10Arthur Conan Doyle & Harry Houdini After establishing himself as a renowned escapologist, Harry Houdini spent the latter half of his career debunking the supernatural and exposing fake psychics. Conan Doyle, on the other hand, was a complete believer in anything remotely connected with the paranormal. Particularly, he was a massive fan of mediums after one pretended to talk to his son who’d died in World War I. It’s hard to think these men would ever become friends, but they were friends for years, mostly because Houdini hid his real feelings about spiritualists....

10Maple Syrup For those of us who just splash some maple syrup on the occasional pancake, it’s hard to imagine that anyone needs a Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve. But apparently, the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers runs their marketing co-op like OPEC. Sanctioned by the Canadian government, this private enterprise is run by powerful syrup producers who’ve cornered about 75 percent of the global market, which is worth hundreds of millions of dollars....

10 Sexual Surrogacy Therapy Your therapist looks deeply into your eyes, holds your hand, and kisses you passionately on the lips. This isn’t a violation of the American Psychological Association’s code of ethics. Kissing, and sometimes even more, is just part of the job as a sexual surrogate. Sexual surrogates are trained professionals that work with sex therapists to help people work through intimacy issues. Surrogacy goes beyond regular talk therapy; it includes activities to model appropriate romantic and sexual relationships....

This week, we examine two bizarre crimes, one of them involving an avocado grenade. We also learn about our ancient ancestors’ penchant for making “Cheerios” and smoking cannabis. Lastly, if you are a multimillionaire, you can start planning your space vacation aboard the ISS. 10 All Aboard The International Space Station NASA announced plans to open the International Space Station (ISS) to tourists starting in 2020. According to Robyn Gatens, deputy director of the ISS, there will be up to two missions per year which will carry multiple private astronauts to the station for up to 30 days at a time....

He is the founder of the Unification Church, which has become worldwide since its origin in 1954. Moon was born in 1920, and has set himself up at the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. A lot of people go around saying, “I’m Jesus,” but they are usually dismissed as insane or seeking attention. Moon has convinced anywhere from several hundred thousand to one million people to join his church and consider him “Jesus reincarnated....

SEE ALSO: Top 10 Ways to Seem Smarter than You Are 10 Food Glorious Food Fact: Use People’s Hunger To Your Advantage; It Affects Their Decision-Making At the University of The Negev In Israel back in 2011, researcher Shai Danziger and his team went through well over 1000 parole board cases over a ten month period. Their study was comprehensive as it included 40% of the entire countries parole board requests over that time period, and the judges had an average experience of about 22 years each on the bench....

10Monique Dillard-Bothuell On June 14, 2014, Charlie Bothuell IV called police to report his son, 12-year-old, Charlie V, missing from their home in Detroit. The case quickly garnered national attention. Almost two weeks later, Mr. Bothuell appeared on the TV news program Nancy Grace. During the live broadcast, a bombshell was dropped when the father was informed police had just found his son alive in the basement of his house. Mr....

10Many Pre-Clinical Studies Can’t Be Reproduced There’s currently a huge amount of research into the mechanisms of cancer. Unfortunately, translating this research into finding targets for treatment has proven difficult, with the failure rate of clinical trials in oncology being higher than most other areas. And it does seem like many of these failures can be blamed on problems with the pre-clinical research on which they were based. One review found that only six out of 53 landmark pre-clinical cancer papers could be reproduced....

It has been nearly a century since the 1918 Spanish flu claimed millions of lives. The widespread disease infected over 500 million people and caused tens of millions of deaths. Despite the major advances in medicine and technology during the last century, we are not safe from experiencing a similar outbreak today. Here are ten reasons we are on the brink of another deadly pandemic. See Also: 10 Horrifyingly Deadly Sweets And Treats...

But it is also a month of airport anxiety, body shaming, and frenzied moms hoping for the perfect gift as least once in their lives. However, there are ways to cope with all that stress in the month of May. So read on, and we hope that this list will lend some insight. 10 Y’all Remember Carrie? May is the height of prom season. Although it is one of the most important of all high school social functions, the prom produces more anxiety in the student body than final exams....

