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Boing Boing, July 13, 2026
From medieval swears to sugar in deep space
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Boing Boing
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A tick bite can make you allergic to meat, and cases are climbing
A tick bite can make you become allergic to hamburgers.
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Ellsworth Toohey
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In 1999, a hoaxter claimed he could fit a whole movie in one kilobyte
In 1995, a Dutch television repairman named Jan Sloot claimed he had cracked something impossible: a way to store an entire feature film in a single…
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Ellsworth Toohey
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She fell out of the sky on Christmas Eve. The jungle was only the beginning.
Juliane Koepcke survived a plane breaking apart at 10,000 feet on Christmas Eve, woke up alone in the Peruvian Amazon, and then had to do the only thing…
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Jason Weisberger
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Sherpa left for dead on Everest tells his story
The mountain marked him dead. He disagreed.
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Jason Weisberger
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CDs are back because streaming made music feel disposable
Streaming’s TOS somehow makes “everything” feel like nothing.
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Jason Weisberger
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In 1907, a sailor watched the North Atlantic mysteriously change color forever
One sailor saw the sea change color and never change back
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Jason Weisberger
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Florence hospital staff are used to tourists collapsing from beauty
Staff at Florence’s Santa Maria Nuova hospital are accustomed to tourists arriving with dizzy spells and disorientation after viewing Michelangelo’s…
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Erika Kirk rallies her “happy warriors” against trans people, Muslims, and “whoever else”
The buttons are imaginary, but Kirk’s contempt is not.
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Jason Weisberger
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Tourist yeeted by Yellowstone bison not at fault, for once
Yellowstone tourons, AKA tourist/morons, regularly get stomped, gored, and launched into the air by bison when disregarding the rules and disrespecting…
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Gail P Sherman
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Letting video game NPCs place Amazon orders for you is not a good idea
Gang leader Dutch van der Linde spends much of the runtime of Rockstar’s 2018 masterpiece Red Dead Redemption 2 fretting about money.
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Grant St. Clair
Mind reading a mind reader is a dangerous game
Mind-reading is one of those superpowers that’s only good if you’re the only person who has it.
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Grant St. Clair
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