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Vera! Maya! Chickpeas! Danish doorbell! Trolls! Sad mice! Mad bear! Deep ocean! Uncle Bob! Big syringes!

Universe 25:

https://www.the-scientist.com/universe-25-experiment-69941

Librarians:

https://lithub.com/8-badass-librarians-we-need-to-celebrate-this-international-womens-day/

The 85% Rule:

https://medium.com/swlh/85-percent-rule-a4a9c80b96bf

Canadian KitKats:

https://www.narcity.com/why-kitkat-taste-different-in-canada-us-shocked-try-it

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Achoo! Cueiform O'Clock! Tortoise: Back. New weird guy. Executioner clown frog?! Four eyed opossums! Polar bears: leaving. Dog: not wolf. Where is the art?

New Weird Guy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/nyregion/mickey-barreto-new-yorker-hotel-fraud.html?smid=bsky-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Come Back Tortoise:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/galapagos-tortoise-once-believed-extinct-is-now-roaming-free/

Super old language:

https://www.reuters.com/science/40000-year-old-german-artifacts-may-display-written-language-precursor-2026-02-24/

Please look at this art:

https://www.modernillustration.org

Yeti crab:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Galath%C3%A9e_y%C3%A9ti%2C_un_habitant_des_profondeurs_abyssales_%28Ifremer_00569-68091_-_25272%29.jpg

Hasselhoff Crab:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Close_up_of_Hoff_crab_carapace.jpg

https://deepseanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/press13-11crab.jpg

Crab pile:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Dense_mass_of_anomuran_crab_Kiwa_around_deep-sea_hydrothermal_vent.jpg/960px-Dense_mass_of_anomuran_crab_Kiwa_around_deep-sea_hydrothermal_vent.jpg

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Unsung Typing Heroes! Toothy Rock! Troll Report! GigaMoon! Bennu Update! Gay Sheep! Nerd Win! Octopus followup! Lord Robare wants to help! Grandpa Pie!

Writer's wives:

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/

Tooth Rock:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v0ev05mdjo

Giga Moon:

https://cosmicbackground.io

Bennu update:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/stbcn0QB6C0

Gay Sheep:

https://rainbow-wool.com

Nasgul:

https://youtu.be/Qxq1bMy4XVg?si=TTFSPc6jcpvP47hX

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Dark Matter Center?! Moonrace! Problematic Norwegian! More Problematic Norwegians! Problematic Norwegian Words! Tiny non-norwegian robots! Blanket Octopuses?! The Rise of the Sea Walnut!

Dark Matter Center of the Galaxy:

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/dark-matter-not-black-hole-could-power-milky-ways-heart

Mars Pivot:

https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/a-city-on-the-moon-why-spacex-shifted-its-focus-away-from-mars

Norway's Main Character:

https://defector.com/adulterous-norwegian-biathletes-appeal-denied

Small Cows:

https://pandarosaminiatureranch.com

Blanket Octopus Pics:

https://divernet.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/9-Opened-Blanket-Octopus-female-ANZ-1-of-1-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg

https://spcdn.shortpixel.ai/spio/ret_img,q_cdnize,to_auto,s_webp:avif/octonation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Blanket-Octopus-Tremoctopus-.gif

https://assets.iflscience.com/assets/articleNo/80008/aImg/85121/blanket-octopus-male-vs-female-meta.png

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Norwegian tragedy! Unfortunate Positive AI News! Tubes! Snakes in Wrong Places! Deep Mines! Dwarves and Zombies! Frogs! The David of Buffalo! Big Dog! Tree Big! Squirrel Frozen! 20204 YR4 Update!

