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This list rounds up some of the more bizarre awards out there, ranging from photography and fashion to phalluses and pseudo-science. Like the Razzies, some of these awards are mocking, and it might be more accurate to call the recipients losers rather than winners. Others are genuine awards, but for bizarre and interesting things. 10 The Turnip Prize If you look at most modern art and think a five-year-old could create it, then you’ll like this award....

“Go to work on an egg” used to be an old marketing slogan in the United Kingdom. However, going to the afterlife in an egg may be seen by some as taking it too far. Personally, I am with Woody Allen on this one – it’s not that I don’t like death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. Even more so if my relatives had planned to do a Faberge on me....

In most cases, judges serve justice fairly, accurately, and in keeping with the law of the land, carefully applying sentences that fit the crime. However, in using their own discretion and common sense, they occasionally devise creative ways of punishing offenders. The following are just some of the bizarre sentences passed down by judges. While many of these unconventional decisions were met with overwhelming praise, others received a somewhat unfavorable response in the court of public opinion....

Artists are constantly innovating and finding new ways to experiment and bring new sounds to delight our ears. And this has always been the case! But there have been some seriously bizarre instruments used by artists. Some of them you no longer see today (or only in rare cases). These instruments may have gone out of style because of their size, sound, or practicality. There are probably hundreds of other instruments that have been lost to history....

Not everyone trusts banks or investments. Some people grow their fortunes in unconventional ways. Maybe someone you know is hiding cash. Or perhaps an eccentric person once owned your house and stashed a rainy day fund in an unusual place. Do you know where to look? If you want some ideas, here are the top 10 unusual places where people have hidden money—and better yet, where other people have found it....

?? ?p?? ??o????? ? ??o? ?o? o?p??o? ??? ??? ???. ? ?? ?? ?? ?op??o? ??? ????????????o? ??? ??o?o? ????? ??? ?????o? ??? ?????? ??o? ?????p??o ????? ?o? ????o?. 10. An Introduction to Traditional Logic The full title to this book is An Introduction To Traditional Logic: Classical Reasoning For Contemporary Minds. A classical education starts with the trivium. This covers logic, rhetoric and grammar. This book will give you a good start on the logic portion of the trivium....

The Drink and Drive game $79 Take a small remote controlled car, a few obstacle cones, a shot glass and your favorite libation, what do you get? Lot’s of fun, that’s what! The object is to fill the shot glass with booze, place it on top of the car – there is a tray there to help steady it, setup your course and drive it without spilling. If you spill – you drink, if not – your opponents drink....

10 Shimabara Rebellion Christianity had begun to flourish in Japan during the 17th century, as the country had been slowly opening up more and more to foreigners (mainly Europeans) since 1543. However, the influence of nanbans (Japanese for “southern barbarians,” a term loosely applied to Europeans) began to worry the ruling shogunate, and the age of sakoku (“closed country”) began to take shape. Christianity was seen as one of those influences....

David Hasselhoff The star of Bay Watch has recently been suffering with alcohol abuse and in 2007 his daughter released a video of him drunkenly trying to eat a Wendy’s burger whilst arguing with her on to the internet. The result was that Hasselhoff lost custody rights to his daughters temporarily and lost all respect. In 2006 he was refused access to a British Airways flight due to drunkenness though his publicists insisted that he was not drunk, but rather unwell from taking antibiotics....

10 Gambler’s Fallacy The Gambler’s fallacy is the tendency to think that future probabilities are altered by past events, when in reality, they are not. Certain probabilities, such as getting a heads when you flip a (fair) coin, are always the same. The probability of getting a heads is 50%, it does not matter if you’ve gotten tails the last 10 flips. Thinking that the probabilities have changed is a common bias, especially when gambling....

