CIA Spy Tricks
For decades, rumors of top-secret “magic” manuals swirled within CIA circles.
The long-lost guides were said to have been written by a prominent magician, but many officers dismissed them as myth, believing them too fantastical to be true.
But in 2007, retired CIA officer Robert Wallace unearthed an extraordinary archived file and is now making its contents [...]
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12 Weird Things to Do With Your Cremated Remains
As cremations have become more and more popular in recent years, people have devised a number of unusual ways to commemorate the dearly departed. If you’re looking for a unique way to be remembered, here are 12 strange things you can do with your cremated remains.
1. You Can Be Shot Into Space
Celestis made headlines in [...]
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Star Trek convention in Vulcan
Sci-fi fans gathered in a town called Vulcan for a Star Trek convention called Spock Days…Thousands of Trekkies converged on the Canadian town of Vulcan, Alberta, which shares its name with the home planet of Mr Spock
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Worlds most expensive Christmas bauble
The one-of-a-kind tree decoration is made of 18 carat white gold and is plastered with over one and half thousand stunning diamonds.It is surrounded by two incredible rings featuring 188 red rubies and took all year to design and make.The bauble is being unveiled tomorrow night, but is currently being [...]
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Biggest American fraudsters off All Time
Bernard Madoff – the former money manager and Wall Street darling was sentenced to 150 years in prison with no parole on June 29, 2009 for orchestrating a $65bn Ponzi scheme – the biggest fraud in US history. More than 1,300 investors were drawn in over [...]
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Top 10 International Economy Airlines
Being a business man/woman, you must have to travel to international destinations frequently for attending several conferences and finalizing innumerable important deals. Many people might wonder that when you are earning money then why are you on a constant look out for economy airlines.
For such people you just have to quote that every single [...]
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Top 10 Wackiest Divorces
People tell the craziest tales – especially in divorce cases.
Here, from court files around the world, are some of the wackiest divorce cases we’ve found
10. A harried housewife from New York divorced her hubby of six years because he was so wild about the Three Stooges he kept jabbing her in the eyes, popping her [...]
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Huge prestonehenge complex found via Crop Circles
Given away by strange, crop circle-like formations seen from the air, a huge prehistoric ceremonial complex discovered in southern England has taken archaeologists by surprise. A thousand years older than nearby Stonehenge, the site includes the remains of wooden temples and two massive, 6,000-year-old tombs that are among “Britain’s first architecture,” according to archaeologist Helen [...]
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Top 10 Modern Mysteries
Mysteries tap the imagination, fuel speculation and invite the attention of conspiracy theorists. While there are numerous ancient mysteries, they don’t excite us the same way these top 10 modern mysteries do; perhaps because we can relate to them easier if they’re closer to our own time. It is that ability to relate, to feel [...]
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What’s Inside Rome’s Ancient Catacombs
Corridor in the famous catacombs of Rome
Catacombs such as these were carved over hundreds of years, beginning in the second century A.D., from soft rock beneath the outskirts of Rome. The labyrinthine corridors of these underground cemeteries cover hundreds of acres and house the remains of hundreds of thousands of Christians and Jews.
Rome’s famous catacombs [...]
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8 Overkill Punishments Dished out by Greek Gods
The Greeks brought the world a number of awesome things.
The first Olympics, delicious Gyros, but most importantly The Greek Gods.
Today we’re going to jump into the Delorian and take a look at what might have happened if you somehow disappointed one of them.
Does the punishment fit the crime? In many cases we’d like to say [...]
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Top 10 Drug Lords
Offhand, drug lords make for a problematic top 10, as reliable data concerning their operations doesn’t exist, making their “achievements” impossible to verify and subject to all sorts of exaggeration and rumor. However, such legends and modern folklore also present the best criteria by which to rank these kings and queens of the black market; [...]
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Scary Terminator Bear
As if the the Terminator is not freaky enough, they have now combined it with a bear, bringing the Bearbrick Terminator to life in a morbid and crazy looking toy.
Bearbrick makes some odd looking bears in different themes and fashion and now with the upcoming Terminator Movie made a new version of the endoskeleton model [...]
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Was Jack the Ripper a woman?
The notorious serial killer who stalked London’s East End, butchering prostitutes and terrorising the population, may not have been Jack the Ripper – but Jill.
An Australian scientist has used swabs from letters supposedly sent to police by the Ripper to build a partial DNA profile of the killer. The results suggest that the person [...]
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America’s Craziest Laws
Alabama
# Dominoes may not be played on Sunday.
# Incestuous marriages are legal.
# It is illegal to impersonate a person of the clergy.
# It is illegal to stab yourself to gain someone’s pity.
# It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
# Masks may not be worn in public
# Men may not [...]
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36 Educational Tips From 70s and 80s TV
Television has always had its share of out-there plots, weird characters and completely unbelievable moments. I got to thinking, what would it be like if someone my age had never gone to school, but instead had been raised by watching TV. Here are a few of the ways he might believe the world works.
The A-Team
36. [...]
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The 12 Worst People to Gamble With In Vegas
Vegas is America’s Tijuana, but without needing to sit on a toilet for 2 days afterwards. Some of the people you meet in Vegas are so shady it can make you feel like the city had been controlled by a bunch of mobsters. Between your pupils never adjusting to the epileptic flashing lights and the [...]
