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 » Last night, U.S.-backed Iraqi forces successfully liberated Mosul's municipal complex from ISIS control. Let's check in on today's victory celebration… oh [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » 8 Mummified, Mythical Monsters Found in Remote Japanese Temples
The remains are commonly believed to be elaborate pieces of faux-taxidermy created for entertainment purposes at Edo Period carnivals called Misemonos. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Someone figured out an "iconic" job for every state. Here are 10 of them because the full list is on that site that breaks every article into like 500 pages [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Americans are having less sex than we once did. Well, have you seen what we look like now? [Giggity]
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Mental Floss » A Lake in Melbourne, Australia Has Turned Pink
The water's unusual shade can be chalked up to a variety of environmental factors. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » CIA cat is in your TV, watching you masturbate [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » How to See Which Facebook Advertisers Have Your Data
Download your archive and take a peek at who has your contact information. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Three dead, dozens injured after train strikes casino tour bus parked on tracks in Biloxi, MS. Developing story [News]
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Fark.com RSS » I don't know what you're talking about, so here's a bunny with a pancake on its head. Happy National Pancake day and free pancakes for all – IHOP [Cool]
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Mental Floss » 5 Courses That Will Help You Become a Better Adult
The Adulting School in Portland, Maine, is just the tip of the iceberg. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Mailman caught in the lab [Sick]
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Futility Closet » Warming Up
Chapter 1 of Jack and Alice, a novel written by Jane Austen when she was 13 years old: Mr. Johnson was once upon a time about 53; in a twelvemonth afterwards he was 54, which so much delighted him that he was determined to celebrate his next Birth day by giving a Masquerade to his Children and Freinds. Accordingly on … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Study says Floridians are happier and healthier than you. Let that sink in for a minute [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Intellectually speaking, you know you shouldn't click on this link, but your dopamine receptors are drooling atavistic cavemen who want to see a prurient example of someone who's made some bad life choices [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » A day after reporting it got more rain than snow this winter Minnesota gets its earliest tornado ever. Uff-da [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this grumpy tortoise [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » You never know what you might find in a Mexican scrapyard [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Don't Sleep on Tuesday's Best Amazon Deals
From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]
Mental Floss » Yellow Is Actually the Optimal Taxi Color
Yellow taxis in Singapore got in six fewer accidents per month than blue ones. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If you're planning to propose to your girlfriend while in a plane, don't forget about the possibility of motion sickness [Sick]
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Mental Floss » Not a Drill: You Can Now Buy All-Pink Starburst Packs
We all know it's the best flavor. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » There was a time, over a century ago, that some people considered muskrats to be fish because they lived in the water. Voila, a Lenten loophole [Weird]
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Mental Floss » A Revolutionary Toy Idea: 'Hamilton: The LEGO Set'
"The plan is to fan this spark into a flame…" [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Teams Aim for the Moon This Year—and the $20 Million Google Lunar XPrize
They have to beat the December 31, 2017 deadline. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Improve any novel by changing its second line to, "And then the murders began". Also works with fortune cookies [Silly]
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Mental Floss » Women Can Visit Italy’s Museums for Free on International Women’s Day
Cultural sites around the country will also host talks and exhibits highlighting women. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ex-con behind controversial Nashville Bike Week dodges warrant, addresses accusations on rambling Facebook Live where he quotes Trump, threatens critics' credit scores & references NASCAR fraud, angry Loretta Lynn AND Gene Simmons [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Proposal: Introduce Samurai wasp to control stink bugs. Coming soon: Chinese needle snakes and gorillas [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Scientists Capture First Underwater Footage of Rare Beaked Whales
The True's beaked whale is one of the most elusive mammals in the ocean. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » After the BBC reports child porn on Facebook to the company, Facebook requests copies of the images before they'll discuss their moderation tools, then immediately reports the BBC to the police [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Want to fire a fully automatic submachine gun out a slightly open window of a small plane in flight? Then come to Florida my friend, come to Florida [Florida]
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Mental Floss » 'F' for Feminist: IMDb Adds New Movie Rating
Movies passing the Bechdel Test will soon be earmarked on the movie database site. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Study from the Institute of No shiat Sherlock says that regular sex makes life better [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » ♬ We are the champiYOOOWWWWWWWns ♬ My friend ♬ And we'll keep on fOOOOOOYOOOOOWWWWighting 'til the end ♬ [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Beans are neither fruit nor musical, but 64 restaurants in New Orleans have entered a bracket-style tournament to determine who makes the best in the city [Spiffy]
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Overheard In The Office » The Invisible Hand Of the Economy Is Full Of Chocolate Frosting
Attorney to departing secretary: If I had known you get cake when you leave, I would have quit years ago! Indiana Overheard by: If only we'd known sooner… [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Will and Mangesh
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Fark.com RSS » This day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone, immediately gets a busy signal [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » 20 Surprising Facts About ‘The Office’
Check out some behind-the-scenes anecdotes from one of BBC's most beloved comedies. [Link]
Weird Universe » Reciprocal Biomimicry Initiative
The latest from artist Jonathon Keats. He calls it the Reciprocal Biomimicry Initiative. The idea is to use human technologies to give a helping hand to various organisms stressed by environmental change, as a thank you for all the good ideas engineers have borrowed from the natural world over the years.
