Top 10 Films Where Stunts Went Wrong

What makes a great movie? The plot? The characters? The underlying symbolism? Well, action movies don’t generally bother too much about those, but they do have big exciting stunts. Fire! Guns! Excitement! It’s what draws people in, again and again. And the stunts just have to keep getting bigger – [...]

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Top 9 Facts About the 20th Century Space Race

Following the close of the Second World War, the most destructive collection of years we’ve ever undergone as a species, humankind decided to bond their efforts in order to achieve one higher goal. This goal was of course to get a manned aircraft out of the limits of the Earths, [...]

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Top 10 Animals That Have Learned to Use Language

As humans, we tend to think that we have the monopoly on this whole communication things. We’re really good at it – at least, we think we are. We certainly do it a lot. But do other species also have the capacity to use language? In the wild, animals certainly [...]

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Top 10 Most Superstitious Presidents

It seems like it takes a bit of luck to become the most powerful politician in the world. Certainly, the job of President comes with a side-order of superstition, from the mundane to the bizarre. Even the election process has its own superstitions including the Redskins rule – a prediction [...]

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Top 10 Games That Are More Fun Than They Sound

Are you looking for a new game to challenge and amuse your family and friends? Why not try bean farming? Or mixing paint? Or building power plants? Admittedly, none of those activities might sound like much fun, but sometimes game descriptions don’t do games justice. This list, put together based [...]

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Top 10 Strange World Customs

Our world is one of constant parallels. As all we as a species know, planet Earth has spent the last few million years undertaking a comparatively brand new adventure, of which human beings have played a leading role. Slowly spreading from our humble primitive beginnings to establish ourselves as the [...]

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Top 10 Secret Nuclear Testing Sites

Since the dawn of nuclear weapons, in the mid 20th century, countries have been racing to test out their capabilities. The main “superpowers” such as the USA, UK and Russia all stopped testing in the 1990s after the end of the Cold War and signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in [...]

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Top 10 Scariest Motels in America

Hollywood doesn’t do a great job of selling motels to us, does it? From “Psycho”  to “Vacancy“, it’s a pretty safe bet that if you check into one of those handy roadside hotels, you won’t be checking out again. You may get tortured, stabbed in the shower or find yourself [...]

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Top 10 Impactful Photographs and Their Stories

Since the dawn of photography in the latter half of the nineteenth century, much of society has been completely revolutionized. A vocation far past its humble beginnings, in terms of both capability and availability, photography has risen to become an art form in its own right. Active in all walks [...]

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Top 10 Most Dramatic Battles for the English Throne

In America, the system of who’s in charge seems pretty simple  – you vote for them. True, there are primaries and “Super Tuesdays” and other things that non-Americans find a bit baffling, but the end result is the guy with the most votes gets to move into that nice white [...]

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