Endometriosis is a common condition that affects as many as 10 percent of women. It occurs when endometrial cells that are normally found only inside the uterus start to develop outside of it – reaching the ovaries, fallopian tubes and even intestines. Patients with endometriosis experience severe menstrual pains which are enough to make a sporty strong girl double over in pain and cease any daily activity. The symptoms of this common ailment are nausea and vomiting, diarrhea leading to dehydration, fever, chills and severe lower abdominal cramps....

10 Lilith When discussing the topic of demonization and powerful women as a whole, it feels only fitting to begin with the first woman and the original of Adam in Mesopotamian, Abrahamic, and Judaic mythology and religion. Lilith was said to be created by God from the same dust as her husband, Adam, as his equal. She was gifted the Garden of Eden as her home, where, as God commanded, she acted as a steward to the land and animals....

Scary stuff aside, the world within each person is so quirky that it deserves a second look. Among a myriad of delights nestle the gems—the rare abilities, mysteries, and facts. Just recently, scientists watched evolution in living humans, found the personal bubble is a thing, and determined that cancer’s worst enemy was already in place. 10 Fainting Mystery Solved Whenever humans stand up, there is a sudden drop in blood pressure....

Despite nearly all water parks providing a family-friendly atmosphere, there is no doubt that these enjoyable summer destinations also provide attractions to satisfy even the most hardened thrill-seekers. These extreme rides have been known to cause injury or even death. The following list is sure to intensify your thirst for water adventure (pun intended) while also providing relief from the soaring temperatures and scorching sun of the summer season....

This era of American music had a huge influence on the UK’s burgeoning pop scene (Cliff Richard & the Shadows, and Vince Taylor & the Playboys were early imitators) that would soon explode upon the States, and the world, in a big way with the British Invasion of the early to mid 1960’s. Many of those acts, from The Beatles on down, idolized these guys, imitated their styles and covered their songs....

Nintendo is one of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world. In 1985, the company released the NES console, which helped set a standard for video game expansion. Nintendo’s most popular character is Mario. To date, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games and is probably the most famous personality in the history of video games. Mario games have sold more than 210 million units, making the franchise the best-selling in history....

See Also: Top 10 Incredible Sounds We’re not really talking about the background score, either. Some of the most iconic soundtracks of Hollywood aren’t songs at all, but seemingly unimportant sounds like the toilet flush and running water in the basins in bathroom scenes to make them more realistic. Here are ten of the most iconic . . . and, in some cases, disturbing. 10Infrasound And Impending Doom [WARNING: The youtube video linked here includes subaudible sounds that can cause listeners to suffer extreme discomfort....

Here are few of them. Whether you try them at a party, or wait for an even more appropriate situation involving annoying coworkers or that imbecilic cousin of yours – these will be effective every time. You’ll probably get something more than a dirty look, for instance, when you call someone a “bull’s pizzle” or a “beetle headed, flap-eared knave.” “And thou unfit for any place but hell.” In colloquial terms, “go to hell!...

Other triggers have no explanation for why they mess with the mind—like being offered a hat or a cookie. Then people float out of chairs and give away dangerous information. Indeed, the hiccups of the brain remain a fascinating world. 10 Bizarre Ways Your Sense Of Touch Changes How You Think 10 The Food Variety Effect Christmas is full of cheer, tinsel, and weight gain. The festive season is notorious for leaving extra padding....

Plot holes? What plot holes? This simple animation shows how “A New Hope” should have ended. It’s in Japanese, but if you’re only an English-speaking gaijin, that makes it all-the more fun. “Doomblake” had some fun with Vader in his meditation chamber. Yes, I didn’t place this first, but that’s because the rest of them are so blasted good. Best scene: Stewie Vader, just “doing my job,” asks about the design flaw on the Death Star....

10 Musicians And Performers Beloved By Dictators 10 The Tetris Theme Tetris is a bunch of squares falling in a line. It is the most straightforward video game of all time. There is no room for anything scandalous. Yet, “A Theme,” the 80’s arcade earworm is a classic example of Russian nihilism. Long before the Game Boy, the maddening theme song originated in an 1861 poem by Nikolay Nekrasov. “Korobeiniki,” titled after the Russian word for “peddler”, builds momentum until it crescendos to a tragic loss....