The exhibit is on display at Bucknell University's Samek … [Link]
Weird Universe » Fred and Barney Meet the Thing
A mashup no one ever asked for. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Oklahoma sheriff charged with corruption definitely looks the part [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Alexa, how do I remove a body from the hot tub? [Audio]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this mirrored sky [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » High School Teacher's Theory Frames 'The Wizard of Oz' as a Political Parable
Was the classic fairytale meant to be a metaphor for the Gilded Age? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Nothing to see here, just another terrifying "alien portal" opening up in the sky over USA's top-secret military research complex [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » THAAD shipped to South Korea, upsetting people in a half dozen countries. Man, that Thad is a jerk [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » About 10% of the pages in the Republican healthcare bill deal with how to prevent lottery winners from cheating Medicaid, and "Medicaid" and "lottery" are both mentioned 11 times in the bill. We waited 7 years for this [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » 10 Things You Might Not Know About Pancakes
There have been pancake races for more than 500 years. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Blacks make up almost 50% of exonerated criminals while being only around 13% of the population. Amature statisticalists point out all the flaws in the study to the right [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Trump has a problem with "bad hombres," but seems to be okay with pedophiles and the people who protect them, as long as they're white [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Most Americans think climate change is happening, just not to them [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Will and Mangesh
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Mental Floss » This Narwhal Tea Infuser Adds Some Piping Hot Charm to Your Mug
Narwhals normally like cold water, but this one also likes hot tea. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Don't you just hate it when you swallow a pregnant spider and it gives birth in your stomach and now the babies are crawling out of your mouth and you can feel all eight legs crawling around in your throat and oh, yeah, you dropped acid an hour a
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Strange and Lovely Dioramas
9 of the Strangest and Loveliest Dioramas You'll Ever See. They're all on display to the public, in case you want to see the real thing.
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Why Space Travel Can Be Absolutely Disgusting. Lack of gravity makes it hard to keep up with our waste products.
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Metal music still has an unaddressed Nazi problem. Even as just a … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Female visitors to Maine's state prisons will no longer have to to remove their bras to gain entrance. Pizza delivery guys still have to have sausage [Giggity]
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Mental Floss » The Truth About Moths and Clothing
Turns out we've been falsely accusing moths of wrongdoing. Their larvae, however … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here is why I left" [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » This Map Plans Your Next Road Trip Around America's Best Pinball Parlors
Visit 37 of the best pinball stops the country has to offer. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ever wanted a parking spot more expensive than your car? How about one more expensive than several cars combined? [Strange]
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Futility Closet » A Snow Dam
The Icelandic fishing village of Flateyri was devastated when an avalanche buried 17 homes in 1995. To guard against further trouble, they built an earthen dam in the shape of an enormous A. It worked: An avalanche struck the dam’s eastern wing in February 1999, and another struck the western wing the following March. Both were deflected harmlessly into the … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Australians are most likely to exaggerate about down under [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » This Mini Retirement Community in Japan Looks Like an Elf Village
When can we move in? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man selling mitten-shaped rock he found in Michigan lake for $150 because, well, Michigan [Strange]
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Mental Floss » 9 Little-Known Contributions to Medicine
Presented by National Geographic Channel. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Well, it's official now: open offices suck [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Pucker factor 10 [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Perfect example of a bad idea: Parking your 1959 Corvette at Walmart [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » "Dear motorcyclists, please refrain from jumping your bike over the Freeway. Sincerely, the California Highway Patrol" [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » There is bad at your job, and then there is running a zoo and having 486 animals die and having one of your zookeepers eaten by a tiger bad [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » TSA upgrades its pat-down protocol from "uncomfortable and creepy" to "sexual assault" [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » There are 19 British dishes that are scientifically proven to cure hangovers. Come for the fry-up, stay for the chip butty, and enjoy a nice cuppa while you're at it [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » Robot Lawyer Is Now Offering Free Help to Refugees
The same legal AI that got people out of parking tickets is now helping refugees coming to the U.S., Canada, and the UK. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5-Year-Old Edith Fuller Is the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s Youngest Speller Ever
Can you spell "victory"? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this cap adjustment [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Inside a Pickle Factory
As with any good proprietary recipe, the secret's in the sauce—or in the brine, according to Brooklyn Brine pickle company. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Tonight at 8PM ET Paul's Memory Bank continues its trip through the alphabet with 2 hours of songs beginning with the letter "D". Yours truly will be paying extra attention while the show is on in case Sophie the Cat decides to hork some
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Mental Floss » Why Planes Don’t Fly Any Faster Than They Did in the 1960s
Flights were actually shorter in 50 years ago. [Link]
Futility Closet » Good Luck
C. Wiltberger created this allegorical map of temperance in 1838 (click to enlarge). The goal is to get from the Ocean of Animal Appetite in the west to the Ocean of Eternity in the east. It would be natural enough to investigate Indulgence and Generosity Islands, but this will lead you to Evil Company Island, and once you’re through the … [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 Self-Defense Tips From Boxer Jack Dempsey, Circa 1950
"Even an innocent little baby can become a dangerous missile when its body weight is set into fast motion.” [Link]
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