- newBen & Jerry's maintains a Flavor Graveyard of discontinued ice cream products
You've heard of graveyards, where we ceremonially store human remains. But did you know that Ben & Jerry's ice cream company has a Flavor Graveyard for discontinued lines of its popular dairy snacks?Even the best Ben & Jerry's flavors eventually me…
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- newNixon gave Cyprus a piece of the moon. Then a coup made it disappear.
After Apollo 11, Richard Nixon had NASA make 250 commemorative plaques, each holding about four rice-sized specks of moon dust mounted next to a flag that had flown to the moon and back. In 1970, one went to Cyprus, along with all 135 other countries…
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- newUpgrade your PC with MS Office Pro Plus 2019 and Windows 11 Pro for just $26
TL;DR: Get MS Office Pro Plus 2019 and Windows 11 Pro for just $25.99 (reg. $428).If your PC is due for a system upgrade, why not also give your software a new look with The All-in-One Microsoft Office Pro 2019 for Windows: Lifetime License + Wind…
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- newCounty with 37 data centers tells schools to turn off lights to save electricity
Henrico County, Virginia, has asked its schools and government offices to cut power use as the local grid struggles to meet the power demands of its 37 data centers and considers the impact of 17 more under proposal.Matthew Gault of 404 Media acquir…
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- newA mystery DVD mailed from Poland hid coded threats in a plague doctor video
In October 2015, a Swedish tech blogger named Johny Krahbichler opened a package mailed from Warsaw: a DVD with a long alphanumeric code written on it, no return address, no explanation. When he played it, he found a two-minute black-and-white video…
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- newIn 1681, a mystery attacker who vanished instantly terrorized London
In 1681, women walking alone through the alleys around London's Fleet Street began getting attacked by a man who moved so fast, and vanished so completely, that people believed he had supernatural powers. He'd grab a woman, bend her over his knee, li…
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- new1930 film may be the first how-to video in history
Before we had HowToBasic, there was Count Etienne Louis Philippe Ścibor-Rylski. Back in 1930, this tutorial trailblazer created what could very well be the first how-to video in history, asking the viewer one simple question: Would you like to wear…
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- newGrandpa Pudding Brains describes recent chat with President Theodore Roosevelt, who died before he was born
The Orange Menace says he "had a conversation with Theodore Roosevelt" about the Panama Canal, which is a neat trick since Roosevelt died in 1919 and Trump was not born until 1946.So, now we're at the President openly describing recent conversations…
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- newThis neurological condition makes people deny their own limbs
Somatoparaphrenia is a rare delusion in which a person denies that one of their limbs, or an entire side of their body, belongs to them — even when shown direct proof. Patients don't just forget the limb is theirs; they invent an explanation for wh…
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- newThe myth that Catherine the Great died having sex with a horse, debunked
Catherine the Great, who modernized Russia during her reign, took about 22 lovers over her lifetime — enough to fuel a legend that outlived her by centuries: that she died attempting intercourse with a horse, crushed when the harness suspending the…
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