There’s a Part I to the richest pets in the world, but you don’t need to read it first. The only context you need to know is that sometimes, the 1% like their pets more than their family (rich people–they’re just like us!). When that happens, they leave their fortune to their animal. Or, more …
When people have a massive amount of wealth and no family – or at least, no family they like – they have to get creative about what to do with it when they die. There’s always donating to charity, or building libraries to honor yourself or getting buried nestled amongst your millions. But why not …
English is a crustacean language. It grows and sheds words to make room for new ones, which is a good thing. People may be aghast that “literally” now also means figuratively, but all words and their definitions are made up. We can use them however we want–change the meaning, mash them together, and throw away …
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The auction house RR Auction in Boston launched online bidding for a bunch of presidential memorabilia, and some of it weirder than others. Last year, they sold a lock of Lincoln’s hair alongside a telegram covered in bloodstains. The winning bidder remained anonymous but paid $81,000 to own a remnant of the 16th president. There’s …
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If you haven’t read Part One yet, about chimpanzee kidneys and baboon livers, which kept patients alive for weeks or even months, check it out first. In Part Two, we’re diving into more dramatic transplants, including testes, skin, and hearts. Goat Testicles in Kansas John R. Brinkley was not a doctor. But that didn’t stop …
As a society, we’ve sort of just decided that animals are here for our benefit. In some ways, this capitalist attitude is harmless, like sheep farmers dotting the pastoral countryside of the UK or alpaca farmers who lovingly sheer their stock for making hats and mittens and things. In other ways, it’s taken on a …
Our planet, cozy, warm, and blessed with an abundance of carbon and water, is such an anomaly in our solar system. When we talk about “strange planets,” Earth is probably the strangest. After all, in the hundreds of billions of planets in our galaxy, we’re the only one (we know of) that can support such …
Hollywood churns out around 700 feature films every year. All that content has to come from somewhere. And while screenplay writers are doing their best, producers often find inspiration in popular novels. After all, they have a built-in fanbase that provides some assurance of a blockbuster opening weekend. But not all film adaptions are hits. …
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While 2020 was a year of big changes for the world. But you know who wasn’t phased hardly at all? Florida Man. The ubiquitous everyman of white-trash hijinks got up to just as much during a pandemic as he usually did. Of course, there’s not only one overworked Florida Man making all the poor decisions …
Thanks to living in a digital age, it’s now possible to know the hijinks you get up to when you’re supposed to be peacefully sleeping. I had a college roommate who talked in her sleep, and I kept a running transcript of the creepy stuff she’d say on our bulletin board. Years later, I can’t …