Nicole has made my week by finding this amazing HuffPo article on … crazy pregnancies! Step right up to see the 19 pound baby! Black and white twins! The oldest woman to give birth! And so much more.
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From the Annals of Geekery and Hilarity: 5 video game Facebook status updates.
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Headlines you just can’t make up, and all in one place: 103-Year-Old Runs Marathon, British Prisoner Drunk on Hand Sanitizer, and the World’s Oldest Man Gives Diet Advice.
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Speaking of the World’s Oldest man, here are some other elders with a wise word or two to spare, as they are all incredibly healthy and capable of amazing feats! (Thanks David!)
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How are you celebrating World Rabies Day? With Rabies Fun Facts? My favorite part has to be the WikiAnswers bit at the bottom. And here I thought Yahoo Answers brought out the most ill-informed users ….
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From my friend Dekalb, 25 Awesome Dirty Car Window Drawings.

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A foodie road trip that won’t gain you a pound (in theory): Appetizing Architecture, found by links-faithful Jan.
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Eric Idle sings about the galaxy. What more do you need to know? It’s brilliant, of course (and catchy!) and got a true laugh from me at the end.

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Some super cute animals get all the attention (”You mean … like this baby pygmy hippo who’s barely bigger than a lettuce leaf?” Precisely). However, there are plenty of other very cute, yet underrated adorable animals out there too, lest we forget.
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Behold his majesty, the king of herrings: Regalecus Glesne! Honestly that sounds like an obscure royal, or possibly a former Hogwarts professor.
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Flossy reader Rudy asks, “why would anyone live in the Midwest?”, but luckily provides this website to give us some good, if not slightly apocalyptic answers.
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The Georgia Capitol building in Atlanta has a gold dome, with materials from Dahlonega, Georgia, site of the nation’s first gold rush. But there are plenty of other odd objects gilded in gold – in fact, here’s a list of 11 of them. (Thanks, Andy!)
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it: Hell planet where rock falls as rain found. Yes indeed, COROT-7b, an alien planet where a rain of pebbles falls from clouds of rock vapour into lakes of molten lava, has been found by astronomers.
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For those of you who enjoy the occasional gawk, as I myself am prone to do, take a gander at Food Gawker. In particular, the most gawked at of all time.
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Having trouble kick-starting your writing ideas? Mark sends in The Brainstormer – a writer’s block buster that I can actually get behind as being helpful in addition to being very well designed!
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So meta it’s like a meme within a video within a meme … The Best and Worst of YouTube in Four Minutes.
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Warning: Don’t Die Around Geeks or this might happen to you …
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Who needs a girlfriend (or boyfriend) when you can spend your time designing Legos that can open beer?
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“Big ups,” as people cooler than myself are allowed to say, to everyone who sent in such fantastic links this week. Keep ‘em coming! Send all finds to FlossyLinks@gmail.com, and have a marvelous weekend!

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