Animals successfully get out of zoos, shelters, and even pet shops more frequently than one may think. Mistakes made by staff are the leading cause of the incidents. But there have also been cases of people purposely aiding escapes as well as some rare, ingenious breakout tactics devised by the animals themselves. Although the majority of animal breakouts involve small and harmless creatures, here is a list of the more dangerous beasts that have escaped captivity....

Freud had a lot to say about incest, sometimes going as far as to suggest it was innate, an outgrowth of persons under certain forms of environmental and psychological distress, and this actually may not be too far from the truth. No matter what your thoughts, feelings, intuitions, or gut inclinations about incest, sometimes, in the course of human history, it has been very necessary when mating opportunities were scarce, and it’s a very real part of our history as a species....

If only. It turns out that Donald J. Trump has been involved in some pretty shady stuff over the last few decades. Stuff that’s murky at best . . . and downright unpleasant at worst. 10 Running A Scam University First, you should know that Trump University (TU) wasn’t a university. This is important because New York State prohibits calling your company a university if it isn’t one. Second, you should know that it was a scam company dedicated to fleecing millions from vulnerable people....

10Battery Farming Ask almost any hopeful young journalist where they want to be in a few years’ time, and they’ll tell you something along the lines of: “In a respected newsroom, chasing big stories.” What they will never say is “trawling Buzzfeed and Upworthy, looking for any old nonsense we can spin into an article.” Yet that fate awaits a great many of them. Since traditional papers are losing money, their online outfits are desperately looking for easy stories....

10 Blood Milk, Kenya The Maasai are a tribal people native to Kenya and Tanzania. They gained worldwide fame for the traditional lion hunts they used as ritual ascendancies to manhood before modern bans on lion hunting. One practice that still draws the Maasai’s attention is their habit of drinking blood. Watch this video on YouTube The Maasai’s existence is heavily dependent on their cattle. Almost the entirety of the tribe’s diet comes from the animals⁠—not just milk and beef but blood as well....

I’ve had one shot. In a New York scotch bar. $30. Which is overpriced. A fifth of 25-year-old Macallan will run you about $600, but if you ever taste it, you’ll want more, never mind the price. It’s like drinking a campfire that hugs you and wants to be your friend. If you want scenery, I recommend Loch Morlich in winter. It’s southeast of Aviemore. Snowy, with plenty of shallow streams to listen to (where do you think the distilleries bottle their whiskys?...

10How Does Turbulence Work? Everyone has gone through a flight where the pilot asks you to tighten your seat belts because of excessive turbulence, but even though it is so important to things like air safety, we just have no idea how it works. It has perplexed scientists to such an extent that Einstein once famously said, “Before I die, I hope someone will clarify quantum physics for me. After I die, I hope God will explain turbulence to me....

Here is a list of ten examples of such people. In some cases, the manner of death has been the same—suicide, drugs, or a medical condition. In other cases, though the manner of death differs, eerie parallels can be seen in the circumstances surrounding the demise of parent and child. 10Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee Was it a family curse? The Hong Kong-based triads? The Chinese mafia? Rumors swirled in the aftermath of Bruce Lee’s death in 1973....

This is our most familiar term, so it will be our starting point. Handedness refers to the hand that one prefers to use, regardless of performance, or the hand that performs faster or more precisely on manual tests. About 88.2% of people are right handed, with the left-handers holding a margin of 8-15%. The rest are either ambilevous (neither hand showing dominance) or ambidextrous. Hand orientation is also shown to be developed in fetuses, most commonly determined by observing which hand is predominantly held close to the mouth....

Despite what a small fringe believes, though, the Holocaust really happened—and we can prove it. Even discounting the stories of the million Jewish survivors who witnessed it firsthand, there is a wealth of physical evidence that the Holocaust happened just the way history records—and that the details were not exaggerated. 10 The Jewish Population Dropped By A Third In 1939, there were 16,600,000 Jews in the world. When the war ended, that number had dropped by a third....

