April 2017 - Page 4 of 5

Now There’s an Armageddon-Proof Library to Go With Norway’s Doomsday Seed Bank

(via Popular Mechanics)Way up north in Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Bank is a repository for the world’s most important

(via Popular Mechanics) Who ever said collections are for suckers? Tank collector Nick Mead literally struck gold. After purchasing an

(via Live Science) On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first

April 11, 2017April 5, 2017 0 Comments fun, music, odd

(via Great Big Story) The Boston Typewriter Orchestra is making mechanical typewriters “sing” again. Since 2004, this six-man ensemble has

April 11, 2017April 3, 2017 0 Comments history

(via Atlas Obscura) In 1909, a section of Woodward Ave. in Detroit was paved, a mile stretch that was not

April 11, 2017April 3, 2017 0 Comments fun, unusual

(via mental_floss) While drive-through windows are often found attached to fast food restaurants and banks, sometimes unlikely businesses also tempt

April 10, 2017April 5, 2017 0 Comments meme, web

(via Great Big Story) Before dank memes, Reddit trolls, hacktivism, there was Michael Girard and Robert Lurye. Don’t recognize those

(via mental_floss) On this day in 1970 Paul McCartney announced the breakup of the Beatles. The legendary rock band, remembered for

(via Popular Mechanics) In towns that have hundreds of citizens to cities that have hundreds of thousands, residents of Earth

April 7, 2017March 30, 2017 0 Comments odd

(via Amusing Planet) In 1737, the scientist Galileo Galilei’s body was exhumed and reburied in full honor in the main body

(via Amusing Planet) In the 1930s, a small town named Agloe suddenly began appearing on the maps of New York.

(via mental_floss) Puppetry has been a form of entertainment since at least ancient Greece, carried on through the antics of