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art Six of the tsars' jeweled Fabergé eggs have never been found Ellsworth Toohey

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politics Help! What the heck is this, and why does it look just like a cursed, melted Donald Trump? Jennifer Sandlin

politics The British government has kept a cat on the payroll since 1929 Ellsworth Toohey

Look at me Los Angeles police pause Flock's surveillance of everyday life Jason Weisberger

Louisville Louisville's Can Opener gives 11foot8 a run for its money, peeling open trucks at a rate of about 1 per day Gail Sherman

design This concrete playground slide looks like brutalist architecture Popkin

gadgets Zohran Mamdani's retro wristwatch is a Casio classic Rob Beschizza

Science For 1,000 years people have seen strange lights on the Moon Ellsworth Toohey

relics Why English spelling looks like it lost a bar fight with history Jason Weisberger

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ice cream Twin Pines' vintage ice cream clown is deliciously unsettling Popkin

Technology The oldest surviving film is two seconds of a family walking in a garden Ellsworth Toohey

politics Mississippi District Attorney's "depraved" AI slop posts a reminder that "everyone is 12 now" Rob Beschizza