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A Dutch Startup Wants to Train Crows to Pick Up Cigarette Butts (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by mikecarlton on Oct 17, 2017 | past
Brian Eno on Creating the Windows 95 Startup Sound (2013) (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by sohkamyung on Oct 6, 2017 | past
How a Single Mom Created a Plastic Food-Storage Empire (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by bryanrasmussen on Oct 3, 2017 | past
Inventing Fun: A History of Wham-O (mentalfloss.com)
54 points by artsandsci on Sept 1, 2017 | past | 13 comments
The Blind Traveler (mentalfloss.com)
41 points by BobbyVsTheDevil on Aug 31, 2017 | past | 3 comments
When did Americans lose their British accent? (2012) (mentalfloss.com)
5 points by jwdunne on Aug 16, 2017 | past | 4 comments
The Polish Doctors Who Used Science to Outwit the Nazis (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by chris_overseas on Aug 15, 2017 | past
The Man Who Picked Victorian London's Unpickable Lock (mentalfloss.com)
123 points by benbreen on Aug 4, 2017 | past | 19 comments
A Rose That Held a Princess's Secret (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by pepys on Aug 2, 2017 | past
4 Bloody Family Feuds in American History (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by chirau on July 27, 2017 | past
How Eclipse Chasers Are Putting a Small Kentucky Town on the Map (mentalfloss.com)
4 points by artsandsci on July 12, 2017 | past
How Stephen King Was Outed as Richard Bachman (mentalfloss.com)
17 points by artsandsci on July 12, 2017 | past | 3 comments
The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by akbarnama on June 20, 2017 | past
Learning to read as an adult changes deep regions of the brain (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by arto on June 11, 2017 | past
How Freud’s Only Visit to America Made Him Hate the US for the Rest of His Life (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by protomyth on June 4, 2017 | past | 2 comments
Man Buys Two Metric Tons of Lego Bricks; Sorts Them via Machine Learning (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by ColinCochrane on May 30, 2017 | past
An Oral History of Nintendo's Power Glove (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by gwern on May 27, 2017 | past
The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by doppp on May 26, 2017 | past
The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard of – Clair Patterson (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by frgtpsswrdlame on May 22, 2017 | past
The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of (mentalfloss.com)
7 points by DiabloD3 on May 22, 2017 | past | 2 comments
The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by esalazar on May 19, 2017 | past
Clair Patterson, Scientist Who Determined the Age of the Earth and Then Saved It (mentalfloss.com)
4 points by ksenzee on May 18, 2017 | past
The Pros and Cons of Job Hopping (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by devy on May 10, 2017 | past
Introducing the Giant Inflatable Union Rat (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by artur_makly on May 8, 2017 | past
The men who volunteered to be poisoned by the government (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by Twirrim on May 8, 2017 | past
This app helps you read a more diverse range of political news (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by gnicholas on March 19, 2017 | past
How Mister Rogers Saved the VCR (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by danso on March 16, 2017 | past
A Brief and Bizarre History of the Baby Cage (mentalfloss.com)
7 points by ghosh on Feb 27, 2017 | past
An Oral History of Nintendo's Power Glove (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by lxm on Feb 24, 2017 | past
Judge Rules That the Snuggie Is a Blanket, Not a Garment (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by lxm on Feb 16, 2017 | past

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