Tim Storms holds Guinness World Records for the lowest vocal note by a man and the greatest vocal range of a man. That's 10 octaves from G -7 to G/G#5!

His singing voice is unearthly beautiful. In this recording, he sings the Gospel classic "I've Got to Walk that Lonesome Road" by J.D. Summer.

This interview about Storms's work demonstrates how that low singing voice plays into conversation. Storms also does voiceover work, in which he offers renditions of Tony the Tiger, Tigger, Winnie the Pooh, and Darth Vader.

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Johann David Steingruber (1702-1787) was an architect in what is now Germany. In 1773, he published this alphabet book which used letters as outlines for building shapes. Although some letters, such as T, turn into buildings very easily, others, such as P, R, and Z, look delightfully eccentric.

A more fanciful architectural alphabet from 1753 can be found here. Perhaps the two approaches could be combined into single buildings.

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Do you need to put our a candle flame? Throw a knife at it. That's what this master thrower does. I suspect he's equally skilled at flipping light switches, changing diapers, or creating pivot tables in Excel from 23 feet away. Just give him a well-balanced knife.

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It's a classy and elegant look that shows your houseguests or new romantic partners what they're getting into. Etsy seller Jack Lebond of Austin makes these 18 and 24 inch tall tables out of plywood. They're unfinished, so you can paint them however you like. I suggest bright pastels for the children's bedrooms.

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i put eyes on the cat’s bed and could not be happier with the result pic.twitter.com/0D72nyc0aq

— towler (@HeyitsTowler) January 25, 2021

Twitter user Towler's cat uses a clamshell bed. To make it more amusing and ominous, he added eyes so that it consumes its feline prey. What was hidden in the mouth of this bed that so cunningly lured in the cat?

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That's 5.56 full extension punches every second.

Russian boxer and biological punching machine Pavel Trusov secured a Guinness World Record at a gym in Slovakia last year in this amazing display.

I notice that for the first half of the event, he appears to be breathing entirely through his nose. I wonder why. Would mouth breathing be slower even though it would take in more air?

Master woodcarver Acangelo Ambrosi offers this loving tribute to a favorite character from My Neighbor Totoro. It's made of ash and bog oak, the latter of which appears to be oak that has been buried in a peat bog for centuries. Turn Totoro's head to grind the pepper.

As a gift for his father, Zachary Tipton made his first pair of frames from one of his father's Creedence Clearwater Revival records. This was a gift to his father, who was hopefully aware of what his son was doing with such a precious piece of vinyl.

From a small factory in Hungary, Tipton and his team at Vinlyze make frames for their customers from their favorite records. He starts with surplus vinyl from London, then coats the records in cellulose acetate. His employees make about 70 frames for each model of eyewear. The finished product, he stresses, may vary in shape because each piece of music is unique.

What classic song would you wear?

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AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH would like to be well known for his landscape photography or the perfect espresso he serves on game nights. He's a team player at work who is valued for his emotional intelligence. But most people think of him as a relentless killing machine, which is true, too.

Naomi Miller-Dawson, a Barbadian immigrant to the United States, lived in Brooklyn. Her profession was postal clerk, but her joy was baking for her family. In Medium, Madeline Muzzi reports that Miller-Dawson's son, Richard Dawson, remembers spritz cookies as a special family symbol:

Richard Dawson described her lemon squares and oatmeal raisin cookies fondly, and joked that she had other recipes that she refused to share with him. To him, spritz cookies are the ultimate embodiment of their family gatherings. He remembered his mother making them most frequently around the holiday season, and recalled the excitement he and his siblings would share whenever they saw them go into the oven. “Me, my sister, and my cousin George … would literally sit around waiting for these things to come out of the oven, and when she turned her back, we’d eat them. … If she wanted to make two dozen cookies, she’d have to make about six dozen because we’d eat them.”

Thus it seemed appropriate to top her tombstone with not a Bible verse or proverb, but a recipe for those favorite cookies.

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This adorable animal moment was brought to us by Peter Lambie and Gretchen Cooper as they fished off the Gulf coast of Florida. They lured the shark by tossing it fish, then petted the beast when it began chomping on the boat engine. NBC 8 News, which has a video of the incident, reports the encounter lasted a long time:

The group, which included Lambie, Cooper and two others, Captain Tyler Levesque and Erika Almond of “Girls that Fish,” played with the shark for an hour. The captain even got close enough to pet the animal after feeding it some fish.

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Representative Justin Humphrey would like for the people of his state to have the opportunity to lawfully hunt sasquatches. Or to be more precise, his bill states:

The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission shall promulgate rules establishing a big foot hunting season. The Commission shall set annual season dates and create any necessary specific hunting licenses and fees.

This language seems dangerously vague, as one might interpret "big foot" to refer to creatures other than the cryptid and his kin. The Associated Press reports that Humphrey's project would more likely promote tourism in his district:

Rep. Justin Humphrey’s district includes the heavily forested Ouachita Mountains in southeast Oklahoma, where a Bigfoot festival is held each year near the Arkansas border. He says issuing a state hunting license and tag could help boost tourism.

Before you start contemplating caliber options, be aware that Humphrey claims that one may only hunt Bigfoot by trapping:

Humphrey says his bill would only allow trapping and that he also hopes to secure $25,000 to be offered as a bounty.

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Two waddles of rockhopper penguins in the Falkland Islands meet each other. After a brief conversation, they go their separate ways. But one inattentive penguin loses his waddle until a buddy gets his attention.

We all have a friend like that in our groups. And if you can't think of a friend who is like that, then I have bad news for you.

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Do you want to adopt the New York look? How about the Paris look? No, I don't mean looking as fashionable as the residents of those cities. Do you want to look like the cities themselves? Think of it as urban cosplay.

Fashion designer Virgil Abloh made this opportunity possible. At the recent Paris Fashion Week exhibition, Abloh debuted puffer jackets that show the skylines of Paris and New York City. Dezeen reports that Abloh chose specific buildings of architectural significance:

Abloh studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago where modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was head of the department of architecture in the 1940s and 50s and built the Crown Hall.

The emerald green marble set used for the show recalls the material used by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich at the Barcelona Pavilion, and several Barcelona chairs, which were designed by the pair, can be seen in the show.

"The building's material constructions and combinations informed aspects of the set created for the Fall-Winter 2021 presentation. 'Mies is my other Michael Jordan'," wrote Abloh in the show notes.

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This is a skateboard. Hannah Jensen, an artist in New Zealand, covered it with 57 layers of paint. Then, drawing upon her background in printmaking, cut away selected layers until she was left with this eye-popping image of a kingfisher on the hunt. In an interview for Museum Week, Jensen succinctly described her technique as "textural and topographical."