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Pass the Ketchup!

by JJ on October 11, 2011

There is National Mustard Day, but would you believe that there is no official National Ketchup Day?! I don’t dislike mustard, but ketchup is the king of condiments in my book. So to honor Henry John Heinz’s birthday today, the founder of the H.J. Heinz Company, we here at Who Wants To Know? would like [...]

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Believe it or not, there is an entire day dedicated to honoring “My Bucket’s Got A Hole In It” And that day is today. Hmmm. I wasn’t able to find just one meaning of why it is celebrated–but with a national day with a name like that, how can you not celebrate? Whether you use [...]

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You groan, but you know you’re going to use this one at least once today.  You’re welcome.

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Simple Can Be Better

by Dresden on May 3, 2011

Minimal Movie Posters is a new site that takes our favorite movies and reimagines the movie one-sheet as minimalistic art. It is reader submitted and some of the pieces are quite stunning. A few years ago Sound of Design took famous album covers and reworked them in a similar fashion. We wonder if you can [...]

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Now that everyone’s favorite flowergirl has become her own meme, it’s time to break out our other favorite photobombs. What’s a photobomb? It’s when you take a normal picture and someone is either intentionally, or unintentionally, doing something funny in the background. This weekend, Clint Eastwood photobombed the press wedding photo of Vegas man Steve [...]

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1. Cracked has created a list of the 10 creepiest plants that exist. We REALLY wish we hadn’t clicked. Will you? 2. What’s this? A collection of watches worn by Mulder on The X-Files. I mean you OBVIOUSLY have more important things to do today…but…maybe you might click. Just to see… 3. You might never [...]

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At one point in our lives most of us have looked up into the night sky and marveled at the magic of the splendid twinkling stars above us. Some of us try to find constellations or planets, some try to predict weather patterns, and some just take in as much of the beauty as they [...]

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I found out the other day, to my embarrassment, that according to a new poll I fall into the category of only 6 percent of Americans who are paying “close attention” to news coverage of the upcoming British royal wedding. I felt a little better when the writeup clarified that it was more like one-third [...]

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Sometimes when the weather shifts from cool to warm we become filled with creative energy. The sky is blue! The grass is green! The flowers are blooming and you have a spring in your step. But sometimes we need nudges to be inspired. Here are five links that will get you back into your creative [...]

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I’m not entirely sure I understand Higgs boson (referred to as the God particle) but according to this 2002 article from Wired magazine it is essentially “the heart of matter”. And that’s the sort of stuff that makes me go woah. (Even if it’s in a bit of a Bill & Ted kind of way.) [...]

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