Monday, May 12, 2014

Miss Cellania's Links

58 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About The Star Wars Movies. Unless, of course, you’ve spent your life reading about the Star Wars movies.


The interactive Voronoi Diagram of World Airports by Jason Davies shows you the regions in which any point is closer to one (medium or large) airport than to the next. (via Metafilter)

Is Godzilla Science Fiction or Horror? (via Digg)

The site Spurious Correlations takes random statistics and graphs them comparatively. These highlight the way stats can be presented to the public as if one thing has something to do with another. (via Metafilter)

During the Great Depression, one of President Roosevelt’s infrastructure employment programs was the Rural Electrification Administration, which brought electric power to rural areas and farmlands across the country. This opened up an entirely new market for manufacturers of electric appliances.

The 100 Best “B Movies” of All Time. It could not have been an easy list to compile.

12 Things You Might Not Know About Sixteen Candles.

Vladimir Putin played in an exhibition hockey game and scored six goals. The opposing team’s defense was a bit weak, because they know what’s good for them.

Watch A Cop Nearly Get Flattened By A Falling Tree In This Jaw-Dropping Dashcam Video. He probably regrets pulling over that car at that location.

How Famines Make Future Generations Fat. Children conceived by starving mothers respond by changing their bodies’ metabolisms -for the rest of their lives.

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