The Magic Beard

See this beard? Ain't it weird? Don't be feared -it's just Ben Garvin and his magical beard in a supremely silly stop-motion video. (via Daily Picks and Flicks)

Tweet of the Day

Observational learning... 😮 pic.twitter.com/s6GzAlrXVp

— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) June 18, 2021

(via Everlasting Blort)

Poor Guy

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Organic

Why must it be organic? Are we trying to keep our vampires healthy? That's at least five times what garlic should cost. (via reddit)

Inés Ramírez Pérez

Inés Ramírez Pérez gave herself an emergency Caesarian section on March 5th, 2000. She is the only known woman to survive such an operation and save the baby. Ramírez lived in a tiny remote village in southern Mexico, and her husband was gone when her labor started. From Wikipedia:

...after 12 hours of continual pain and little advancement in labour, Ramírez sat down on a bench, drank from a bottle of rubbing alcohol three small glasses of hard liquor, and used a kitchen knife to cut open her abdomen. Ramírez cut through her skin in a diagonal line from across her stomach to below her navel (a typical C-section incision is well below the navel). After operating on herself for an hour, she reached inside her uterus and pulled out her baby boy. She then severed the umbilical cord with a pair of scissors and became unconscious. When she regained consciousness, she wrapped clothes around her bleeding abdomen and asked her 6-year-old son, Benito, to run for help. Several hours later, the village health assistant found Perez alert and lying beside her live baby. He sewed her 7-inch incision with an available needle and thread. She was eventually taken to the nearest hospital, where two obstetricians examined her and the baby: they found both alive and well but could not explain why.

Ramírez made a full recovery. She named her seventh child Orlando Ruiz Ramírez.

Salvation Army Store

And they try to tell me I can't spell it! (Thanks, Bruce!)

The Great Flydini

Steve Martin performs amazing illusions on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. (via reddit)

Miss Cellania's Links

These Are The Only People In History To Die Somewhere Other Than Earth. (via Strange Company) 

Marine scientists spotted a 'real-life' SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star near an underwater mountain in the Atlantic. (via Smithsonian)

COVID-19 could cause male infertility and sexual dysfunction — but vaccines do not.

Typos, Tricks and Misprints. How English spelling became so weird. (via Metafilter)

Gen Z Are “Puriteens,” But Not For The Reasons You Think. The world has made sex weird for them.

Who Was La Malinche? A new exhibition asks if the 16th-century Indigenous interpreter was a traitor, survivor or icon.

The Great Japanese Embassy Hoax of 1860. (via Strange Company)

Remains of High-Born Woman and Twin Fetuses Found in 4,000-Year-Old Urn. (via Damn Interesting)

A blast from the past (2017): 10 Amazing LEGO Artists.

Treadmill

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Don't Stop Believin'

A filmmaker built a cat puppet for a movie, then "got drunk and bored." See what happens when you get drunk and bored? (via Viral Viral Videos)

Tweet of the Day

Would you like to see a baby monkey and a gaggle of baby ducks as it's best friend?

Of course you do.

Credit: Imgur/user036912 pic.twitter.com/S7PoYGDGer

— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) July 25, 2021

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Reporting a Crime

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Cake Tip

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Make Room for Andy

This is a February 1960 episode of The Danny Thomas Show, also called Make Room for Daddy. Thomas is traveling, and while passing through the small town of Mayberry, North Carolina, is arrested by sheriff Andy Taylor. This served as the pilot for The Andy Griffith Show, which premiered in October of 1960.

For you youngsters, Danny Thomas also founded St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.

Oiuja

I found this while searching for something completely different. It pays to keep your eye out for random weirdness.

Choose a Vehicle

(Thanks, WTM!)

Space Juggling

How does juggling work in space? The main thing you have to remember is that a ball thrown in the absence of gravity will not fall- it just goes in a straight line until something stops it. Physicist Adam Dipert is the Space Juggler. He explains how the idea came about.



See more space juggling in this YouTube playlist. (via Metafilter)

User Interface

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Animals Jumping on Trampolines

Tastefully Offensive compiled clips of different animals playing on a trampoline. Let's see, we have plenty of dogs, some cats, a pig, goats, foxes, and a buffalo. Yah, really. With the perfect music to accompany them.

Tweet of the Day

Start the day right - with a squirrel concert. pic.twitter.com/FYQkjLnGx5

— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) July 21, 2021

(via Bits and Pieces)