Odds and sods I look at regularly, just because they amuse me. I hope they do the same for you. Incidentally, I found this page’s title on Greg Ross’s Futility Closet (it’s somewhere on this page) in a mini-article which also includes the delightful sentence in Icelandic: Barbara Ara bar Ara araba bara rabbabara. Ross points out that this, “besides being fun to say, is spelled with only three letters. It means “Barbara, daughter of Ari, brought only rhubarb to Ari the Arab.”
Fark.com RSS » Soldiers were forced to kill a tame jaguar that got loose during an Olympic torch photo op in what will surely become a metaphor for the games themselves [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Do you discipline your child with "a good hard spanking" from time to time? Congratulations, you're raising a future Chinese banker [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Wrong festival, dude [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Making Art Can Relieve Stress at Any Skill Level
You don't have be talented to reap the benefits. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Note to IndyCamp/Occupy Scotland/Scotxit/whatever protesters: Claiming that Jesus is the rightful monarch of Scotland and calling the judge a blasphemer is not a sound legal strategy [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Not news: Prima donna pilot whines to ATC when he wasn't listening. Fark: other pilots call him a tool and support the overworked ATC operator [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » The Surprisingly Devious History of CAPTCHA
Or, how millions of people—including you—ended up working for free. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Your inability to shut up is genetic [PSA]
[link] [47 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Algorithm Mimics an Artist's Coloring Style in Real Time
Way easier than learning to shade in 3D. [Link]
Mental Floss » 13 Thrilling Facts About ‘House Of Wax’
André de Toth’s legendary thriller solidified the 3D movie craze, walloped the box office, and turned Vincent Price into a horror movie icon. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Now AI can diagnose cancer almost as accurately as humans. Next step, Baymax from Big Hero 6 [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » The coolest drive in the world is the 4,000km ice road run in Siberia, taken on the famously unbreakable Soviet Ural motorcycles: "They're military-grade Lego" (great pics) [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Raccoon Family Uses Teamwork to Help Its Baby Scale a Wall
Raccoons: trashcan raiders, home invaders, pretty good mothers. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Patient Zero of the zombie apocalypse has been identified [PSA]
[link] [45 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » After selling an app to Snapchat for $54M, some people would blow it all as fast as possible. This guy decided to take his family around the world [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » Brainwaves Might Be Your Next Vital Sign
Screening your brainwaves to glean important information about your brain health may be on the horizon. [Link]
Mental Floss » Baby Sloths' Giant Poops Defy Physics/All Decency
How can such a small animal produce such a large turd? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Is your drug-addicted friend being held against her will in Queens? Grab a couple of friends, load up your car with rifles, handguns, body armor, night vision goggles, and drugs, and try your luck in the Holland Tunnel. That should do the trick [Face
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Fark.com RSS » Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip That ended as the Minnow did, the Skipper with a swollen lip [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Before letting your children kiss, nuzzle, or lick the baby animals, remember that even the cutesy fuzzy-wuzzy ones are covered in germs [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Jar of air from Stone Roses concert that 'still has a faint reverberation of John Squire's solo in it' currently selling for more than $100,000 on eBay (pic) [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Google is adjusting the search results you get when you look up the symptoms you are feeling so that the first thing you see doesn't say you have ass cancer [Repeat]
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Fark.com RSS » U.S. finally begins deporting illegal immigrants – starting with a 60-year-old German whose parents forgot to apply for citizenship when he was 5 [Awkward]
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Mental Floss » Netflix Price Hike Could Lead to Massive Subscriber Drop-Off
A new study shows that nearly 500,000 American subscribers may abandon ship to save $2 per month. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Chicago is the city of 300….homicides that is [Scary]
[link] [55 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Israeli Defense Forces say they killed a Palestinian boy by mistake after confusing him with someone who threw stones earlier that day. Because that clearly mandated a kill-on-sight approach [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop challenge – anything to do with 'run', 'ran' or 'running' [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Does Tapping a Soda Can Really Prevent It From Fizzing Over?
