Transgender. Just the word itself is enough to evoke strong emotions on both sides of the political aisle. No matter how you feel about transgender people, there is no denying it is a complicated issue. A fear of offending others or saying things that are deemed wrong can prevent as open a discussion on this

Anyone can upload pretty much anything on Youtube, and as such it is so massive and unwieldy that it can be hard to sift through all of the mostly pointless or absurd content to find the few true gems. As such, we have gone through Youtube and found some of the best cooking and food

[WARNING: This list contains disturbing images.] The Handmaid’s Tale – the book and the show – has helped return authoritarianism and women’s rights to the public stage, as well as influencing some pretty weird protest attire around the world. It portrays a fictional world named “Gilead” technologically similar to ours, but due to past events,

Regardless of the absurdity of conspiracy theories, it seems there is always someone asking: “what if?” What if Elvis really is still alive? What if Tupac faked his own death? What if the Illuminati really is in charge over the entire music industry and we’ve all been duped into buying music from specific artists for

Immigration, legal and illegal, is a hot-button issue in America today, with strong feelings on both sides. Everyone can point to different deaths, either committed by or inflicted upon immigrants, and they use those to further their agendas. Here are 10 immigration-related atrocities in the U.S. SEE ALSO: 10 Reasons To Support Immigration Reform 10

Finally the great sequel to our previous list on tricks for influencing people! As before, nothing here is meant to be negative, or to in any way lower someone’s self esteem, doubt their own reality, or anything of the sort. Such techniques do not give you real influence over anyone, they just harm already vulnerable

Since 2007 when I published the first list on Listverse, many Halloweens have passed—12 to be exact. In a recent site update I noted my return from a multi-year hiatus due to numerous family deaths. Given that my own love of horror and all things creepy was what drove my desire to create the site,

The Day of the Dead (Dia de Muertos) is upon us. The Mexican holiday dates back to the time of the Aztecs, who believed the souls of the dead would only rest after receiving offerings. After the Spanish conquest of Mexico, these rituals were then fused with elements of the Catholic faith. SEE ALSO: 10

Pit bulls are one of the most misunderstood dogs, with many people seeing them as nothing more than violent, child-maiming monsters. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth and, just like any other dog, the environment and the owners have the most influence on how a dog turns out. SEE ALSO: Top 10 Banned

On April 10, 1912, RMS Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton, calling at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland, but never made it to its final destination of New York, USA. SEE ALSO: 10 Eerie Facts About The Titanic Tragically, the famous vessel collided with an iceberg at 11.40pm on April 14, which

While everyone has political differences or conflicting moral beliefs, most of us treat each other with dignity and respect. However, some organizations either push virulent propaganda or engage in violent behavior in order to try and persuade others to join their cause. Here are 10 of the most despicably hateful organizations. SEE ALSO: 10 Reasons

If you are of a certain age, a large part of your Saturday morning routine was watching “Looney Tunes.” The adventures of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and their friends have been entertaining kids and adults since 1930. The cartoon series has not only come to be one of the most beloved examples of

Death by one’s own hand is a tragedy that nearly everyone has been touched by. Depression, guilt, fear, these emotions can eat away at the soul until you can no longer take it and death seems like the only way out. Sadly, for some, it is. What happens, however, when a suicide is actually a

One of the most successful films in the last year has been the superhero film Captain Marvel, staring Brie Larson. Captain Marvel, whose real name is Carol Danvers, is one of the latest to take the stage in the Marvel Universe. [Name] started out her career as an Air Force pilot before uncovering her true

This world has more villains than heroes. Movies get it wrong. A lot of times, heroes lose. Here are 10 people who did everything they could to make the world a better place. Some crusaded for justice while nobody else would. Others fought on behalf of those who could not. A few simply rose to

Diseases are a natural side effect of living in a competitive place like Earth. Most diseases can be categorized by the pathogen they’re contracted through, even if not all of them require an external organism to spread. SEE ALSO: Top 10 Fascinating Diseases That You Can Smell While we understand the nature of most diseases

It’s the weekend! Hooray! What better way to celebrate than to spend some time looking at videos? There are two basic methods for creating a time-lapse—recording one long video and speeding it up, or taking many individual images after set time intervals and stitching them together in the end. The first method is much simpler,

Being rich gives you power and this power can make you feel invincible. Having wealth can help you escape consequences to a lot of things if not most things but sometimes your bad deeds will catch up to you. For most people on this list though their wealth protected them for years if not decades.

When most people hear the word cannibalism, they will likely imagine the literal consumption of human flesh by a fellow human. However, ritual cannibalism of the ancient world is something entirely different although no less intriguing, or indeed grim. SEE ALSO: 10 Gruesome Cases Of Cannibalism In Modern-Day America While it is a notion that

Though unthinkable for those of us in the present day, with our ability to digitize everything, there was a time when movies could only be saved in physical form. Because of this, coupled with production companies’ shortsightedness and the frailty of early film, many of the earliest movies have been lost to us. Here 10

Beginning in Switzerland in 1693, the Amish church is a group of traditionalist Christians known for their large families, simple living and reluctance to adopt modern technology. Though their world revolves around living by the standards of what they interpret to be God’s word, a steady rise in their population has led to more members

Human history has been quite violent. From devastating pandemics to consistent war, our ancestors saw more action in a single week than most of us will see in our lifetimes. SEE ALSO: 10 History Myths Still Taught As Fact Even if we have the numbers, it’s still difficult to imagine exactly how violent some of

The new HBO series “Watchmen” opens with unspeakable violence: a retelling of an infamous incident of racial violence in American history. Unfortunately, they had any number of violent outbursts to choose from. Here are 10 of the worst massacres of African-Americans. SEE ALSO: 10 Lesser Known Massacres 10 Rosewood Massacre A small, overwhelmingly black town

Theft is as common as the kitchen cockroach. But shoplifters and office supplies stealers have nothing on the world’s weirdest thieves and henchmen. Some people just want their own oddity and walk off with sharks, or act out a gaming fantasy inside of stolen aircraft. Others just want the money. Organized gangs know that bizarre

The attention granted to infamous murderers extends far beyond coverage of their crimes and subsequent trials. Journalists and crime buffs dig into every aspect of their lives, looking for extra tidbits to share with the public. We have brought you such tidbits before, and now we have some more. SEE ALSO: 10 Videos Of Violence

Nigger. Perhaps no other word in history has developed such a strong sense of taboo (at least in the United States). It is so loathed these days that even random and unrelated words have been deemed racist for merely sounding like it. These words vary from regular words found in dictionaries to names of places,

There is a striking disconnect between what aliens from outer space are popularly believed to look like, and what is actually reported. SEE ALSO: 10 Signs That Aliens Are Contributing To Our World The popular idea, known as “The Grays,” are often short and always skinny, with gray skin, big heads, huge bug-like black eyes,

It’s no secret that the Chinese government censors the media for its own people—but Chinese censorship doesn’t stop at the border. SEE ALSO: 10 Reasons Why Communism Sucks With 1.4 billion people and the second-largest GPD in the world, China has a lot of economic power to throw around. They can—and have—used their financial influence

A daily stampede of 1.2 billion users makes Facebook the world’s biggest social media platform. This massive landscape comes with the usual creepy users. If they had a super-bizarre king, it would be Facebook itself. Recent investigations found that the company has information on people not using the platform and that violence is used to

Murder is a sad fact of life. It happens every day of the year, and it’s always tragic. All the same, homicides committed on Halloween tend to be more striking, especially when the perpetrator remains unidentified and the crime unsolved. Halloween and horror may go hand-in-hand, but the horror is supposed to be inconsequential, a