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• New Study Promises To Lay Mystery Of Piltdown Man To Rest

  

  image credit It was a hoax that fooled some of the most eminent minds and has remained unsolved for 100 years. Now scientists believe they can finally put to... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 SCIENCE

• 12 Letters That Didn't Make The Alphabet

  

  You know the alphabet. It's one of the first things you're taught in school. But did you know that they're not teaching you all of the alphabet? Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Google60

  

  What Google would have looked like in the 1960s. This brings back memories of the time I used to work with a computer that used punched cards. Use the letters o... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 RANDOM

• The Only Christmas Song To Hit #1 On The Charts

  Here's your question of the day: What's the only Christmas song to hit #1 on the pop charts? Did you guess Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas?' 'Rudolph the... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 RANDOM

• 10 Intimate Snapshots Of Nurses Stationed In Vietnam

  

  image credit The 1960s were an exciting time for women's liberation. The second wave of feminism was well under way, and women were freer than ever. Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 HISTORY, SOCIETY

• Falling Dominoes

  

  Don't have time to setup your own dominoes game? Just get the bottle rolling and enjoy the falling dominoes fun. It's actually a Coca Cola advertisement. There'... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 RANDOM

• A View Of Paris In 1878... From The Air

  

  image credit Frenchman Henri Giffard was the creator of the first powered flying machine - a steam powered airship. By the time these photographs of Paris were... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Amazing Crap-O-Matic Gift Generator

  

  Last Wednesday I linked to Apocalymas, the Christmas of the Apocalypse with 12 days of content. This was one of their surprises, the amazing, revolutionary,... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 RANDOM

• God Save The Eight-Track

  

  image credit Bucks Burnett is the eight-track tape's patron saint: Since the beginning of his obsession in the late '80s, Burnett has become the eight-track's... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Spectacular Road Trains In The Australian Outback

  Having worked in the transportation business for almost 34 years, I absolutely like the sight of road trains. Here is some spectacular footage of road trains... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 RANDOM

• 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chameleons

  

  image credit Any animal that can change colours and look in two directions at once is worth learning more about. Armed with a tongue you have to see to... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• 11 Unique Space Inflatables

  

  image credit Inflatables are an obvious choice for space vehicles and satellites, a small sized payload than can be inflated once up, yet for some reason they... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 SCIENCE, TECH

• Alaska - Uncharted Waters

  Video artist Devin Supertramp (real name Devin Graham) traveled to uncharted rivers in Alaska for his latest masterpiece. He and his crew flew boat airplanes... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Plants That Fruits Come From

  

  image credit In botany, a fruit is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, one or more ovaries, and in some cases accessor... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Why Is New York City Called The Big Apple?

  

  image credit New York City has been called many things - 'The Great American Melting Pot,' 'Gotham,' 'The City that Never Sleeps' - but its most famous nickname... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Celebrities You'd Never Guess Studied To Be Accountants

  

  image credit Accountancy has an undeserved reputation for being an uncreative field, but when it comes to balancing the books, it seems that inspiration can... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Why The World Didn't End Yesterday

  Yesterday? Didn't we agree that the world is going to end next week! Yes, we did. But NASA is so convinced that the world won't end on December 21, 2012, that... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Bomb Sight Project

  

  is mapping the London World War 2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only by viewing in the Reading Room at The National... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• I Yam What I Yam: The Story Of Popeye

  

  image credit What cartoon character was so influential that he convinced kids to eat vegetables? Popeye the Sailor Man... Toot toot! Here's the story of how... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted

  

  Just as there is nothing certain in this world but death and taxes, there is nothing certain in language but that it will change, and that people will react... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 HUMOR, LANGUAGES, RANDOM