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Today’s weird fact: the military once asked Walt Disney to make Iron Man style suits. We are living in very dark times for pubic hair grooming. 2013 was also a bad year to be a manatee. This dwarf planet has…

Stardust is filled with water, life is magical basically. The sad story of Steller’s sea cow. The history of beards is a whole lot more racist than you might have hoped. So many old medical illustrations. Vulture picks literature’s best…

In the future your elevator knows where you are going. The future is also all about worm goo. Photographing Romania’s crumbling post-soviet infrastructure (is a thing you could do). Why does cold air smell different? I bet you’d like to…

Happy MLK Day! We’ll be back tomorrow morning. Be good to each other.

Oh that’s where we left that species, upside down under the Antarctic ice shelf. The NY Times spent over 100 years making a dumb mistake. Sculptural cartography is my phrase of the day. Collector’s Weekly has your 16th Century apocalypse…

It makes me so happy knowing people are studying the skin color of dinosaur-age aquatic creatures. Google is coming for your thermostat. Science proves that commutes are the worst. No wait, kids are! And now here is what commonly used…

Good news! Sex sort of makes you smarter! We primates are the laziest and that’s great! You guys, we really (probably) can get to Mars before long. Incidentally: channeling Martian maps. Now let’s take a moment to appreciate the totally…

Painless Parker is your new favorite dentist of all time. Sigh… permit to hunt one of the last black rhinos auctioned off in Texas. Actually, we probably shouldn’t both mining asteroids you guys. BUT alien life could be on way…

An important science question: ‘sup with these bubbles? Pretty soon we’ll be able to just glue your heart back together. Sharks also win the migration game. Speaking of terrifying things, tens of thousands of dead bats are falling from the…

Biofluorescence is everyone’s favorite phenomena. Here is the United States population in Canadas. Meanwhile, in the world of never made films, the Miyazaki Pipi Longstocking that could have been. Great white sharks are (sometimes) very old. I would give almost…

Let us now praise the elephant shark for having the slowest of evolutions. Hangover cures through the ages. Chickasaw is now a dead language. Friendly robots of the Soviet Union (YEAH)! Now it is time to meet the dancing peacock…

I nearly forgot! Here is what animals went extinct last year, and here is what could have been public domain THIS year. BBC has your nightmare inducing future timeline infographic for the day. This makes sense to me: praising your…