If you have ever watched an episode of the reality TV series Hoarders, you know just how extreme the situations can be. Once beautiful homes become full of trash, debris, excrement, and vermin, making for deplorable and unsanitary living conditions. However, it also reveals that often, those who struggle with hoarding disorder are good people simply living life as a prisoner of their possessions. Here are 10 heartbreaking stories of hoarders who were unable to overcome the clutter and spent their last moments engulfed in their own filth....

10 Law-Bending Coldness In the past, scientists couldn’t cool an object beyond a barrier called the “quantum limit.”[1] To make something frosty, a laser must slow its atoms and their heat-producing vibrations. Ironically, laser light brings warmth to the deal. Despite lowering temperature, it also prevents it from dropping below the quantum limit. Surprisingly, physicists designed a drum of vibrating aluminum and managed to lower its temperature to 360 microKelvin, or 10,000 times more chilled than the depths of space....

See Also: Top 10 Influential People Who Never Lived However, before DNA was heard of it was a much more subjective process, especially if a long period of time has passed. Identification relied on documents, which can be forged, and eye-witnesses who can be mistaken. Or bribed. Here are 10 impostors who tried to live a life that wasn’t theirs. 10Jeanne Calment Jeanne Calment was known as the world’s oldest woman, dying at the ripe old age of 122....

Animal Surviving in the Hottest Extreme 470 Degrees C. – Shrimp At a thermal vent 3 km below the surface in the equatorial Atlantic, Census researchers found shrimp on the edge of fluids billowing from Earth’s core at this unprecedented marine recording. This is a temperature that would melt lead easily. Although the species resemble those around other vents, scientists want to study how, surrounded by near-freezing 2ºC water, their chemistry allows them to withstand heat bursts that approach the boiling point – up to 80ºC....

Although you probably don’t know anyone who is 3 meters (10 ft) tall and blue yet, Pandora is not worlds apart from our Earth after all. In fact, many discoveries that scientists make in the movie Avatar have already been found on our doorstep. Here are 10 examples of the growing evidence. 10 The Giant Trees If you imagine the biggest tree you’ve ever seen and then multiply that by 10, you might be getting close to how massive a giant sequoia is....

10 North Pole 6 Sighting In the 1950s, the Soviet Union pushed into the Arctic region, supposedly deploying a number of drift stations for scientific research when they were actually used for intelligence and strategic advantage. For Canada, there was also the threat that the US would press into the Arctic for military reasons and question Canada’s sovereignty over the ice shelf. The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) had been photomapping the North since at least the 1930s, but these “ice reconnaissance” flights increased dramatically after 1945....

Despite the damaging effects that stalking can have on someone’s life, it is still a severely misunderstood crime. Whether driven by obsession, resentment, or a combination of factors, the results are always the same—hurt and pain for everyone involved. 10 Male And Female Juries Perceive Stalking Differently In about 74 percent of stalking cases, a woman is the victim. So it stands to reason that female juries would be more willing to convict male stalkers in court....

10Ardi Living in Ethiopia some 4.4 million years ago, the Ardipithecus ramidus fossil known as Ardi is the oldest known hominid skeleton. Her partial remains consist of around 125 separate pieces, including her skull and teeth. She was 1.2 meters (4 ft) tall, weighed about 50 kilograms (110 lb), and walked upright. She had a small brain, her arms and fingers were very long, and her opposable big toe helped her hold onto branches as she moved through the trees....

Yet, despite their notability, there are some unique facts that you might not know about these world-famous landmarks, which draw tourists from all corners of the globe. 10 The Tower Of London’s Ravens The Tower of London, one of the most famous landmarks in London, was built by William the Conqueror in 1078 to create a new royal residence. However, it served as a prison from 1100 to 1952, housing some of the country’s most notorious criminals, such as Ranulf Flambard and the Kray twins....

Nearly every country in the world participated in the slave trade, and a lot of them took in far more slaves than the United States. Of the 12.5 million African slaves sent to the New World, only 388,000—or about three percent—of them ended up in the US.[1] We’ve all heard about Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and the Emancipation Proclamation, but that wasn’t the end of slavery around the world....

