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10Most Ancient Surface1.8 Million Years In Israel, an expanse of desert looks the same way it did almost two million years ago. This desert pavement confirmed scientific suspicions that should an area remain dry and extremely flat, and suffer little to no weather or geological activity, then its entire face can stay preserved for millions of years. This incredible—and touchable—piece of antiquity is not the oldest geological wonder, but it can win the prize for being one of the most mesmerizing....

Achievement: 5 VFL Premierships in 6 years (1955-1960) Melbourne was stung into action following the painful loss in the 1954 Grand Final to Footscray. That Grand Final was to become the first of 7 in a row for the Demons of which they won 5. Coached by the ‘Red Fox’ Norm Smith and captained by Ron Barassi and John Beckwith, the Demons ushered in a faster, more disciplined game style that has become the trademark of modern football success....

SEE ALSO: 10 Real Places Straight Out Of A Nightmare 10The Finnish Museum Infested With Gigantic Spiders A grand old building in the heart of Helsinki, Finland’s Natural History Museum is one of the capital’s premier tourist attractions. It’s also a place where no arachnophobe should ever set foot. The building is home to a gigantic colony of extremely venomous, near-immortal super-spiders. Known as the Chilean recluse spider, the creatures are normally only found in South America....

10 Synophalos XynosThe ‘Conga Line’ Shrimp Synophalos xynos was a shrimp-like marine arthropod that inhabited Cambrian seas over 500 million years ago and exhibited a behavior unknown in any modern animal. A groove on its face could “lock” onto the tail of another of its kind, and groups of S. xynos would apparently link themselves together in long, living chains. These connections were tight enough that they often remained in a chain even when buried and eventually fossilized....

10Vancouver, British Columbia’s Downtown Eastside Consistently voted one of the world’s best cities to live in by travel magazines, Vancouver is known for its scenic views and beautiful architecture. Just east of Main Street, however, lies one of the very worst examples of urban squalor in the modern day. The downtown eastside is the poorest urban postal code in all of Canada. It’s home to thousands of drug addicts, many of whom are HIV-positive....

What may be more incomprehensible, and something that many people would find totally unforgivable, is the use of such a tragedy for selfish reasons and personal gain. Whether it was to save or end a relationship, to seek revenge, or to escape the law, here are ten people who faked their own suicides. 10 Coleman Martin At 10:00 AM on April 25, 2017, police officer Coleman Martin of Texas told his wife he needed to go out for a while to clear his head....

Sometimes, they let someone go. Every so often, a serial killer manages to capture a victim and has them exactly where he wants them, only to walk away. Maybe the killer just wasn’t feeling it that day, or letting the prey go was its own kind of twisted power trip. Perhaps even serial killers have moments of humanity where slaughtering a fellow human being seems as repugnant as it does to the rest of us....

The identity of D.B. Cooper remains a mystery to this day. It is the only unsolved case of its kind in history, and after 45 years, we still don’t know who did it. Some names, though, have come up more than once—and one of them just might be the real D.B. Cooper. 10 Ted Mayfield On the day of the hijacking, six people called the FBI to finger Ted Mayfield....

There are countless bizarre and contradictory theories circulating online regarding the shadow organization. Although the Bavarian Illuminati was a real secret society during the late 18th century, the subject has become something of a running joke among skeptics, as tales of extraterrestrial politicians and Satanic pageantry during award ceremonies have spread throughout the Internet. But all stories have to start somewhere, and you can thank the people on this list for the current golden age of Illuminati paranoia....

One would think that those innovators would surely be remembered. Sadly, that is not always the case. Here is a list of ten people who did influential things multiple times in different areas and still never got the recognition they deserved. 10 John Brinkley John Brinkley was a charlatan, but he had a product to sell. He advertised goat testicle transplants for the scrota of infertile men. Though this treatment was unmedical, he performed more than 16,000 surgeries....

However, some people are desperate to be imprisoned. They commit simple crimes and beg the courts to lock them up for as long as possible. Judges usually give them what they want. 10 Lucy Boyer In 2017, Lucy Boyer missed her court appointment. The Indiana woman went to jail early the next morning to turn herself in. A warrant had not yet been issued for her arrest, and investigators offered to help her....

Cook was built in 1917 as a railway station for trains to refuel on the longest stretch of straight railway in the world—297 miles (478 km), in the heart of the country’s desert outback about 513 miles (826 km) from the nearest town of Port Augusta. There is one functioning shop in Cook which only opens when a train is scheduled to refuel there, but with the privatization of train companies this is required less and less of the town which instead provides emergency overnight accommodation to train drivers and holds medical equipment in case of a train accident....

However, while many predictions could just be chalked up to luck, others seem to be the result of the writers paying attention to what was going on during the time. And then the same cultural trend pops up later. It’s less about being psychic and more about being really smart and clever. That’s why you end up with moments like these. 10 Donald Trump’s Presidency The Simpsons as a force of prediction accuracy really kicked off with gusto when the series accurately foresaw Donald Trump becoming president....

Not all company-celebrity pairings are made in Heaven, though. Some of them were terrible ideas that should have never happened to begin with. Others went wrong when the celeb in question did something monumentally stupid, forcing the sponsor to drop the campaign in order to save face. 10 Gary Lineker Likes Serial Killer Selfies In 2017, British snack food manufacturer Walkers used retired footballer Gary Lineker to endorse a new campaign for Walkers Crisps....

There are some, however, which are found empty and their crew totally unaccounted for. Here are 10 ships with strange disappearances, still-missing crew, and unexplained circumstances. 10The Ocean Wave The story behind the Ocean Wave was supposed to be a warm one. Artist Bas Jan Ader set a three-part performance around the ship; first, he would be sent off by a student choir singing shanties to a piano. Then he’d sail from Cape Cod to Falmouth in England in a craft only 4 meters (12 ft) in length....

The Godfather is a classic of American cinema, and Godfather Part 2 is considered by some an even better movie. This story of the patriarch of a New York crime family, and his son who takes over the “family business,” is largely based on Mario Puzo’s novel of the same name, with director Francis Ford Coppola and Puzo producing new material for the films. Puzo based many of the characters on the real underworld players he heard about growing up and working in New York City....

Here, then, are ten really great patents that made a difference. In order of appearance and not importance. No, the ‘Gin’ has nothing to do with drinking. It is a shortened form of ‘engine’ . This device, that separates the cotton from embedded seeds, was instrumental in the explosion of wealth of the United States. At the heart of the industrial revolution is the ability to take electric power and convert it to mechanical energy....

Abraham Lincoln: hero, martyr, vampire hunter—Honest Abe is the president all other presidents want to be seen as by Americans and the world. In his single term, he freed the slaves, held the Union together, and generally showed the world how to run a country like a total boss. It’s too bad he just happened to do it all while being a despicable, authoritarian bungler. But worse than Trump? Let’s see… SEE ALSO: 10 Dark Secrets Of Donald J....

Epistemic motives arise from conspiracy theorists’ need for causal explanations. This helps them to understand the world, slake their curiosity, and alleviate the “uncertainty and bewilderment” that they can feel as the result of their encountering conflicting information or the apparent meaninglessness induced by random events. Such beliefs also valorize them and the others in their group. Existential motives support conspiracy theory believers’ needs to “feel safe and secure and to exert control over their environment....

People had plenty of reasons to hate the Rockefellers. They were called thieves, murderers of women and children, manipulators, and outright liars. If the people were allowed to have their way, the Rockefellers would have been strung up for all the ill they caused. 10Stole A Railroad The Rockefellers did not get rich by being nice guys. In fact, they were practically villains who took every opportunity they had to steal from other people....