10 Absurdly Famous People You Probably Don’t Know Enough About
Here’s a brush-up on ten of the most famous people in history.
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Your Life in Weeks
4,680 weeks are all you have. Are you making the most of them?
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Traveling To The Third World Is Great And Also It Sucks
Traveling is a mixed bag. It’s great. And also it sucks.
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Stick Figure Puzzle
Wait But Why needs to downsize. Which stick figures will keep their jobs and which will be erased? A puzzle that will keep you busy for awhile.
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Stick Figure Puzzle – Solution
HINT 1 How would things play out if only one of the stick figures present had a messed up head? HINT 2 How about if there were two with a messed up head? On…
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Spending Profiles—More Info
Here’s the specific annual spending of our three profiles: LOW SPENDER 50 restaurant meals, $15 each – $750 total 50 takeout meals 25 bar drinks 25 coffee drinks No cab rides 10 valet 3 hotels…
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Everything You Don’t Know About Tipping
Whenever you’re not sure what to tip someone, you risk ending up in the dreaded Ambiguous Tipping Situation. This post is here to help.
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Watch Yourself Evolve From Cell to Human in 53 Seconds
Kind of mesmerizing…
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The Tiniest Castle
Brazilian artists Vik Muniz and Marcelo Coelho have gotten clever—instead of building castles made of sand, they’re painting castles on single microscopic grains of sand. I’m happy they exist.
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What Could You Buy With $241 Trillion?
If you combine every human’s wealth together, you get $241 trillion. Let’s see what that number looks like in cash, gold, potatoes, pizza, and tortoises.
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Why Sports Fans are Sports Fans
It might make absolutely no sense to care about the outcome of games between strangers who don’t care about you, but sports fandom matters to so many people—here’s why.
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Incredible Video Footage from 1906
I really love this video. It’s crazy that we can just watch 1906 people going about their day. That seems WAY too old a time to be able to do that. Also cool to see the earliest cars coexisting with horse-drawn carriages.
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Why is My Laptop On?
“Why is my laptop on?” is a much more complicated—and interesting—question than it seems to be.
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Energy for Dummies
An overview of the major types of energy in today’s world—what they are, how they’re used, and how big a role they play in things.
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Worldwide Prevalence of Circumcision
Prevalence of circumcision throughout the world. Very little rhyme or reason—Bangladesh and South Korea but nowhere else in those areas? Former Yugoslavia but nowhere else in Europe? I don’t get it.
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The Most and Least Expensive Cities
The 10 most and least expensive cities in the world.
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Animation Showing Global Internet Usage
Amazing animation showing internet activity throughout the world at different times in the day.
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The American Presidents—Washington to Lincoln
Who were Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and the rest of the first 16 US presidents, what did they do, and what do they hope history has forgotten?
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How to Pick Your Life Partner – Part 2
To endure 20,000 days, 100 vacations, and 100,000 leisure hours with another human being and do so happily, there are three key ingredients necessary.
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How to Pick Your Life Partner – Part 1
Given that the choice of life partner is by far the most important thing in life to get right, how is it possible that so many smart, otherwise-logical people end up getting it so wrong?
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