The practice is meant to settle the fizz, but how does it work? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Celebrate the Cavs win with something you surely won't regret when they win again in 50 years [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Bouncy house apocalypse: bouncy house flies away and slams into power lines. People still put their kids in these things? [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Wood-Fired Pizza Might Be Causing Major Air Pollution in Brazil
Sorry, pizza lovers. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Here's a handy rundown of how you are likely to die in America, from contact with machinery (odds of dying: 1 in 5,189) to accidental drowning and submersion (1 in 1,073) to assault by firearm (1 in 300). Still no cure for cancer (1 in 7) [Intere
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Fark.com RSS » Snopes fact-checks the fact-check on their fact-checker [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Blind Mexican cave fish taking jobs from American blind cave fish (with bonus pic of streetfish) [Weird]
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Mental Floss » 9 Amazing Tiki Bars
Escape to your fantasy island paradise. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Another day, another banker suicide. All these apparent 'suicides' might be suspicious if anyone actually cared that they were dying [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman names her ileostomy bag Steve to prove her surgery is nothing to be ashamed of. So now she can say, 'Steve is full of shiat' – which, if you've ever met Steve from Accounting, that's something you already know [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » What's wrong with a dog food festival … oh [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Purdue comes up with a new idea to eliminate student debt, if you consider "indentured servitude" a new idea [Interesting]
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Futility Closet » Paean
Proctologist W.C. Bornemeier explains why the sphincter ani must be preserved when performing hemorrhoid surgery: They say man has succeeded where the animals fail because of the clever use of his hands, yet when compared to the hands, the sphincter ani is far superior. If you place into your cupped hands a mixture of fluid, solid and gas and then … [Link]
Mental Floss » Engineers Are Designing Quieter Subways for NYC
So you can actually understand the announcements. [Link]
Mental Floss » KFC's Takeout Box Will Charge Your Phone While You Eat
Colonel Sanders: Tech Disruptor. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » According to science, the ideal woman's body looks like..OMG LOOK AT THOSE SHARP KNEES [Spiffy]
[link] [189 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Finally a teacher who DIDN'T have sex with a student. She went for the assistant principal. Who has just been taken into custody for her murder. Well, I guess back to students it is [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Trump campaign report shows $35,000 was paid to a company called "Draper Sterling," the fictional names of two Mad Men characters. Think Progress digs a little deeper. Then things get weird [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Good news New Yorkers, Police Commissioner Bratton says another terror attack is inevitable for NYC. Comforting, I know [Obvious]
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FMyLife » Pseudo says FML
Today, I asked my little cousin if he had a girlfriend if he had a girlfriend. “Yes,“ he said. “Two, but I’m going to keep the one with the biggest boobs.“ He’s 7. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » The Amazon Deals You Need to See Today
As a recurring feature, our team combs the Web and shares some amazing Amazon deals we’ve turned up. Here’s what caught our eye today, June 21. [Link]
Mental Floss » The Bizarre Mating Ritual of the Globular Springtail
Watch as these insects lock faces before things get weird. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: "Sum"mer Solstice
[Link]
Mental Floss » 13 Glorious Images of the Solstice Strawberry Moon
The moon was lovely last night, wasn't it? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Freedom of the press under attack by Turkey. No, not the one running for president [Sad]
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Mental Floss » Name the States That Contain a 'G'
Take the quiz! [Link]
Mental Floss » Cuban Coffee Is Coming to the U.S. This Fall
Cuban-style coffee is already popular, but the real stuff hasn’t been sold in the U.S. in 55 years. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fourteen children drown in Russia during a lake storm. Evil spirits of the lake are to blame [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » That awkward moment when ISIS is unsure whether to publicly support a homegrown terrorist or back away slowly [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » 'Abortion drones' delivering abortion pills in Ireland [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » In wake of Orlando shooting, Florida congressional candidate A: Denounces gun violence? B: Pledges more funding for local police forces? or C: Is giving away AR-15 via Facebook contest? [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Frightening "weirdos in black trench coats" are terrifying spooked Iowans [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Georgia teenager who killed a man after agreeing to buy his PS4 on Craigslist gets 40 years in prison. By that time, she'll be ready to kill someone else for a PS7 [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Leaving a passive aggressive note on an inconsiderate driver's windshield is sometimes just too tempting. This is how you nail it [Amusing]
