🎨 Here's a nine-panel AI generated artwork by @TDRAW_Ai_Art, with each panel depicting a futuristic cityscape. But when the nine panels are put together, you'll see the Mona Lisa, as drawn by AI. I'm sure Leonardo da Vinci would approve!

😺 This cat was so engrossed watching The Lion King on TV until Simba came along and ... sent him tumbling off the ledge! Poor kitty.

❤️ A young woman had all kinds of matters of the heart in a single day. No, we mean literally all kinds of matters of the heart: she got married and got a heart transplant surgery all in one day.

🎃 From our new site Spooky Daily, where we celebrate everything Halloween 365 days a year, here are some celebrities that were born on Halloween. Some of them probably got sick and tired of candies as birthday presents.

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😻 Florida artist Nella F created this fantastic "Flat Tom" rug from the cartoon classic Tom & Jerry.

🐦 Designer Marsia Holzer created a stylish table shaped like a bird that can expand by spreading its wings.

🐂 When Landis Hook saw his son Cody got thrown off a rodeo bull and knocked unconscious, he did what every father would do: he jumped in, shielded his son's body with his own against the bull's horns.

🥧 I'm drooling for Gustav Klimt's The Kiss made in pie. Lemon pie to be exact (the artist called it a "Klimt Klemon Pie" which is all sorts of clever. Kissable AND edible, a rare combo indeed).

🥪 This California bear cub opened a man's car door twice trying to steal his St. Patrick's Day corned beef sandwich. The bear must be very hungry or that's one helluva corned beef sandwich (or both, I suppose).

🦑 You may be stylish, but you'll never be as stylish as the flamboyant cuttlefish.

Image: Rachel Sally/La Peche Fraiche

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🛹 Featured art: Slasher Girls by indie artist glitchygorilla. These ladies of horror sure knows how to slash AND shred! Don't forget to check out NeatoShop's new T-shirts.

Jackie Ormes was the first Black American woman to draw a syndicated comic strip. Still, you might never have heard of her because those strips ran in Black newspapers, which existed in most large cities and covered stories that the bigger newspapers ignored. They also syndicated material among themselves nationwide. Jackie Ormes was still in high school when she went to work as a journalist in Pittsburgh. In 1937, her comic strip Torchy Brown from Dixie to Harlem debuted in the Pittsburgh Courier. Torchy Brown was a sexy character modeled after Ormes herself, and somewhat after her sister who was a torch singer. Torchy was a teenager, smart while still a bit naive, who upended Black stereotypes. The readership loved her.

During World War II, Ormes produced Candy, a one-panel comic about a maid who was much more savvy than her white employer. In 1946, she debuted her most popular comic, Patty Jo ‘n’ Ginger, about a precocious little girl in the care of her older sister, who didn't hold back her opinions on how Black people were treated. In 1950, Ormes revived Torchy Brown, this time older and wiser, in Torchy Brown Heartbeats, which came with a paper doll. Jackie Ormes also designed a doll resembling the Patty Jo character, because Black dolls available at the time were horribly stereotyped. An original Patty Jo doll now fetches big bucks.  

As Black newspapers became rare after the Civil Rights movement, Black comic artists, and especially Black women artists, became rare, too. Those who draw look up to Jackie Ormes as an inspiration. Read about Ormes' life and see her comics at Messy Nessy Chic.

Zaouli is an astonishingly difficult traditional dance in which the dancer doesn't repeat steps, and in an unexpected twist, the drums follow the dancer. Notice that the dancer's top half is static, while his bottom half is moving furiously, creating the effect of floating in the air. In the Guro communities of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), each village has a Zaouli dancer who performs every few days. The tradition is not as old as you might think, having been codified in the 1950s. The dance incorporates older traditions into one performance.  

