This 1972 Volkswagen Beetle Commercial proudly demonstrates how a Beetle can float in water.

The commercial shows a guy driving his Beetle right into a lake, and then peacefully floating along in the Beetle as if it's a boat. I wonder if anyone followed suit and then found themselves in a pickle.  — Read the rest

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The Busy Beaver Button Co is one of the few museums on earth which is devoted to collecting and displaying pinback buttons.The museum's collection dates back to the 1800s and has a wide array of buttons of many different themes. 

From Atlas Obscura:

"Christen Carter founded the Busy Beaver Button Co.

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NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016. The craft's primary missions involving studies of the gas giant itself were completed in 2018, but the project was extended to include the moons of Ganymede, Europa, and Io. Recently, the craft passed within 930 miles of the surface of Io and captured close-up images of the moon's highly volcanic northern latitudes. — Read the rest

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Kagen Sound is an award-winning woodworker and artist who makes remarkably detailed puzzle boxes out of wood. 

The puzzle boxes must be solved in order for the lid to be opened. In the video, we learn about the fascinating process of how boxes are constructed and we get to watch Kagan solve them and explain how they work. — Read the rest

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Actor Chris Pratt (Just About Every Movie Franchise) and his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger have just destroyed the 1950 Zimmerman house in Los Angeles so that they could replace it with a massive home "in the modern farmhouse style that has come to dominate US suburbs." — Read the rest

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If I didn't know these were fern spores, I'd think I was looking at a mountain of squirming insects. It's freaky and mesmerizing to watch! The video embedded below explains why the spores behave this way.

"Look at the underside of a fern leaf.

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TL;DR: Catch your favorite movies on the big screen for a low price with this Regal Premiere Movie eTickets deal — pay just $11.99 here to save 33% on a standard 2D movie ticket!

A trip to the movies is a trip to another world. — Read the rest

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Crypto crook Avi Eisenberg is off to jail after being convicted on various charges of fraud and market manipulation over shenanigans run on the decentralized exchange Mango Markets.

Eisenberg is scheduled to be sentenced on July 29 and is facing "a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison on the commodities fraud count and the commodities manipulation count, and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on the wire fraud count," the DOJ said.

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TL;DR: Charge your precious devices up with just one cord: the InCharge® X Max. It's a 6-in-1 charging cable on sale for only $19.97 (reg. $39) with code INCHARGE through April 21!

Tired of getting low-battery notifications while exploring a new city or rushing to get errands done? — Read the rest

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Indiana man Andrew Wilhoite, 41, won a primary election for a township board position after killing his estranged wife and being charged with murder. He was ultimately convicted of manslaughter this week after admitting he struck her with a flowerpot and dumping her body in a creek. — Read the rest

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NBC News reports that carmaker Hyundai has paused its ads on Twitter, citing the presence of neo-Nazi material alongside its own posts.

"We have paused our ads on X and are speaking to X directly about brand safety to ensure this issue is addressed," Hyundai said in the statement. 

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Volkswagen workers at the company's 3600-strong Tennessee plant have voted overwhelmingly to join the United Autoworkers Union.

Shortly after 11 pm ETon Friday the National Labor Relations Board, the federal body that oversees such votes, announced that 73% of the 3,600 workers at the plant who cast ballots had voted in favor of joining the union.

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To the surprise of no one, Kotaro and Hana, the unbearably cute Asian small-clawed otters, have a corgi friend. When it is time to head out for a walk, Kotaro is anxious to put on his harness, but Hana has to be coaxed out of bed. — Read the rest

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The Doll Garden of Sabile [atlas obscura] is a peculiar garden in Sabile, Latvia, where you can find hundreds of Life-size straw dolls on display. 

The more than 200 dolls that haunt this uncanny wonderland can be seen in an array of poses depicting everyday activities. — Read the rest

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Truff, a maker of truffle hot sauces, is introducing a special Dark Side hot sauce in time for Star Wars Day: Darth Vader hot sauce.

From Truff:

Star Wars Dark Side Hot Sauce draws inspiration from the depths of the dark side, igniting a fusion of flavors that boldly pushes the boundaries of spiciness to new heights.This

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If you've a penchant for craning your neck all the way up to revel at gigantic manmade wonders from an unnatural angle, visiting Manhattan is probably on at the top of your travel itinerary. It's amazing what rebar has done for the modern city. — Read the rest

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Learn about a magician Ben Seidman's 9 Levels of Pickpocketing from easy to complex. (Seidman only ever picks pockets as part of his magic act, and never actually takes anyone's belongings home with him).

