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10 Jack Hill Known by many as the “Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking,” Jack Hill made a name for himself in the world of student filmmaking at UCLA, which brought him in contact with Roger Corman. This gave him the opportunity to direct horror films throughout the 1960s, such as Blood Bath (1966) and Spider Baby (1967). From there, he progressed into directing primarily within the Blaxploitation genre, collaborating multiple times with actress Pam Grier on films that sought to critique the flaws of their counterparts while still empowering African American voices....

From stupid questions to egg babies, we learned some pretty weird stuff in school. Here are the top 10 pointless lessons that take the cake. 10 Stupid Questions Definitely Exist Remember when your teacher said that there’s no such thing as a stupid question? Life has shown us that maybe they might be a little (or a lot) wrong. Granted, schools need to teach children that asking questions is a good thing....

Take a look at this past year, for instance. “The Hurt Locker” won the highest honor and I wouldn’t even put that in my Top 15 films of the year. However, it was sort of a weak year for great films and because of that, I excluded it from this list. I know everyone says “Ordinary People” (1980) and “Dances with Wolves” (1990) were undeserving of winning “Best Picture” – that “Raging Bull” (1980) and “Goodfellas” (two phenomenal films by Martin Scorsese) were the better films....

Bottom Logo In case you can’t tell – it is a Japanese house in front of the rising sun. What else could it be? Special Surgery Guess where I am not going for surgery? 8. High Fashion Guess where I am going for clothes. 7. Fine Food Sausage anyone? Olympics Even though people have pointed out the obvious problem here, they still insist on using this. Pediatrics A picture paints a thousand words....

Rock me Amadeus Falco, 1985 Rock me Amadeus was Falco’s only major hit in the United States, despite his popularity in Germany and his native Austria, and all over Europe. The song was featured in a 2007 Subaru commercial. Spirit in the Sky Doctor and the Medics, 1969 “Spirit in the Sky” is a song written by Norman Greenbaum and released in 1969. The single sold 2 million copies in 1969 and 1970 and got to number 3 in the U....

I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death....

Within the field of psychology there is a debate on what factors lead a person to practice criminal cannibalism. Some evidence suggests that cannibalism is a result of trauma experienced in childhood. It has been called a “psychological response to anger and frustration” expressed through oral aggression and an urge to literally absorb a person through consumption. In reality, people who kill and eat others are mentally unstable and dangerous predators....

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10 Great Pyramid Of Giza Measuring the Great Pyramid of Giza turned up an unexpected surprise—it’s uneven. For centuries, the true size of the monument eluded researchers. It’s not as easy as strapping a measuring tape around the pyramid’s base. A big part is missing, including the original size of this ancient marvel. Long ago, looters stripped the casing stones—limestone slabs that gave the pyramid a smooth, four-sided look instead of the steps tripping up tourists today....

In modern times, people have taken a more skeptical view toward the conquistadors, dismissing them as greedy and careless barbarians interested only in gold. While this was true of many of them, the conquistadors were certainly a fascinating lot of adventurers, filled with larger-than-life characters whose dreams, failures, and occasional triumphs—overshadowed by the big, successful names like Cortes and Pizarro—make for some fascinating stories. 10 Juan Garrido It’s commonly taught in American history classes that the first Africans to arrive in what is now the United States were the slaves brought to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619....

Philae’s touchdown on comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko was the culmination of over 40 years of planning and 10 years of perfectly choreographed yet still incredibly tense space-travel. The craft flew around the Earth three times, rounded Mars once, hibernated for 31 months, and eventually alighted on a 4-kilometer-wide (2.5 mi) rock that shoots through space at speeds of up to 135,000 kilometers (83,000 mi) per hour. Superheroes exist, and they work at the ESA....

Some parts possess awesome, specialized abilities beyond their day-to-day functions that most of us don’t know about. We don’t require these organs to be able to do these things in our daily lives. But for the specific situations for which they’re designed, they can outperform even our best machines. 10 Liver Can Reprogram Itself To Regenerate Our body’s ability to heal itself is truly extraordinary and something we take for granted....

10Rock-Hewn ChurchesEthiopia The usual, the easy, way of making a building is to pile components up until you have the structure you want. The other way is to start with bedrock and hack away everything until a building emerges. That is what the builders of the rock churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia, chose to do. Each of the churches is a single structure carved from the rock. There are 11 monolithic churches in Lalibela, begun by King Lalibela in the 12th century....

This is the only one of the original seven wonders still standing. And while you can visit today to see it – you can’t see it as it was originally built. The entire pyramid was clad on the outside with highly polished white limestone tiles. The pyramid would have glistened in the harsh Egyptian sun. Unfortunately in 1300 an earthquake loosened the majority of the tiles and they were consequently taken away to build mosques....

As the saying goes, it’s a jungle out there. You also hear it’s survival of the fittest, but sometimes those which aren’t the fittest adapt and get crafty. 10 Times Wild Animals Saved Humans 10 Komodo dragon These beasts, sometimes called ‘land crocodiles’, are the largest living lizards on earth, growing up to 3m long and weighing up to 70 kilograms. They are carnivores and have been known to have fatal encounters with humans, but don’t worry they’re largely restricted to a few remote islands in Indonesia, including Komodo (which is essentially a national park) hence the name....

Although the Holocaust showed the extreme nature of the war and the horrifying extent to which a nation could be driven, Japan’s Unit 731 facilities, an Auschwitz equivalent, held their own horrors in human experimentation. These are just some of the experiments that were performed during the unit’s existence from 1936 to 1945. 10 Dismemberment Like experiments at Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps, Unit 731 doctors and researchers studied the potential survival of soldiers on the battlefield....

Each survival situation is different. Maybe the difficulty you’re facing is short-term, and you expect things to return to normal soon. Here, we are thinking of events such as getting lost in the backcountry, a flood, or a hurricane. Other events could be long-lasting, like a war or the zombie apocalypse, for example. Your strategy will be different if you live in the inner city or a rural area. My instinct would be to leave the city (hello, have you seen the Walking Dead?...

On January 11, 2008, an auction for 4 golf balls that were surgically removed from a python’s gut ended. The balls were removed in an emergency room at Gold Coast’s Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. The golf balls were initially used to coax a hen to lay an egg. The python then raided the hen house but mistook the golf balls as real eggs. The veterinarians that removed the golf balls soon put them into auction to raise money for a new wildlife hospital....

10 Strangest Things Found In Sewers 10 Glowing Rock On February 22, 2021, Mantana Dao Pibul decided to go for a walk on the beach in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, Thailand. There, she saw a piece of coral. Collecting it as a souvenir, she took a closer look at her discovery—and found that the bizarre object was glowing! She shone the light from her phone on the strange specimen, and, when its red color brightened, she wondered whether the object could be a meteorite....