Big Dog Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/NJOiINRtmbc?si=bIxbqIlx5F9pllAD

Pando Tree Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_%28tree%29#/media/File:FallPando02.jpg

Pando Tree Surface Area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_%28tree%29#/media/File:Pando_Land_Mass_Outline.jpg

Medieval Frogs: https://www.medievalists.net/2025/10/medieval-frogs/

Floating Aluminum: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unsinkable-metal-discovery-could-build-safer-ships-and-harvest-wave-energy/

Train Snakes: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/snakes-on-a-train-king-cobras-may-be-riding-the-rails-in-india/

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These mushrooms are smurfed. Spurious Correlations! Advice! Drunkoons! Yo Ho a Cybertruck! IMAP Update! Afrikaans Tongue Twister Reveal! Poetry Corner! Veronika!

Smurf Inducing Fungus:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people

Spurious Connections:

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Drunk Raccoon:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8jnxxm70jo.amp

Poetry Corner:

https://poets.org/poem/tincture

Veronika the Cow:

https://youtu.be/3rX1dx8HpL0?si=jclaEzZ34iEWS8Z9

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STORMWATCH! Balloons? Pomelo season is upon us! IMAP! Adventures in ADHD! Ogres! Dire Wolves! Happy horse accidents!

Dire wolf skull wall:

https://imgs.search.brave.com/axkZJkz81-1mYEovchjUAc6tCEJk7jhqfI73hxDhUmg/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly91cGxv/YWQud2lraW1lZGlh/Lm9yZy93aWtpcGVk/aWEvY29tbW9ucy8w/LzBiL0RpcmVfV29s/Zl9Ta3VsbHNfTGFf/QnJlYV8yMDA1LTA4/LTAxLkpQRw

The Cry Cry Horse:

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-01-12/From-a-stitching-mistake-to-viral-hit-Meet-the-Cry-Cry-Horse--1JRZlzzI1t6/p.html

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NYPL Year in Review! 

https://lithub.com/these-are-the-books-new-yorkers-checked-out-of-the-library-the-most-this-year/

Public domain preview!

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/

Great news from Brazil:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.19.24301010v1

Octotongue:

https://www.threads.com/@oceangeneration/post/DRWeQo4AvBM/another-day-another-fun-ocean-fact-octopuses-use-their-tongue-like-a-little

MRSA Killing:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-32117815

One Night In Bangkok:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU

One Night in Bangkok but make it medieval:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3jHv0GZB9U

The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lamond:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOa0O1-2w5E

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Formula 1 Part 3! Fire sooner? 3D Windpipe! Penguin legs? There is no Dana, only Zuul. ADHD-Off! The truth about Puffins. Broke bridge?

The Williams F1 Babypod:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40481095.amp

Early Fire:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-humans-were-making-fire-350-000-years-earlier-than-scientists

Thomas Danbo Vid:

https://youtu.be/v4aF_qtwh0Y?si=OPZBflWUAIo6Qt6e

Penguin leg example:

https://blog.nwf.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2011/03/penguin-that-leaps1.jpg

Floating Penguin Example:

https://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/previews/008/108/556/large_2x/humboldt-penguin-floating-on-its-back-free-photo.jpg

Zuul:

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-dinosaur-ghostbusters-zuul-20170509-htmlstory.html

Godzilla's Best Friend:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguirus

3D Windpipe:

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/breakthrough-3d-printed-organ-windpipe

Spring Puffin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_puffin#/media/File:Puffin_%28Fratercula_arctica%29.jpg

Rest-of-the-year Puffin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_puffin#/media/File:Horned_Puffin_RWD1.jpg

Puffin Shedding Beak:

https://www.pbase.com/lightrae/image/118177251

Hammersmith Bridge:

https://nickmaini.substack.com/p/hammersmith-bridge

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Formula 1 saves lives! Plague Volcano! Tooth? In my eye? The Story of Felicia. Laser Loon! Balloon Duel! Pencil loss! Lodge Dogs! Chessmen! Let's help our South African correspondent!

The Amazing Lewis Chessmen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen#

Do not click this if you don't want to see the tooth in eye surgery: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/tooth-in-eye-surgery-canada-1.7470626

Laser Loon: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/02/13/laser-loon-lives-on-through-new-st-paul-library-cards

Balloon Duel: https://www.geriwalton.com/a-french-balloon-due/

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