Get ready and set your volume higher because you are about to feel a total eargasm from this interesting and sometimes unexpected list.

Different people eat different things. Some like meat, others prefer veggies, and some are fine with eating raw roots and mushrooms. It’s all fine, but when it comes to national cuisine, pretty much every nation in the world has some weird dishes or ingredients that can make other people barf. Seeing as Russia is the biggest country in the world (for now) it’s prone to have quite a few bizarre recipes. And these 10 are just the ones I’ve tried personally.

It’s unthinkable how a little beautiful stone can cause terrible deaths, bloody battles, career failures, horrible diseases and more. Undoubtedly, many of the famous “cursed jewels” legends was fabricated in order to generate more fame for a certain stone. And you have the right to believe or not to believe in curses of gemstones, but you can’t ignore the legends and history facts behind these famous ones.

These vintage, hand-colored pictures were taken between 1863 and 1900. Samurai, whose class was outlawed and dissolved in 1868 with the restoration of the Meiji era and the end of feudalism, still look more badass than anyone you’ll ever know.