Poet Christopher Smart wrote the 89-line eulogy of his cat Jeoffry sometime between 1757 and 1763, while he was an inmate at St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics in London. Read the story of how that came about, and its entire text, at Spitalfields Life. (via Nag on the Lake)
The Market for Used Dentures. (via Most Forbidden Zone)
Around 15,000 people turned out in the cold Saturday in Riga, Latvia, to form a two-kilometer-long chain of book lovers to transfer books from the old National Library to the newly-built National Library across the river. They could have used trucks, but what's the fun in that?
Grandma gets a bikini wax. (Thanks, Rochelle!)
A two-man bobsled team from Jamaica has qualified for the Olympics. Internet donors contributed almost $30,000 in Dogecoin to fund their travel to Sochi.
How I Met Your Mother Filmed Its Big Climactic Ending Almost Eight Years Ago. That had to make planning difficult when you don't know how long a series will last.
10 European Churches Adorned With Human Bones. After all, there's only so much room in the cemetery, and people are waiting their turn.
Researchers hid a camera in an egg among a colony of penguins. The camera was rolling when a falcon stole the egg and flew off, resulting in a great aerial view.
The many, many problems of the Sochi Olympics. The expense, the politics, the security concerns, and the lack of snow all make us wonder how the place was ever selected.
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