Washington, though, was a mortal man, and he had faults and weaknesses just like everyone else. The stories we hear about him are full of hero worship and legend. There are, however, a few little details usually get cut out. 10 His Mother Made His Life Hell You’d expect the mother of the first US president to do nothing but beam with pride, but George Washington’s mother mostly just complained....

On occasion, though, there have been groups of people who set out to acquire power and control, only to have their attempts end in disaster, ruin, and even death. This list seeks to highlight some of the more noteworthy failed coups d’etat of the 20th century. 10 Coup Attempt Against Haile SelassieEthiopia, 1960 Ras Tafari, the man that inspired and became the heartbeat of the Rastafarian religion, was the last person crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930 and took the name Haile Selassie I....

SEE ALSO: 10 Beloved Children’s Books Banned For Stupid Reasons 10 Every Marx Brothers Movie (Germany) The Marx Brothers are a comedy staple. Between 1905 and 1949, they made thirteen feature films, several of which are considered the funniest movies of all time. But between 1933 and 1945, you couldn’t watch any of their films in Germany for one simple reason—the members of the famous comedy troupe were Jewish. However, Germany wasn’t the only country to ban the Marx Brothers’ films....

10The Guarded Wife While he was alive, Fred Rinkel’s ethnicity and religion impacted him in ways most people only read about in history books. A German-born Jew, Rinkel once faced possible annihilation under the Nazi regime but managed to escape along with a brother. Tragically, his parents ended up perishing in the Holocaust. Carrying the weight of this dark history with him, he started life anew in the US, where he regularly attended synagogue and reaffirmed his identity as part of a prominent Jewish organization....

10Arnold Schwarzenegger Hercules in New York (1969) At 22 years old, Arnold Schwarzenegger chose to star in the title role of Hercules in New York—a badly made comedy about the legendary hero’s struggles to defy his father, Zeus, and roam about in the land of mortals—specifically, in New York City. Being new to the country and still possessing his long last name, Schwarzenegger was credited as “Arnold Strong” or “Mr. Universe,” due to his prior bodybuilding fame....

And rightfully so. Those women are amazing. But for every Eleanor Roosevelt or Susan B. Anthony, there’s a counterpart forgotten by the history books. So today, we’re taking a look at 10 women who contributed to our daily lives, left an impact on the political scene, or were just average Americans in extraordinary circumstances. 10Ingrid KosarInvented The Pizza Bag If you’ve ever had a pizza delivered, then you owe a debt of gratitude to Ingrid Kosar....

While it might be the future of policing, medicine, and banking, FRT exhibits racial bias and security vulnerabilities. Some even claim it can be used to determine sexual orientation. Given the power of this emergent technology, concerns about its use in the wrong hands are justified. 10 The Race Question The United States suffers from a systemic problem of racial disparities in traffic stops, stop and frisks, and arrests. African Americans are arrested at twice the rate and surveilled at nearly three times the rate of any other race....

He isn’t the first person to make an amazing discovery in his backyard. People have been finding strange items and treasures on their properties for years, including a stolen vehicle, a bag of cash, ancient fossils, and even mysterious objects. Here is a list of 10 fascinating discoveries in ordinary yards. 10 Stolen Ferrari In 1978, children were playing in their Los Angeles yard and digging in the mud when they touched something unusual under the ground....

SEE ALSO: 10 Good Reasons to Embrace Poverty In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson famously declared war on poverty, but decades later, it’s a war that we don’t seem to be winning. Now, we’re gaining more scientific and psychological insight into just what it means to be poor and what kind of impact poverty has on people. 10 Shrinking Children’s Brains In the US, it’s estimated that children make up about 24 percent of the total population and about 36 percent of the population living below the poverty line....

10007 007 is synonymous with the fictional British spy, James Bond. To start with, Ian Fleming, the original writer of the James Bond series, was a reporter-turned-writer who worked for the British naval intelligence during World War II. He named his fictional spy after a real-life bird scientist with the same name. Ian Fleming did not know the real James Bond in person but had come across his name on one of his books....