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Playing Against Type: The Typewriter Orchestra

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

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Agloe: A Fake Town That Became Real

April 7, 2017March 29, 2017 0 Comments maps, trademarks

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

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Top 10 facts you never knew about St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2017March 7, 2017 0 Comments holiday

(via Irish Central)  St. Patrick’s Day is the one day a year where everyone is a little bit Irish. In

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10 Shamrock Shake Facts for St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2017February 21, 2017 0 Comments holiday

(via mental_floss) Many people overdo it with the drinking today — for those of us who abstain from alcohol there

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The Man Who Was Godzilla

March 16, 2017March 10, 2017 0 Comments movies, pop culture

(via Great Big St0ry)  Haruo Nakajima is perhaps Japan’s most famous actor, but you wouldn’t necessarily recognize his face. That’s

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Happy Pi Day 2017

March 14, 2017March 14, 2017 0 Comments fun, holiday, mathematics

(via The Mirror) Math lovers – this is your day. March 14 – or 3/14 – is Pi Day in

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19 Things You Might Not Know Were Invented in Canada

March 10, 2017February 27, 2017 0 Comments

(via mental_floss)  The good people of Canada are responsible for many inventions you use every day. Especially if you’re someone

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14 Facts About ‘Where’s Waldo?’

February 13, 2017February 2, 2017 0 Comments art, books, craft, design

(via mental_floss)  The objective of each Where’s Waldo? book is simple enough: comb through the crowds of people to find

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Meet Keon – the dog with the world’s longest tail

February 10, 2017January 27, 2017 0 Comments animals, dogs, records

(via Guinness World Records) You have to watch out when Keon the Irish wolfhound starts wagging: he has the world’s

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The Myth of the Damsel on the Railroad Tracks

January 31, 2017January 24, 2017 0 Comments art, cinema, movies

(via Atlas Obscura) Most people are familiar with that most clichéd of old cinema tropes: the damsel-in-distress, tied to the railroad tracks by

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New Exhibit Celebrates the Lost Art of the Screensaver

January 31, 2017January 23, 2017 0 Comments are, creativity, digital, technology

(via Motherboard)  Long before “let’s play” videos had us watching someone else play a video game, we watched a Windows

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15 Awfully Big Facts About ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’

January 26, 2017January 26, 2017 0 Comments television

(via mental_floss) Loyal viewers who grew up watching the independent, intelligent, and perky career woman named Mary Richards always knew

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