To quote American historian Will Durant: “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”[1] Having said that, here are ten interesting but discredited theories. 10 Bode’s Law Otherwise known as the Titius-Bode law, this particular hypothesis was used to predict the spacing between the planets in our solar system. (It’s basically a simple numerical formula.) German astronomer Johann Daniel Titius was the first to create the empirical rule, which seemed to reliably predict the distances of each planet from the Sun....

The hottest man-made temperature ever recorded is 7.2 trillion degrees fahrenheit, or about four billion degrees celsius. Since we hope to minimize the use of superlatives in this list, let’s just say: that’s pretty hot. In fact, it’s about 250,000 times hotter than the temperature at the core of the sun. The extreme recording was made at the Brookhaven Natural Laboratory in New York, in their 2.4-mile-long Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider....

10 Unknown Baby From The Titanic When the infamous Titanic sank underneath the surface of the Atlantic in 1912, the youngest body pulled from the waves was that of a baby boy. When he went unclaimed, he was buried in a graveyard in Nova Scotia, Canada, under a tombstone that simply identified him as the “Unknown Child.” Perhaps because he was blond and in the right age group, he was first thought to be a two-year-old Swedish baby called Gosta Leonard Palsson, whom witnesses had seen being washed overboard as the Titanic sank....

10Apsethus The Libyan More than anything, Apsethus the Libyan wanted to be a god. To this end, he filled cages with captured parrots, teaching them to repeat only one sentence: “Apsethus is a god.” He released the parrots, and they advertised his divine status. Some, hearing the parrots’ cries, interpreted their declarations as the gods’ own proclamation, and they began to worship Apsethus, making sacrifices in his name, just as he’d always wanted....

Chamicuro is such a rare language that it has only eight native speakers living today! It is an official language in Peru (where the remaining Chamicuro people – who number between 10 and 20) live. The only speakers of the language are adults and their children speak only Spanish. Despite this, there is a dictionary for the language. At this point in time there is little hope that the language will survive into the future....

There is something awe-inspiring about creatures of myth, whether it be their sheer size, their magical powers or simply their beauty. Mythical creatures and monsters are woven into the fabric of our modern-day lives; just think of the elves in Iceland and the ever-elusive Nessie supposedly roaming the waters of Loch Ness in Scotland. Not to mention the massive creature that roams the deep of the oceans … 10 Sea serpent of Gaelic folklore … No, not that one....

Although related to true cobras, the water cobra actually belongs to a different genus and gets its name after its ability to flatten its ribs to form a “hood”, similar to that of their more famous relatives. There are two species, the best known being the ringed water cobra. Water cobras are found in Africa, and can grow up to 2.7 meters (8.86 feet) long. They are indeed mostly aquatic, never wandering far away from the water, and can remain submerged for a long time....

Many of mankind’s most useful devices and contraptions were invented completely by mistake. For centuries, scientists have been tasked with finding the solution to a particular problem, only to discover something totally different. Here is a list of some of the most important and useful inventions that were discovered or invented by mistake. 10 Fireworks Some 2,000 years ago in a Chinese kitchen, a cook made one of the oldest accidental discoveries known to man when he mixed sulfur, saltpeter (potassium nitrile), and charcoal over a fire....

See Also: 10 Audacious Lottery Scams And Scandals 10 Lisa Arcand The very first thing Lisa Arcand did when she won the lottery was throw a $3,000 party for all her friends. The single mother won $1 million on the lottery, but the money would not last long. It took less than four years for Arcand to find herself behind on bills. Arcand took her winnings and purchased a house with new furniture, splurged on a couple of trips, enrolled her son into a Catholic school, and opened her dream restaurant....

As these societies began to speak out about the dangers of being buried alive, medical doctors began to devote more time to uncovering the symptoms of death. They also started to inspect the bodies of the deceased, something they had neglected to do in the past when they often signed death certificates through word of mouth alone. 10 Severed Artery Strange will requests were once the subject of the public’s fascination....

