10 Fidel Castro To President Franklin D. Roosevelt Fidel Castro survived the administration of about 10 United States presidents, most of whom would have loved to do away with him. (Some actually tried doing so.) Castro’s first contact with a United States president was, however, amicable. In 1940, a young student of Colegio de Dolores School in Santiago, Cuba, wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The child, a 12-year-old boy, began the letter with, “My good friend Roosevelt....

10Denmark And Canada’s Adorable Border War In the pantheon of great border disputes, Denmark and Canada’s “conflict” over Hans Island would come somewhere near the bottom. A 1.3-square-kilometer (0.5 mi2) lump of rock in the Kennedy Channel, it lies almost equidistant between Canada and Denmark-administered Greenland. Since 1973, it has been at the center of one of the most adorable disputes in history. Hans Island is of little strategic or economic value....

10 Save A Drowning Child When 10-year-old Jordon Lyon saw his younger sister, Bethany, fall into a canal in the English city of Manchester, he didn’t hesitate to leap into the water in an attempt to save her. However, Jordon’s lion-like courage was betrayed by his small frame and he became submerged a short while after jumping into the water. Jordon’s family quickly scrambled for help and eventually managed to elicit the assistance of two passing police community support officers (PCSOs), who are volunteer police officers made up from keen members of the public with an interest in helping people, the law, and generally being an asset to the community....

10 Virtual Crime Scenes Physical tours of crime scenes by juries are no longer as prevalent as they once were, largely supplanted by high-definition photography and video equipment. But one British research team is making a strong case for VR headsets as standard courtroom equipment. The British have long been proponents of this use of the technology, having completed a study over a decade ago at William and Mary College which found it feasible....

With their soft bodies and high protein content, caterpillars are usually incredibly vulnerable. To fend off predators, they often resort to scare tactics. Sometimes it’s in the form of bright, flashy colors; sometimes it’s in the form of mimicry—looking or acting like another, more dangerous insect. The Puss Moth caterpillar opts for mimicry, forming a bizarre looking “face” that resembles a vertebrate face scary enough to send most curious predators the other way....

But for such a permanent fixture of our lives, time is actually quite flexible and far more descript than the given intuition we have of it. How can time affect our lives, our thoughts, our perceptions? And is time as straightforward as it seems to our intuition, our experience of it? What are the different ways we can think about time, and what can we learn from it? Time can be a fixed point, such as 11:14 PM on Tuesday, May 12, or a measurement between two points, as in one second or one minute in the continuum of the flow of all things....

10 Ahuitzotl In the Aztec Nahuatl language, ahuitzotl means “spiny aquatic thing” or “thorny thing of the water.” It was described as a five-handed amphibious hyena that inhabited bodies of water around Tenochtitlan, now the Mexico City area. The ahuitzotl could mimic the cries of a child or distraught woman to lure people into danger. These creatures drag their prey underwater using the hands on their legs or the hand at the end of their terrifying tail....

But not everything that goes missing is irretrievable. Thanks to the awesome magic of science, we’re starting to pull certain things back from the brink. Like John Hammond using ancient traces of dinosaur DNA to build Jurassic Park, we’re recreating ancient treasures we thought we’d lost forever. 10 Mosul’s Lost Artifacts One of Islamic State’s most horrendous moves has been its practice of blowing up priceless antiquities. In the caliphate’s self-proclaimed capital of Mosul, they’ve been especially destructive....

We tend to think of these people as destined to toil in lonely isolation, forever unknown. However, before they made their marks on history, some of the biggest names imaginable sat down and tried to churn out a great work of literature—usually with disastrous results. 10 Saddam Hussein’s Epic Adventure Novels When Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein wasn’t busy massacring hundreds of thousands of Kurds, he was relaxing at his palace, indulging in his favorite hobby: writing epic adventures in ancient Babylon....