However, one force of nature that we haven’t been able to tame—the weather—affects agriculture severely. Sure, we have found ways to shield ourselves from the weather (buildings) and have even produced environments within buildings (indoor ski slopes). But we are still at the mercy of Earth’s climate systems, such as droughts and monsoons. There have been significant world applications of weather modification. The US military created artificial rain during the Vietnam War, and China controlled the weather for the 2008 Olympics....

Read on to see how he did his homework and a lot of other terror-inducing actions be performed before committing his crimes. Here are the ten creepiest things about the Golden State Killer. 10 East Area Rapist Before he was a murderer known as the Golden State Killer or the Original Night Stalker, he was a serial rapist known as the East Area Rapist. The killer started by raping single women....

Swedish film Let the Right One In and its American remake Let Me In are a pair of delightful horror/romance films featuring a twelve-year old boy befriending and eventually loving a vampire girl, respectfully named Eli and Abby in the two films. While appearing young due to their immortality and are seemingly innocent, both girls need human blood to live, forcing their guardians to venture out and murder people. This is to be expected of vampires, but without blood, it is implied that the girls have a more bestial side to them....

SEE ALSO: 10 Crazy Drugs That Could Be Growing In Your Garden 10. Heroin Heroin is an opiate processed directly from the extracts of the opium poppy. It was originally created to help cure people of addiction to morphine. Upon crossing the blood-brain barrier, which occurs soon after introduction of the drug into the bloodstream, heroin is converted into morphine, which mimics the action of endorphins, creating a sense of well-being; the characteristic of euphoria has been described as an “orgasm” centered in the gut....

10 Haast’s Eagle At present, golden eagles are capable of dragging adult mountain goats off cliffs with a bone-crushing grip strength of 750 psi, more than a lion’s bite force. However, a golden eagle would have no chance against the prehistoric man-eating eagle of New Zealand. Before human colonization by the Maori people, the island only had three species of bat to greet them as fellow mammals. Uncontested, birds became the dominant class, growing into giants....

In the United States alone, roughly 3,500 people die every year in fires. Every human being alive has likely had personal experience with the phenomenon, both good and bad. But even as intimately familiar with fire as all of us are, it can still surprise us with its many wonders. These 10 facts about fire, both scientific and cultural, will fuel the fire of your mind. 10 Fire Without Gravity Is A Sphere On Earth with its constant gravity, a candle flame forms into the shape of a teardrop....

Some items prove that certain things never change—people cheated at games, carried deadly weapons, and were addicted to cheese. Medieval artifacts also preserved the era’s weirder moments, like the three-person toilet and the nun who escaped her convent by faking her own death. 10 Medieval Peasant Diet When it comes to medieval munchies, the diets of the English nobility are well-known. The menu of the peasantry, however, was so poorly recorded that researchers were not sure what people ate....

See Also: 10 Bizarre Things You Didn’t Know About Christmas 10 Elf on the Shelf The Elf on the Shelf is not a monster per se, but what started out as a cute new tradition for Christmas is starting to terrify kids instead. A little miniature elf is being sold as “Santa’s special scout to help manage the lists of who’s been naughty or nice”. Unfortunately the little elf doll kind of resembles a creepy clown that is scaring kids instead of making them excited about Christmas presents....

10He Was Normal-Sized At Birth Robert Pershing Wadlow was born on February 22, 1918, in Alton, Illinois, a town along the Mississippi River not far from St. Louis. The first child of parents Harold and Addie Wadlow appeared completely normal at birth, weighing 3.8 kilograms (8.4 lb). He was a normal-sized baby, and why not? Harold and Addie were of average height, and their subsequent four children after Robert were also of normal height....

A film about a few bandits who attempt rescuing a princess from an evil Count. Miyazaki’s first film really made an impression among moviegoers. Steven Spielberg called it the greatest adventure film ever made. It’s hard to argue with the man who helped create Raiders of the Lost Ark. This movie’s story was great and the suspense and excitement made the film entertaining. But the problem with the film was the animation, and it’s less compelling characters....