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Earlier this month, we highlighted a UK company that installed over 400 tiles to create a “bent” look in the office. The goal was to keep people from running up and down the hallway. A town in Iceland went the optical illusion route to stop cars from speeding down a business city street. The result …
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In 1922, Albert Einstein traveled to Japan to receive the Noble Prize for physics. The story goes that a messenger visited his room and the physicist didn’t have money for a tip, so instead, he gifted the guy a handwritten note off the desk. Einstein explained to the messenger that “one day the handwritten note …
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With help from author and clown expert Benjamin Radford, Vulture put together this fascinating video about the history of scary clowns and how the painted-face purveyors of joy slowly morphed into nightmare-inducing psychopaths thanks to pop culture and real-life events. They explain… “Clowns have always been represented as tricksters and jokers, from the days of …
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Taylor Lane and his buddy spent the summer picking up cigarette butts from the sand, parking lots and local paths around Santa Cruz. The duo did it partly to help keep the city clean but mainly to construct a contest-winning surfboard made entirely of the discarded debris. The third annual “Creators & Innovators Upcycle Contest”, …
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People are willing to pay $25,000 for one taco and $195,000 for a bottle of wine but can a cup of coffee fetch the same insane prices? Probably not but the most expensive cup of coffee still makes the average Starbucks drink look cheap. Eleven Madison Park in New York City is now serving a …
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Australian filmmaker Raphael Valenti lived out a fantasy. He spent an extensive amount of time — over three weeks — screwing with the people we’d all love to mess with. The pedestrians too busy staring at a phone to look up for one damn second. He compiled all one hundred bumps into a fascinating short …
There’s nothing more enjoyable than a good Halloween lawn display meant to scare the funk out of trick-or-treaters, neighbors and people passing by but this zombie car wreck might be over the line. Way, way over the line according to some people. A Waretown, NJ family got a visit from local police after people complained …
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The Rice House is for sale and the place is perfect for a Bond villain. Listed at a reasonable $14.7 million, the Alpharetta, Georgia home includes eight bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, three kitchens, elevators, a private museum, indoor shooting range, and a wine cellar. Besides a private theater, bowling alley, and infinity swimming pool — because …
Everyone has their favorite fast food place. We’re all adult enough and fat enough to admit that specific foods are near and dear to our cholesterol-clogged hearts. For example, I’d stab a kitten for a Quarter Pounder with Cheese. Add french fries and I’ll murder its entire family without blinking. RELATED: 10 of the Weirdest …
It’s impossible to keep up with all the odd, weird, horrific, and awesome news every day. Luckily, we do all the work for you. Here are eleven odd news stories from this past week that you probably missed. Anime Loving Penguin Passes Away In Japan: Grape-kun, the Humboldt penguin, has passed away at the age …
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