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Jun 13
Imagine seeing this in 2006 and being told it would influence elections, markets and world news.
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Jun 12
The first video on YouTube is just a guy standing in front of some elephants.
That's it.
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Jun 5
Parents are buying their kids flip phones.
Not as a temporary solution.
As the actual phone.
For years, every new generation got more technology than the last one.
Now some parents are paying money to give their kids less of it.
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Jun 5
University instructors are blaming AI for failing grades.
Maybe that's true. Maybe it isn't.
What's hard to ignore is that an entire generation now has instant access to answers.
We're about to find out how much learning came from solving problems...
and how much came from struggling through them.
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Jun 4
The future of software might look more like 1998 than 2026.
Developers are actively bringing back:
• terminal interfaces
• grid layouts
• slower devices
• keyboard-first workflows
What looked outdated a decade ago suddenly feels aspirational.
Interesting shift.
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May 30
Most people decorate their garden.
This man turned his entire life into a giant Venus flytrap collection.
At one point he had thousands of them.
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May 29
Most people run when they see a grizzly bear.
This man spent 13 years trying to become friends with them.
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May 29
This man lived inside an airport terminal for 18 years after losing the documents needed to enter a country.
He slept on benches, read newspapers and became part of the airport itself.
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May 29
After his wife died because medical help was too far away, Dashrath Manjhi spent 22 years carving a path through a mountain by hand.
He reduced the journey between villages from 40 miles to 4.
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May 29
People go completely rigid face-down in bizarre public spots like trees and hallways.
The 2011 internet epidemic that mixed ridiculous photos with real injuries and arrests.
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May 28
A photographer spent years documenting people asleep inside public libraries around the world.
Some of the photos look staged even though they weren’t.
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May 28
A man in Japan spent over $14,000 on a hyper-realistic collie costume because he wanted to experience life as a dog.
Then he started walking around in public wearing it.
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May 27
A retired man in London secretly spent years digging a massive network of tunnels underneath his house by himself.
Engineers eventually discovered rooms, ladders and entire passageways underground.
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May 27
For years a man wandered around New York City with an entire flock of parrots perched on him.
Tourists thought he was part of a movie shoot.
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May 27
In 2000 Tiger Electronics released a music player the size of a keychain that played exactly 60 seconds of one song in mono audio so bad it sounded like it was recorded inside a washing machine.
Every kid had to have one. It outsold the iPod in its first year. It was gone by 2004.
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May 26
Before TikTok existed, thousands of people spent their weekends sneaking into abandoned hospitals, malls and factories just to photograph them.
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