See Also: 10 Dark Conspiracy Theories That Actually Turned Out To Be True 10 Thomas Jefferson & the Illuminati You read that right. According to conspiracy theorists, even back in the 1800s the Illuminati were hard at work trying to control important members of the public. In this case, it was the Illuminati that pulled strings in order to get Thomas Jefferson elected in the first place. During the time of Jefferson’s election, the Federalists, who were part of Jefferson’s opposition, claimed that Thomas Jefferson was not only connected to the Illuminati but was the American Head of the Illuminati sect....

These little grunters have opened up avenues of knowledge far and wide, from coconut water insemination to cross-species heart transplants. These are some of the most fascinating—and in some cases, the most ethically debatable—uses for pigs in modern science. 10 Bionic Invention Helps Turn Back Erectile Dysfunction It happens to the best of us. We all grow older, wear and tear sets in, and before you know it, you’re at that point where things don’t quite work like they used to....

These aren’t just random happenings or frivolous decisions by fashion magazines. Sometimes, war or other serious considerations influenced how we dress. In fact, there is a fascinating history behind many modern fashion trends. Read on to get the scoop behind some of our more puzzling style choices. 10 Why Women Shave Their Legs Women have not always shaved their legs. Indeed, under the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who was a trendsetter of her time, women weren’t expected to remove body hair....

Fact: Humans are the only mammal that can’t swallow and breathe at the same time. Every other mammal, and many other non-mammalian animals, can breathe while they eat. In fact, human infants are also able to do so, which lets them breathe while they nurse. We lose this ability around the age of 9 months, when our voice box drops as part of our development. As children and adults, the human voice box lays unusually low in the neck compared to other animals....

Here is a list of previous film lists that are of a similar bent: Top 10 Most Bizarre Videos Top 15 Most Disturbing Movies Top 10 Weirdest Movies 10 Woman In The Dunes1964, Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara Plot: Niki Junpei (Okada) is an entomologist on an expedition to collect insects in some sand dunes. When Junpei misses the last bus out of town, the locals offer to allow him to stay in town for the night....

10 Vatican City Disappearances We tend to think of Vatican City, with its ornate basilicas and sacred traditions, as the kind of place where evil could never exist. But in 1983, something sinister roamed the Holy See. Emanuela Orlandi was a 15-year-old sophomore in high school, the daughter of a Vatican bank employee. On June 22, 1983, Emanuela told her sister she had been approached by an Avon representative with an offer to sell cosmetics....

SEE ALSO: Top 10 Evil Serial Killers Children who are exposed to alcohol and substance abuse in the womb may suffer from serious birth defects. Small eye openings, retardation, a small head and brain and central nervous system issues are just some of the problems they could face, if they survive. Growing up in a home where substances are abused can be even worse. ADHD, attachment disorders, doubt and feelings of inadequacy, depression and behavioral problems will be evident from a very young age....

Technically speaking, anybody can apply for almost any record, as long as it meets the established guidelines. If a person submits an entry for a new record, the record must be (a) measurable, (b) breakable, (c) standardizable, (d) verifiable, (e) one variable, (f) universal, and (g) substantially different from another record. Other than this, anybody can submit just about anything as a World Record, leaving the door wide open for a few, shall we say, silly ones....

Shark Tank panelist Kevin Harrington (known as the “Inventor of the Infomercial”) realized that long-form commercials could be used to fill dead time on TV stations. By 1985, Harrington’s infomercials were becoming woven into the fabric of American culture. But wait, there’s more! In the 1990s and 2000s, infomercials reached a new height of mainstream popularity. Infomercial actors began morphing into the co-stars of the show, along with their products....

Top 10 Amazing Audience Reactions 10 Speed (1994) This 90’s thriller was so fun, many viewers could overlook its plot holes and less-than stellar acting. Nor did Speed have any plot twists to tickle the audience’s gray matter. But the trailer revealed virtually every important sequence in the movie, including the high-rise elevator rigged to drop its human payload and Officer Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) attaching a cable to thwart its fall....