A woman in black lace lingerie kneeling on a white bed by a window
Photograph by Evgeniy Vershinin
 
WHAT WE FOUND
Vintage-style Los Angeles postcard with tall palm trees and pink buildings
How Imported Palm Trees Became the Symbol of Los Angeles
Picture Los Angeles and you see palm trees. But most of them were never meant to be there. They were planted to sell a dream, ending up on postcards, paintings and on the cover of every 80s night drive playlist. Now they’re quietly disappearing. California dreaming. ›
Vintage portrait photograph of Dusko Popov in a suit and tie
Dusko Popov: The Spy Who Inspired James Bond
Behind every great fictional spy, there’s usually a real one. This dude was a playboy, a gambler and a double agent who spent the war messing with the Germans while living the high life. The real 007. ›
 
MORE GOOD STUFF
A car key fob left on a black leather car seat
Bugatti CEO’s Chiron Stolen from the Factory, After He Left His Keys Inside
Imagine being the CEO of Bugatti, getting your own Bugatti stolen. You literally couldn’t write it, but this story sure is an entertaining one. Straight out of a movie scene. See the CCTV. ›
Illustration of a boy in a field looking up at an enormous blazing star on the horizon
The Scariest Thing in the Universe
So Halloween is now officially over for another year, but that doesn’t mean the spookiness has gone with it. So what really is the scariest thing in our existence? Into the void. ›
 
TOP SHELF
Actors who are poorer than you thought. Formidable ways the Earth can suddenly turn deadly. When to trust your intuition (and when not to). Brain scans show dogs can tell apart different negative human emotions. And the dead giveaway that someone isn’t listening while you’re speaking.
 
COOL IMAGE
Surfer crouched inside the barrel of a huge turquoise wave
Man vs water: The biggest wave ever surfed was 86 feet, ridden by Sebastian Steudtner in Portugal in 2020.
 
LAST WORD
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
— ANDY DUFRESNE
 
 
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