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

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

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

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,