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a daily dose of unique and curious things
An Impressive Live Cover of the Dick Dale Surf Song ‘Misirlou’ by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
While headlining at the Sydney Opera House in 2012, the incredibly talented musicians of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (previously) performed an impressive and…
An Old-Timey Banjolele Cover of the Classic They Might Be Giants Song ‘Birdhouse In Your Soul’
Tweed-wearing, banjolele-playing musician Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq., who previously had No More F***s to give and played a completely fitting original song dedicated to the…
Photorealistic Colored Pencil Drawings of Cat Faces
View this post on Instagram A post shared by ?? ?? ? (@haruru125_art) Haruki Kudo, a 20 year old artist in Japan, creates incredibly photorealistic…
How Aluminum Cans Are Made
An interesting clip from the Discovery series “How It’s Made” shows how aluminum cans are cut, shaped, and formed through an automated process that starts…
A 30 Minute Dance Party Featuring a Compilation of Cyriak’s Old School Animations With His Cat As the DJ
Animator Cyriak Harris, whose many wonderfully odd projects we’ve written about, decided to celebrate his reaching two million subscribers on YouTube with an incredibly surreal…
Affectionate Kangaroo Gives His Human a Giant Hug
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Twosongssanctuary (@twosongssanctuary) A truly affectionate kangaroo named Erik who lives at Two Songs Sanctuary (previously) in…
A Personal Dual Chambered Whiskey & Water Decanter
The Personal Whiskey & Water Decanter available at Uncommon Goods (previously) is a handy dual-chambered glass globe that pours the correct flavor-enhancing ratio of water…
A Compilation of 1960s Kids Cereal Commercials
Retro gaming channel haikarate4 posted a nostalgic compilation of classic animated commercials from the 1960s for a variety of kids cereals. Included in this list…
A Creepy Clown Hotel That’s Located Right Next to a Ghostly Mining Cemetery in Tonopah, Nevada
View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Clown Motel (@theclownmotelusa) The Clown Motel in Tonopah, Nevada is an aptly described place of…
The Internet Archive Demonstrates How They Digitize Books in Their Collection One Page at a Time
In honor of digitizing more than 2 million books, the Internet Archive (previously) employee Eliza Zhang demonstrates the wonderful binding-saving manner in which these books…