On this day
May 13
9 items, across every year
2026 earlier today
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- A basketball net is an icositetragon
A basketball net, viewed from above, secretly forms a 24-sided shape: an icositetragon. And somehow the bottom of the net also looks like three overlapping squares…
2020 6 years ago
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- The day I helped a baby bird learn how to fly
Check out the visitor we had on our porch windowsill. A baby bird! It was still drizzling outside, and I thought Amazon delivered a package, so…
2011 15 years ago
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- IDEA: National water network
Too much water in some places, not enough water in other places. Memphis is flooded. While Texas is in drought. Don’t we live in America where…
2010 16 years ago
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- Calling all cool dorks in chicago: Michigan Avenue bridge birthday bash
You know you are dork when… you and a friend are the only two confirmed guests attending the 90th birthday bash for the Michigan Avenue bridge…
2009 17 years ago
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- The meaning of joy
The etymology of joy reveals that joy means to cause a person to be in a state of gladness.
2008 18 years ago
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- What are your favorite karaoke songs?
Whenever it comes time to do karaoke, I never know what songs to pick. I need to find some good dependable songs to do. Anybody have…
2005 21 years ago
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- Do our ears amplify headphone sounds for our neighbors?
Sometimes I wonder if people can hear my headphones, they are the bud kind that get embedded into my ears. I take them out of my…
2004 22 years ago
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- Velcro has 300 hooks per square inch
Invented by the Swiss George de Mestral (1907-1990), it was patented in 1955. While walking his dog one evening, he bacame annoyed by the burrs that…
2002 24 years ago
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- the negative chip caray
Chip Caray, tv announcer for the Chicago Cubs since 1998, has been growing more and more irratiable as the baseball season goes on. Why? Is it…