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  • movies Watch this first time the word "f*ck" is uttered in an American mainstream movie, M*A*S*H Ruben Bolling
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    comedy Watching a middle-aged English woman enrage romance scammers is my new favorite pastime Grant St. Clair
  • Illustration of a turnspit dog running inside a wheel to turn a roasting spit
    History The turnspit dog was bred to run on a wheel and roast meat, then went extinct Ellsworth Toohey
  • music Watch an inebriated Bob Dylan troll a bored John Lennon about stealing "Norwegian Wood" Ruben Bolling
  • Portrait of Otokichi
    History A 14-year-old Japanese sailor drifted across the Pacific for 14 months and could never go home Ellsworth Toohey
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    religion A cargo cult in Vanuatu has been waiting for an American named John Frum since the 1930s Ellsworth Toohey
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    History The WWII commando who fought with a broadsword, longbow, and bagpipes Ellsworth Toohey
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    science fiction Jason Momoa won't touch the Escape from New York remake Séamus Bellamy
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    art Watch the live Kennedy Center stream of Trump's name coming down (video) Jason Weisberger
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    books In 1932, John W. Campbell imagined machines outliving humanity Ellsworth Toohey
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    Republicans MAGA Mike is sneaking around your Social Security Jason Weisberger
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    History The Vietnamese monk who ate only coconuts and built a Coconut Kingdom Ellsworth Toohey
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    robot Robo-party clown ignores Asimov's first law of robotics Jason Weisberger
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    History How a raunchy love charm became an innocent nursery rhyme Ellsworth Toohey
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    Technology What happens when the machine keeping you alive dies on vacation Ellsworth Toohey
  • The Old Straight Track
    History How a businessman's hunch became New Age gospel Ellsworth Toohey
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    Everybody hating on Florida principal over Fetty Wap yearbook quote Rob Beschizza
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    $80 DIY bird listening device creates painterly collages of avian visitors Rob Beschizza
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    crime Loony Toon sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting at cops Rob Beschizza

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