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But there are over 50 border barriers currently built around the world, such as in Korea, Saudi Arabia (which is almost completely walled in), and just a few miles away from the “The Wall” display, at the Channel Tunnel between the UK and France, with electrified security fencing, electronics, and permanent guards. The latter serves much the same purpose as the West Bank Barrier, and carries many of the same controversies, and the media barely bats an eye....

When shopping for beauty products, many women hardly spare a thought for what goes into making them, and this has been true for generations. These days, there isn’t too much to worry about in that respect, thanks to rigorous testing and high manufacturing standards. However, in the past, women should probably have spent a little longer questioning what went into the cosmetics they were using, since some of the ingredients were not only completely gross but often surprisingly dangerous....

10 Aaron Burr Aaron Burr is one of America’s most famous historical figures. A man of great political standing for most of his life, he had a brilliant career until a matter of honor would forever change his life. He is most remembered today for his famous duel with former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, which ended with Hamilton’s death. While the charges against Burr were dropped, he was forever seen as a marked man in the US....

10Surgery On The Wrong Person This is a mistake that the National Quality Forum considers a “never event.” This means that it’s a serious reportable event (but not necessarily something that’s completely preventable) that is hoped to never happen in a hospital. But in many cases, the problem is preventable, like when surgeries are performed on the wrong person. Even with new protocols, there have still been reported errors in which the wrong patient has received an invasive surgery....

The story of the lost Roanoke Colony has lived on as one of the greatest American mysteries, but the disappearance is far from where the story begins. That story is full of some absolutely horrible atrocities; it’s also one that just might hold some strong clues about the colonists’ fate. 10 The Colonists Burned Down a Native Village Because Someone Stole A Cup The Roanoke settlers weren’t good people. They viewed the natives as savages, and they treated them like savages, too....

Halloween may have come and gone, but regardless of how badly you miss it, there are straight-up horror video games that are not worth playing alone, at least not for the faint-hearted. From the ones with scary mental images to the ones with sudden jumps enough to cause a heart attack, here is a list of the top 10 horror games that you should not play in the dark:...

While the charts measure the weekly popularity of songs and albums, some aspects of music business success prove harder to quantify. An act can sell out arenas and stadiums, prove a lasting cultural influence, become a household name—but often, those accolades accrue over the long term, rather than manifesting in short-term sales and airplay figures. Here are iconic bands and stars who, despite their enduring status, surprisingly only had one top-10 single hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....

Farm Interior Ashcroft, Colorado, Declan McCullagh Source Mental Hospital Whitby, Ontario, Kevin Lamb Source Log Cabin Okanogan County, Rob Stone Source Commercial Building Bermuda, Charles D. Mercadal Source Mill Southern USA, Tim Bratcher Source Building Luzurne County, PA, Brad Troy Source House Missouri, Ken Dewey Source Mental Hospital Westpark, UK Source Lunatic Asylum Georgia, USA, Asylum Eclectica Source Carnival Pripyat, Ukraine, Mark Nelson Source A lot of people and a lot of joy and sorrow have passed through these buildings....

10 Little Zai Every year on the third Sunday in February, countries around the globe celebrate World Whale Day. Whales are a huge attraction and naturally make for stunning photographs. Australian photographer, Jasmine Carey, was snorkeling in Tonga in 2019 when she spotted a humpback whale calf sidling up to its mother. She snapped a magnificent photo that won her the top prize in the 2020 HIPA photography contest. In the image, the mother humpback whale is sleeping in an upright position under the water, with her calf in front of her, nuzzling her and gazing upward toward the surface....

10 The Public Supports Obamacare Depending on your point of view, the Affordable Care Act is either a tentative first step toward bringing American healthcare in line with the rest of the Western world or an apocalyptic assault on freedom that will destroy the Constitution. If you’re a Republican congressman, you probably believe the latter: Since it was first proposed, the GOP has been determined to destroy Obamacare—even going so far as to actually break the government in a doomed attempt to stop it....

