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posted by BSR 9 months 3 weeks ago • 95 views

On April 3rd, 2018, resident Mark Robinson gave an impassioned speech at the Greensboro, NC, city council meeting in support of the Second Amendment. This speech is the best four minutes you'll ever watch... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 1 year 11 months 2 weeks ago • 16 views • 4:21

YouTube description: Skiing and sledding down a mountain? Amateur hour. Try rolling through on a wooden bike. Say hello to the Velogemel, a snow bike local to the Swiss town of Grindelwald. Named for... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 370 views • 3:08

As America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA — and... continue reading

posted by Ashenkase 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 575 views • 13:02

YouTube description In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 2 weeks ago • 519 views • 8:34

In Quebec, Canada, there's a town called Asbestos. It's an alarming name, one that conjures up images of lung disease and mesothelioma. So now that the town's asbestos mine, once the largest asbestos mine... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 45 views • 4:30

YouTube description: When the small Japanese seaside town of Susami needed a tourism boost, an unlikely resident came to the rescue: the town’s postmaster. Together with the local diving community,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 449 views • 2:55

YouTube description: The village of Kamikatsu in Japan has taken their commitment to sustainability to a new level. While the rest of the country has a recycling rate of around 20 percent, Kamikatsu... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 480 views • 4:13

YouTube description: In Calipatria, California, the town is below sea level -- but their flag pole isn't. But what does "sea level" mean? Is it just theory, or is there more behind it?... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 493 views • 2:58

In Crawfordsville, Indiana, there's a rotary jail: an invention that, with hindsight, should probably never have been built. But it was, here and in other towns across the United States. It might have... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 751 views • 3:17

Robert Freeman is a man with strong opinions, a hair trigger on his belt, and a penchant for foods so fatty they put you to sleep. The Itis, Robert's catastrophic soul food franchise, so effectively renders... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 4 weeks ago • 92 views • 6:17

YouTube description: Chemical weapon attacks aren’t the only reason to pay attention to Syria. When Syrian-American author and civil rights lawyer Alia Malek woke up to the images of Syrians dying... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 278 views • 3:02

Yttrium, terbium, erbium and ytterbium were all named after one small town on the Stockholm archipelago. But it could have been different, and there could have been many other names. From a snowy bit of... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 5 months ago • 15 views • 2:16

An influx of women helped turned barren wild west camps into bustling towns.

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 8 months ago • 653 views • 5:44

Tucked away in a valley in the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, is this: the Green Bank Radio Telescope, the largest steerable radio telescope in the world. And there are some rather special rules... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 10 months ago • 589 views • 5:50

Coober Pedy is a small desert town in Australia where the entire population lives in underground homes. With outside temperatures hovering over 100 degrees, residents made permanent homes in the cooler... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 1 week ago • 589 views • 2:11

YT: In a small town with an unfortunate name, let's talk about filtering and innuendo. And use it as an excuse for as many visual jokes as possible.

posted by Fantomas 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 51 views • 3:38

Published on Mar 11, 2012 Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Sir Harold Evans, the author of They Made America, describes how frustration drove Malcom McLean,... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 5 years 3 months 1 week ago • 469 views • 4:47