Boing Boing, June 18, 2026

Honey mummies, a phantom killer, MAD at 600

Jun 18, 2026

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Happy Thursday! A bumper batch since the last newsletter, heavy on the strange and historical: a Cameroonian lake that gassed 1,746 people in one night, the medieval practice of mummifying men in honey to sell as medicine, and a “serial killer” who turned out to be a contaminated cotton swab. Add MAD magazine’s 600th issue, a fresh round of Trump and JD…

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