10The Beauty Queen’s Skull Jamie Hilton had a wonderful life. She was married with kids and was considered one of the most beautiful women in the US. She’d once been crowned Mrs. Idaho and even competed in Mrs. America. But things took a sharp turn in June 2012. While on a fishing trip with her husband, Hilton took a 4-meter (12 ft) fall and smashed her head against on a rock....

10 Drive Safe With A Nuclear Reactor In Your Trunk In 1957, Ford Motors announced the revolutionary car of the future: the Ford Nucleon. There was no harmful exhaust, it was whisper-quiet, and it could travel 8,000 kilometers (5,000 mi) without a single stop at the gas station. How was it possible? The secret was in the trunk—where they kept a small atomic fission reactor. Most people were thrilled. Sure, a few worriers couldn’t see how better gas mileage was worth risking an apocalyptic radioactive disaster every car accident—but that wasn’t what sunk the project....

The truth about cannibalism and its practice is far more common than you might think. In fact, people have been eating people for centuries without the popular stigma associated with such a huge taboo. Medical cannibalism and even medical vampirism have been practiced for centuries by those who, you would think, should know better. Royal, religious, and common folk have all practiced medical cannibalism without shame, believing that it was for the greater good....

In the past, people had no choice but to prepare all their own meals from scratch. This required time, skill, and effort. If no one in the family could cook, the family would starve. And since raw ingredients are so perishable, they couldn’t be stored for very long. At the turn of the 20th century, the industrial boom and the invention of refrigeration led to one of the greatest products of the modern age: processed food....

10 Kim Jong Chul Kim Jong Chul is the elder brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and was passed over for the leadership because his father apparently considered him too effeminate. The Kim family chef Kenji Fujimoto wrote: “The older brother, Jong Chul, had the warm heart of a girl.” As a child, educated undercover in Switzerland, he wrote a poem which accorded with some North Korean values more than others: If I had my ideal world I would not allow weapons and atom bombs any more....

10 Paracelsus (1493–1541) Ever wondered how you could create a man? Paracelsus was a botanist who thought there was a teeny-tiny yet fully formed human inside every sperm. He even had a 40-day recipe to prove his idea, complete with instructions to make this venture successful. Watch this video on YouTube While the idea sounds preposterous in a world that has made immense discoveries in biology, Paracelsus’s idea was not as strange in his time....

10 Rampant Misogyny Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard once referred to Tony Abbott as “the definition of misogyny in modern Australia,” and it’s not hard to see why. He has a history of gaffes that strongly suggest a 1950s-era view of women. He has referred to abortion as “the easy way out” for women, said women are “physiologically unsuited to leadership,” and praised fellow Liberal Party candidate Fiona Scott as having “sex appeal....

Patients have made impossible recoveries throughout history when all seemed lost or faded away for seemingly no reason. People have grown, secreted, emitted, and even become things you would never imagine, even when life and death were off the table. With that in mind, this list will bring together medical phenomena that may be wonderful, terrible, or just bizarre, but all of which doctor’s still can’t explain. 10 Decapitated and Survived As farfetched as it may sound to us, there are actually a few recorded instances in which a person has been decapitated and survived....

In medieval times, the very best food was eaten by the king and his court. And no king was more lavish than Richard II, who was known across Europe for his opulence. So we are lucky that a recipe book written by his best chefs has survived to the modern day, containing no fewer than 196 recipes. It is called The Forme of Cury, and you can read it for free at Project Gutenberg if you can get your head around Middle English....

As Americans settled down this week to turkey and epic drunken arguments with their various uncles, the rest of the world was busy trundling on. In Africa, long-standing eras of repression were finally coming to a close. In Europe, old wounds were being reopened even as the future of the continent hung in the balance. While everyone stateside was slipping into a food coma, here’s what was happening elsewhere....