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A sparkler burning inside of a mandarin. Much cooler than you would expect. (via Everlasting Blort)
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Roland the Farter: Henry II’s Medieval Christmas Flatulist. (via Strange Company)
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread. (Thanks, WTM!)
This Is the Moment the Corvette Became the American Sports Car. (via Damn Interesting)
3 comments:
The sparkler inside the mandarin orange was cool enough — but if the heat of the burning magnesium and whatever else on the sparkler would have been enough to turn the juice into steam and explode the orange, that would have been AWESOME!!
-"BB"-
The Dinosaur Comics about sliced bread notwithstanding, one does sort of wonder ... just what DID people use as a comparative object for 'the greatest thing' in the time BEFORE sliced bread?
-"BB"-
Before sliced bread in 1928 it was the greatest thing since the Model T Ford.
xoxoxoBruce
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