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The Bizarre Story of Sir Alfred, The Stateless Man Who Lived at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris for 18 Years
Half as Interesting shares the bizarre story of Sir Alfred Mehran, an Iranian national who was rendered stateless due to his participation in protests against…
Improv Everywhere Transforms a Pair of Unused NYC Pay Phone Booths Into Outdoor Coworking Spaces
Charlie Todd and the NYC comedy collective Improv Everywhere hilariously took a disgusting pair of unusable pay phone booths at 24th Street and 6th Avenue…
Why New Yorkers Preferred a Less Attractive But Properly Scaled Subway Map Over a Modern Redesign
In August 1972, renowned Italian designer Massimo Vignelli created a beautifully modern streamlined map of the New York city subway that matched the forward thinking…
Stan Lee Thanks His Fans
Speaking of Stan Lee’s cameos…
An Enormous Ocean Sunfish Gets a Full Body Cleaning Using Fish That Happily Nibble Parasites Off Its Skin
Liz Bonnin traveled down deep into the waters of the Galápagos Islands and captured the rare sight of an enormous Mola Mola (ocean sunfish).
The Evolution of Stan Lee
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jeff Victor (@jeffvictorart) on Nov 12, 2018 at 11:17am PST The Evolution of Stan Lee by…
Stan Lee Opens Up About the Voracious Childhood Reading Habits That Led to His Marvel Storytelling
The late, great legendary comic creator Stan Lee sat down with the New York Times in 2017 and opened up about his early inspirations (including…
An Absolutely Stunning Classical Guitar Cover of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Performed in Its Entirety
Musician Nathan Mills of Beyond The Guitar who has performed amazing acoustic covers of songs from television and film performed a stunning classical guitar cover…
Wonderfully Whimsical Faces Made Out of Bread
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sabine Timm (@virgin_honey) on Nov 1, 2018 at 6:12am PDT Artist Sabine Timm has created a…
The New York Times Digitizes Over a Century’s Worth of Archival Photographs Into High Resolution Images
After a flood in 2015 that put a great deal of their archive at risk, The New York Times decided to digitize over a century’s…