Nobody imagined that it would be so devastating. When the war began, many thought it would be over in the blink of an eye. Some treated it like a game or a spectator sport. There are some little-known stories that show what people thought this war was going to be, and how the dark truth of what was really happening set in. 10 Congress Got In A Drunken Fistfight In 1858, the US Capitol gave the world an early preview of the war to come....

The week that finally took us into March started with a bang. In the tiny central European state of Slovakia, the brutal gunshot execution of a journalist triggered a chain of events that could shake up the entire region. Elsewhere, China was setting a date with destiny, we were unraveling the secrets of the universe, and a bloody mystery gripped Britain. Here’s what’s been going on. 10 A Slovakian Journalist Was Murdered For His Work On Sunday, 27-year-old Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, Martina Kusnirova, were murdered in their home in Slovakia....

10 Pinball Machines Most of us consider pinball machines to be a bit of harmless fun, but New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia thought otherwise. Back in 1942, he saw pinball as a form of gambling that was corrupting America’s youth. Moreover, he claimed that pinball machines were run by the mob, like most other gambling outfits of the time. He also used the “pinball is the tool of the devil” shtick to appeal to the temperance crowd....

An ice circle is a rare phenomenon that occurs in slow moving water in cold climates. It consists of large discs of ice that rotate slowly in the water. It is believed that they form in eddy currents. Ice circles have most frequently been observed in Scandinavia and North America, but one was recorded in Britain in January 2009. Ice circles occur at bends in the river where the accelerating water creates a force called ‘rotational shear’, which breaks off a chunk of ice and twists it around....

10 Beluga Whales Love Music From one point of view, we can never know if the beluga whale really loves music. However, they do respond and express great curiosity and even sometimes join in a synchronized dance. In 2013, a pair of artists rigged a boat with an underwater sound system and sailed out to sea to play the belugas an underwater symphony. The whales were extremely interested and even joined in, showing an appreciation for music and art above and beyond most known creatures on Earth....

Written by alternative rock band Jane’s Addiction, “Three Days” was inspired by Xiola Blue, who came to Los Angeles for her father’s funeral, and spent three days with frontman Farrell and his girlfriend in what was quoted as “a haze of sex and drugs.” Though the song was written prior to Xiola Blue’s death of a heroin overdose in 1987, the song was released in 1990, and the poem at the beginning makes light of this, in memory....

A recent addition to our list, nothing hits the spot more than a 7-year-old screeching out half the words to a Cheeky Girls or Britney Spears number – perhaps only with the exception of four 7-year-olds trying to do the same thing ‘in harmony’. House parties have never been so much fun, especially when you can close the patio doors behind you, and walk several hundred miles in the opposite direction....

Many ghost hunters and the paranormal-curious have been known to head to these spooky locations with hopes to investigate further. As it appears, there might be other reasons why New York is called the city that never sleeps. Here are ten of them. 10 The Dakota The Dakota, located at 72nd Street and Central Park West, is home to some of the most sought-after real estate in Manhattan. It was built in the 1880s, and its owner, Edward Clark, who was the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, died at the age of 70 two years before the building was complete....

10Yahya JammehThe Gambia A tiny sliver of land on the western bulge of Africa, The Gambia is one of the strangest-shaped countries on Earth. But geographical oddities have nothing on the mental hang-ups of its president, Yahya Jammeh, in power since a 1994 coup. Jammeh has compared homosexuality to Satanism and called it the downfall of civilization. He’s promised to decapitate any gay people who enter the country. Explaining why he found homosexuality so abhorrent, he simply stated: “I have buffaloes from South Africa and Brazil, and they never date each other....

This is a list of ten films which are currently stuck in the fiery pit of Development Hell. Some might see the light of day, others will never escape. Dare you enter? Based on the science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game tells the story of Ender Wiggin. The story is set in a distant future where mankind in engaged in an intergalactic war with an alien race known as Buggers....