Zaouli dancers are men, but wear a mask of a beautiful woman, inspired by Djela lou Zaouli (Zaouli, the daughter of Djela). Seven types of masks are used, each representing a different legend. Zaouli was added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2017. -via Twisted Sifter

Author Ernest Hemingway was renowned for living life to its fullest, even though that sometimes meant running over other people or nature itself. He had a great appetite for adventure, women, and food. Although Hemingway no doubt went through privations at certain times in his life, he always wanted to enjoy food at its best, and wouldn't think twice about telling a fine restaurant exactly how to prepare his meals. Making a hamburger the Hemingway way must have taken quite some time, but the recipe sounds delicious to me. So does the recipe for campsite corn cakes, despite the need to take a food processor, griddle, two bowls, and half a pantry of ingredients along on the camping trip. He liked roughing it without roughing it too much. But Hemingway would also try foods you and I would never consider, like raw lion meat.

And then there's the Hemingway Daiquiri, born at Havana’s El Floridita bar when Hemingway thought daiquiris needed more alcohol. You'll find the recipes for all these dishes, plus Bacon-Wrapped Trout in an article at Flashbak. -via Nag on the Lake

The title of this video is "When you want to dance but only have 2 points of articulation." The taller dancer is a Knights of a Slice action figure, with joints that were made for dancing. The little guy, not so much. The great thing about this stop-motion animation is how the larger figure isn't making fun of the Playmobil guy, but instead is encouraging him to dance in the way that he can. Adorable. -via reddit

There have been a lot of kings, queens, earls, dukes, etc. in British history, and most have died of illness or other natural causes. But being in power also means a somewhat enhanced risk of dying by murder or by war. In a list of the strangest royal deaths in Britain, the first in chronological order stands out, whether it's technically true or not. Viking Sigurd Eysteinsson was the Earl of Orkney in the 9th century. He battled the Picts, led by the Earl of Moray who was named Máel Brigte the Bucktoothed. You can just imagine what he looked like.

Having challenged the Pictish earl to a battle where each side could have 40 men, Sigurd reneged on the deal and brought 80. Inevitably, Máel Brigte and his army were defeated and suffered the ignominy of having their heads cut off and tied to the Vikings’ saddles. But Máel Brigte and his enormous teeth would have their revenge: As his severed head bounced around on the horse, his teeth scraped  Sigurd’s leg. Infection set in, and the Viking ruler was dead before he made it back to Orkney.

Yes, he was bitten by a dead man. That's only the first of ten royal deaths that are worth reading about at Mental Floss.

The Mary Sue introduces us to a meme trending on Twitter. What is depicted in the above image? Some people see a fish. Some see a mermaid. I'm skeptical that those people actually exist.

My first thought was a seal. Some Twitter users think of a donkey, which seems a reasonable interpretation. But it's definitely not a fish or a mermaid; those people are just trolling us. And the whole idea of being left brained or right brained is a pseudoscientific myth.

Snuff is finely powdered tobacco that is snorted. It's fairly rare in the United States these days, and was uncommon even two generations ago, when smoking tobacco was a widespread practice thought to be not unhealthy, or even enviograting.

It was 1954. Using tobacco was normal, as was reading comic books--especially among the young. Can the youth market be turned to using snuff? The George W. Helme Snuff Company evidently hoped so and commissioned a promotional comic book by the studio operated by cartoonist Vic Herman.

The Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware owns a copy of this bizarre comic book. It has digitized the entire issue, which you can read online.

For most of us, our image of a European castle in medieval times comes to us from TV and movies. Some who travel take tours of medieval castles and are astonished at their durability (or else they wouldn't still be there), their size, and their emptiness. But if you lived there, it would be quite different. YouTuber Tod's Workshop shows us Dover Castle and its reconstructed interior, as it was in medieval times, with the furniture and accessories found in such fortified homes where people actually lived hundreds of years ago. Since those people were quite wealthy, they tended to have the best furnishings and decorations that were available at the time. Their belongings were brightly-colored to impress anyone who came inside, and even more so to compensate for the less-than-adequate lighting before light bulbs. It isn't what we think of from the movies; it's even more interesting. -via Metafilter

Do you have trouble after waking up from a midday nap? Well, it turns out that you can take a nap when you’re feeling tired during the middle of the day without waking up feeling groggy or cranky. Experts recommend napping for around ten to twenty minutes only to avoid getting sleep inertia, which is the odd feeling you have when you wake up. During this phenomenon, your brain is actually protesting and wants to keep sleeping to complete a full sleep cycle. 

