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Boing Boing, June 18, 2026
Honey mummies, a phantom killer, MAD at 600
 • Boing Boing
In 1986, a Cameroonian lake released a CO2 cloud that killed 1,746 people overnight
On the night of 21 August 1986, Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon released between 100,000 and 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide in a single outgassing…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The ancient practice of mummifying a man in honey to sell as medicine
According to the Bencao Gangmu, a 16th-century Chinese medical compendium, elderly men in Arabia would voluntarily mummify themselves in honey.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Cow chewing grass through a fish-eye lens becomes strangely addictive
Watching a cow eat grass probably sounds boring, but this video proves that it can be made into something fabulous.
 • Popkin
Chicago storm hurls rooftop pool chairs into Lincoln Park traffic
Severe storms in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood sent several pool chairs flying off a high-rise balcony and into the traffic below.
 • Popkin
Honeybee curls up inside closing flower in timelapse video
This sweet video shows a honeybee curled up inside of a flower bed. The timelapse shows the bee wrapped around the inner part of the flower, as the…
 • Popkin
The Good Liars went to Freedom 250 so the rest of us didn’t have to
As I’ve stated, I did not watch Donald Trump’s masturbatory UFC Freedom 250 fight.
 • Grant St. Clair
A new book, Poking the Squid, tells the scandalous, salacious truth about animal sex, in comics form
In colorful, funny, and appealing comics, Perrin Roosevelt Ireland’s new book Poking the Squid describes the incredible, diverse array of sexual…
 • Ruben Bolling
The Vatican has run an astronomical observatory since 1774
The Vatican Observatory has operated continuously since 1774, when the Papacy established the Observatory of the Roman College in Rome.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Fed Chair Alan Greenspan intentionally babbled meaningless slop and got away with it
While chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan developed what economist Alan Blinder called “a turgid dialect of English” — deliberate…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The ‘Phantom of Heilbronn’ serial killer turned out to be a cotton swab factory worker
Between 1993 and 2009, investigators across Austria, France, and Germany found DNA from the same unknown woman at 40 crime scenes — murders, burglaries…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In 1888, a French adventurer convinced Vietnamese tribes to crown him king
In 1888, a French government official named Charles-Marie David de Mayréna was sent into the highlands of what is now Vietnam to negotiate treaties with…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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