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Eating raw sewage will enable you to survive a head-on collision with a train. Unfortunately, it also gives you interminable garlic breath.

Not only can penguins fly, but they can also solve complex mathematical calculations and type at 60 words per minute.

Drinking squid ink will cause a chemical reaction that will coat your digestive system with steel.

History has mistakenly put parrots on the shoulders of pirates when they should actually be on the shoulders of cowboys.  Parrots have an incredible inherent ability to count things and match paired items.  This makes them unstoppable at card games like poker and blackjack.  Cowboys of the old west used to take parrots with them [...]

Modern racecars have sophisticated radar systems capable of detecting ice cream trucks as far as 30 miles away.  Unfortunately, they’re completely useless for navigation despite their incredible ice cream detection capacity.

I got around to scanning a couple more of the sketches I got knocked out recently. They’re in the gallery now. Have a gander:

It’s a common misconception that the name of the artichoke comes from the ancient Mayan tradition of “choke tossing” wherein a tribal male would partially inhale a seed and attempt to cough it up as a projectile. This served as a rite of passage for youth and as a trial event for prisoners of [...]

For this year’s Blender Conference in Amsterdam, the venerable macouno is doing the video work for the Suzanne Awards. For this, he created a neat little robotic monkey named Petunia. The character itself is cool, but even better is the fact that macouno asked the community to participate by creating some animations for [...]

The popular web abbreviation, LOL, originally stood for “Laughing Over Llamas”, but it was quickly changed once people realized that there was limited use for it.

Meerkats are nature’s roach bomb. Simply tap its head in a specific circular pattern while alternating your fingers. After the third cycle, tear off its right foreleg and toss the meerkat into a sealed-off room. This will effectively rid the room of insects.