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10Robert Murat Life was good for this British property consultant. He lived comfortably in southern Portugal, enjoying his work, the mild climate, decent prices, and delicious food. Then, the story about the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann swept the globe, and the notoriously sensationalistic English tabloids smelled blood—Murat’s, to be precise. A British journalist convinced the Portuguese police to include Murat on the list of suspects with a variety of wild accusations, including tips that Murat had been seen outside the McCanns’ vacation home, incriminating DNA had been found, and his home contained a secret chamber....

While the ten stories on this list are a mix of tragedy, misfortune, and a bit of humor, they all have one thing in common. They are 10 examples of pizza deliveries gone terribly wrong. 10 William Fields Forty-five-year-old William Fields, or “Billy,” as he was better known, was well-known within the community of Connersville, Indiana, where he lived. He was also a favorite delivery driver for Pizza King, the company he worked at for almost 30 years....

Holmes’s enduring popularity can be chalked up to many things. In some cases, he’s the resolute and firm answer to political or social chaos, while at other times he plays the human magician who can deduce your life story from a speck of dirt on your trousers. As a result, many writers from around the world have created their own Holmes-like detectives. These characters exemplify Holmesian aesthetics (quirky eccentricities matched with a reserved demeanor) and sharp logic, even though they inhabit cultures ranging from Victorian London to 20th-century Japan or medieval Italy....

Soon after, over 130 immense buildings appeared across Britain, housing between 350 and 3,500 patients each. As their gothic towers loomed from secluded hilltops, the terrifying notion of the lunatic asylum lodged itself in the public imagination forever. While they deserve their reputation for the very real horrors inflicted on tens of thousands of patients, either through direct abuse or the many horrific and ultimately discredited “cures” used in asylums at one time or another , this list attempts to show that not everything about them was negative....

10 Farinata Degli Uberti Dante and Virgil meet Farinata degli Uberti in the Sixth Circle of Hell, a place reserved for heretics. The bleak landscape is filled with cemeteries, and the dead are buried there again in tombs and sarcophagi to indicate that they are dead even to the afterlife. Dante carries on a relatively long conversation with Farinata in a scene that likely had more drama for contemporary readers than modern ones....

All cultures have funeral rituals, and though they may differ in details, they usually involve the disposal of the body in its entirety. However, throughout history and even up to the present day, parts of human beings are being preserved post-mortem for a variety of reasons. 10 Relics Of Saints If living a good and holy life isn’t enough to allow you to go to your eternal rest in one piece, it’s hard to know what is....

SEE ALSO: 10 Times We Thought We Had Found Proof Of Aliens When we factor in the size of the universe, the number of Earth-like planets, and a range of other variables (as outlined in the Drake equation), there should be tens of thousands or more extraterrestrial civilizations in the galaxy. And with the galaxy being around 10 billion years old, scientists say that intelligent worlds have had plenty of time to contact one another....

New finds can also introduce intriguing mysteries about unknown human species and animals. They can be dramatic, too, showing for the first time the creatures that died minutes after the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth. 10 Comb Jelly Ancestor Some researchers love their jellies. The predatory and gelatinous kind, not the wobbly dessert. Recently, a scientist from the United Kingdom visited colleagues in China. When he was shown a particular fossil, he got very excited over the creature’s tentacles....

See Also: 10 Things You Never Knew About Famous Movie Plot Twists 10 The Entire Subplot In The Last Jedi With Rose And Finn Did More Harm Than Good In The Last Jedi, the main plot-line was that the heroes were being tracked through hyperspace with some new technology so they could not escape at all. Two main characters, Rose and Fin, forge a plan to sneak aboard the enemy ship, and use the help of a skilled codebreaker to reroute the enemy tracking technology and confuse it long enough for them to escape....

Whether you take stock in psychics, there is no doubt they stir powerful emotions. Fortune-tellers work in a shadowy realm where superstition, hope, fear, and money meld – and the results can be explosive. As a result, diviners have fallen victim to particularly savage slayings. Beheadings, execution-style shootings, stabbings, fire-bombing, matricide, and even more brutal ends have greeted these mavens of the mystic arts. See Also: 10 Creepy Premonitions About The Sinking Of The Titanic...

