The two first met in 2016 when Dench, from Mesa, Az., sent a text inviting Hinton over for dinner. It was meant for her grandson, who had changed his phone number. Instead, Hinton, who was 17 at the time, got… Read More ›
Misc
“I’m off to bed”
“I’m off to bed” – Translation: I’m off to lie down and worry about the future and also to worry about every mistake I’ve ever made, no matter how great or small, and to go over all the embarrassing moments… Read More ›
How Luggage is Loaded Into an Airplane
Reading through the Reddit comments thread on the subject was illuminating, as people who have had this job elaborated on it. There’s a reason he limbers up in the beginning, and lays down when he can: The job is murder… Read More ›
Electric classic car conversions
While aesthetically beautiful, classic cars have a reputation for being unreliable and bad for the environment. That’s why companies like UK-based Lunaz are converting these old automobiles to electric vehicles (EVs). It says it can give cars like this 1950s… Read More ›
Telescopefish
Telescopefish are solitary, active predators, frequenting the mesopelagic to bathypelagic zones of the water column, from 500 to 3,000m… More here. What a amazing looking creature.
The Strange Drop in American Body Temperatures Over The Past 200 Years
Early last year, researchers in the United States combed Civil War veteran records and national health surveys and found temperatures among men born at the turn of this century were 0.59 degrees Celsius cooler than those men born around two… Read More ›
Secondhand Markets Out Of Control
What do old watches and used cars have in common? (Hint: Inflation). Genuinely educational video which is very clearly explained.
Mind bent
TikTok user Beatonthebeeb was able to break down the illusion by taking the cars out of the context of the photo and lining them up next to each other, revealing that they were in fact all the same size. The… Read More ›
Ads of the Past That Would be BANNED Today
This is the 1st in our series of Ads of the Past that would be BANNED if they were used TODAY. It’s amazing just how different our perspectives of the world were just in the last century. If you are… Read More ›
How the Microwave Was Invented by Accident
At 12 he got a job at the spool mill one town over. At 14 Spencer got hired to install electricity at the nearby paper mill. A few years later he was so inspired by the heroic actions of the… Read More ›
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