Menu hacks allow people to order (or at least request) special items from the restaurant. Sometimes these are items that have been discontinued. Other items were created by creative kitchen cooks or a simple combination of two (or more) normal menu items. So, let’s get creative and try something new! Below, we’ll review ten menu hacks from your favorite fast food joints. From special sandwiches to fries, custom drinks, and desserts, this has all the fast food favorites you never knew you wanted!...

The big story this week was the continuing fallout from the likely Russian assassination attempt in Britain last Sunday. As London made threats, Moscow laughed, underlining that we may now be entering a new and unpredictable Cold War (or possibly a hot one). We’ll give you the lowdown on all the possible ramifications below, along with a look at the rest of the week’s generally less terrifying news. 10 Russia And The UK Prepared To Go Toe To Toe Novichok....

If you were going to pick a random week for high political drama, you couldn’t get much more random than a middle week in April. Yet political drama was exactly what these last seven days were about as Washington saw old faces vanish, investigations heat up, and Facebook get placed in the hot seat. Elsewhere, politics was going full throttle, too, as Syria’s civil war once again threatened to go global....

Here are 10 intriguing events, all bizarrely unique. However, the more we understand other dimensions and how humans might perceive them, the more it appears that there may have been examples of such experiences for some time. 10 The Harry Turner IncidentVirginia (1979) Despite having reached his final destination on a new route, long-haul truck driver Harry Turner had no recollection of the journey. He noticed a gun in his hand and empty shells scattered around the cabin of his truck, indicating that he had fired all eight shots....

Try as they might to stave off the modern society, due to certain laws and the almighty power of money, the Amish have had to adapt in order to survive in the cutthroat world of the 21st century. But instead of accepting these new circumstances outright, the Amish have innovatively modified technology so it adheres to their simple ways of life and maintains their separation from modern society. Let’s explore just some of the modern luxuries used by the Amish and how they have welcomed the modern world into their own....

The practice can be traced back to ancient India but probably predates that. There have likely been suicides as long as humans possessed the means to kill themselves and religious suicides as long as there have been devout religious observers. Sometimes, self-immolation is purely spiritual. Other times, it’s practical to die with purity and avoid enslavement or torture. In almost all cases, religious suicide is done to prove a point, to send a message loud and clear to the rest of the world that will outlive the one performing the act....

10 The Roof Walkers Of Scandinavia The Tag Vandren (Roof Walkers) of Scandinavia are a fairly new urban legend. They prefer to stay above the ground for unknown reasons, so they make fantastic leaps from rooftop to rooftop. Described as looking like handsome people with clawed hands and glowing orange dog eyes, they either wear all black or have pitch black skin. The most detailed Roof Walker story tells of a man who, late one night, looked out his apartment window and saw someone walking on the roof of the opposite building....

10The Funniest Joke In The World The very first episode of Flying Circus contains a sketch featuring the so-called “Funniest Joke in the World.” Developed by British manufacturer of jokes Ernest Scribbler, played by Michael Palin, the joke is translated into German to be used as a weapon during World War II. It’s so funny that it literally kills people. The translation (Wenn ist das Nunstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!...

The confirmation bias is the tendency to look for or interpret information in a way that confirms beliefs. Individuals reinforce their ideas and attitudes by selectively collecting evidence or retrieving biased memories. For example, I think that there are more emergency room admissions on nights where there is a full moon. I notice on the next full moon that there are 78 ER admissions, this confirms my belief and I fail to look at admission rates for the rest of the month....

In this film, Mei is a doctor who has performed a lage number of illegal abortions in the past. She looks incredibly young for her age – her secret: home-made dumplings from a special recipe of – you guessed it – fetuses. A neglected wife of an executive is looking for youth and is willing to pay any price for the dumplings. The ingredients of the dumplings are rare, but then a mother with her pregnant daughter shows up… Hopefully you read this blurb before the clip – it makes all the difference....

10Raoul On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a sniper outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Two months later, King’s killer, James Earl Ray, was apprehended. After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Like all famous assassinations, this one is surrounded by conspiracy theories. Ray recanted his guilty plea and claimed he was set up as a patsy to take the fall for King’s assassination....