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10Taki Onquoy Thirty years after the Spanish conquest of the Inca, a major religious revolt erupted against European rule, rejecting Catholicism in favor of traditional Andean gods. The movement was called Taki Onquoy (“dance of disease”) due to the ecstatic dancing of its followers. Many of the rebels were non-Inca, who believed that while the Spanish and their Christian god had helped topple the Inca Atahualpa, the time had come to overthrow them as well....

10Grover ClevelandHangman Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve non-consecutive terms, making him both the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. He also has some of the more comical presidential nicknames, including “Old Veto” and “Uncle Jumbo.” The most interesting nickname possessed by Cleveland, “The Buffalo Hangman,” was ascribed to him before he was elected president. As the sheriff of Erie County, the future president performed executions as mandated by the law of his county....

10 The President ‘Entering’ His Fiancee In 1915, The Washington Post ran an article on President Woodrow Wilson’s love life. One curious sentence in the article read, “The President gave himself up for the time being to entering his fiancee.” Of course, what the paper meant to say was that the president had been entertaining his bride-to-be Edith Galt, not “entering” her. The eyebrow-raising sentence was an obvious mistake but one that went down in history as being one of the worst typos ever printed....

10Manshiyat Naser, EgyptGarbage City In the suburbs of America, people prowl neighborhoods on bulk collection day, picking up cast-off furniture and the like to flip for a profit. Sanitation workers, who develop a keen eye for this sort of thing over the course of their careers, call the valuable trinkets they manage to salvage “mongo.” But nowhere in the world is garbage as important a part of the economy as Manshiyat Naser, a ward of Cairo....

For the record: we’re not here to discuss pet clothing or Halloween costumes, like so many other lists out there. Our pets have to go through far more innovative humiliations than those costumes you’ve seen before; so here are ten of the most outrageous. Dogs don’t do memes, in case you’ve forgotten. They do not care that old-fashioned mustaches are awesome. They don’t even know what a mustache is! And yet here we are, contributing to the rise in Puppy Therapy because we wanted—as the inevitable photo captions say—some “lulz”....

For some perspective, Helen Clark is the leader of the Labour Party and the main opposition is John Key, the leader of the National Party (pictured above on the right, talking to Rodney hide, leader of the ACT party) – both parties are to the left of the Democrats in the US – we don’t really have an equivalent of the Republican party, though National is closer to it than Labour as many Labour party members are socialists or have a background in socialism....

10Dinosaurs Were Neither Cold-Blooded Nor Warm-Blooded With a few exceptions, such as tuna and leatherback turtles, we’ve been drilled since childhood that animals are either distinctly cold-blooded or warm-blooded. We mammals, along with birds, are endotherms and we keep ourselves warm through metabolic processes—an energetically expensive survival strategy. However, it allows us to live across a range of environments. Ectotherms, such as reptiles, have poor internal heating mechanisms—they expend less energy, but suffer the inconvenience of having to sun themselves for warmth....

10 The Long Way Home A fortune-teller once promised Saroo’s mother that she would see her son again someday. He had gone missing at age five after an ill-fated nap at a train station. He was traveling home with his older brother when he seized an opportunity to sleep during a stopover. His brother was supposed to wake him when the train arrived home, but he awoke alone. His brother’s bisected body was found strewn across the tracks a month later....

People have ended up with severe and life-threatening conditions simply due to inheriting the wrong genes. We’re not talking about ailments like Down syndrome; we mean unbelievable conditions you would have never imagined could be linked to your genes. 10 Violence Genes Variants of the MAOA gene and the cadherin 13 (CDH13) gene are referred to as “warrior genes” because they are linked with violent behavior. A 2014 study by Finnish researchers revealed that criminals with the genes were responsible for between five and ten percent of all crimes committed in Finland....

10 Flesh-Eating Sarcophagi The ancient Turkish city of Assos is famed for its mysterious, flesh-eating sarcophagi. It typically takes between 50 and 200 years for a body to decompose, but the Assos sarcophagi can completely disintegrate a corpse within 40 days. These man-eating coffins are composed of andesite stone. Researchers are uncertain whether the stone itself is responsible for the rapid decomposition. Others suggest the presence of aluminum may be the cause....

