ultimate goals might be. The following claims haven’t been proven. If any were, then it is something that we should all pay attention to, lest we ever let ourselves be collectively fooled again. 10 The ‘Hidden Predictions’ Of Disreali Benjamin Disraeli is widely seen by most in the political world as one of the most influential Britons of all time, and certainly of the 19th century....

10Jesus Christ Endorsements The 1978 monster movie parody Attack of the Killer Tomatoes has acquired a reputation as the worst movie ever made. In terms of plot, production value, and humor, it’s more or less a 1970s Saturday Night Live sketch stretched out to feature length, for better or worse. It managed a surprising three sequels, a television spinoff, and a rerelease by Disney in the 1990s (a remake was announced in 2008 but fell through)....

ASMR is the newest sensation. Short for autonomous sensory meridian response, ASMR is an experience characterized by a tingling, sometimes static-like feeling that usually begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. A soothing smash hit, ASMR has taken YouTube by storm even while the science behind it remains unsettled. Now shhhhh. Relax. Unwind. Here are 10 softly spoken, glass-tapping facts about ASMR....

10 Truly Disgusting Facts About Ancient Egyptian Life 10 Historic Slasher Film based on Liu Pengli—The First (solo) Serial Killer on Record Starring: Jason Wong as ‘Liu Pengli, Tony Leung Chiu-wai as ‘Prince of Liang’ We’ve read about one of the first recorded serial killers on the site before. The story of a pampered, sadistic royal murderer could combine the creeping dread of classic slasher movies with the mystique and intrigue of the ancient Han dynasty....

Archaeology is sometimes seen as the “poster boy” of history by other historians. Its flashy discoveries often steal the limelight, grabbing the public’s attention like no textbook ever could. One archaeological find—like the discovery of Richard III’s body under a Leicester car park in 2014—can make a whole generation of academic writing obsolete in a second. And some of these finds are so strange that they can change the way we view history entirely....

Surprisingly, insects play a part in all of those. Scientists are making bug-stuffed cuisine and have found that insects could save us all from super microbes. Most creepy of all, the military has claimed its own insect army for national security. 10 Bugpocalypse In recent times, media outlets claimed that insects will be extinct within the century. Scientists do not believe such a “bugpocalypse” is possible. When a species is lost, others usually take over its ecological niche....

10 Kentuckians Accounted For 60 Percent of US Casualties When the Kentucky Historical Society established a commission to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, they were paying tribute to a huge number of their own. Around 60 percent of US casualties during the war were from Kentucky, a statistic that sounds rather unlikely but is true. Kentucky suffered greater losses than any other state. At the time, the new state’s total population was only about 400,000, not much compared to other states like Virginia, which was home to one million people....

Theoretically, the lowest temperature that can be achieved is absolute zero, exactly ?273.15°C, where the motion of all particles stops completely. However, you can never actually cool something to this temperature because, in quantum mechanics, every particle has a minimum energy, called “zero-point energy,” which you cannot get below. Remarkably, this minimum energy doesn’t just apply to particles, but to any vacuum, whose energy is called “vacuum energy.” To show that this energy exists involves a rather simple experiment– take two metal plates in a vacuum, put them close together, and they will be attracted to each other....

See, the future is out to get you. For reasons we can’t even begin to fathom, it wants all of us dead. And conveniently, it’s chosen 10 possible ways to do this. Think you’re safe? The following could kill us all before the decade is out. 10 Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Imagine a world where a single cut to your finger could kill you. A world where breaking a bone or giving birth could be a death sentence....

We find ourselves in a world today where we look around at large, cumbersome, extremely powerful institutions that have often grown to an uncontrollable size, wondering what should we do if and when they turn on us. Sometimes, tragically, that’s precisely what happens, where the very institutions in which we place our trust turn against us in both overt and covert ways. When those who wield the power to make the decisions for such massive behemoths are wrong, they’re often gravely wrong, and people suffer as a consequence....

While aesthetic appeal is certainly a factor in their decision-making, there are also guidelines for what can be depicted on a stamp. But even with these regulations in place, controversies still arise. Both the United States and other countries have faced backlash for stamp designs that have offended certain groups. Some have even caused international incidents! In this list, you’ll learn about ten examples of controversial and ill-advised stamp design choices....

The Praetorian Guard grew too powerful and, on more than one occasion, exerted its influence in ways that forever changed the history of the Roman Empire—and, indirectly, the world. 10Augustus Founds The Praetorian Guard Although praetorians are inexorably linked to the Roman Emperor, they existed for centuries before Rome ever became an empire. During the Roman Republic, groups of soldiers known as Praetorian Cohorts were assigned to generals or magistrates called praetors....