10Prehistoric Silk Road Civilization In 2010, an excavation along the western bank of the Heihe River revealed a civilization going back between 4,100 and 3,600 years. Researchers uncovered copper items and smelting equipment, suggesting this was the location of an ancient metallurgy center. The rare copper-smelting mill is the earliest of its kind yet discovered. The site has also yielded carbonized barley and wheat seed along with stone farming equipment and adobe houses....

10 Driving Ms. Ono It wasn’t enough that Yoko Ono’s chauffeur, Koral Karsan, of Amityville, New York, wanted $2 million of her money; he also felt it necessary to have hit men standing by to murder her, a prosecutor said. Karsan’s attempt to shakedown John Lennon’s widow backfired big time when he was arrested on December 13, 2006, for first-degree attempted grand larceny. The driver said that Ono had engineered his arrest to prevent his pursuit of a sexual harassment case....

For years, many civic-minded individuals considered Hollywood to be a bastion of sin, a sort of modern-day Babylon, because of such films. Furthering these stereotypes were real-life criminal cases that involved silver-screen celebrities such as Fatty Arbuckle, who was charged with manslaughter for the death of aspiring actress Virginia Rappe in 1921, and William Desmond Taylor, the director whose salacious 1922 murder created an entire subculture devoted to solving the complex case....

10 Dot Comedy Trying to use internet humor on TV almost never works out. For one, the internet moves fast. TV production usually takes so long that by the time the show airs, the jokes tend to be outdated. On top of that, internet-savvy people know when they are being pandered to, and they will not buy into TV bigwigs shoving “hip” comedy in their faces. Surprisingly, though, the idea of moving internet comedy to TV is not as new as you would think....

10Half Your Life Is Over By The Age Of Seven Remember going on summer break when you were a kid? Remember how long those few weeks seemed to last? For most of us, that time away from school probably felt like an eternity. In a certain way, it really was. Way back in 1897, Paul Janet theorized that we measure the passage of time as a proportion of our total life span....

It seems that they do nothing else other than grow and look pretty in our flowerpots. Yet, plants hold a hidden world among their leaves. They have a host of fascinating abilities that were once unknown. 10 They Help You Live Longer The benefits of having pets is well-documented. Who knew the same could apply to plants? A study conducted by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that simply having plants around the house was enough to lower the death rate by 12 percent....

Some of these old legends are rather PG and just require the touching of a foot or head. For example, in some cities, it will just be a discolored hand or mustache that brings all the tourists. However, other statues have tourists getting a bit more personal. These 10 statues from all over the world are ones that people like to touch in inappropriate places. 10 Crazy GirlsLas Vegas This one is not so surprising, is it?...

Luckily, with our advances in technology, today’s architects have a lot of new tools to work with when it comes to creating new concepts in order to overcome the challenges of our modern world. Many of these projects are incredibly overambitious and unique, but many have genius ideas within that could help to change the world of architecture, and the way in which we live and interact with the world, forever....

When it came to birth control, our ancestors got creative. From condoms to the precursors of the birth control pill, our ancestors were anything but in the dark. 10Magic Spit And Moonlight In Greenland, the natives once believed that the Moon made women pregnant. In order to avoid becoming pregnant by the Moon, the women of Greenland would avoid looking at the lunar orb, and before going to sleep at night they would rub a bit of their spit onto their bellies so that the Moon wouldn’t secretly impregnate them while they slept....

But every exceptional mind is an unusual one, and none were more so than the mind of Isaac Newton. As Newton’s life dragged on, his grip on sanity slowly started to slip, and his interests twisted away from the scientific and into the mystical. Newton wrote ten million words throughout his life, but most of them had nothing to do with science. The overwhelming majority of the thoughts he put to paper were about alchemy, prophecies, and ancient mysticism—a strange, little-known side to one of the greatest scientific minds in human history....