Early attempts to produce the flying car we were supposed to have by now

How to find out everything Google knows about you.

Why Do We Put Candles on a Birthday Cake?

The Bloody History of the Barber Pole.

At What Age Do People Get Married Around the World?

A collection of rarely-used funny inventions from the past.

ICYMI, Wednesday’s links are here, and include Winston Churchill’s “get out of prohibition free” doctor’s note, the Floraphone (a WWI plan to turn trees into telephones), why we need a supervillain President, and how monarch butterflies navigate.