Top 10 Most Misunderstood Lines in Literary History. Top 10 Mental Illnesses And Their Myths. Humans We’ve had several fascinating lists about bizarre mental disorders on this site, but no lists have been posted of mental illness myths.
Mental illnesses, disorders and differences tend to be very misunderstood by the general public. This is a list of mental illnesses and a widely believed myth or two about each one. I’m sure there are other mental disorders with myths so widespread that I believe in them, too. Top Tenz. Top 10 Most Irresponsible Online How-To Guides. We don’t want to alarm you, but you need to know the horrible truth: sometimes, people on the Internet give bad advice.
Through a combination of laziness, ignorance and general idiocy, well-meaning people have tried to write helpful how-to guides and instead produced instructions that will bring nothing but pain and suffering. No matter how desperate you are for knowledge, don’t ever read the following: 10. How to Become Good at Knife Fighting. 10 Movie Mistakes. No matter how many millions of dollars the studios spend on a movie, mistakes or bloopers are inevitable. Most of these mistakes are continuity errors or something may be visible that shouldn’t be visible. Some pedantic moviegoers watch out for them like hawks and pounce. Top 10 Best Time Travel Movies. When I came up with this list of the top ten time travel movies I set some parameters.
The movie must have time travel central to the plot. And when you think of the movie, the theme of time travel must jump to the forefront. So movies like Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery were dropped from contention, because even though Austin travels back in time, the theme of time travel isn’t prevalent in the movie. I also decided that characters must move through the time continuum and not simply “sleep” through time such as in Planet of the Apes or live through time as in Highlander. Likewise, “time loop” films were excluded, such as Groundhog Day and Run Lola Run. If you have any additional time travel movies, please leave a comment.
Top 10 Miscast Movie Roles. When an actor and a character gel, there is magic on the screen.
Unfortunately, some casting decisions leave us scratching our heads in wonder. It’s not necessarily a question of bad acting, although this is the case sometimes. Here is a list of roles that were too much of a stretch. 10. 10 Actors Who Passed on Famous Movie Roles. Sometimes we can’t imagine another actor or actress in the starring role of our favorite films. Believe it or not, many of the most famous and beloved roles in some of the biggest movies belonged to another actor before they had to drop out or pass on the role.
Some of these missed opportunities seem like good ideas, while others will make you cringe. Camera, Lights, List! 10. Top 10 Explanations for The Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle, as we call it today, was coined by the writer Vincent Gaddis in 1964 when he wrote a cover story for Argosy magazine about the strange disappearance of Flight 19. Also known as ‘The Devil’s Triangle’ or the ‘Isle of Devils’, the Bermuda Triangle is popularly thought to be an area in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida to one small island in Bermuda to an island in Puerto Rico. From point to point the area spans into an imaginary triangle. According to many scientists today, however, the only boundaries it truly defines are the ones between fantasy and fiction. The Bermuda Triangle is inaccurately known as a place where more ships and planes have mysteriously disappeared than anywhere else in the world, but why?
Top 10 Most Famous Doomsday Prophecies That Failed. Say the year 2012 to most people and chances are they will think of doomsday, which is remarkable considering that just ten years ago few people would have assigned any special significance to the date at all. Today, however, all one has to do is type the year into a search engine and they will register a quarter of a billion hits. Refine the search to just “2012 doomsday” and it will still produce almost 600,000 hits, while a quick check of Amazon.com lists a whopping 96,000 books with the year 2012 in their tag! Clearly, 2012 has captured the public’s imagination like few things have been able to do. But 2012 is nothing new. Top 10 Video Game-Ruining Power-Ups. 10.
The Sawed-Off Shotgun in GTA: San Andreas True, you needed to be at Hitman level to get the full effectiveness out of this weapon (i.e. run around with two of them). But it’s second only to the Minigun in terms of firepower, and you find it a lot earlier. With the sawed-off and enough ammo (and that’s painfully easy to get once you find the other game breaking problem, the save point near the gambling den) nothing’s a problem for you. Not fellow gangsters, not cars, not planes randomly crashing into the ground, nothing- because you can basically spray it with lead pellets until it goes away. 9. Top 10 Baffling Video Game Accessories. The video game industry has pumped out countless accessories over the years.
Most are functional but forgettable, the Ray Romanos of the video game world. Top 10 Worst Unhealthy Fad Diets. Fad diets try to offer a quick fix for fast weight loss, and, even if they work, the result is short-term and the pounds come bouncing back.
The biggest problem with unhealthy fad diets is that you shouldn’t stay on any of them for extended periods of time because they are generally unbalanced nutritionally. Many fad diets don’t work at all, and some can be dangerous because they’re based on bad or strange ideas, like “The Sleeping Beauty Diet” where you knock yourself out for several days at a time with sedatives. 10. Caveman Diet (Prehistoric Diet, Stone Age Diet, Paleolithic Diet) Editor Note: Turns out this diet is actually healthy for you. Top 10 Most Unhealthy Fast Foods. Hopefully you’re well aware that fast food is unhealthy; it’s just not possible to cram so much salt, grease and deliciousness together and produce anything even remotely good for you.
Still, fast food in moderation isn’t going to kill you… unless you happen to eat one of the following, in which case it probably will. Top 10 Shocking Medical Stories. The catalog of medical oddities, miraculous recoveries, open questions and unsolved mysteries is so complex and fascinating, that millions of books and articles have been written.
While oddities are not particularly desirable, miracles make us happy and strengthen our faith. Unfortunately, many medical mysteries remain unsolved. They are similar to an intriguing puzzle, but with most of the pieces missing. They make us realize how much we still need to learn about something we thought we knew so well: the human body. 10 “Popular” Poisons. Top 10 Conception Myths. Top 10 Myths About Sex. Top 10 Philanthropists. Top 10 Soap Opera Clichés. Top 10 Famous People Who Didn’t Actually Exist. Top 10 Most Crippling Phobias. Everyone fears something.
10 Famous People and Their Phobias. Top 10 Weird Marvel Comic Characters. The Marvel Comics enterprise has been at the forefront of presenting fictional superheroes who have commanded a global following. Top 10 Adopted Celebrities. Top 10 Conspiracy Theories. 10 Shocking Deaths, You May Not Have Heard Of. Top 10 Internet Sensations Turned into Pointless Books. Top Ten Action Figures that are So Bad, They’re Good.