10 The World’s Biggest Quran In 2008, Sayeed Najmul Hasan Chishti from India took the world record for creating the largest handwritten Quran. Then in 2009, the record was being eyed by a teenager writing for 12 hours a day to produce a Quran 3,000 meters (about 1,000 ft) long. If she finished, no one noticed because the world record was taken in 2011 by a Quran in Russia. Weighing 1,763 pounds, this massive book was encrusted in gold and silver and a smattering of precious stones....

10Shanyna Isom In 2009, 28-year-old Shanyna Isom was rushed to an emergency room in Memphis, Tennessee after experiencing an asthma attack. The doctors on call treated her with a dose of steroids and sent her home. Soon after this, Shanyna began experiencing an itching sensation which worsened despite medical treatment. Then, alarmingly, she noticed that her legs were turning black. Doctors became convinced she had a staph infection or some type of eczema-like skin disorder....

Over the years, dozens of apparent insiders have come out of the woodwork with stories of free energy, reverse engineered UFOs, secret slave colonies, antigravity, and government cover-ups that, if ever proven true, would spark drastic and irrevocable changes to life on this planet for every one of its inhabitants. The advent of free energy technology alone would put a permanent end to poverty and hunger, freeing humanity from the rule of a tyrannical and corrupt elite who have foisted upon them war after meaningless war....

Here are ten surprising eponyms and the unique people they are named for. 10 Guy Imagine your name becoming a generic term for a person. Well, that is exactly what happened to Guy Fawkes. Though it was quite outside of his main aim of trying to blow up Parliament. Fawkes came to fame in the 17th century when he and a small band of Catholic rebels failed at this very task....

Recurrent in West Africa and with cases spread all over the world, it seems like EVD is not leaving us anytime soon. Most reported cases of EVD outside of West Africa have been from health workers who have worked in or been based in West Africa. These infections are a result of exposure to the disease from outside their home countries. As a result, the following ten places have had suspected or confirmed EVD cases over the past five years....

10Paul Whipkey In the early 1950s, Lieutenant Paul Whipkey found himself in a high position within the United States Air Force at Fort Ord, California. He was one of the first men to witness the atomic bomb tests. In 1957, he began acting strangely. He also lost all of his teeth, suffered from constant colds, suddenly lost weight, and developed black moles and warts all over his body. While on post, he was often seen talking to two men dressed in suits, but they have never been identified....

When it came to light that the Bush Administration of the United States was using waterboarding to torture terrorists—and even suspected terrorists—into compliance and as a measure to gather intelligence about the simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the world was shocked and horrified. Author for Vanity Fair and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens underwent waterboarding in 2008. Hitchens would walk away from the experiment shocked and terrified at what was being carried out on live individuals, once remarking, “If waterboarding isn’t torture, there’s no such thing as torture....

A person to be tried in Kentucky for lunacy is often hauled before a jury of as ignorant, illiterate, indiscriminating men as you could find in a month’s journey. The officers go out and just pick up anybody. Who would want his sanity passed on by the rakings and scrapings of creation? Brutal words but apparently truthful. Getting placed in an asylum 100 years ago was as easy as dressing in the “wrong” clothes or speeding in your car....

Some people have underlying conditions that make belly-laughing hazardous to their health, while others laugh so hard that they just forget to breathe. Whatever it was that tickled their funny bones, some people would have done better to try and keep a straight face. Here are a few things that you might want to avoid, if you don’t want to die laughing. 10 A Little Light Entertainment In 1975, Alex Mitchell was watching a surreal British comedy TV program called The Goodies....

Why? Although that’s a very good question, even conspiracy theorists are having a hard time with this one. We do know that this group seeks intelligent individuals to recruit. Whether Cicada 3301 is a government ploy to hire future employees on the side or some kids trolling, the puzzles certainly stump most people and adding a book with a secret language to decrypt doesn’t make it better. 10 Odd Arrival In January 2012, Cicada 3301 first became known to the public by posting an intriguing message and a photo of a duck on 4Chan....

