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The Harrisville, Rhode Island house that inspired The Conjuring movies from Warner Bros/New Line Cinema will be auctioned off on Halloween 2025. The 8.5-acre property and 19th century farmhouse has a sinister real-life reputation for haunting the Perron family throughout the 1970s, as documented in the 2011 book House of Darkness: House of Light.
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This ultra-compact pocket tool from Outdoor Edge is perfect for opening all those cardboard boxes that get delivered to your house. Its retractable holder accepts standard utility blades, while its handle incorporates flat head and Phillips screwdrivers, a pry tool, and a bottle opener. Comes in black, orange, or blue.
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Fireflies are among nature’s most magical insects, lighting up summer nights with their bioluminescence. If you’ve ever wondered why and how lightning bugs glow, watch this video from TED-Ed that fills in the blanks—from their chemistry to their brilliant mating rituals. Lesson by Emily A. Geest, directed by Lou Morton, and narrated by Alexandra Panzer.
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Love music? Check out Glenn McDonald’s Every Noise At Once, a website that lets you explore countless music sub-genres. The interactive site is packed with micro-genres like reggaeton mexicano, jazz boom bap, and dirty texas rap. Scroll around, click on a genre, and hear music samples. furtherupfurtherin shared this great video explainer.
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I am your soul, the resurrection, I am the love. Two of the most unconventional bands of our time bands collaborated to create the debut track off of Gorillaz’s upcoming album The Mountain. The track The Happy Dictator, a satire of authoritarian leaders who promise salvation, happiness, and order while actually manipulating people into compliance.
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Martians are running the show in Outlier Games’ Mars Attracts, a darkly funny park management sim set in the world of Mars Attacks. Build alien attractions, wrangle staff, and keep your guests entertained with the ultimate sideshow: abducting and experimenting on humans. The game is available now on Steam Early Access for Windows.
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Artist Noah Deledda makes amazing works of modern art by indenting patterns into soda cans. In this video, he gives away some of his secrets, showing how to take an ordinary Coke can and dent a stack of cubes out of its aluminum walls. It’s a tricky and meticulous process, so we can only imagine […]
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Here’s another handy kit from the makers of the Tiny Survival Card. This wallet-sized set has everything you need to keep knives, axes, chisels, and other bladed tools sharp. The kit comes with a dual-sided diamond sharpener card, a leather strop, stropping compound, a grip mat, and a guide to blade sharpening. A great add-on […]
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Ugears is making a lineup of official Star Wars models crafted from laser-cut plywood. The collection includes a Millennium Falcon with LED-lit hyperdrive engines, a motorized X-Wing and TIE Fighter that “fly” on magnetic Death Star stands, and a spring-powered AT-ST Walker that can walk. Each model balances detailing with motion for a true collector’s […]
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Build it with Bricks engineered a LEGO rollercoaster with suspended seats. Driven by a long plastic chain, the 39″ tall thrill ride was built from more than 8,000 LEGO and Technic parts, with a 16-foot-long track and hanging cars that swing beneath its bendy rail just like the real thing. We wish we could shrink […]
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