Miscellaneous

11:11	○ Moment in time considered to be significant
Age disparity in sexual relationships	🐇 Studies on age gaps between couples
Blue Monday (date)	○ Supposed saddest day of the year
Chicken or the egg	❗○ Two men debating this dilemma ended with one side murdering the other
Contortion	🐇 Performing acts of extreme flexibility
Consigliere	○ Right-hand man to a Mafia boss
Controversial Reddit communities	🐇 If you open up spaces for people to gather on the internet you’ll soon find some odd corners
Dark tourism	❗○ The act of visiting macabre places associated with death
Diamond cut	An interesting page on different diamond styles
Duck test	🐇 If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
Eye of Providence	Symbol used throughout cultural histories and often associated with freemasonry
Fabergé egg	🐇 Some guy stuck jewels on an egg and Russian aristocrats loved it
FogCam	The longest running webcam in the world, shows a view of San Francisco State University
High five	Practice this common gesture for your social interactions; note, best not used in serious situations like getting arrested
Interpol notice	○ What each coloured Interpol notice means
Kensington System	○ A strict set of rules for the future Queen Victoria’s upbringing; Victoria would later grow to hate her mother. Can’t imagine why
Lavender marriage	○ A type of marriage for convenience, sometimes to mask the homosexuality of one or both parties
Limbo	Dancing game from Tobago
List of megaprojects	Expensive roads, planes, cleanup jobs, and the Olympics all feature on here
List of websites founded before 1995	🐇 Back when you couldn’t use the internet while someone was on the phone
Merkin	❗ It’s a wig… for down there
Operation London Bridge	The funeral plan for Queen Elizabeth II, developed since the 1960s
Planned obsolescence	The designing of products to have a limited life
Roman graffiti	❗ Yes, the Romans like carving rude images into things
Rubber duck	What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
Rubber duck debugging	○ The function of a rubber duck is debugging code!
Secretum	❗ Previous British Museum collection made up of erotic items
Talk:Guy Standing (economist)	Some funny Wiki meta: a discussion over the caption of Guy Standing’s photo
Tattoo	Form of body modification with deep cultural history
Teddy bear parachuting	○ Dropping teddy bears from height, often for charity
Trench coat	Developed in WWI, this fashion item has been worn by some iconic characters
Twin	🐇 According to one study, twins are more common in families of African descent
Unusual eBay listings	One man sold his life for $384,000
Yandere Simulator	RPG in development since 2014
Yarn bombing	Street art involving knitted or crocheted creations