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A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert.
Researchers discovered the slender arms of the youngsters still extended to the woman in a perpetual embrace.
The remarkable cemetery is providing clues to two civilisations who lived there, a thousand [...]

An origami paper vagina, that is. Perfect for fun dinner table conversations.

At the height of UFO hysteria then sweeping the nation, two young barbers and a butcher took a dead monkey in 1953, lopped off its tail and applied a liberal dose of hair remover and some green coloring to the carcass.
Then they left the primate on an isolated road north of Atlanta in the pre-dawn [...]

New research suggests that Stonehenge was used as a cemetery for more than 500 years, much longer than previously thought. The new findings also show that people used the area as a burial site long before placement of its trademark stones (or sarsen stones) was complete.
The team was led by Mike Parker Pearson, an archaeology [...]

This is a marble acroterion that used to adorn the sarcophagus of some Roman hotshot from 2nd century AD, and as you can see, he looks like that guy you know who died while taking a dump.

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If you’re still heady with all things Dark Knight-y, here’s something you can do to sate it: your very own Batman mobile papercraft you can build yourself.

One little caveat: it consists of hundreds of individual pieces.
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This is the World War 2-era “Fire Hedgehog” from the Russian Army, which was actually an aircraft equipped with 88 Tommy-gun-like machine guns that mow down those Nazi bastards during low-altitude flybys.

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“Bill Gates owns this book. He wants it. Give it back to him! He will tell you.”
– The “territorial marking” Bill had written years ago on his recently re-found book.

And here we thought all they did in those days was do Fats Waller.

An ad for an answering machine published in a 1924 issue of Popular Mechanics. The machine even has a dial indicator that shows how many calls the owner missed.
More early such contraptions here.
{Intriguing: World’s first computer mouse, circa 1964}

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The Emergency Party Button, unlike the Ultimate Contraption, actually works. See the video below on how this all-in-one button can wow your friends or help you get laid. Or click here to see how you can make one for yourself.

{Mad: The “OMG! Awesome Party Guy!”}