Giant Sculptures Decorate North Dakota’s Enchanted Highway
(via Great Big Story) Along a 30-mile stretch of road in North Dakota, massive scrap metal sculptures seem to sprout
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Month: June 2016
Lava Lakes: The Exposed Guts of Volcanoes
(via Amusing Planet) Most volcanoes have a deep inner chamber of molten rocks, but this chamber is typically capped shut
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How a B-52 Stratofortress Holds a 35-Ton Load of Weaponry
(via Popular Mechanics and Smithsonian) The B-52 has been around for ages, and for good reason. Ever since its inception during
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These guys built the ‘World’s Largest Nerf Gun’
(via Tech Crunch) Bigger isn’t necessarily better when it comes to Nerf battles — but… well, this one wins. It’s
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Time-Lapse Footage of a Cruise Ship’s Construction
(via mental_floss) The footage shows cranes and pulleys assembling the AIDAprima—the new flagship of German cruise line AIDA Cruises—at the Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki,
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Crumbling Communist Murals of Soviet East Germany
(via Messy Nessy Chic) Until the final withdrawal in 1994, Russians occupied 777 barracks at more than 275 locations in the
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Where Dollars Die and are Reborn
(via Great Big Story) Turns out, your old dollars have a very green afterlife. When money gets too old and
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The Strange History of Microfilm, Which Will Be With Us for Centuries
(via Atlas Obscura) Microfiche, the plasticky film used to archive old print content, has a surprisingly diverse history—one that starts
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Ancient Greek Astronomy Computer may be 1,000 years Ahead of its Time
(via Motherboard) Since it was discovered in 1900 by divers off the Greek island of Antikythera, a complex clockwork device
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What It Feels Like 10,000 Feet Under the Sea
(via Great Big Story) Intense dark, intense pressure (literally) and certain death upon mechanical failure. Welcome to exploration in the
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Stunning network of carved WWI tunnels rediscovered in France
(via Daily Mail) The momentos of allied soldiers who fought the Germans in World War I have been discovered inside
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The Marine Who Spent 40 Hours Falling To Earth
(via Popular Mechanics) In the summer of 1959, Marine Corps Lt. Col. William Rankin was flying his Vought F-8 Crusader
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