The Brilliant ‘Special Effects’ Used By Silent Movies
(via digg) These days, you can do pretty much anything with CGI . But back in the early days of
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Month: December 2020
How Stephen King’s Wife Saved ‘Carrie’ and Launched His Career
(via mental_floss) When King started Carrie, he typed three single-spaced pages, crumpled them up in anger, and dumped them in
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8 Sparkling Facts About Champagne
(via Mental Floss) Strictly speaking, champagne is a sparkling wine that comes from the Champagne region of northeastern France. If
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Sunomata Castle: The Castle That Was Built on a Single Night
(via Amusing Planet) Sunomata Castle stands at the confluence of the Sai and Nagara rivers, in the city of Ōgaki
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Ninety Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2020
(via Smithsonian) This year’s most intriguing discoveries, according to Smithsonian Magazine, include an Aztec skull tower, fossilized footprints and Nazi
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18 Old-Timey Words and Terms to Use On New Year’s Eve
(via Mental Floss) New Year’s Eve is looking a little different this year. Spice things up at your Zoom shindig
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Meet the Team Racing to Break the World’s Land-Speed Record in a Jet-Powered Car
(via Smithsonian) 800 MPH in a Jet-Powered Car – Bloodhound LSR rides the highway to the danger zone.
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15 New Year’s food traditions from around the world
(via The Week) There are lots of edible traditions around the holiday of New Year’s hailing from all over the
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25 Fascinating Facts About Fossils
(via Mental Floss) Did you know that the common definition of a a Fossil requires that it be 10,000 years
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Why Does Some Food Taste Better as Leftovers?
(via Atlas Obscura) The strange truth about leftovers is that they often taste better the next day. It seems counter-intuitive:
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The Italian Immigrants Who Grew Fig Trees in Unlikely Places
(via Atlas Obscura) A grassroots group is creating a living library of these backyard gardens.
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25 Offbeat Holidays You Can Celebrate in January
(via Mental Floss) Though the official end-of-year “holiday season” is not quite over, January is chock-full of very fun, very
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