10 It Didn’t Happen In December Jesus probably wasn’t born on December 25. In fact, He probably wasn’t born in December at all. The Bible mentions shepherds keeping watch over their flocks in the fields. December in Israel would have been cold; the fields would have been unproductive, and the sheep were probably corralled. Shepherds usually kept their flocks in the fields during the spring lambing season. So how did Christmas come to be associated with December 25?...

The bombshell report revealed that the American government had approved the torture of prisoners, some of whom were wrongfully imprisoned and held without due process or even public acknowledgment. An earlier report found that some detainees were held indefinitely at least in part because the CIA feared they would talk about the circumstances of their detention. When we allow fear and uncertainty to drive our policy, the consequences can haunt us forever....

What many don’t realize is that these allergies are sometimes caused by something other than what they think. For instance, chocolate allergy is typically the result of neither cocoa nor any other ingredient in chocolate. It’s actually caused by cockroach bits in the chocolate. Here are nine more examples, not all of which are confirmed or recognized by medical science. 10 Cockroaches Cause Chocolate Allergy Some people complain of being allergic to chocolate....

When it’s done well, the public is none the wiser, but if it’s done terribly by unqualified “professionals,” it becomes a cautionary tale, and more often than not, a meme. These ten attempts at art restoration are some of the worst catastrophes to befall some of the world’s greatest works of art. Top 10 Times The Statues Came Tumbling Down 10 “Ecce Homo”—Zaragoza, Spain This is one that most people are somewhat familiar with, and it has everything to do with how spectacularly bad the final image became....

10 Golfing During the Blitz During Adolf Hitler’s relentless blitzing of England in 1940 and 1941, golf clubs across the southern coast of England had special provisions in place to account for the bombings. The rules committee of Richmond Golf Club in Surrey introduced a now-famous list of allowances while playing. The list included asking players to collect pieces of shrapnel while on their rounds, allowing players to take cover without time penalties during bombardments, and allowing a player to re-hit if their stroke was affected by an explosion....

From spirits ripping your legs off to a demon that feeds on human waste, bathrooms seem to provide anything but relief. However, if nature calls and you just can’t hold it anymore, use this list as a guide for dealing with any supernatural beings you might encounter. It may just save you from being dragged down the toilet into the pits of Hell. 10Toire No Hanako-San In this popular Japanese tale, Toire no Hanako-san (“Hanako of the toilet”) is described as a little girl with bobbed hair and a red skirt....

First: Person to be killed on a ride in Disneyland 15 year old Mark Maples stood up while riding the Matterhorn Bobsleds and fell. According to Disneyland officials, he was “catapulted from the speeding car.” He landed on the track a few feet down, with a skull fracture and various internal injuries. He never regained consciousness, and died four days later. First: Mortality in an airplane crash He was the passenger when Wilbur Wright crashed a US War Department test plane....

One example of this is a Pakistani serial killer by the name of Javed Iqbal, who has hardly garnered any attention at all in the media and even on the Internet. Is that because Pakistani culture doesn’t celebrate killers like others do? Is it because he was simply too far removed from Western culture? Whatever the reason, the man was particularly brutal, well beyond the depravities of the average American serial killer....

Many individuals who have reported encounters with UFOs and extraterrestrial beings have claimed to have physical proof that otherworldly life is, in fact, real. Experts, however, claim that this evidence had been either doctored, falsified, or is nothing but a flat out lie. Here are ten UFO encounters that have occurred but were then quickly “swept under the rug.” 10 US Navy Pilots Encounter UFO Mid-Flight In 2004, two United States Navy pilots, Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Jim Slaight, were both conducting a military training exercise off the coast of San Diego....

These newer treatments include playing, cycling, singing, visiting museums, bird-watching, and even consuming alcohol. Cool! At least we may get a perfect excuse to miss work and do what we love at the same time. These prescriptions were all issued by real doctors and backed by state and even federal health departments, so they are not some fraudulent moneymaking scheme. 10 Guinness Guinness has always been promoted for its health benefits because it contains several medicinal properties including antioxidant compounds that may prevent heart attacks....