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FMyLife » DogBeater says FML
Today, I've just moved into a new apartment. It's also the day my big baby of a dog stepped on a rock and began yelping when I tried to touch his paw. He "suddenly" felt better after I carried him inside. Now everyone thinks I'm beating my dog. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Great Pyramid of Giza is actually lopsided, thanks to an error builders made during construction 4,500 years ago. Investigators now think it was an intentional pyramid scheme [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Here we see the Lesser Traffic Warden in its natural habitat. Watch this land bottom-feeder as it cowers under cover, waiting for its prey to approach [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Old and busted: Doing the Cherrios Challenge on your sleeping babies. New and even more bizarre: Doing the Cherrios Challenge on your pet lizard [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » If we are living in a computer simulation, is that a testable hypothesis? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman takes funny photograph of her 3-year-old daughter standing on a toilet and gets ready to send it to her husband for a laugh until her daughter says that she learned in school what to do if she is stuck in a bathroom and someone starts shooting
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Fark.com RSS » Headline: Pot usage in teenagers in Colorado below the national norm. Reality: Teenagers in Colorado are addicted to THC and abuse it regularly, but know how to lie to adults taking surveys [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Conservationists Say Fish Like Dory From 'Finding Dory' Should Stay Hidden
One hundred percent of captive blue tang have been taken from their homes on coral reefs, often using poison. [Link]
Mental Floss » Watch This Short Visual History of Pixar Since 1984
"The Evolution of Pixar" is a touching tribute to the animation company, and a great introduction some of their early and lesser known short films. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What to expect when you buy a home in a tax lien sale: feral cats, some cash hidden in the floors, a nice old painting in the attic, a decomposing body, an antique… what, back up a minute [Creepy]
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FMyLife » Dangling says FML
Today, as I entered our narrow hallway while leaving the bathroom, my belt loop caught on the knob of a nearby closet. My husband had to come and rescue me as I hung there, my ass in the air. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Oh come on who wouldn't want to get spanked on stage for not exceeding expectations at your work training session? [Creepy]
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Mental Floss » 16 Devilish Facts About 'Problem Child'
The cast, crew, and studio thought it would fail. One writer cried. It ended up being one of the biggest hits of 1990. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "This is 911, what's your emergency?" "My pizza doesn't have enough cheese" [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Putin: If Hillary is elected, we will declare war [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Are you one of the 81,000 on the no-fly list? [PSA]
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Mental Floss » When Werner Herzog Ate His Own Shoe
The director boiled it for five hours before digging in. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Arlington Texas Police admit what the public has assumed for years: Yes we have a ticket quota [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Possible treatment for the Herp. Still no treatment for The Derp [Sick]
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Mental Floss » This Badminton Robot Is a Formidable Opponent
It calculates the trajectory of each serve before it makes its move. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Boy Scouts now accepting atheists…as long as they belong to the right kind of church [Facepalm]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I might have ruined my co-worker's relationship with her fiancé, with whom I share a name, because we "work together too often" and now he doesn't know who's she's saying during sex. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fark Store Daily Deal: Exo Mount Universal car cell phone holder. Attaches to most surfaces, flat and curved, and rotates 360 degrees. Keeps you hands-free and less likely to get a ticket (Sponsored Link) [Plug]
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Fark.com RSS » Sharp-eyed journalist notices $35,000 payment from Trump campaign to "Draper Sterling" for advertising [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop beachfront number 9 [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » A 'Golden Girls'-Themed Cafe Is Opening in Manhattan
The restaurant will pay particular homage to late actress Rue McClanahan. [Link]
Weird Universe » Late mail, postage due
1974: Roy Baker of Guthrie, Oklahoma received a Christmas card two years after it had been mailed. Because the price of a stamp had gone up between the time it was mailed and the time it was delivered, the post office decided there was postage due.
Baker wisely decided it was useless to argue with the post office and paid … [Link]
Mental Floss » 7 Things You Never Knew About Fish
A conversation with Jonathan Balcombe, author of the new book 'What a Fish Knows.' [Link]
Fark.com RSS » City wants to pay the homeless to clean up the city's homeless camps, and hopefully they can use that money to no longer be homeless [Spiffy]
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Weird Universe » Mystery Gadget 38
What is this 1950s fellow dressed for?
