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Why tomato sauce stains plastic, and the 30-second fix
Warm water, grease-cutting dish soap, and a crumpled paper towel lift out the lycopene that bonds to plastic when hot leftovers open its pores.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The messy-bedroom explanation of entropy is wrong
Physicist Rhett Allain uses three dice to show why heat flows from hot to cold, a matter of probability across 216 possible outcomes.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The smallest car ever made had no reverse gear
The Peel P50 was built on the Isle of Man from 1962 to 1965, and one sold at Sotheby's in 2016 for $176,000.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The Egyptian temple carving that looks like a giant lightbulb
The hieroglyphs around it describe a gold statue four palms tall, and no dig at Dendera has ever found a glass shard or filament.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Two brothers filled a Harlem brownstone with 140 tons of stuff
The Collyer brothers died in their own hoard. Langley was crushed by a booby trap he built himself.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In 1984, an anonymous poster said a Pink Floyd album hid a prize. Nobody ever found it
The band spelled ENIGMA PUBLIUS in stage lights in New Jersey, and the unclaimed prize was to have been a grove of trees.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boy George's Pro-Israel AI Slop Reggae Song was Promotional Stunt for Playing Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar
Manager Paul Kemsley announced on Instagram that the singer will no longer appear in the West End production after releasing "We Will Dance Again.
 • Rob Beschizza
Unpublished novel's $2.4m deal pulled over AI concerns
Foreign rights agent Sandy Hodgman withdrew the Minotaur/Macmillan manuscript after publishers couldn't authenticate how the writing evolved.
 • Rob Beschizza
YouTube crackles down on ASMR content
Six creators including ItsBunniiASMR, whose channel had 227,000 subscribers, were terminated for violating sex and nudity policies.
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, July 31, 2026
Facial-recognition bouncers, stolen cannonballs, and honeycomb polygons on Mars
 • Boing Boing

July 2026

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