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942. His go-ahead allowed more than 100,000 Japanese Americans to be uprooted and relocated to isolated, high-security internment camps. Pressure to sign came from military officials, politicians seeking favor among the American majority, a hysterical public, and even greedy farmers who were anxious to purge their competition. It worked. 10Home Raids Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, FBI agents raided homes of the Issei (i....

Wilder’s life, like the lives of most serial killers, was full of pain, disappointment, and abuse. However, Wilder’s story is definitely that of someone born bad. He only grew worse as he grew older. This list should convince you that Wilder was one of those rare types of humans whose bestial lust cannot be contained, co-opted, or cured. His death was a fitting conclusion to his depraved existence. 10 Upbringing And First Crimes Christopher Bernard Wilder was born on March 13, 1945, in Sydney, Australia....

10Viking Landers Finding Life On Mars During the ’70s, NASA’s Viking landers probed Martian soil, eagerly looking for signs of life on the Red Planet. While the landers did not find actual microorganisms, traces of carbon dioxide turned up in the collected samples. Some scientists looked at the results and concluded that living organisms had to be on the planet, producing the compound. The findings have been disputed for decades. Recently, some scientists have concluded that iron particles in Martian soil could have oxidized carbon compounds that exist naturally there....

10Dongyue Temple China Dongyue Temple dates back to 1319, and it’s one of the largest Taoist temples in Beijing. It’s also one of the creepiest. It’s home to the Beijing Folklore Museum, which was opened in 1999 and commemorates a number of traditions throughout Chinese culture. The festivals and demonstrations that go on almost year-round mean that there’s a lot of blessing going on at the temple and at the museum....

In total, Charles Manson was convicted of nine counts of first-degree murder, which included the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders and those of Gary Hinman and Donald “Shorty” Shea. Hinman was a music teacher who was killed by Family member Bobby Beausoleil over money and property. Shea was murdered because Manson believed that Shea had reported the Family to the police. However, there were a number of strange and brutal deaths that have been linked to both Charlie Manson and members of his Family....

We rely on experts for answers, but sometimes, they’re as baffled as we are when strange phenomena are encountered. Whether they’re objects or events, such phenomena often strike us as odd, eerie, bizarre, fantastic, incredible, marvelous, or even revolting and remain puzzling until they’re identified and understood, if they ever are. These ten strange phenomena that stumped experts are no exceptions to the rule. 10 Bone Irrigator In 2010, when a mysterious object was first discovered during an excavation of the grounds at New York’s City Hall, stumped archaeologists were unable to identify it....

Here are 10 psychology studies you might not have heard of… 10 Brain Hacking Virtually every website and bank tells customers not to write down their passwords, instead recommending you keep them locked in the safety of your head. Unfortunately, this might be less secure than you would think. Using an EEG (electroencephalogram) cap, researchers were able to detect a P300 response—a large spike of brain activity that occurs when we recognize something....

On January 1, Mr. Frost bought a load of coal, which was delivered to his house at 8 Ferrestone Road, Hornsey, London. From the beginning, it was clear to Frost, his wife, and three young children (or grandchildren; the family’s relationships aren’t consistent in newspaper accounts) that this was no ordinary coal. When burned in the fireplace grate, the coal exploded or even more unsettling, jumped out of the grate, took a stroll across the floor, and vanished, only to reappear showers of sparks in another room....

10Necromancy Necromancy is about invoking the spirit of the dead for divinatory purposes and to get their help in magical affairs. In ancient Greece, people condemned necromancy publicly yet seemed to have accepted in private. The amount of evidence on necromancy in ancient Greece is overwhelming. One of the earliest recorded examples comes from the Odyssey, where Odysseus performs a complicated ritual to contact the spirits of the dead by combining sacrifices, prayers, and offerings....

10Performance Enhancers Some Greeks were familiar with a number of concoctions intended to enhance sexual performance. Please, do not try any of the following recipes at home without first seeking medical advice. We take no responsibility for the outcome of testing in any of the following ancient recipes: Smearing the penis with a mix of crushed pepper and honey was believed to cause a lasting erection. An ancient Greek work prescribes, “Grind the ashes left after burning a deer’s tail, and then make a paste of the powder by adding wine....