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.”
Mental Floss » Amtrak Will Introduce New High-Speed Trains in 2021
In a few short years, travelers will be able to zip along the Northeast Corridor in a brand new fleet of high-speed Amtrak trains. [Link]
Mental Floss » Some Catfish Are Eating A Large Amount of Mice, Study Finds
Lesser salmon catfish love gobbling up mice, just like cats. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Iran rolls out domestic internet. It's like the regular internet but without the things anyone wants, like porn, music, porn, movies, porn, gambling, and porn [Silly]
[link] [75 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Elephant Footprints Are Swimming Pools For Invertebrates
Every time an African elephant takes a step, it inadvertently creates a home for other animals. [Link]
Mental Floss » 12 Thrilling Facts About ‘Rear Window’
Alfred Hitchcock taught us all the dangers of spying on your neighbors with this 1954 thriller. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » #TheZuckening is the next stage in meme pages' crusade against Facebook [Interesting]
[link] [62 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Greek Statues Were Once Covered in Colorful Paint
Ancient art was a lot more radiant than you might think. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » After sex toy theft, police are probing for witnesses. Investigation is grinding to a halt [Amusing]
[link] [33 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Do you enjoy a cocktail with horseradish and beet-root? You have similar tastes to Putin [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » 'Iceroad Truckers' star Darrell Ward killed in plane crash while traveling to begin filming a pilot for a new show involving the recovery of plane crashes [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Bobbies lobby to allow policemen to openly wear tattoos on the job, "arguing that the service needs to better reflect modern Britain" [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » "Stamina Watch: Trump vs. Hillary. Who Lasts Longer?" Please be about the bedroom please be about the bedroom [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Andrea Tantaros will take a lie detector test if Roger Ailes and Fox Execs will too. She has a list of questions for them to answer [Followup]
[link] [28 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » A Computer Can Replicate Individual Handwriting With Impressive Accuracy
London-based computer scientists have created an algorithm that can mimic the handwriting of Arthur Conan Doyle, Frida Kahlo, or you and me. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man says he believed he was God until one of his sexual attack victims bit him, although why Morgan Freeman would attack anyone is unknown [Strange]
[link] [32 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Paid Sick Days Lower the General Flu Rate
Unfortunately, many workers aren't able to take a sick day. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this exercise guru [Photoshop]
[link] [20 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » iPads May Be Better Than Sedatives for Kids About to Undergo Surgery
Your kid's screen affinity may be a good thing. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It's becoming increasingly difficult to separate reality from parody as Sarah Palin falls down and cracks her head and finds a way to turn the incident into an attack on Hillary Clinton [Facepalm]
[link] [262 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » For the First Time, Ancient Egyptian Texts Available in Rare English Translations
Get an unprecedented glimpse into daily life in ancient Egypt. [Link]
Mental Floss » Why Don't Ants Gain Fat?
If an ant has extra calories, she will share them with her nestmates. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Willy Wonka, the Waco Kid, and Dr. Frederick Frankenstein all pass away on the same day. RIP Gene Wilder [NewsFlash]
[link] [764 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 315 Years of the American Slave Trade in 2 Minutes
Slate's animated history of the slave ships that crossed the Atlantic with human cargo illuminates the trade's impact on both North and South America. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In an attempt to speed up the Redneck Apocalypse, Walmart sues Texas in an effort to sell hard liquor to customers [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Mom can I have a puppy? "No." How about a baby rhino? "Okay" [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » These Are Monday's Most Amazing Amazon Deals
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, August 29. [Link]
Mental Floss » 14 Extreme (And Delicious) Uses For Bacon
To get the most out of your bacon, learn to weave it into shapes. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Huma cuts off Weiner [Followup]
[link] [300 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Bea Arthur's Namesake Shelter for Gay Youth to Open by February 2017
Arthur left $300,000 to New York City’s Ali Forney Center after her death in 2009. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » San Francisco's rent is so high that this woman chose to live homeless [Sad]
[link] [167 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » What Happened to the Physical Copy of the "I Have a Dream" Speech?
For two decades, it was kept inside of a Harry Truman biography for safekeeping. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Sunday storm in Manitoba brought hail the size of nickels, loonies and even eggs, three acknowledged forms of measurement when it comes to precipitation [Followup]
[link] [44 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 14 Captivating Facts About Carnivorous Plants
These plants bite back. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Remember to turn up for work today. Your king might be there, demanding explanations [Scary]
[link] [95 comments] [Link]
Futility Closet » Fresh Hell
The Battle of the Somme saw the advent of a frightening new engine of war. “A man came running in from the left, shouting, ‘There is a crocodile crawling in our lines!'” recalled one German infantryman. “The poor wretch was off his head. He had seen a tank for the first time and had imagined this giant of a machine, … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fark NotNewsletter: A change to Fark that you won't hate [FarkBlog]
[link] [75 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Pick the Missing Words From These 1990 Movie Titles
Take the quiz! [Link]
Mental Floss » Name the Animal in These Expressions
Take the quiz! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The 50 least powerful people in the world. List somehow fails to mention the shy intern with the weird name that works in the basement, or the homeless dude in Uruguay that lives somewhere in the forest [Interesting]
[link] [55 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » How the New York DMV Nabs Identity Thieves
Some clever new technology is making it even less likely to obtain a driver's license under false pretenses. [Link]
Weird Universe » Buttered Flip
In an old American medical journal, The Philadelphia Medical Museum (1811 – Vol 1, No.4), Dr. Richard Hazeltine of Berwick, Maine shared a traditional yankee recipe for "buttered flip" cough medicine:
Often in the imbecile age of childhood, after I had gone to bed have I sip'd, and with no great reluctance, the steeming, salutiferous "buttered flip;" administered by the … [Link]
Mental Floss » The Dying Art of Skywriting
Everyone loves a message in the clouds, but very few people can make them like they used to. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Something did not happen at LAX [Strange]
[link] [53 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Grandma got run over by a reindeer, wreaks horrible vengeance from Heaven [Sad]
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Mental Floss » These Desert Birds Make Jerk Stepdads
Researchers say male southern pied babblers will push their stepsons out of the group while promoting their biological sons. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » New Jersey police blame forty-nine deaths on na na na na na na na na na na BATMAN heroin [Scary]
[link] [90 comments] [Link]
FMyLife » tragic says FML
Today, I got dumped for the second time by the guy that I'd been seeing. He actually forgot that he'd already dumped me once this week and did it again. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Caption what Zuckerberg is thinking [Caption]
[link] [49 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The Zika virus is being spread by: A) mosquitoes; B) tainted blood; C) apathy [Scary]
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Overheard In The Office » I Know You Are but What Am I
Supervisor: I'm sorry, but were you just talking on a call? You aren't supposed to be talking on calls.
