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Boing Boing, July 13, 2026
From medieval swears to sugar in deep space
 • Boing Boing
A tick bite can make you allergic to meat, and cases are climbing
A tick bite can make you become allergic to hamburgers.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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…
 • Jason Weisberger
Sherpa left for dead on Everest tells his story
The mountain marked him dead. He disagreed.
 • Jason Weisberger
CDs are back because streaming made music feel disposable
Streaming’s TOS somehow makes “everything” feel like nothing.
 • Jason Weisberger
In 1907, a sailor watched the North Atlantic mysteriously change color forever
One sailor saw the sea change color and never change back
 • Jason Weisberger
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…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Erika Kirk rallies her “happy warriors” against trans people, Muslims, and “whoever else”
The buttons are imaginary, but Kirk’s contempt is not.
 • Jason Weisberger
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…
 • Gail P Sherman
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.
 • 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.
 • Grant St. Clair
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