The world of golf is often seen as a gentleman’s place, where etiquette and following the rules are as key to the game as a set of clubs. Despite this, golf has a murky underbelly of murder, death, and disappearances. The much-covered plane crash of Major champion Payne Stewart in 1999 shocked the golfing pro
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An observation deck allows you a birds-eye view of whatever location you happen to be in. Some of the most popular observation decks in the world include the Eiffel Tower, One World Trade Center, and the Grand Canyon Skywalk. Some decks, however, have been built with adrenaline junkies in mind who want to get their
Our first films were silent, making that era in filmmaking an artistic wild west. Many rules and regulations had yet to be created, mainly because a lot of the accidents that prompted them were still occurring. In many silent films, lead actors performed their own stunts. Also, in these films, the stunts performed were batsh*t
When someone does something outrageous, people often rush to use the phrase, “What is the world coming to?” But the fact of the matter is, human beings have always been weird. They were doing strange things long before you and I were born, and they will carry on being odd long after we are gone.
Warning, this may shock you to hear, but: prisons are generally not super fun places to be (no matter what Martin Nash said to the Dunder Mifflin staff). Whether they’re for citizens or enemy combatants, most prisons focus the vast majority of their resources on keeping prisoners in, not keeping prisoners happy. Depending on your
The festive season is here, and there’s nothing better on a cold December night than settling down with a cup of eggnog or a hot chocolate and watching a Christmas movie. This list features some of the most interesting facts about the making of popular Christmas films, from childhood classics to gruesome horrors. Read on
Randonautica is an app that touts itself as “the world’s first & only quantumly generated Create Your Own Adventure app.” And by that, it means that it generates random coordinates for people to walk to and check out. Naturally, when you send thousands of people to random spots that they’ve never been—which are owned by
Every culture and religious group on earth has some form or another of healer or doctor. Pseudo healers who claim to work miracles with infinitely diluted extracts or carefully selected herbs. Witch doctors and Sangomas who can increase the length of your male appendage, help you win the lotto, or bring back lost lovers—all at
We could all use a boost to our faith in humanity. Our history books are filled with wars and class struggles, and our news media with the same. It can sometimes be hard to keep our faith in our fellow humans, but there is good news. For every unsettling or tragic event in history, there
If you watched the Tokyo Summer Olympics, you were reminded of how jaw-dropping these Olympians’ feats of skill, strength, and endurance can be. But sometimes, it’s good to be reminded that athletes often risk not just failure but their life. Here are 10 instances when athletes lost far more than a trophy. Related: Top 10
All great movies are built around drama, conflict, intentions, meetings obstacles. Sometimes those obstacles are unrealized potential or unrequited love, but sometimes they’re some dude’s meaty fists. Great fight scenes make movies better, but the best fight scenes transcend their movies and forge their own history. Take the green screen trash fire that was The
It is very rare that “eating” is regarded to be a skill of great renown. However, when one tests the extremes of what could possibly be consumed, things quickly start to become impressive. This is a top ten list of the most extreme dietary feats, most of which were performed in front of an audience.
Video games have been around for 50 years now, so most of us have grown accustomed to them. As long as sentient hedgehogs have been battling Russian scientists and children have been training electric mice to dogfight, it’s easy to overlook one absolutely insane fact: sentient hedgehogs have been battling Russian scientists, and children have
It’s late at night on November 23, 2021, and you looked to the skies to see…something. At 10:20 pm, NASA launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. After liftoff on a Falcon 9 rocket from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base, the spacecraft set out to travel millions of miles on a planetary defense test
Oh good – you’re awake. That was some accident! I heard that busload of church choir members came out of nowhere. Luckily they’re all in a better place now. Can you feel this? No? OK. Could just be the third-degree burns. You’re on the mend, I’m sure. Just a couple surgeries, a six-drug medicine regimen,
“Mafia,” as the term is used today, refers to many well-structured hierarchical organizations dedicated to criminal pursuits within specific geographical areas. Journalists, police, and others write and speak of the Sicilian mafia, the American mafia, the Canadian mafia, and the Mexican mafia, among others. The term is even employed to denote city crime families, such
Almost three-quarters of our blue planet is covered in water, and—for an equally accurate and verifiable statistic—absolutely every inch of it is terrifying and evil. Much of Earth’s water is unexplored, deep, dark, frigid, and home to nightmare-inducing creatures that float through the seas like slimy ghosts. Even the shallows we’re familiar with can come
Despite pleas from movie-goers for studios to stop releasing remakes, they just keep being churned out. From an audience’s perspective, reboots rarely surpass the original, but they usually pay off financially for studios. But surely some movies deserve to be remade? This is a list of 10 books that have previously been made into a
Nature has produced some truly epic survivors. Cockroaches that can survive their head being ripped off, bacteria that can thrive near the center of the Earth, and tardigrades that live through pretty much anything. However, for every evolutionary winner, there is a loser—some awkward, sluggish, goofy thing that somehow snuck under natural selection’s radar to
Music tells a story, no matter the genre. It could be a funny story, a silly story, a weird story, and sometimes a terrifying story. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of songs that tell disturbing stories, including ones of murder, rape, suicide, and stalkers. Others highlight the impact of personal tragedy and trauma, the