10Home Sweet Home Archaeologists at Spain’s Moli del Salt site discovered what may be a 13,800-year-old map. The schist slab features seven semi-circular etchings, which experts believed to be huts. The shape coincides with modern hunter-gatherer dwellings of the Kalahari Bushmen and Aboriginals of the Australian Outback. The number seven reflects a typical population size. If true, this would be the earliest image of a human habitation ever discovered. Anthropologists are thrilled by the idea that these huts are a spatial representation of social structure....

10 The Rope Trick Effect In the 1940s and ’50s, scientists were trying to understand nuclear explosions by taking pictures of them just milliseconds after a bomb went off. Immediately, they noticed bizarre spikes protruding from the bottom. They assumed nuclear blasts would be mostly symmetrical, so the strange spikes were a complete mystery. A researcher named John Malik investigated the odd phenomenon. He soon noticed that the spikes were in the same place as the cables holding the bomb in place on a tower....

There are many forests in the world with question marks hanging over them. Just think of Poland’s crooked forest and the Rendlesham Forest incident. On this list are some lesser-known mysteries surrounding forests around the globe. 10 Triassic Mystery Often referred to as the dawn of the dinosaurs, the Triassic period kicked off the Mesozoic era. The name stuck in spite of the fact that the creatures that roamed the Earth during the Triassic period were closer to crocodiles than dinosaurs....

10Concealed Shoes Shoes were deliberately hidden within the structure of houses, especially in so-called spiritual openings such as among roof rafters, under the floorboards, and within the walls. This concealment of shoes was said to protect the occupants from witches and other evil spirits. It is said that the belief originated in the 13th century when a Parish priest from England was said to have trapped the devil in a boot....

10Viscount James Bryce And The Discovery Of Noah’s Ark There are few people who are going to have more credibility than the British Viscount James Bryce. Educated at the University of Glasgow and Oxford, a professor at the latter, and one of the heads of the International Court of Justice in the Hague, he was one of the trial judges that handed down a guilty verdict to Germany after World War I....

See Also: 10 Incredible Photographs That Won The Pulitzer Prize This was also the decade when journalism went out of the professional newsroom and on to the streets. Because of the rapid rise of social media and widespread accessibility to mobile phones, some of the best coverage of major events of the decade came via photographs and videos captured by amateur bystanders, rather than acclaimed photo journalists. From widely-shared images of the Arab Spring to our first photographic glimpse of the surface of Mars, here’s the decade summed up with ten of its most powerful photographs....

10 Dongzhong Mid-Cave Primary School The Dongzhong Mid-Cave Primary School is located in a cave in the mountainous Miao village in Guizhou province, China. Dongzhong itself means “in cave.” Guizhou is one of China’s poorest provinces and receives very little government support. Instead of using resources to build a free-standing school building, the community started the cave school in 1984 with eight teachers and 186 students. Some students spend up to six hours daily to travel to and from the school in the pursuit of knowledge, but some villagers have had concerns about the school being allowed to continue....

10 The Lynching Of Jim Williams During the Reconstruction era, the United States was still recovering from a massively destructive civil war. Still bitter over their defeat, Southern radicals began attacking sympathetic whites and free blacks, sometimes for no reason. Jim Williams was once such victim. Jim Williams was an early civil rights leader and had been targeted by the Klan for quite some time. In the late night of March 6, 1871, a group of Klansmen bombarded his home and dragged him from his cabin....

10His Travels Through The Orient Orientalism has always been a big part of Western culture. Whether it’s the odd worship of secret Eastern mysticism in New Age thought or Mickey Rooney’s oh-so-sensitive bucktoothed portrayal of a “typical Asian” in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the Western world has an odd and often strained relationship with the Near and Far East. Hubbard, in sourcing the mystical revelations and systems that underpin Scientology, was no stranger to a bit of Oriental fetishism....

10 Pinky Pinky The story of Pinky Pinky is an urban legend and old wives’ tale rolled into one. With the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, a story started doing the rounds in primary schools about a monster that awaits girls in the school toilet. Girls were warned by their friends not to wear pink to school because this would anger the creature, who would then try to attack or even rape them....

10Benthic Ctenophores You might already be familiar with the Ctenopihores as animals called “comb jellies,” transparent invertebrates who usually use their beautiful, rippling cilia to swim through the water. Some species, however, don’t have the cilia and don’t swim at all, They slowly crawl around on the sea floor, mouth-down. Branching into two large horns, they tend to resemble a cross between a slug and a pair of bunny ears, each horn able to extend a long, silky feeding tentacle into the water....

10The Shaggs Austin Wiggin’s mother once read his palm and told him that his daughters would form a pop group. So the Fremont, New Hampshire man got together his four daughters—Dororthy, Helen, Betty, and Rachel—and made them The Shaggs. The pop group had a name. They just had absolutely no musical training or ability. Austin acted as The Shaggs’ manager, starting them off with gigs at their local town hall and a nursing home in 1968....

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These abilities are common among people and are not something extraordinary. However, there are some out there who are blessed with extrasensory perceptions that the rest of us lack. They may even be described as superpowers. Check out these 10 examples of people who have heightened senses, which may or may not make you envious of them. 10 Pharrell Williams Pharrell Williams is most recognized for his Grammy-winning work as a pop/R&B artist and producer, including the massive No....

The Superstition Mountains are a mountain range located east of Phoenix, Arizona. Already it’s off to a great start with the name. According to legend, sometime in the 1800s a man named Jacob Waltz discovered a huge goldmine within the mountains that has since been dubbed the Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine (because Waltz was German, and eh, close enough). He kept the location a secret until his deathbed, upon which he may or may not (depending on which version of the story you’re reading) have told a single person the secret....

All this has been made possible with the emergence of various television channels throughout the years. Some of these channels remained in existence for decades, with quite a few rebranded over time. Unfortunately, others have also been brutally closed down or replaced by other television channels, having existed for a limited time. This list accounts for ten popular television channels that impacted television broadcasting—whether good or bad—even after being closed down....

10 Jawbone Jewelry Wearing a late family member’s bones and calling it bling will lose anybody serious social points. Around 1,300 years ago, however, the opposite may have been the case. In Mexico, families occupied a residential site in the Oaxaca Valley called Dainzu-Macuilxochitl for nearly four centuries. They were the Zapotecs, and they still exist in the region. A ceremonial quarter was found in 2015 and contained human jawbones as well as ceramic figurines and whistles....

If you want to find these fascinating figures, just wish really hard, shout “I believe in Listverse!” and check out the 10 amazing men and women below. 10The Mushroom Musician Magic forests are a pretty common trope in fantasy, especially if you’re reading anything by J.R.R. Tolkien. However, trees aren’t the only enchanted organisms growing in the woods. If you listen long enough, you might hear music coming from the forest floor....

10The Fairy Kingdom Knockma Woods is located in the western wilds of Ireland, and it’s associated with a couple of major legends. The legendary warrior queen Maeve is said to be buried in a cairn on Knockma Hill, and the hill itself is supposedly the entrance to one of Ireland’s fairy kingdoms. Ruled by Finnbheara (or Finvarra), the Fairy King of Connacht, the kingdom is said to exist just beyond one of the many stone circles and fairy rings that dot the hill....

We hate to break it to you, but the best option would probably be “none of the above.” For all we like to romanticize the past, the truth is that most of our shared history was less “awe-inspiring” and more “vomit-inducing.” 10Pompeii Was One Giant Garbage Dump Before it got buried under a cloud of ash, Pompeii was the ancient equivalent of the French Riviera. It was a place where rich Romans came to unwind after some hard empire-building....