The first reason is obvious. There are usually thousands of them, and within 5 minutes of the package being opened they are everywhere. Second, assuming the kids actually do use the beads for their intended purpose, they proudly present you with a mismatched, half-completed poorly-made necklace/bracelet which they then expect the parent (you) to wear every day of your life. Does this one even need an explanation? Just know that they put a screw on the battery compartment for a reason....

Not to be confused with microscopic plankton and diatoms, these are indeed fully formed seashells on a minuscule scale. A great many gem and mineral societies world-wide have divisions devoted to the study and worship of these tiny homes that can be found in sand samples from around the world. And remember that impossibly tiny as these shells are, the original inhabitants were even smaller, as they had to fit within....

10 Heartwarming Stories To Restore Your Faith In Humanity 10 We Are the World More than 70 members of the Long Island music scene united to create “We Are the World 2020 — The Quarantine Mix, Long Island.” They joined forces “to bring a little hope and healing to New York and the world during this COVID-19 crisis that impacts us all.” All of the musicians worked virtually from the safety of their own homes to record and video their individual parts on home studio gear or smartphones and then sent their parts to be edited into the finished piece....

One disciple got away from being tortured and died a normal death. One of them killed himself in a violent way. Another disciple is completely unaccounted for. And one method of execution the Bible mentions is left hanging in the balance, without a specific disciple to attach to the reference. Let’s explore all of these bizarre findings in the different ways Jesus’s disciples died. 10 Traditional Crucifixion Jesus was not the only one who was crucified....

However, behind the twinkling lights hide some of the most dangerous phenomena that we, as a species, have ever witnessed. From burning balls of gas to violent bursts of deadly radiation, here are 10 terrifying ways that space could destroy civilization as we know it. 10 Asteroid Every day, Earth is pelted by dust and rocks falling from space. Luckily for us, most of this will burn up in the atmosphere....

SEE ALSO: 10 More Amazing Coincidences 15. Childhood Book While American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing bookstores in Paris in the 1920s, she came upon a book that was one of her childhood favorites – Jack Frost and Other Stories. She picked up the old book and showed it to her husband, telling him of the book she fondly remembered as a child. Her husband took the book, opened it, and on the flyleaf found the inscription: “Anne Parrish, 209 N....

15 Pets.com Founded in 1998, Pets.com would become the poster child of the dot com bust, going from Initial Public Offering to liquidation in a mere nine months. Founded, (like many dot com busts) in 1998, Pets.com was an online pet supply store. The site gained national attention with Super Bowl ads and a sock puppet spokesman who appeared on Good Morning America and Live with Regis and Kathie Lee....

SEE ALSO: Top 10 Musicians Who Were Ahead Of Their Time The father of the modern symphony and the inventor of the string quartet. He wrote 340 hours of music, more than any other composer. His symphonies, though, leave a lot to be desired, as he himself said on his deathbed, “I have just figured out how to use the winds.” They are more like 1 symphony with 103 variations....

China State Visit, 1986 If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed. To a blind women with a guide “Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?” To an Aborigine in Australia “Do you still throw spears at each other?” To his wife, the Queen, after her coronation “Where did you get the hat?” When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union “The bastards murdered half my family”...

With the number of technological advancements we’ve made in recent years, the possibilities for the future are infinite. Maybe that dystopian future controlled by robots isn’t too far off after all… In this day and age, we have robots that can complete tasks of any kind in your home. The iRobot will assist you in vacuuming. Keurig will provide you with that oh-so-necessary cup of Joe before work, and you only have to turn to your smart speakers to tell you the weather....

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10The Perron Family In 1971, the Perron family moved into their new home in rural Burrillville, Rhode Island, a sweeping farmhouse built in the 18th century. It was to be the start of a new life for the Perrons and their five young daughters; and it was, but not in the way they expected. After only a few nights in the house, Carolyn Perron, the mother, awoke to the specter of an old woman hung by the neck from her bedroom ceiling....

Scattered across the globe, fossils are traces of organisms from a past geologic age that have been embedded and preserved in the Earth’s crust. But despite fossils’ wide range, the Sahara Desert contains many of the oldest, biggest, and most unusual fossils ever found. These ancient relics grant insight into the history of our planet and many creatures, including humans. 10 Giant Catfish An ancient relative of the well-known catfish was plucked from the sands of Egypt in 2017....

Beginning in 1969 and continuing through the next decade, Mao Zedong ordered the construction of an emergency shelter for the socialist government. It was located beneath Beijing—stretching 30 kilometers. The giant city was built during the Sino-Soviet border war for the main purpose of military defense. Within the city were stores, restaurants, schools, theaters, barbershops, and even a roller skating rink. The underground city also featured over 1,000 air raid shelters, and it was built to house up to forty percent of the Beijing’s population in the event of an attack....

Though it’s stupendous that we can even see that far, which is luckily possible because light has a speed limit of 186,000 miles per second. So we can observe things as they were when their light left its source, many billions of years earlier. And that light reveals some surprising, incredibly ancient (or aged) things. 10 A Mindbendingly Gigantic and Old Quasar The quasar—unexcitingly known as J0313-1806—is an astronomical hall of famer for its mass and age....

SEE ALSO: Top 10 Most Fascinating Mummified Bodies Found Outside Egypt 10 Tollund Man Peat bogs are ideal locations for the preservation of organic matter. They have low temperature, low oxygen, and a highly acidic pH. All of these work together to stop the breakdown of flesh. They also make peat a useful fuel for burning, which is why people dig around in peat bogs. The scenario described above involving peat diggers calling the police because they thought they’d found a crime scene is exactly what happened when the body of Tollund Man was discovered in Denmark in 1950....

SEE ALSO: 10 Book Predictions That Really Came True From evolution all the way to the big bang, so much of modern science has been precipitated by the thoughts and ideas of people who lived over 2,000 years ago. Even without the technology, knowledge, and experimental capabilities of our era, somehow, they still managed to get it right. Sort of. Here are 10 times that the ancients turned out to be correct....

10BelialJewish Beginning as more of a personification of wickedness, as was the custom of ancient civilizations, Belial eventually became a demon in his own right. Possibly deriving from a Hebrew term meaning “without worth,” Belial was said to have been the next angel created after Lucifer. Evil from the very beginning, he was one of the first to revolt against God and be cast out of heaven. Once on Earth, he became the leader of the Sons of Darkness, chief of all the devils....

The most endangered type of elephant – the forest elephant is not just hunted for its ivory – it is also hunted for its meat. One animal can provide over 1,000 pounds of flesh, resulting in the poacher making a fortune from one kill. This, combined with the popularity of eating its flesh, makes it a difficult animal to protect. Gorillas are endangered, but the native populations of the various African nations in which they are eaten, don’t care....