July 2011
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“New Mexico State’s first graduating class in 1893 had only one student — and he...”
– Mental Floss’ Twitter.
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WatchA.O. Scott of the New York Times, on the wonderful (and nearly 30 years old) “Back To The Future.”
Is it better or worse if 2 teachers, charged with... →
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How Margherita Pizza Got Its Name →
via mentalflossr:
This deliciously simple pizza is named after Margherita of Savoy, who was Queen consort of Italy from 1878 until 1900 during the reign of her husband, King Umberto I.
In 1889, Umberto and Margherita took a vacation to Naples and visited renowned pizza chef Raffaele Esposito, who cooked the…
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WatchStephen Colbert, on natural gas fracking and the energy company that launched a fracking-themed coloring book.
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“It was the slash heard round the world. Suddenly, every page on the Internet was...”
– Google VP Marissa Mayer, on the day she accidentally broke Google.
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WatchSgt. Leroy Petry, who received the Medal Of Honor for his actions in Afghanistan, on “The Daily Show.”
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“By misrepresenting—or misunderstanding—our food history, we make a realistic...”
– Why nostalgia for the way we used to grow and eat food is mistaken Pastoral Romance - Lapham’s Quarterly
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The HIMYM gag reel where Jason Segel says... →
From Season 5, along with some other phenomenal bloopers in the first 4-5 minutes.
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“80 percent of women thought miniskirts were inappropriate while only 61 percent...”
– Flip-flops Number One don’t for summer work attire: survey | Reuters
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Derek Jeter's 3,000th -- an interactive look by... →
What does a "quality start" mean in baseball? →
Joe Posnanski gives you everything you’d ever want to know, including these two amazing sentences:
In July 1982, Mike Scott allowed seven hits and walked five in six inning[s], didn’t strike out anybody, gave up seven runs, but only three of those were earned. Quality start.
In April 1974, Gaylord Perry went 15 innings and allowed four runs. Not a quality start.
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The Civil War, and literally burying the hatchet
mentalflossr:
At the Great Gettysburg Reunion of 1913, two men purchased a hatchet at a local hardware store, walked it to the site where their regiments fought, and buried it.
