November 2017 - Curious Links

The Rise of Vertical Cemeteries

(via Amusing Planet) According to the Population Reference Bureau, there are approximately 101 billion dead people on earth with 7

(via How Stuff Works) “It would have been harder to fake it than to do it,” astronaut Neil Armstrong once said.

(via Mental Floss) You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, and by now you certainly know Rudolph as

(via Oddee and YouTube) Scottish artist Ewan McClure decided that painting a photo of himself was much too easy so

(via Neatorama) Impressionist painter Claude Monet changed the way people see the world – even when he could no longer

(via History Things) You don’t have to look much further than a piece of Medieval art to know that it

(via Oddee) Our world is filled with mind-boggling and spectacular places. It’s quite easy to be stuck in our own

(via Today I Found Out) The idea that the secret formula for Coca-Cola is only known by two people who

(via NPR) Once, bookmaking was an art as refined and distinct as the writing it presents. And in some places,

(via Today I Found Out) Ivory has been producing their uniquely floating soap for the well over a century now

(via Atlas Obscura) John Cerasulo’s commercial art features landscapes, flowers, and melancholy dogs in sweaters.

(via Amusing Planet) Highway M-185 in the U.S. state of Michigan, is the safest road in America because it is