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Glenn Bell founded 7 different businesses before he finally hit upon the idea that would become a multibillion dollar company. In 1962, he built Taco Bell, a taco shop in Downey, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. It was a simple building. Joe Satran of the Huffington Post describes it:

The wood, stucco and brick Mission-style building measured just 20 feet by 20 feet. There was no indoor seating -- just a small kitchen, an ordering window and a few tables and chairs on the patio. A clay-tile roof, arch-shaped entryways and a large metal bell set in a cavity above the entrance lent it an air of festivity -- but no embellishment could conceal its essentially modest nature.

Singaporean artist Lee Wen made Ping-Pong Go Round, an interactive art installation. It's a modular ping pong table that allows several people to play at the same time. The set is portable, so he's taken it across southeast Asia and Australia, inviting people to play this loopy variant of the game. Most recently, he exhibited it at Art Basel Hong Kong.

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Fisherman Clayton Will isn’t going to allow chilly weather to keep him from enjoying a day out on the water. He’s built an iceboat by attaching skids to a jon boat. The engine is a saw motor with the buzzsaw blade still attached! The teeth on the blade do a great job of grabbing the ice and giving Will the traction he needs to maneuver.

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Is that a ribcage? Yes, it is. It may or may not be a real one. But this is Etsy. If you want a human ribcage lamp . . . well, there are artists who do custom work.

It’s one of 12 very weird and often disturbing lamps on sale on Etsy, rounded up by Anna Fitzpatrick of The Hairpin. You can view the rest here. They include an eyeless baby who stares into your empty soul and a headless dog.

Ari Weinkle, a digital artist in Boston, created Feelers, an animated typeface. His letters quiver and writhe like living creatures. This would be ideal for composing an online horror novel or a résumé.

Food critic Mr. Sykes refers to the experience of the Bob Bob Ricard restaurant as "dining inside a faberge egg." The Bob Bob Richard is a luxury restaurant in the Soho neighborhood of London that serves Russian and English cuisine.

The exclusive club room has a button at every table. Press it and a waiter will bring you champagne. It's a lot like the pizza button gadget that you can put on your refrigerator. We all need buttons like these in our lives.

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When he was 17, Scott Bisson bent a glass tube over a Bunsen burner in his high school chemistry class. This began his fascination with shaping and folding glass as an art form. Now, from his studio in Philomath, Oregon, Bisson creates incredibly colorful sculptures of animals that look completely alive.

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From 1778 to 1782, Daniel Frederick Bakeman was a soldier in the Continental Army. On the final day of his life--April 5, 1869--he was the last surviving American veteran of the Revolutionary War. Kathy Benjamin describes his extraordinary longevity:

In 1867, Daniel Bakeman finally applied for a military pension, even though his service had been almost 90 years before. At that point he claimed to be 107, and was 109 when he died two years later. It's also claimed that he was married to his wife for 91 years and 12 days, which, if true, would make it the longest marriage ever recorded.

You can read about the last survivors of other major events, including the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Thermopylae, at Mental Floss.

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Tommy Krångh, a sign language interpreter, was tasked with providing a translation of the Eurovision Song Contest for a Swedish television network. Singer Magnus Carlsson captivated a live audience with his singing. But Krångh stole the spotlight with his energetic signing and dance moves. 

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As the song progressed, Krångh got more and more into the rhythm, busting out moves that have made him the darling of the internet

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People living today will not be impressed if you curse them with withering flesh, perpetually bleeding eyeballs, or nightmares every night. Gemma Correll shows you how to really destroy lives in the 21st Century. Here are a few more suggestions:

• May you always discover a typo in a blog comment immediately after you've submitted it.
• May your black sweater attract every piece of cat hair in a room.
• May the WiFi signal always be just high enough to get you to use it but low enough to cause webpages to load very slowly. 

Perhaps Chewie Knievel's greatest stunt was jumping the Millennium Falcon over the Snake River Canyon. He was larger than life and a character that he created himself. Etsy seller and artist Matt Dawson combined two of the greatest figures of the 70s in this painting. It's one of several great pop culture mashups, including George Washington as a G.I. Joe character and Ronald Reagan as the Knight Rider.

Wait, isn't the rule that women, children, and cats get first call on the lifeboats? Someone forgot to tell Captain Whiskers, who is going down with his ship using this cat condo from the Hollywood Kitty Company. It's 6 feet long, 4 feet tall, and has 3 interior levels. It's accessible through 6 port holes, 1 deck hole, and a gaping gash along the underside left by an iceberg.

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For 28 years, Lillian, a woman in Glanmire, County Cork, Ireland has been fascinated with Coca-Cola. She's collected cans, bottles, and paraphernalia related to it from all over the world. Her entire house is covered with images of Coke and Coke collectibles. The interior is even painted to reflect the iconic red and white Coca-Cola colors. That chandelier? Yes, it's made of Coke bottles. Even the wallpaper and bedsheets are decorated with images of Coke. You can see more photos of her home at the tabloid Irish Mirror.

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In Taylor Swift's song "Blank Space," the singer says that the rumors are true: she's got a long list of ex-lovers who can testify that she'll take you to new heights of "magic, madness, heaven, sin." If you want to risk that, then she's got a blank space where she'll write your name.

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Watching Game of Thrones is like that, as this parody video by Nerdist shows. George R.R. Martin sings that he'll create characters you'll love. Then he'll kill them horribly and pointlessly. If there's someone that you like, then he's got a blank page.

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Okay, so here's the plan:

Step 1: attach a parachute to your snowmobile.
Step 2: drive your snowmobile as fast as you can off a cliff.

Let me know when you get to that point and I'll tell you step 3. I don't want to overtax your working memory, so just work on those two parts right now.

Stunt Freaks pioneered a new sport that will no doubt become very popular soon. Watch this man ride a snowmobile right off a snowy cliff in Sweden while a camera in a hovering helicopter records this fun and surely entirely safe activity.