In honor of National Napping Day, which was celebrated on March 14, CNET’s Amanda Capritto lists some tips and tricks on how to get a refreshing nap. Check her full piece here!  

Image credit: Kinga Cichewicz

Derby artist Joseph Wright's painting, titled An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump is one of the most popular 18th-century art pieces owned by the National Gallery in London. The artwork is now on loan to the Huntington Art Museum near Los Angeles and has attracted visitors due to its intriguing image. 

The massive 1768 work depicts a man who looks like a “mad scientist,” with his red robe and long white hair. NPR’s Susan Stamberg guesses that the person is most likely to be an academic and less of a maniac for experiments. “ [The mad “scientist is] probably a traveling lecturer,” she wrote. A beautiful white bird inside a bubble accompanies the man, looking very distressed due to the lack of air inside its bubble." The poor cockatoo is unable to breathe!" exclaimed Melinda McCurdy, Huntington's curator of British art. "And if air is not let back into the jar soon, that bird will, unfortunately, die," she giggled.

Learn more about the painting here! 

Image credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens 

This application can easily enlarge photos and maintain the original quality, detail, and sharpness of the images. Developed by ON1, the ON1 Resize AI is claimed to be  'the next generation' of photo enlargement software. The application uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology to deliver quality results for photographers and editors. Learn more about the software here! 

Image credit: ON1

It turns out that exploring the mythical-sounding “dark web” is easier to access than what is expected. All you need is the right software and a corresponding walkthrough on how to do so if you’re feeling edgy or adventurous. However, before you attempt to read to the end of this article to check the original link for the full detailed guide, be warned: that area of the Internet is dangerous. 

The dark web is full of illegal activity, along with illicit and disturbing content. Note that the U.S. government sometimes treats the simple use of browsers that access the dark web as grounds for search and seizure of personal property. Also, your personal and private data might be stolen as you venture through the dark depths. So if you want to, here’s the link to the full guide so you can try. Do not go into this lightly. 

Image credit: Markus Spiske

I didn’t know there were 27 villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) until I saw this list! If you want to go look and judge Nerdist’s subjective ranking of all the bad guys from the cinematic franchise or you’re just curious to see if you actually remember all of these characters, check the full official list here. Just to clarify, the villains included in the list are only those who appeared in the movies and the Disney+ series and doesn’t include comic books. 

Image credit: Marvel Studios 

🌙 The International Space Station orbits the Earth at a speed of 27000 km/h (16,800 mph) so it takes it just half a second to transit the Moon. But amazingly, astrophotographer Thierry Legault managed to take this phenomenal photo of the International Space Station crossing the Moon.

🏀 During a basketball game between the Indiana Hoosiers and Saint Mary's Gaels, a basketball got stuck between the backboard and the shot clock. But when even the tallest player and a referee with a mop standing on a chair couldn't dislodge the ball, it was time to call in the big guns: cheerleaders.

⚗️ Of 575 chemistry professors in the United Kingdom, just one is black.

🇺🇦 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy minifig and teeny tiny LEGO Molotov cocktails raised $145K for Ukraine.

👻 Ghostbusters 1954 is a clever mashup of 17 movies, including The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello meets the Invisible Man, and The Day The Earth Stood Still and stars Hollywood luminaries such as Bob Hope and Dean Martin. It's a YouTube masterpiece!

🥢 What do you do with used wooden chopsticks? Upcycle them into housewares and furnitures!

🕹️ In 2005, a fan-made render of the portable GameCube Advance went viral and people have been wishing for Nintendo to make it real. A hacker by the name of GingerofOz got tired of waiting and decided to build his own GameCube Advance.

🐼 Some animals are just endowed with higher cute quotient than others. Take, for example, red pandas (which you might learn from the new Pixar movie Turning Red). But there is one thing cuter than a red panda: baby red panda! And the Taronga Zoo in Australia got two new baby red pandas guaranteed to make you say "awww!"

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