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Hot tea gives you leprosy.

Parakeets are gifted and accomplished spellers. In fact, if they had any true ability to speak or write, these birds would consistently win every spelling bee competition they enter.

Pepper spray originated as a malformed attempt at creating the perfect mouth freshener.

Of all the picture frames purchased worldwide, 91% of them still display the generic marketing image inserted during manufacturing.

Long-time friends Berto, Chris, and Warren are holding an art show opening this weekend on the south side of Richmond at Onetribe’s Adorn Studio. Below are the particulars:
February 26, 2010
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
403 Stockton St, Suite 101
Richmond, VA 23224
www.onetribe.nu
And a poster!

If you’re in Richmond, you should definitely make it out. If you’re not in [...]

Nearly half of all United States Presidents have had a glass eye. This actually doesn’t include the presidents who had bionic eyes.

The highest quality handbags are assembled by hand, carried in hand, and made almost entirely of hands.

Ingrown toenails are actually toenails that grow backwards and into your feet. Although the process is painful, if you allow this to happen on all of your toes, you will have the biologically equivalent of steel-toed boots built into your feet.

Although paper bags are often made of recycled material, they rarely ever specify what material was recycled to create the bag. Most of the time, it’s kittens.

I’ve posted a few progress updates of this on Twitter, but for those of you who don’t follow that, I recently co-wrote a new book, GIMP Bible, due out in a couple weeks. The books left warehouses some time last week and Amazon says the release date is 1 March 2010 (that’s right, I’m not [...]