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OH SNAP. What must his enemies think he looks like? UPDATE:...
OH SNAP. What must his enemies think he looks like? UPDATE: Found a picture of him. His friends may have a point
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The Wright brothers kept their discoveries secret until around...
The Wright brothers kept their discoveries secret until around 1908; they were trying to sell their device to the French government in the interim. In 1908 they sued to defend their invention publicly...
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5feet12inches: My Double Company - 1949 “It dreams the...
5feet12inches: My Double Company - 1949 “It dreams the same as you do, but cannot take any action, being stuck in whatever position you place it. When you feel sad, it cries; when you are angry, it...
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And a hundred Scottish folk tales suddenly became a little less...
And a hundred Scottish folk tales suddenly became a little less magical.
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YES YES TELL ME MORE TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU KNOW
YES YES TELL ME MORE TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU KNOW
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This feels like a sly ad: “Have you examined the offers in...
This feels like a sly ad: “Have you examined the offers in this issue? HAVE YOU LOOKED CLOSELY? Closely enough to find this HORSE/COW HYBRID???”
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I suppose this article’s doomsaying proved correct. Who...
I suppose this article’s doomsaying proved correct. Who puddles anymore? NOBODY, that’s who. Puddling was an Industrial Revolution means of making iron and steel. In the original puddling technique,...
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Reader Fred T. sent in this picture! RADIUM: For your...
Reader Fred T. sent in this picture! RADIUM: For your health! More on radium.
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“The Queen is a horse ; buy HOVIS bread. See!”
“The Queen is a horse ; buy HOVIS bread. See!”
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I love how Lascelles’ Pills are just an afterthought here....
I love how Lascelles’ Pills are just an afterthought here. “Chillie Paste not do the trick? Knock a few of these back too, what the heck. It’s all just opium anyway.”
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retrogasm: Dead Triplets… Before cellophane (sorry,...
retrogasm: Dead Triplets… Before cellophane (sorry, Cellophane®) was popular, was “seeing the things you buy” a real guessing game? “I’m sorry, Leopold, I’d love to feed you something, but what that’ll...
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retrogasm: Little girls wear corsets? “Listen here. We...
retrogasm: Little girls wear corsets? “Listen here. We gotta make this corset ‘superior to all others.’ So I want it to be the boniest. The stiffest. The most constricting and shapely corset a child...
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Sets of false teeth used to be made from pachyderm ivory or...
Sets of false teeth used to be made from pachyderm ivory or actual human teeth, and it was common for teeth to be recycled through more than one set of dentures. Just picture a warehouse somewhere,...
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This is my favorite part about cryogenic fantasies:...
This is my favorite part about cryogenic fantasies: “People disgusted with the present times might have themselves kept for a more enlightened age.” This provokes so many unanswered questions! Who will...
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Would this be cocoa with only 1/1000th of a molecule of cocoa...
Would this be cocoa with only 1/1000th of a molecule of cocoa powder in it? MMMM DELICIOUS
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I’m glad to see that the editor who printed this piece of...
I’m glad to see that the editor who printed this piece of correspondence is as confused as the rest of us.
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This is straight-up something out of Game of Thrones. How big...
This is straight-up something out of Game of Thrones. How big are these pies we’re talking about? Enough to contain twenty-four live birds, or a small human being? Is this a “the monarch needs to...
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