The answer is here. [Link]
Mental Floss » Germs, Be Gone: This Self-Cleaning Bedding Claims To Be Bacteria-Resistant
The pure silver kills bacteria before it can reproduce and grow. [Link]
Mental Floss » "Sum"mer Solstice
[Link]
Mental Floss » Amazing Furoshiki Cloths Look Like Animals When Folded
Your lunch will look way cuter when a sloth is carrying it. [Link]
FMyLife » Xerfox says FML
Today, I flew to Germany to meet up with a girl that I met in America 5 months ago and fell in love with. We've been talking every day for 5 months straight. I get here just for her to tell me that she likes me "like a brother". FML. [Link]
FMyLife » Pissed says FML
Today, I purposefully spilt my 44oz. cup of water on myself at work, because spending the rest of the day in soaking wet pants was less embarrassing than letting people know I'd pissed myself. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » 9 Ingenious Pieces of Space-Saving Furniture
These products will help you make the most of your limited space. [Link]
FMyLife » Tigerninjagoalie says FML
Today, I finally found someone who liked me and wanted to kiss me. It was a 5-year-old at the daycare I work at. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Like the idea of cremation but hate the unpleasant eco after-effects? Now, there's Cremo-helper, leaves just some "leftover coffee-colored effluents" behind [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » Four hikers dead from extreme heat in Arizona as temperatures rose to nearly 120 degrees, although their leader claimed it couldn't be more than 114 [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Forty years after a chemistry teacher in Maine put an unwrapped Twinkie on his chalkboard to see how long it would take to decompose, it's still intact in a glass case at the school. This is not the premise of Stephen King's newest novel [Wei
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: The Inspiring ‘Hamilton’
Check out these links -you'll be glad you did! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Iceland's famous "Gateway to Hell" Hekla volcano could soon open its gates [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 15 Adorably Wunderbar German Terms of Endearment
If you're looking for a new nickname for your sweetheart, try hasenfürzchen. (Just don't tell them it means "bunny fart" in German.) [Link]
Fark.com RSS » No need to panic. Its just some "large-scale motion" detected in the San Andreas fault. Repeat…do not panic. It's too late, anyway [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Watch Time-Lapse Footage of a Giant Cruise Ship's Construction
Piece by piece, bit by bit, deck by deck. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Journalist once again shows us how easy it is to buy an AR-15…what?…uh-oh [Amusing]
[link] [313 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Feeling bored about what to do with your outdated kitchen? Turn it into a swimming pool [Weird]
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Mental Floss » 8 Ways to Refresh During Your Lunch Break
Don't let your lunch hour go to waste. [Link]
Futility Closet » Cross Purposes
A perplexing problem from the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, Spring 1983: In the little hamlet of Abacinia, the people use two base systems. One resident says, “26 people use my base, base 10, and only 22 people speak base 14.” Another says, “Of the 25 residents, 13 are bilingual and 1 is illiterate.” All the residents speak the truth, but … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Truck crash covers road in thousands of baby chickens. Owners desperately try to re-coop any losses [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » Vivid Scenes of Life in Tokyo, Drawn on Coffee Cups
Illustrator Adrian Hogan doesn't let his to-go cups go to waste. [Link]
Mental Floss » 9 Ways to Save on Travel This Summer
Presented by Allstate. [Link]
Mental Floss » Watch 6000 Years of Urban Growth in 3 Minutes
Using data from a recent study, Max Galka has visualized the evolution of the world’s major cities, starting with the beginning of Sumerian civilization. [Link]
Mental Floss » Researchers Debunk Medical Myths About Vitamin D
Scientists say most common beliefs about vitamin D are unsupported by research. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Apparently, the @SUNY Twitter account moonlights as a porn star named "Latarsha Crenshaw" [Weird]
[link] [25 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Researchers Release Dead “Frankenturtles” into the Chesapeake Bay
The turtle carcasses have been stuffed with Styrofoam to keep them afloat and fitted with GPS trackers. [Link]
Mental Floss » This Resort in the Philippines Lets Visitors Dine Next to a Waterfall
Talk about a view. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Do you discipline your child with "a good hard spanking" from time to time? Congratulations, you're raising a future potential mass murderer [Interesting]
[link] [204 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Time Capsule Discovery Brings Back Middle School Memories For 93-Year-Old
This picture transported him back to 1938. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Because the first thing you want to do after being dead for three years is to go see how awesome your grave is [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » The world's best wine doesn't come from Napa, Paso Robles, or France. It comes from Wal-Mart [Unlikely]
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Mental Floss » Bark
High-tech vests showed which toys dogs liked best. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Get your cameras out: Tonight marks the first "strawberry moon" in a generation, and we won't see one again until 2062 [Cool]
[link] [103 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Tests From Microsoft Show How Chrome Drains Your Battery
It was outperformed by Microsoft's Edge every time. [Link]
Mental Floss » Introducing a Rotten Tomatoes-esque Website For Books
Now you'll know whether a tome is a waste of time. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Our first proof of time travel [Scary]
[link] [147 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 14 Tudor-ific Facts About Henry VIII
Many plays, films, and TV shows have explored the life and loves of Henry VIII, King of England and Ireland, who was born on June 28, 1491. But despite his place in history books and pop culture, there are likely a number of things most people don't know about this enigmatic monarch. [Link]
Mental Floss » China’s New Supercomputer Declared Fastest in the World
The Sunway TaihuLight is now the fastest supercomputer in the world. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this invisible man [Photoshop]
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