10 Birth Of Jazz During the Prohibition era, speakeasies ushered in the age of jazz music. In the “Great Migration,” black musicians from the South moved north to cities such as Chicago where they were amply employed by gangsters who owned and operated speakeasies. In fact, the musicians’ first audience members were gangsters. Not only did the gangsters provide steady income and employment that was once denied to these black musicians in the South, but the gangsters also became the musicians’ defenders and supporters....

10The Latest Lemur In one of the cutest discoveries of recent years, an adorable new species of reddish-brown dwarf lemur has been identified in Madagascar’s Montagne d’Ambre National Park. Dubbed Andy Sabin’s dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus andysabini) after philanthropist Andy Sabin, the little lemurs are about the size of a squirrel and sport a long tail of around 26–27 centimeters (10 in). The petite primates were actually first spotted in 2005, but they were only confirmed to be an entirely new species after genetic analysis in 2015....

Centuries of studies could not plumb the depths of these amphibians’ limits. They still manage to surprise scientists with their ability to survive bizarre injuries and mutations. 10 Visible Hearts The Hyalinobatrachium genus of frogs has transparent bellies. The unusual look soon earned the tiny amphibians the title of “glass frogs.” Found in Central and South America, the see-through skin of two species extends over the chest and show their hearts....

10Joseph Manuella If you spotted Joseph Manuella walking down the street, you might nervously ask the man for his autograph. He’d probably give you one, too, and chances are good he’d sign his name “Robert De Niro.” Manuella bears an uncanny resemblance to the two-time Oscar winner, and he’s put his looks to good use. The former fireman from New Jersey is a Robert De Niro impersonator, showing up at parties and spouting classic likes like “You talkin’ to me?...

10 Mikhail Sebastian John Donne’s famous observation that “No man is an island” is not lost on Mikhail Sebastian. His life began under Soviet rule in what is modern-day Azerbaijan. But a succession of misfortunes sent him country- and continent-hopping until he eventually found himself stranded on an island with no country to call home. Sebastian’s ordeal began in the late 1980s when brutal conflict broke out between Armenian secessionists and the then-communist Azerbaijani government....

While this situation garnered a lot of media attention, it is hardly the first race riot to be sparked by a controversial incident of police violence. When a community is plagued by racial tension, an unjustified act of police brutality can ignite the powder keg. 10The Death Of Arthur McDuffie One of the most famous riots of all time hit Los Angeles in 1992 after four police officers were acquitted for the beating of Rodney King....

To make matters worse, people often stumble upon the pieces of a human body, parts of what used to be a whole, living individual, now reduced to a big, mysterious question: Who was this person? Even more terrifying are discoveries of severed heads, with eyes that once saw and mouths that once spoke. Here are ten instances where someone was having an ordinary day and stumbled upon a severed head and the stories surrounding them....

Some people are willing to do anything for a baby. Each of the following were so desperate for an infant that they kidnapped pregnant women, cut them open, and yanked out the baby. Unfortunately, this crude surgery is often deadly—both to the pregnant women and the babies. 10 Dynel Lane Dynel Lane never got over the accidental drowning death of her young son. She was desperate to have another child and began faking a pregnancy....

Even imagining back as recent as more modern times before the use of local anesthetics and powerful painkillers, we can’t help but wince in discomfort at the mere thought of being held down by several people while some doctor of the day reached in with iron tools and ripped one of our teeth out, our mouths pried open with brutish Bronze Age–esque equipment. Here is the horrific history of dentistry in ten parts....

10 Unique Easter Traditions Around The World 10 Poland Easter is one of the most important annual holidays for Catholics in Poland and during the celebration period it is customary to see handmade ‘palms’ for sale of which some are taken to church on Palm Sunday to be blessed before they become decorations inside homes. On Easter Saturday traditional hand-decorated easter eggs are placed into an Easter basket alongside sausages, bread, beets, horseradish, salt and a symbolic dough ram and the basket is taken to church to be blessed....