With movies marketing fictitious imagery about dinosaurs, it’s important to consider what fossils and real scientists say. Dinosaurs are not the gigantic scaley green ‘chompers’ that movie classics like “Jurassic Park” brought back to life. Factual dinosaur tell-alls show that most dinosaurs had feathers like birds while others reproduced as teens to avoid going extinct. Here are the top 10 surprising dinosaur facts. 10 Dinosaurs Grew Fast In nature, there is no one-size-fits-all mentality to understand growth....

Some of these things we take for granted every day, such as time, but in the end, they are only an illusion or a lie we have told ourselves or have been led to believe. While we may be convinced of it otherwise, the things in the list below don’t even really exist at all. 10 Subjective Reality Some people have gone to philosophy class, heard that “reality is subjective,”[1] and came away with a very confused idea that there are multiple different realities around them, and it depends on “how they perceive it....

As hinted within the story above, people have an innate tendency to take some of their abilities for granted. Oftentimes, we overlook the remarkable features that are ingrained within our daily lives. This list will cover 10 such attributes, which are deemed the most conspicuous traits that distinguish us from most brute animals. On average, humans begin walking at approximately one year of age. Our ability to learn how to walk exclusively on two legs, regardless of age, is an astonishing feat in and of itself....

Since Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web in the late 1980s, there have been numerous attempts to shut down the internet. Some of these attacks were carried out by coordinated military groups and governments in a bid for political control. Others consisted of one irate man ripping the wires out of a service box. From accidental cyber attacks to foiled terrorist plots, here are ten times people had a go – and in some cases succeeded – at shutting down the internet....

On this issue, it is not always wise to trust the democratic consensus either. History tells us what happens when society places its unwavering trust in a singular established viewpoint. The scientific community, for example, once thought the earth was at the center of the universe. Galileo upended this theory by suggesting that our planet in fact orbits the sun (heliocentrism) – not the other way round (geocentrism). When Galileo questioned some of the astronomical peculiarities written in the Bible, the Catholic Church labeled the physicist a heretic and placed him under house arrest....

More than nine millennia later, it’s safe to say porn isn’t going anywhere. Every new medium – photography, film, the Internet – has only furthered erotica’s accessibility and popularity. Here are ten torrid truths about porn. 10 Ways Pornography Shapes The World 10 Porn Stars Have Really Big… Bandwidth Various studies have verified the supposition made in the hit Broadway musical “Avenue Q”: the Internet is for porn. Watch this video on YouTube PornHub, one of the industry’s most prominent adult content providers, claims its site streamed 75 GB of data per second in 2015 – enough to fill nearly 90 million 32 GB smartphones....

Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu is a Japanese inventor who claims to hold the world record for the most number of inventions, the most notable being the technology for floppy disks, the digital watch, Cinemascope and the taxicab meter. He is quite well-known, appearing in several American shows like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and Late Night with David Letterman. What puts him on this list is the fact that he won the 2005 Ig Nobel prize (an annual award that honors achievements that ‘first make people laugh, and then think’) for Nutrition....

So for this list, my top ten vampire movie list is focusing on ten great, diverse vampire movies. This list is the top ten for variety among vampire movies. This list will show you the wide array of types of vampire movies, put in no particular order (since taste and preference and the differences between these movies makes it impossible to compare them on the same lines). John Carpenter’s Vampires is one of the better recent vampire movies that actually takes the effort to be a vampire movie, and not an action film disguised as a vampire movie....

At this moment, COVID-19 is sweeping through the world and the global economy appears to be collapsing. This, without question, is one of those times of sorrow—a period when our lives are upended and filled with uncertainty. Top 10 Crazy Conspiracy Theories Surrounding The Chinese Coronavirus But as more and more people adjust to life in quarantine, we are starting what’s becoming a global social experiment. Ideas that we only talked about in the years before are being put into action on a massive scale....