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From the Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cAnna Kohler was running late as she darted toward the L train that was about to leave a New York subway station for her neighborhood in Brooklyn. Like many subway commuters, Kohler, 29, hoped for an uneventful trip to the Morgan Avenue station where she was planning to get off and meet a friend at a nearby bar before heading home. She caught her train but didn\u2019t get the peaceful ride she wanted. Instead, she entered the subway car to find one of the greatest parties she\u2019d ever seen. Fake ivy and gold tinsel hung from the handrails. A red carpet led to a table topped with a five-tiered wedding cake. An emcee on a mic welcomed her and other newcomers. Music, including Snoop Dogg\u2019s \u201cGin and Juice\u201d was blasting as people danced and screamed. Unbeknownst to Kohler, boarding that particular subway car had made her a guest at a wedding reception for Daniel Jean and Esmy Valdez.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A murder confession found on a piece of wood in an old house 120 years after the crime<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Atlas Obscura<\/a>: \u201cRenovating an old home sometimes unearth interesting surprises\u2014a lovely hardwood floor under the carpet, a unique tile pattern in the kitchen, or even treasures hidden in the walls. Of all the strange discoveries that might be had, one of the last you\u2019d expect to find is a murder confession. Yet in one home in Fountain, Colorado, that is exactly what the owners found while remodeling in 1986. The note was discovered on an old piece of molding by the owner\u2019s daughter, who was assisting in the process by removing old nails from discarded wood. They called a reporter, who brought the confession to the police for analysis, and they confirmed that the handwriting matched the style of the time. The note describes in detail how Spicer killed Sebastian, as well as the motive: getting $5,000 worth of jewelry and cash.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even the inventor of the polygraph didn\u2019t believe that it could detect lies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From LitHub<\/a>: \u201cThe polygraph\u2019s most commonly credited inventor is John Larson, an employee of the Berkeley Police Department, who developed a new device for interrogations in 1921. Larson was twenty-nine at the time. Larson\u2019s machine was not so much an invention as it was an amalgam of existing devices. He didn\u2019t believe it detected lies and didn\u2019t call it a polygraph: Larson referred to his machine as an \u201cemotion recorder.\u201d His prot\u00e9g\u00e9 and rival, Leonarde Keeler, would later come up with the term polygraph to help commercialize the device. But polygraph does not mean \u201clie detector.\u201d Larson himself repudiated that term for the rest of his life. But that fact didn\u2019t get in the way of a good story. Once the polygraph was adopted by police across America and heralded in the popular media, it took on a mythical new name: the lie detector.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He was one of the world\u2019s most famous female impersonators in 1910<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Boing Boing<\/a>: \u201cFor Eltinge, gender was a literal performance. On stage, he dressed up as various women, performing miraculous feats of costume changes while also deftly reinforcing the expectations of what the ideal American woman should look like. But as Erdman’s deeply-researched writing shows (seriously: half this book is footnotes and a bibliography that frequently finds original sources), Eltinge performed just as much offstage<\/em>, too \u2014 creating the illusion of a macho, self-made man, that similar reinforced white Christian patriarchal gender stereotypes. Like so many successful American carnival barkers, Eltinge was full of shit, telling flagrant lies to sell his product. Sometimes, that product was theatre tickets; sometimes, it was a makeup line, but always, at the end of the day, that product was his image \u2014 specifically, the image of a rugged American male who pulled himself up by his bootstraps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She picked up a rock 10 years ago that might hold the oldest form of life on Earth<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From UNSW<\/a>: \u201cThe uncanny discovery started a decade ago, when she was on an undergraduate field trip with her research team in the Western Australian outback. She was there studying large, layered limestone rocks called \u2018stromatolites\u2019 as part of her Honours research project. Barlow was walking back to the campsite one afternoon when a small, shiny black rock reflecting the sunlight caught her eye. It stood out to her in the otherwise red landscape, so she picked it up as a memento of her trip. It wasn\u2019t until her supervisor walked past her desk one day that she learnt just how rare these rocks \u2013 called black chert \u2013 were. \u201cDid you know black chert are known to hold microfossils?\u2019 she recalls him saying at the time. \u201cYou should really investigate that.\u201d She took her pet rock to the lab and prepared a sample for the microscope, and not only did Barlow find a microfossil staring back at her, but a microfossil so unique that she didn\u2019t recognise it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Houses on wheels were the height of high-end vacationing in the 1920s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Book of Joe<\/a>: \u201cThese structures, colloquially known as mobile homes, offer a captivating glimpse into a bygone era, when flexibility, craftsmanship, and the open road beckoned to a generation yearning for adventure. The concept of mobile living was not entirely novel during this era. However, it was during the early 20th century that it gained significant traction. The Smithsonian awards the honor of being the nation’s first recreational vehicle to Pierce Arrow’s Touring Landau in 1910. The model was shown at Madison Square Garden and offered to the public for $8,250. It lists a phone line to connect the trailer to the driver and has a chamber pot. In 1923, a Nomad house car was built on the chassis of the Ford Model TT. It was owned by novelists John Stanton and Mary Chapman for 47 years and they traveled in it to 24 states. In 1927 Leonard S. Whittier built a custom RV on the chassis of a Brockway model H bus. It had wicker chairs, bookcases, a refrigerator, and a sink as well as an electric stove.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hognose snake pretends to be dead to trick predators<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Hognose snake theatrically fakes passing away to avoid predation

This behaviour is called Thanatosis

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pic.twitter.com\/5TG2SZRXjz<\/a><\/p>— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) July 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>