Operator: Well, I wasn't, but now I'm talking to you.
(supervisor walks off) Memphis, Tennessee Overheard by: Rider [Link]
Mental Floss » Experience Yosemite in Virtual Reality With President Obama
Celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service in 360 degrees. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Woman finally gets an answer to a message in a bottle which she placed in the water in 1995 as an 8-year-old child [Followup]
[link] [65 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this big cowpoke [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » How Michael Jackson Bought the Publishing Rights to The Beatles Catalogue
The King of Pop once took some business advice from Paul McCartney—and used it to buy all of the Beatles song collection. [Link]
Futility Closet » Podcast Episode 119: Lost in the Taiga
In 1978 a team of geologists discovered a family of five living deep in the Siberian forest, 150 miles from the nearest village. Fearing persecution, they had lived entirely on their own since 1936, praying, tending a meager garden, and suffering through winter temperatures of 40 below zero. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll meet the … [Link]
Mental Floss » Fig Pollination Is Incredible (And Probably Results In You Eating Mummified Wasps)
The fruit and its wasp have been evolving together for millions of years. [Link]
Weird Universe » Turtle Clapping
The only source that I can find for this supposedly ancient and semi-legendary practice is a single article in FIELD AND STREAM.
Was the reporter getting his leg pulled? Did the practice exist, then die off? Inquiring minds want to know! [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Decide to Work Remotely
The allure of working in your pajamas and having a five-step commute is understandable—but do you have the will-power needed to keep your nose to the grindstone? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Rural EMS to stop carrying EpiPens over cost hikes. Peanuts, bee stings seen giving each other high fives [Asinine]
[link] [303 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Homemade Batman Costume Breaks World Record
The Batman costume just broke the Guinness World Record for “Most Functional Gadgets on a Cos-Play Suit." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Burkina Faso does not like big butts and they cannot lie [Silly]
[link] [46 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Paleontologist Jack Horner of Jurassic Park fame pushed into retirement after discovering a rare specimen known as Matrimonius Undergradiata [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » Mortal Wombat, Mongolian Beef, and Skynet learning, but from all the wrong sites: a few of Fark's favorite Headlines of the Week for 8/21 – 8/27 [FarkBlog]
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Mental Floss » Tip of the Hat
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Fark.com RSS » The hottest drink of the summer is this sort of wine slushie [Stupid]
[link] [33 comments] [Link]
FMyLife » MadWorld says FML
Today, it's been six months since my husband and I have miscarried our daughter who we named Hana Grace. My sister just revealed she is having a girl and naming her Hana Grace since "the name is up for grabs now". FML [Link]
FMyLife » Unemployed says FML
Today, I discovered that my supervisor, who I thought liked me, actually thinks I am incompetent and lack emotional intelligence. I'm a student nurse and I've just listed her as my reference for our single, statewide job application. There's no way to change it. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: A Simulated Year on Mars
Start a great week with these great links! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It was only a matter of time before some carney decided to try selling deep fried Jell-O at the state fair [Obvious]
[link] [37 comments] [Link]
FMyLife » Lennyr says FML
Today, I gave birth to my first born child. Somehow, my mom and mother in law made their way to the delivery room, and walked in mid-push. While they were escorted out, I overheard my mother in law asking the nurse how her son, my husband, was holding up. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 of the World’s Most Beautiful Public Gardens
These gardens are worth the trip. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Prison escapee, unhappy with her posted mugshot, offers media a more flattering image [Amusing]
[link] [46 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Introducing a New and Improved Airplane Headrest
Bye-bye, neck pillows. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » As if millennials didn't have enough to be blamed about, they can now add 'declining sales of bars of soap' to that list [Stupid]
[link] [208 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You know the drill. Someone steals your dog. You post it on Facebook. It gets more than ten thousand shares. Your dog is recovered 962 miles from home and returned to you. That's how the internet works [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Anthony Weiner is at it again, but this time with both the little Weiners in frame (possibly not safe for work) [Weeners]
[link] [284 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Tybee Island police shocked to find beheaded voodoo doll outside their station. They know its a real one because it has a label that says "Voo Doo" right on it. Bonus disfigured lizard adds to the mumbo jumbo mojo [Fail]
[link] [39 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Book-Themed Enamel Pins Are the Perfect Thing for Trendy Readers
Now you can show off your favorite book right on your lapel. [Link]
Mental Floss » The Story of Hachikō, Japan’s Famously Loyal Dog
Man's best friend—no matter what. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Who's joining Donald Trump for dinner? Use Photoshop to solve the mystery [Photoshop]
[link] [57 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » You Didn't Know Mushrooms Could Do All This
You can use them as food, shelter, filters, biofuel, insulation, mosquito traps…. [Link]
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