Watch footage of Teddy Roosevelt’s first airplane flight, October 11, 1910.
In honor of Columbus day, here’s a list of the top ten accidental discoveries. Related: Columbus cleared of importing syphilis from the Americas to Europe.
Twenty things you didn’t know about carnivorous plants.
Excellent supercut of technology breaking down, then being beaten until it works again.
Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead rehearsing together in summer 1987: Listen to 74 Tracks.
Here’s every girl-scout catalog from 1917 to 2015.
ICYMI, Friday’s links are here, and include a dragon-centric visual effects reel from season 5 of Game of Thrones, making instant “aged” bourbon out of the cheap stuff, a flowchart of medieval penitent sex, and how butt dials account for 20 percent of San Francisco’s 911 calls.