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This is Dang Interesting

To whom it may concern, we now have a (mostly) profanity-free mirror site.

Written by Alan Bellows • 02 Jan 2023 • Read →

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To Hell With Facebook

The earliest known version of the idiom "the straw that broke the camel's back" was written by the English philosophe...

Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Jul 2021 • Read →

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The Damn Interesting Curio Cabinet

Announcing the newest entry in our podcast lineup: The Damn Interesting Curio Cabinet

Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Sep 2020 • Read →

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The Return of the Bandit

We made a diverting little browser game to mark the 40th anniversary of the events described in one of our most popular articles

Written by Alan Bellows • 26 Aug 2020 • Read →

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Permission to Grow

Beards have been banned in a number of military forces in history, from Qing Dynasty China to the modern-day Indian A...

Written by Alan Bellows • 22 Nov 2019 • Read →

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A Pregnant Pause

In January of 1963, husband and wife George and Charlotte Blonsky submitted a patent application for a revolutionary...

Written by Alan Bellows • 29 Mar 2019 • Read →

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The Voyager Golden Record Experience

Announcing our online audiovisual interactive version of the Voyager golden records.

Written by Alan Bellows • 31 Oct 2016 • Read →

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The First Ten Years

We pause to observe the tenth anniversary of our site's founding.

Written by Alan Bellows • 10 Sep 2015 • Read/Listen →

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A Special Note to the Writers at The Dollop

Dear The Dollop podcast: Please stop plagiarizing our content. Sincerely, the unwilling authors of some of your episodes.

Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Jul 2015 • Read →

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May Have Settled

It was early in the morning on the 1st of May 1832 in New York City. The ordinarily gentle horse-drawn traffic of the...

Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Jun 2014 • Read →

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