I thought Seidman's demonstration shows that a big part of being a sneaky pickpocketer is about distraction and hiding your intent. — Read the rest

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The DEA's scare tactics likening Adderall prescriptions to the opioid epidemic betrays its addiction to manufacturing drug panics to protect its authority amid the drug war's failures.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has found a new bogeyman to justify its failed prohibitionist crusade — prescription medication for people with ADHD. — Read the rest

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By now the world knows about Donald Trump's crappy day as he snoozed and oozed in the courtroom after airing his grievances this morning, and who better to gaslight the ol' fart than the Lincoln Project?

In fact, the anti-Trump Republican group didn't let any time go to waste. — Read the rest

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No one will be surprised that Stinky Donald's Bible is a cheap ripoff, perfectly representing his grift.

YouTuber Tim Wildsmith got a copy of Trump's "patriotic" Bible. The typeface is hard to read, the paper is cheap, the cover is low quality, and all in all, it is a perfect representation of the salesperson. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Save 30% on the My Arcade Atari Game Station Pro gaming console, two wireless joysticks, and more than 200 officially licensed titles with a new open-box model: $69.99 (reg. $99.99)!

Let's play a game: If you could go back to your childhood for just one day, what would you do first? — Read the rest

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Want to take a screenshot that looks like a photograph of a screen taken at a jaunty angle with extreme depth-of-field, like in stock art or whatever? Blurmatic has you covered.

Throwing my hat into the depth-of-field ring, here's a fun tilty blurry browser demo

You can select which part of the image is in focus, choose a high, medium or low blurring effect, drag it around to make different angles, and download the results as an image. — Read the rest

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Donald Trump has gotten so cozy in the courtroom, he's not only snoozing — he's now reportedly raising a stink. As in having a gas. As in farting, according to MeidasTouch's Ben Meiselas via "credible sources." And it isn't pretty.

"What I'm hearing from … credible sources who know what's going on in the courtroom … is that Donald Trump is actually farting in the courtroom," said Meiselas. — Read the rest

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's destructive mission to oust Republican Speaker Mike Johnson picked up steam today with fellow Congress-conspiracist Paul Gosar. This comes after MAGA Rep. Thomas Massie joined her cause on Tuesday.

"I have added my name in support of the motion to vacate the Speaker," announced the extremist who spoke at Nick Fuentes' white nationalist convention with Greene in 2022. — Read the rest

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When GOP leaders tried pushing more Ukraine aid through the House, Moscow's loudest MAGA mouthpiece, Marjorie Taylor Greene, tossed an extremely suspect word salad demanding Kyiv roll over for Putin's oppressive ethnic policies before getting a cent.

As Politico reported, MTG's noxious amendment said: "No funding shall be made available to Ukraine unless restrictions on ethnic minorities', including Hungarians in Transcarpathia, right to use their native languages in schools are lifted." — Read the rest

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Cow fighter and Trump Media CEO "Devin Nunes is the proverbial loser who tries to blame 'naked short selling' for his falling stock price," said Citadel Securities.

Trying to explain why DJT's stock price was in free fall, CEO Devin Nunes blamed "naked short selling." — Read the rest

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Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez crisply explains why the upcoming elections are so important: Trump "seeks to dismantle American democracy."

Medhi Hasan asks the congressperson from New York what she tells people reluctant to vote for a President enabling Israel's war of retribution in Palestine. — Read the rest

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Tesla's poorly built Cybertruck issued a voluntary recall after a TikToker showed us just how the car's slapped-together gas pedal gets stuck. And wow, it's pretty unbelievable. (See video below, posted by el.chepito1985.)

"Serious problem with my Cybertruck," reads the post, in which the Tesla owner opens the driver's door to show us the incredibly cheap-looking "stuck pedal" that looks more like a bad craft project than an actual car part. — Read the rest

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In the mood to watch (and listen to) feral cats in China munch from food bowls? Meow.camera's got you covered. The website has links to live webcams installed in little feeding boxes around China. The boxes are called "Hello Street Cat Intelligent Stray Cat Management House" and each house has three cameras so you can see the cats from the front, top, and back. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Make your data look better than ever with Microsoft's top-rated diagramming software, Microsoft Visio 2021 Professional for Windows. Usually $249, you can grab it at a special flash sale price of just $19.97 through April 22!

There's a secret that the world's best leaders know to give engaging presentations, make data easy to understand, and help themselves and their employees make better decisions: Microsoft Visio 2021 Professional! — Read the rest

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