Also known as ISIL, Islamic State, and Daesh (a name they hate, which is why many use it), ISIS is the biggest, best-funded terror group in history. They control swaths of Iraq and Syria and have launched devastating attacks across the Middle East. Until the night of November 13, analysts thought the group’s reach was only local. In the wake of the tragedy in Paris, world leaders are having to quickly reconsider their positions toward the group....

10The Glass Spearhead Over a century ago, male Aboriginal prisoners were sent to Australia‘s Rottnest Island.[1] Recently, the island was visited by University staff and students from Western Australia’s School of Indigenous Studies. While learning about the area’s history, one student found a beautiful artifact—a spearhead knapped from green glass. The rare point was about 100 years old and joined previous finds of other glass and ceramic spearheads. What makes this one unique is the deep, sparkling emerald shade....

Delicious Fruit Cake Serves 4 1 kg mixed fruit 2 cups fruit juice 2 cups self raising flour Preheat oven to 125C. Soak fruit in juice for 2 hours. Stir flour into soaked fruit and mix well. Put into large lined baking tin. Bake for 2 hours in the bottom of your oven on 130C. Remove and leave to cool. Put into container or wrap in foil. Keep for 2-3 days before cutting....

10The Dullahan The Dullahan is a headless horseman that moves with purpose through the Irish countryside. His head, which he carries in one hand, has pale glowing skin and a twisted smile that stretches from ear to ear. When the Dullahan holds his head up high, his beady black eyes can spot his target from a great distance. He rides a horse so fast that bushes catch fire as he passes....

10The Blues Brothers Dropped A Car Into Chicago The Blues Brothers was directed by John Landis and starred two of the biggest comedic stars of the era: John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. It was a miracle that the film even managed to be released given Belushi’s insane cocaine consumption (the film had its own cocaine budget), the movie’s never-ending filming schedule, and its mammoth, ever-expanding budget. Luckily, when the film was finally released, it went on to become a huge hit, due in part to some of the huge set pieces it employed....

Just having freedom of the press, though, doesn’t always mean we have access to the truth. There are more threats to accurate journalism than just the influence of the government. There are a lot of factors affecting the news that gets reported and the way it’s told, and some of them might be dangerously distorting the way we see the world. 10News Is Becoming More Partisan We’ve gotten used to the fact that most of our news sources lean either left or right....

10 Groping Incident Back in 2007, country music star Faith Hill made headlines for her reaction to an incident that could easily be viewed as sexual harassment. However, in this case, it was not Hill herself who was the target of the harassment but her husband and fellow country music singer Tim McGraw. At the end of a concert in Lafayette, Louisiana, which was part of the couple’s Soul2Soul tour, a reportedly intoxicated woman in the audience grabbed McGraw’s crotch while he was greeting fans in the crowd....

10The Comma That Cost The US Millions The US government once lost at least $2 million in revenue, all thanks to a comma. The US Tariff Act of 1872 was intended to remove tariffs from “fruit-plants, tropical and semi-tropical for the purpose of propagation or cultivation.” But a misplaced comma meant that the act actually referred to “fruit, plants tropical and semi-tropical for the purpose of propagation or cultivation.” Instead of merely exempting fruit-growing plants from import duty, the act now appeared to exempt all fruit imports from tariffs....

We know about the Boston Tea Party, but what about Grey’s Raid at Fairhaven? We all remember the Alamo, but how many remember Gonzalez and Goliad? Sometimes, small towns play host to the biggest calamities, tragedies, and misfortunes to ever occur. As such, a lot of little places have developed large reputations for darkness and horror. Here are ten of the darkest, small settlements whose dubious pasts place them in the history books right next to their big-city cousins....

10 Princess Basmah’s Fake Sheikh Her Royal Highness Princess Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz al Saud, the granddaughter of the first Saudi king and the daughter of the second, has long been a thorn in the side of the country’s rulers due to her liberal reformist outlook and human rights campaigning. She has publicly stated her wish that the kingdom would adopt a constitution ensuring gender equality and civil rights, reform of divorce laws, the education system, and social services to reduce discrimination against women, and getting rid of the mahram, a male chaperone who must accompany Saudi women in public....