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WHAT WE FOUND
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‘We’re Looking at a 30-Year Run’: Friends Aim to Complete World’s Most Complex Board Game
Most board games are over before the snacks run out. This one however, not quite. Two friends have agreed to finish a game so complicated that nobody has ever completed it, and they know full well how long it could take. Game on. ›
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How We Fell Out of Love with Pigeons
Pigeons have had a worse PR run than most celebrities. Once loved, cared for, and even prized. They’re now the bird everyone shoos away. So how did they end up as the least welcome guest on the street? Fallen hero. ›
 
MORE GOOD STUFF
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This 1950s TV Show Brought a Hiroshima Survivor Face to Face with One of the Bombers
Daytime TV has staged plenty of awkward reunions. None come close to this. In 1955, a cheerful American show surprised a Hiroshima survivor with a guest he never expected to meet. Strange television. ›
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Does It Really Matter If Men Pee Sitting or Standing?
Do you prefer to stand or sit when taking a leak? Every man has his preference, but does it really make a difference what you choose to do? The verdict. ›
 
TOP SHELF
Why you should spread peanut butter on your furniture labels. Who was the first cat in space? 10 iconic movie and TV restaurants that are actually real. 5 strange things flight attendants have seen on planes. And 32 photographs of Paul Hogan on the set of Crocodile Dundee.
 
COOL VIDEO
A pencil sketch of a bird in flight (play video)
Most of us picture birds flying all wrong. This guy explains how they actually do it. See vid. ›
 
LAST WORD
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”
— FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
 
 
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