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In 1962, a laughing fit spread through Tanzania for 18 months
In January 1962, three girls at a mission boarding school in Kashasha, Tanganyika, started laughing.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Earth falls into the Sun in 7.59 billion years, and it gets worse from there
Want to feel cosmically insignificant?
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Wikipedia’s “List of lists of lists” contains itself
Wikipedia has thousands of list articles.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
“This page intentionally left blank” has a 500-year history
You’ve seen it in exam booklets, government forms, and technical manuals: a page that says “This page intentionally left blank.” But the moment those…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A new biography of the novelist who exposed the Sicilian mafia
In 1986, Italian authorities built a fortified bunker inside a Palermo prison to hold the largest mafia trial in history.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Comedian Walter Masterson gives diaper to ICE-supporting Democratic congressman
New York Rep.
 • Grant St. Clair
“Kingdom Come: Deliverance” may get a surprise PS5 remaster
A mistakenly updated PlayStation Store listing suggests the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Warhorse’s sprawling, mind-boggingly deep historical…
 • Grant St. Clair
Fan-made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles test footage is really cool
We’ve gotten plenty of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies recently, including one that made a certain sect of culture warriors really, really mad, but…
 • Grant St. Clair
Dial-A-Poem is back, with the revolutionary poetry we all need right now
If you ever find yourself in need of a poem, I’ve got great news for you: Dial-A-Poem is back!
 • Jennifer Sandlin
Watch an extraordinary goat absolutely obliterating ice
The only ice I ever want to witness is the ice being obliterated by Levi, an extraordinary goat who lives at “No Regrets Farm” in Monroe, Oregon, and…
 • Jennifer Sandlin
An attempt to gut the Marine Mammal Protection Act
Congressman Nick Begich, a Republican representative from Alaska, introduced a bill in July 2025 that’ll drastically weaken the fifty year old Marine…
 • Jason Weisberger
The persistent myth of the California accent
The most powerful dialect in America isn’t loud, it’s default.
 • Jason Weisberger
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