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9,000 people a year hunt a gold mine that geology says can't exist
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Trade loud, addictive screen time for Montessori-inspired Pok Pok, just $59.99 for lifetime access
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The best Mario Kart build is an economics problem from 1900
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Trump's mass deportation machine is a $1.4 billion private-prison bonanza
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Viking lander's 1976 Mars soil test may have found life after all
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Elon Musk has all the rhythm of an Austin Powers villain
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Texas' Ken Paxton somehow gets even sleazier
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Dogs on Ice are beyond adorable
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The Tainted Cup gets the fantasy detective novel exactly right
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1991 Mars Bar highlights shrinkflation and inflation alike
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SwifDoo PDF Pro handles your PDF headaches for $30 for life
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How Blackwing pencils (and Hagamoro Fulltouch chalk) are made
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UK government spent £85,300 removing a Banksy mural
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A Japanese lord spent 20 years drawing snowflakes under a microscope
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A complaint about bad wine left 93 dead and Oxford paying for 470 years
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San Francisco exempted two stray dogs from its own laws
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UK pub density map
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One hobbyist named cirrus, cumulus, and stratus back in 1803
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This 1967 short film got video chat and online banking right
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Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico
Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico Ellsworth Toohey 9:30 am Sat Aug 8, 2026 GPS jamming…
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A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay
A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay Ellsworth Toohey 9:45 am Sat Aug 8, 2026 Hiroshima blast…
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The sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirling
The sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirling Ellsworth Toohey 9:15 am Sat Aug 8, 2026 Kelvin-Helmholtz…
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Mars dust is full of perchlorates, silica, and heavy metals
The panel included toxicologists, volcanologists, geologists, and habitat designers, and NASA asked them to set a…
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Roku launches 24 hour AI slop channel
Roku launches 24 hour AI slop channel Rob Beschizza 8:05 am Sat Aug 8, 2026 Now you can immerse yourself completely in…
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Why Osaka and Tokyo keep landing in the world's top 10 cities
Why Osaka and Tokyo keep landing in the world's top 10 cities Ellsworth Toohey 5:00 am Sat Aug 8, 2026 Japan's most…
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Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center
Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center Jason Weisberger 12:27 pm Fri Aug 7,…
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Can you guess Rock Hard's branding problem?
Jason Weisberger 12:06 pm Fri Aug 7, 2026 Enriscapes / Shutterstock.com Los Angeles' stiffest self-proclaimed…
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Never lose your wallet again with this $32 smart tracker
The KeySmart SmartCard is a credit-card-thin, IPX8 waterproof, rechargeable smartcard that works with Apple Find My or…
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Mark Twain wrote a story in 1898 that describes the internet
Clayton, a hot-tempered army officer, is accused of killing Szczepanik, the inventor of a machine called the…
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Meta pays 16.2 million accounts, including neo-Nazi-linked pages
Meta pays 16.2 million accounts, including neo-Nazi-linked pages Ellsworth Toohey 6:00 am Fri Aug 7, 2026 Facebook…
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A Dutch doctor translated acupuncture through four languages
Ten Rhijne was living at Dejima, the artificial island off Nagasaki that was the only piece of Japan open to Europeans…
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A Kentucky water tower says "Y'all" because of a legal problem
When it went up in 1974 it read FLORENCE MALL. The developers had given the city the land for the tower on the…
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Take a seat and watch the trailer to Primetime
Take a seat and watch the trailer to Primetime Rob Beschizza 5:08 am Fri Aug 7, 2026 Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen…
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Hear what the Odyssey may have sounded like as a song
Danek teaches at the University of Vienna and Hagel is at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. What they recorded is…
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AI self-checkout bills a snack run at $8.5 billion
At the bottom, the machine offered to take a card or cash. "I just wanted a hot dog," the shopper wrote on Reddit in a…
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When five men tried to murder "Iron Mike" with increasingly poisonous drinks
Speakeasy owner Tony Marino gave Malloy an unlimited tab. Malloy drank most of his waking hours and stayed upright.…
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The world's most dangerous golf hole is surrounded by minefields
The world's most dangerous golf hole is surrounded by minefields Ellsworth Toohey 11:00 am Thu Aug 6, 2026 Camp…
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The thin blue line encounters an unfamiliar last name
The thin blue line encounters an unfamiliar last name Jason Weisberger 10:56 am Thu Aug 6, 2026 Image: MAGA follower;…
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Every country was wrong on the State Department's map of Africa
Every country was wrong on the State Department's map of Africa Ellsworth Toohey 9:45 am Thu Aug 6, 2026 State…
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Polymarket let gamblers bet on whether wildfire would reach Santa Monica
The potential for a bettor to help their wager along is horrifying. The senators are not claiming that anyone has…
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A whaling museum printed its worst review on a hoodie. It sold out
A whaling museum printed its worst review on a hoodie. It sold out Ellsworth Toohey 10:30 am Thu Aug 6, 2026 New…
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In 1982, a 27-year-old man lost a gunfight with a cactus
In 1982, a 27-year-old man lost a gunfight with a cactus Jason Weisberger 10:22 am Thu Aug 6, 2026 Image: Yosemite Sam…
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Tesla headlights were twice as bright as legal
Two years later the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said no, reports The Drive. Tesla argued the excess…
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