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Country Music Stars Reads Mean Tweets About Themselves on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Country music stars like Dolly Parton, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, and Jake Owen read mean tweets about themselves on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Cozy Handmade Cat Caves
Elevele is a small company in Vilnius, Lithuania that crafts wonderfully creative, cozy cat caves that keep the resident felines (small dogs too) feeling calm,…
A Woman Gives Birth While Enduring Constant Puns From Her Boyfriend
Tanya Ferguson gave birth while enduring constant puns from her boyfriend James Riley over the course of five days in 2015. Riley said he was…
MyElementals, Adorably Illustrated Creatures Who Embody the Elements of the Periodic Table
Fe – Iron Atomic # 26 Iron composes much of the earth's crust and has played such an important part in our lives. From raw…
A Thoughtful Service That Incorporates a Loved One’s Ashes Into Custom Ceramic Memorial Objects
Cremation Designs is a new company that offers the very thoughtful service of incorporating the ashes of a loved one into custom ceramic, memorial objects…
A Research System Developed to Smoke Cigarettes Like a Human With Lung Cells on a Chip
A team at Harvard‘s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has developed a research system that can smoke cigarettes like a human by passing smoke…
Wonderfully Imaginative Dioramic Sculptures Crafted From Vintage High-Heeled Shoes
A photo posted by The Art Of Costa Magarakis (@duckpirate) on Jun 4, 2016 at 6:46am PDT Israeli Artist Costa Magarakis has created a wonderfully…
Mesmerizing Timelapse Videos of Ants Eating Human Food Set to Random Stock Music
A colony of ants devour human food in timelapse footage in the web series Ants Eating Stuff Set to Random Stock Music. So far the…
Injured Motorcyclist Sends Heartfelt Goodbye Videos to His Family After Crash Along the Dragon’s Tail
On October 15, 2016, motorcyclist Kevin Diepenbrock hit a slippery stretch and crashed on the famous Dragon’s Tail in Deals Gap, North Carolina, about an…
The Surprisingly Long Histories of Expressions Commonly Used in the Modern Lexicon
For their incredibly informative etymological whiteboard series for Mental Floss , linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually explain the surprising historical…