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Incredibly Detailed Pretzel Art
A post shared by Pretzel Factory Langhorne (@ppflanghorne) on Oct 25, 2017 at 9:11am PDT Brothers Brian Kean and Shaun Kean, who own the Langhorne,…
How the Insecurity of Imposter Syndrome Makes Incredibly Successful People Feel Inferior to Others
In a Ted-Ed lesson written by educator Elizabeth Cox and animated by Gerta Xhelo, narrator Christina Greer talks about “Imposter Syndrome”, a crippling sense self-doubt…
A Clever Hammer That Auto-Dispenses Its Own Nails
Freelance automotive and product designer Michael David Young has spent the past six years perfecting the design of his incredibly clever “Hammer with Collated Nail…
How the Words Used For Numbers in Languages Around the World Often Have Anatomical Roots
In a numenary episode of their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss, linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually explain how…
Bookstore and Library Customers Around the World Pose to Visually Complete Book Cover Images
A post shared by The New York Public Library (@nypl) on Aug 24, 2018 at 10:23am PDT Taking inspiration from the wonderful Librairie Mollat photo…
A Giant Swarm of Overheated Honey Bees Descend Upon a Times Square Hot Dog Cart Umbrella
An incredible heat wave hitting New York City during this last week of August has caused most sentient beings in the area searching for cooler…
A Terrifying Cthulhu Carved From a Watermelon
The very talented Italian sculptor Valeriano Fatica expertly carved a watermelon into a deliciously terrifying replica of the famously facially tentacled H.P. Lovecraft creature Cthulhu.…
World Record Holder Woman Limbos Under an Airport Seat While Waiting For Her Flight Home
While waiting at Philadelphia International Airport for a flight back to her home in Buffalo, New York, two-time limbo Guinness World Record holder Shemika Campbell…
Restored 1934 Footage of a Gathering of 375 Victorian Couples Married for 50 or More Years
Guy Jones (previously) skillfully restored vintage 1934 Movietone footage of a Long Beach, California gathering of 375 couples who were married during the Victorian era,…
How Burning Man Nurtures the Kind of Interactive Primal Artwork Created Solely For the Sake of Art
Nora Atkinson, the craft curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum‘s Renwick Gallery, gave an insightful TED talk to a Vancouver audience about the art…