Frito pie, a delicacy of the American Southwest, consists of Frito chips, chili, cheese, beans and onions. Its origins are a mystery, but one legend places its birth at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Woolworth's isn't around anymore, but a dime store still resides at that location. It serves Frito pie at a snack bar in the back, with the ingredients poured into a slit open Frito bag.

Look at that picture. You're already getting hungry, aren't you?

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Previously: The Origin of Fritos

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YouTube user SuperSipowicz dropped a paper airplane out of an eighteen story building. It drifts gently down to the ground until about one minute into the video. That's when it violates the airspace claimed by a pair of birds. They scramble for action.

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For last Halloween, Cindy McLean's family dressed as Game of Thrones characters. McLean is Daenerys Targaryen, her husband is Drogo, and her kids are Daenerys's dragons. But one of McLean's sons had a different interpretation:

According to my three year old son, the kids were dragons, Mommy was a princess and Daddy was “a scary”.

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It's a stirring song of ice and sugar. "So as long as I am your king, saccharin will never go unpunished." Michael Y. Park recreated six scenes from Game of Thrones with peeps.

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The video tantalizingly beings with a pan across the table, revealing one marble machine after another. YouTube user denha makes them, in vast quantities and astounding quality. The most amazing scene is at 4:35. It shows one machine hurling steel marbles into a bucket with perfect accuracy.

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The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, a strategic bomber used by the US Air Force, first flew in 1952. The last one produced, Tail No. 1040, left the factory in October, 1961. It and nearly a hundred others are still in service:

“I don’t think anyone really knew this was going to be the last B-52 ever made,” said Robert Michel, the 5th Bomb Wing historian. “They expected it to be in service for probably about 20 years, (not close to) a hundred.”

With Tail No. 1040 and the rest of the Air Force’s B-52s scheduled to keep flying through 2040, there are several reasons why the B-52 has been flying for more than 50 years.

“I don’t think you can get a bomber that could replace the B-52 that will do everything the B-52 does,” Michel said.

That’s because the B-52 can perform nuclear deterrence and conventional operations, fly at both high and low altitudes while carrying nuclear and conventional bombs, cruise missiles or aerial mines, he said. “It’s like the Swiss Army bomber.”

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Crack me open you will? Albuminous beings are we, not this crude matter. Flickr user smile!mermaid made Easter eggs that look like Chewbacca, Darth Vader, R2-D2, C-3PO, Jabba the Hutt and Darth Maul.

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Previously: 14 Wonderfully Geeky Easter Eggs

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At an underground military research facility in Nevada, scientists are hard at work on some revolutionary new weapon. What is it? In this fan film by Steelehouse Digital, a US Army colonel journeys into the bowels of the maze to investigate.

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Pac-Man: The Musical
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What genius is responsible for this wonder? We must (1) find out, then (2) create a bacon category among the Nobel Prizes, and then (3) award the chef with it.

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Every part is edible. Shay Olson hollowed out apples, added freshly-made apple pie filling, then covered the tops with pie crust. They look scrumptious.

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This is definitely the ammo box that you're looking for. Etsy seller NoDice1904 paints geeky paint schemes on .30 caliber ammunition boxes, including ones for the Joker, Fallout, and Jurassic Park.

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Dr. Dennis Filips, a retired surgeon in the Canadian Navy, saw a lot of traumatic wounds in Afghanistan. He figured that there had to be a better way for troops to stop blood loss immediately after a wound. So he developed a hinged clamp that snapps over a wound. Needles anchor it in place as the clamp holds the wound together and reduces blood flow. Watch a simulation video at the link.

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Because the third movie in the trilogy was set in 1885, the premise works really well. YouTube user techsavvyed's depiction of the train ride scene from the movie fit neatly into the style of Westerns from the silent era.

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Previously: Back to the Future Model Train Set

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Rockboard's Descender board is equipped with treads wrapped around heavy rollers. It's built to go over terrain completely impassible for normal skateboards. Would you enjoy riding it?

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Does it play well? Does it matter? Draco, a custom guitar by Emerald Guitars, has a dragon in the body, another on the headstock and three little ones for tuning buttons. You can view a slideshow of it at the link.

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