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Morgen Jahnke
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Royal de Luxe: Interesting Thing of the Day
Art & Design – This street theater group based in Nantes, France, has become world-renowned for its incredible productions involving giant marionettes.
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Voted for on April 16, 2007 03:10am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks
Tulipomania
Books – Odd as it may sound, tulips were a hot commodity in the Netherlands during the mid-17th century. Like the modern stock market, this speculative trade was subject to the economic effects of supply and demand, with sometimes devastating results.
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Voted for on April 16, 2007 03:04am
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Polyphasic Sleep
Health & Fitness – Proponents of polyphasic sleep---the practice of sleeping for shorter periods of time throughout the day rather than in one long block of time at night---argue that they can be just as productive on a lot less sleep. There may be benefits to this type of schedule in the short term, though it can become problematic if followed for a longer duration.
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Voted for on April 16, 2007 02:54am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 2 votes / No sinks
Six YouTube Videos Featuring Entertaining Automatons
Gadgets & Tech – From the performance of a kooky monkey band to the elegant movements of a swan automaton built in 1773, these creative mechanical devices are fascinating to watch in action.
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Voted for on March 21, 2007 08:38pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 3 votes / No sinks
Nine Things To Do While Stranded in an Airplane
Travel – As a response to the recent troubling instances of passengers being stranded on planes during storm conditions, here is a list of humorous suggestions for how to pass the time.
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Voted for on March 21, 2007 08:20pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / 1 sink
Seven Common Myths About St. Patrick
Religion – That story about getting rid of all the snakes in Ireland isn't the only thing about St. Patrick that might be a myth. According to some sources, he wasn't Irish, or even Catholic!
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Voted for on March 16, 2007 12:02am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks
The Tongue-Eating Louse
Science – This parasite, a type of crustacean, attaches itself to the tongue of a certain kind of fish and eventually becomes a replacement for the fish's original tongue.
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Voted for on March 12, 2007 06:17pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 2 votes / No sinks
Chinooks: Interesting Thing of the Day
Science – A meteorological phenomenon that can bring extreme temperature changes within a short period of time, chinook winds are created when warm, wet winds blow from the Northwest coast of North America over the Rockies.
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Voted for on March 12, 2007 06:10pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks
12 Hotels Made of Ice
Travel – Just a few years ago, it was a novelty found only in Sweden: a hotel built entirely out of ice.The original Ice Hotel is still a hot (well, cold) property but now imitators have sprung up all over the world.
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Voted for on March 04, 2007 12:35am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 2 votes / No sinks
My 12 Favorite Signs in Hong Kong
Travel – Hong Kong has a variety of interesting sights, including creative and sometimes cryptic street signs.
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Voted for on March 04, 2007 12:19am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 3 votes / No sinks
Non-Newtonian Fluids
Science – When does a liquid act like a solid? When it's a non-Newtonian fluid, a liquid that acts like a solid when pressure is applied to it.
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Voted for on March 04, 2007 12:13am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks
15 Absurdly Expensive Things You Can Buy on Amazon.com
Shopping – Yes, you really can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars with a single click!
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Voted for on February 24, 2007 07:19pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks
Seven TV Shows That Died an Untimely Death
Television – Some of the best shows ever on television were cancelled prematurely.
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Voted for on February 24, 2007 07:19pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks
Entomophagy: Insects as food (Interesting Thing of the Day)
Food – Don't think of mosquitos, water bugs, crickets, and other bugs as pests. Think of them as food! A surprising number of people do, and not just in remote, undeveloped places. Bug-eating is on its way to becoming mainstream cuisine.
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Voted for on February 24, 2007 07:19pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks
Six and Three-Quarters Ways to Run Windows on a Mac
Gadgets & Tech – If you want to have your cake and eat it too, try one of these six (or seven or eight, depending on how you count) ways to run Windows and Mac OS X on the same computer.
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Voted for on February 24, 2007 07:18pm
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