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Although it can be frustrating to have a fly or a wasp buzzing around your room when you’re trying to get to sleep at night, there are little critters out there that actually play a big part in helping to keep us humans alive by contributing to treatments for various illnesses and diseases. The following are ten examples of medical treatments involving the use of various creepy-crawlies that seem pretty strange on paper but are actually very effective....

10China’s Dwarf Village Villages, in general, are not strange. Villages in China are also not strange. There are many remote ones in this country, but one stands out from the others. Scientists and experts are extremely interested in the inhabitants of Yangsi, situated in the Sichuan Province. The reason? Not only are there only 80 residents in the village, but almost half of them are dwarfs. According to those who live in Yangsi, Rumor has it that a mysterious disease befell the little village more than 60 years ago....

Anyone who has a sweet tooth knows that candy is the best way to sate it. However, you may not know everything about your favorite candy—like where it got its name, how it was first made, or even why. 10 Saltwater Taffy Was Probably Named As A Joke Although nobody knows who made it first, saltwater taffy got its start either on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, or at Midwestern county fairs in the 19th century....

Unfortunately, we’d probably be wrong. Although it may seem like we’re head and shoulders above the idiots we encounter online, science disagrees. Here are 10 ways that we all get our notions of intelligence completely wrong. 10 Search Engines Make You Feel Smarter Than You Really Are We’ve all been there. In the middle of a passionate debate over trivia, someone whips out a phone and looks up the answer....

But sometimes, the deceased want something a little more special done with their carcass. When that happens, we get stories like those below. Read on for ten strangely specific and bizarre instructions left for a deceased person’s earthly remains. 10 Shot Into Space You might not think that the infinite void of space would be a popular final resting place for anyone, but you would be wrong. Just ask Gordon Cooper, an Air Force pilot and astronaut with 7,000 hours of flight time....

With the advancement of science, however, we’re slowly realizing that humans can already do many impressive things that we’d usually associate with superpowers, precisely because of how complex and developed our big brains are. 10 Bioluminescence One of the best mutations nature has ever come up with is the ability to produce light. Known in scientific circles as bioluminescence, anyone at the beach at just the right time of the night could tell you about the awesomeness of it....

10 Three Different Types There are three main types of voodoo, each drawing their sphere of influence from a different place. West African voodoo is still practiced by around 30 million people, particularly in nations like Ghana and Benin. Rituals and beliefs are extensive, and largely untouched by the outside influences that have shaped other types of voodoo. Louisiana voodoo is a unique brand of voodoo practiced, as its name suggests, mainly in Louisiana and the southeastern United States....

However, making the transportation industry a little more interesting (read: weird) are (sometimes obscure) facts that you would not normally associate with your favorite mode of transport. Top 10 Fascinating Firsts in Motoring 10 You cannot technically die on an airplane Of course, people do die during flights, but they cannot be pronounced dead until the plane lands. Flight attendants and pilots do not have the authority to do this....

The movies How to Steal a Million and The Thomas Crown Affair make museum heists seem incredibly sexy and thrilling. Their real-life counterparts are sometimes just as thrilling, and some have remained a complete mystery. When they exit a museum, these antique pieces become worth hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of dollars. No wonder museums are popular targets of thievery. Here is a list of the 10 museum heists that have yet to be solved....

But none of that has stopped dead people from defeating their living contenders, sometimes by significant margins, to win seats they will never occupy. Voters were usually aware that the candidate they were voting for was dead, but they still went out to vote for them. In all instances, the deceased winners died before their elections, but their names remained on the ballots for legal reasons. 10 Gary Ernst In 2016, a deceased Gary Ernst was elected treasurer of Oceanside, California....

Governments promote these edited versions of history through their schools and textbooks. Their students learn a distorted account of history, which they will often believe into adulthood. Surprisingly, misrepresenting history is not a Third World problem. It cuts across developed and developing economies. However, Asian nations seem to be at the forefront. 10 South Korea In 2015, the South Korean National Institute of Korean History drew national attention after making controversial edits to the country’s history textbooks....

But not everyone has managed to get their head around this new technology. Middle-aged technophobes keep accidentally turning on novelty filters. People are bad-mouthing each other without realizing that everyone can hear them. And politicians have an unfortunate habit of turning up for important meetings with no clothes on. More than a year since the start of the pandemic, the Zoom mishaps show no sign of slowing down. These are ten of the most embarrassing....

10British Columbia1950 The first recorded American military nuclear weapon loss took place in British Columbia on February 14, 1950. A Convair B-36 was on its way from Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, Alaska to the Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas. The bomber was scheduled to take part in a mission that simulated a nuclear attack on San Francisco. The role of the bomber was to see if these kinds of planes could perform bomb runs in extremely cold weather....

There have been many examples of tragic loss of life fires at prisons and what were then called “lunatic asylums.” I included both prisons and asylums in this list because they share so many common fire safety hazards – overcrowding, locked doors/cells, etc. There are scores if not hundreds of possible prison and asylum fires to include in any such list. For this list I chose a few notable, and few lesser known (in some cases, almost completely forgotten) tragic fires....

Now, we see arches everywhere on our travels and in our lives—some so discreet that you hardly notice them but others so impressive, they will take your breath away. Arches, both made by man and by nature, truly deserve our attention! Here is a list of 10 travel experiences featuring awe-inspiring arches. 10 Delicate Arch National Park, Utah There is no shortage of arches to be seen in Delicate Arch National Park, Utah....

While we all know that thousands of these brave dogs exist in the world, we almost never hear the stories when they take a bite out of crime. The following 10 dogs are very, very good boys. 10 Puskas The Brave In February 2018, a helicopter followed a high-speed car chase in Santa Ana, California, as 37-year-old Antonio Padilla Jr., a convict who was wanted for assaulting a police officer, weaved in and out of traffic....

10 Swapping Cars At The Last Moment Although they had used a particular Mercedes throughout the day of their deaths in Paris, when Diana and Dodi went to leave the Ritz Hotel shortly after midnight on the morning of August 31, 1997, a different Mercedes was sent to pick them up. Not only had the car been changed at the very last moment, but there was also no backup car present as there had been throughout the day and was standard practice for such security journeys....

While food can have many positive roles, it can also lead to some very disastrous results. From outbreaks to recalls to the development of diseases and allergic reactions, food can play a starring role when it comes to negative side effects.[1] Many times, these side effects are known and can be prevented, but other times . . . not so much. Here are a few instances where food and drink or their production played a very unfortunate role in people’s deaths....

10 Jane McCrea Born in 1751 and killed in 1777, Jane McCrea has a strange story that exists somewhere between fact and fiction. According to the popular story, McCrea was visiting with friends when she found herself and her companions surrounded by Native Americans who were allied with the British. McCrea was ultimately killed and scalped, and because the general in charge of relations with the tribes was afraid of the fallout should he avenge her death, he let her killers go....

This week, we celebrate two astronauts who narrowly avoided disaster. We look at the last scientific paper that Stephen Hawking worked on before his death and also talk about an exciting astronomical first. There are also a couple of feel-good stories—such as the squirrel revived by CPR and a lady who helps clean the streets of Vancouver and donates to cancer research at the same time. 10 Squirrel Revived With CPR Nineteen-year-old Chris Felix from Minneapolis, Minnesota, became the talk of the town after managing to revive a squirrel using CPR....