10The Earliest HumansThe Omo Remains Of course, you can trace humanity’s family tree back a long way. But who were the earliest modern humans, like you and the people you know? Well, Omo I and II might just hold the answers. The two partial skulls, discovered in Ethiopia around 1967, were recently confirmed to be an astonishing 195,000 years old, making them the earliest known anatomically modern humans. (There actually is some debate around Omo II, but Omo I is agreed to be a fully modern human....

See Also: 10 Creepy Things Bodies Can Do After Death 10 Warning note A hotel guest found more than she bargained for when she discovered an unnerving handwritten note in a drawer, thought to have been left there by a previous guest. In December 2014, Amy Jones was staying in an Edinburgh hotel when she discovered the creepy note that said: “Don’t open the locked door! Don’t trust its whispers....

See Also: 10 Creepy And Surreal Moments Caught On Video Would you pay $65,000 for a metal walking cane? Especially a haunted one? The ‘Ghost Cane’ was put on eBay by Mary Anderson, a woman from Indiana who hoped the sale would ease the fears of her 6-year-old son who had come to believe that his grandfather’s ghost roamed the family home. The cane reached 132 bids on eBay and was only accepted on the online bidding site, which usually rejects ‘intangible items such as spirits or souls’ because Miss Anderson made it clear she was only selling the cane so that her son would no longer freak out....

If war continues unabated around the world, tragedies like the ones detailed below will never end and this quote might very well ring true in time: “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” –John F. Kennedy 10 16 Days To Die When a banging noise emerged from the wreckage of the USS West Virginia the day after the Pearl Harbor attack, those who survived didn’t think much of it—until they realized that the banging came from desperate men trapped underneath the sunken ship....

10 Danny DeVito This loopy theory comes from William Tapley, who calls himself the “Third Eagle of the Apocalypse” and the “Co-Prophet Of These End Times.” In 2014, he decided that the One Direction song “Steal My Girl” was not only a secret message from the Illuminati about the future of the planet, but also specifically the future of the Catholic Church. In the video, Danny DeVito plays a director who meets up with the band to shoot a video in the desert....

Most of us have at one time seen the flamboyantly colored guns that fire the harmless foam darts with suction cups for tips. But the best part is that they are cheap. A high quality NERF gun will not put you up any more than $40 USD (and most will be between $10 and $20). NERF is definitely the most expensive thing on this list, don’t be disheartened. If you manage to cough up a meager $35, you can be the proud owner of a brand new Vulcan NERF Blaster (for those who are wondering, that is short for belt-fed, tripod-mounted, full-automatic machine gun)....

10 Hippias The Battle of Marathon was a pivotal engagement between the combined Greek and Persian forces during the first Persian invasion of Greece. Hippias, an Athenian, conspired to work with the Persians to lead them ashore at Marathon. For his crimes of treason, a bounty was placed on his head as well as the heads of his sons, all of whom were charged with treason. Hippias was so loathed by the people of Athens well into the following century that his name became synonymous with “treachery, fundamentally aimed at the destruction of the state....

In certain cases, like that of the bubonic plague, population levels were drastically reduced for centuries afterward. In other cases, such as polio, the infection of a renowned individual led to the further recognition of a disease and the need for a cure. 10 Bubonic Plague The bubonic plague (aka the “Black Death“) spread across Europe from east to west during the 14th century. The Yersinia pestis bacterium was responsible for the epidemic and used Oriental rat fleas as its intermediary in reaching the human population....

10 Not A Religious Leader This is arguably one of the most ironic facts surrounding the life of the Buddha: The so-called “founder” of Buddhism never claimed to be founding a religion at all. There isn’t a single line of reliable historical data expressing the notion that the Buddha saw himself as a religious leader or that he consciously decided to lay the foundations of a new religious movement. It would be more accurate to say that the Buddha considered himself a teacher who rejected the ways of traditional Hindu religious orthodoxy and offered an alternative path....

The Mojave phone booth was a lone telephone booth in what is now the Mojave National Preserve in California, which attracted online attention in 1997, due to its unusual location. Placed in the 1960s, the booth was eight miles (13 km) from the nearest paved road, fifteen miles (24 km) from the nearest numbered highway, and miles from any buildings. The original hand-cranked magneto phone had been set up in the 1960s to provide telephone service to local volcanic cinder miners, and other people living in the area....