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If you’re watching a murder mystery, and in the first five minutes you meet a super suspicious character who’s clearly lying about their alibi, you’re …
Jul 21Comment 6Share
Fun fact, leprosy doesn’t cause stuff to just drop off, it just stops you feeling pain. So you accidentally injure yourself a lot, don't take your hand…
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Charles Darwin, in a letter: "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything. I am going to write a little book on orchid…
Jun 23Comment 43Share
You know Joseph Haydn, big name Viennese composer, born in 1732, died in an era when people believed you could figure out someone’s personality by the …
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Disillusionment, metamorphosis and a tiger with a gold tooth. Also, tips for making really difficult big life decisions
May 26Comment 23Share
Two Greek words for ‘fear’ (which I wish we had), the best icy pole in the world, top-notch lizard news, the earliest person whose name we know, there …
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“In fact, they believe there may be as many as 150 million dead mammoths frozen beneath the Siberian tundra just waiting to be dug up.” Also, Victorian…
Apr 28Comment 26Share
I love petty resentments and cutting insults, but since I’m basically a nice person, I only ever feel comfortable enjoying them when they’re directed a…
Apr 14Comment 26Share
"Stop calling yourself salmon!" splutters furious Taiwanese official. Real Ferries Bueller vibes. Also in this issue: a neolithic gravesite, struggleca…
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Vampires in folklore and fiction, systemetised. A mouse-muscles fact. Self-decapitating seaslug. Small tip for focusing at work. The thing about ventur…
Mar 10Comment 14Share
Ancient artistic fuckups, a weird amount of iceberg content, and dealing with the “I can’t start any tasks because I have an appointment in 5 hours” pr…
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L—R: The hedjet, the White Crown of Upper Egypt, the deshret, the Red Crown of Lower Egypt, the pschent, the Double Crown of unified Egypt.
Feb 10Comment 18Share
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