fyi

It's been 15 years since the viral exchange between the mayor of Detroit and a "random dude in Massachussets" which ultimately led to this 11-foot tall bronze RoboCop statue that finally debuted two months ago!

one year ago

on this day

On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was

from the article about the 2016 trend

ohhh wait you guys weren't talking about american idol

it's pretty rare that i get recognized in public so i'll never forget the time i walked into a random bar and a stranger very respectfully tapped my shoulder to show me "small sausage in large sausage"

while anthropic secretly buys and destroys millions of books in hidden warehouses, let it be known that human staff at @archive.org carefully scan physical media by hand as always and there's literally a daily livestream because the process is so wonderful to watch!!!

ten years ago today no one clapped

i love the "public toilets in bratislava" article because it was written by one anonymous guy who took it upon himself to photograph every public toilet in bratislava

glitch

from wiktionary

via wiktionary

look what world war 2 took

on the "concertina wire" article

it has been 15 years since Malawi tried to outlaw farting ("fouling the air")! The story made international headlines, which led to media suppression in Malawi — one of the reasons for the 2011 Malawi Protests

it's the 26th anniversary of the single mother who worked hard to put food on her family

very good image from wikimedia commons. not currently used in any articles

regardless of where you land on copyright, you gotta hand it to Wikipedia credit for maintaining such (excessively) cautious case-by-case approach to potential copyright violations while AI companies are out here looting every last speck of human creativity with near impunity

thanks wikipedia

There were no good photos of old Breath Savers packaging so a Wikipedia editor created this digital illustration. I'm not EXACTLY sure why the background is this random dwarf planet but I think I quite like it

47 years ago today!

via wiktionary

crazy etymology

love that the border between brooklyn and queens is some random rock

imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago

it's a good day to revisit my favorite sentence from the article on julia roberts

imagine dying to death and being asked to solve math puzzles for your last words. for one man, this was no mere hypothetical