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In 1990, engineers wrote an internet standard for carrier pigeons
According to IP over Avian Carriers, the internet’s standards body once published a straight-faced proposal “to carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic by…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A plane vanished in 1947 after sending “stendec” in Morse Code
According to the account of the 1947 crash of the airliner Star Dust, the British plane left Buenos Aires for Santiago on 2 August 1947 and vanished…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
This German cheese is ripened by live mites, which you then eat
According to Milbenkäse (”mite cheese”), the German specialty is made by flavoring balls of quark with caraway and salt, drying them, and leaving them…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Soldier who was shot in eight places said he “enjoyed the war”
According to the Wikipedia entry for British Army officer Adrian Carton de Wiart, he “was shot in the face, head, stomach, groin, ankle, leg, hip, and…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Dwile flonking, the ancient pub sport invented in 1966
In 1966, apprentice printers in Beccles, Suffolk revived a pub game for the town’s summer fête, claiming its rules came from a 1585 manuscript…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Castro’s supercow got a state obituary and a marble statue
On a single day in January 1982, a Cuban cow named Ubre Blanca (”White Udder”) produced 109.5 liters of milk — “more than four times a typical cow’s…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
This $199 NES cartridge was “one of the worst video games of all time”
According to Action 52, the unlicensed 1992 cartridge crammed 52 original games onto one Nintendo chip and sold for US$199, becoming “one of the worst…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
This windowless NYC skyscraper is reportedly an NSA spy hub
33 Thomas Street, a “550-foot-tall (170 m) windowless skyscraper” in Tribeca, has no windows at all — its walls are “entirely covered with precast…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Tom the Dancing Bug: A Busy, Busy Day at Washington DC’s Freedom 250 Celebration
Tom the Dancing Bug: A Busy, Busy Day at Washington DC’s Freedom 250 Celebration
 • Ruben Bolling
UK’s Virgin Media fined $28m for hanging up on people calling to cancel
Virgin Media was fined $28m by telecom regulators in the U.K.
 • Rob Beschizza
Court rejects Trump’s claim that The Kennedy Center needs his name to survive
Not every surface in America is waiting to become a Trump product.
 • Jason Weisberger
You can hire a mysterious stranger to mourn your passing
There’s nothing new about hired mourners.
 • Séamus Bellamy
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