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10 Surprising Uses for Coffee That Don’t Involve Drinking It

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(via Mental Floss) For the people who manage to make it through each day without tossing back cup after cup

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(via Mental Floss) Devo and Thomas Pynchon. Mick Jagger and Charles Baudelaire. Though they seem like rather unlikely pairings, many

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(via Atlas Obscura) The complicated lineage of our ubiquitous decks.

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(via Mental Floss) According to the National UFO Reporting Center, there have been more than 4000 UFO sightings so far

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(via Great Big Story) Jim Sanborn created a sculpture containing a secret message. It sits on the grounds of CIA

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(via Mental Floss) Whether you’re a Jaws fanatic or just want to live every week like it’s Shark Week, you’ll

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(via Amusing Planet) The salinity difference, caused by the railway causeway across the lake, has created two different ecosystems on

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(via Mental Floss) The hulking Hoover Dam has been holding back the Colorado River and generating power since 1936, but

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(via Mental Floss) Soon, you’ll be able to spritz yourself with perfume that smells like a mixture of gunpowder, seared

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(via Listverse) The world is filled with police and paramilitary vehicles that are unbelievably fast, incredibly durable, or just straight-up

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(via The Atlantic) Fluff. The sticky sweet marshmallow creme was invented exactly one hundred years ago in Somerville, Massachusetts—at the

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(via Smithsonian) Stone tools scattered on the seafloor mark the oldest underwater site ever found on the continent.