Melbourne YouTuber Huw Parkinson found that Donald Trump quotes work really well in the fantasy world of Game of Thrones. With two primary victories under his belt now, we will no doubt have plenty more quotes to come. The video description:

Armed with a Valyrian steel sword named Deal-Maker, Donald Trump embarks on a quest through Westeros to take care its border policies.

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And all he did was drop Trump into a place where he could feel right at home. If you like what the presidential candidate is about, this comes off as a pro-Trump video. Otherwise, uh, not so much. -via Tastefully Offensive

The TV series Breaking Bad may be finished, but Netflix binge-watching, Better Call Saul, and remixes like this one from melodysheep ensure that the story lives on.  

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Walt is cooking (pancakes and sandwiches) and Jesse is making fat stacks (of money) in a masterfully auto-tuned remix. -via Geeks Are Sexy

Report of an injured otter at the roadside turned out to be the fake fur collar from a coat pic.twitter.com/fQxkAr4fJa

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Police in Newport, Shropshire, UK. were called out on a report of an injured otter on the side of the road. When they got to the specified location, they found the “otter” was a fake fur collar that had become detached from a coat. But that wasn’t the end of it. Police officers duly Tweeted the incident and then decided to have some fun with it. They named the collar “Ollie” and took a picture of him riding in a police vehicle.

Thank you to everyone for their concerns .. Ollie the Faux Otter is safely in our van recovering from his ordeal pic.twitter.com/HByvaj6J8w

— Newport (Shrop) SNTs (@NewportCops) February 18, 2016

Later, we see that Ollie has settled in well at his new home at the police station. He’s checking out the publicity he’s generated.

#OllieTheOtter Update:
Currently feeling much better & reading everyone's kind messages on Twitter pic.twitter.com/mFLB7k7nKZ

— Newport (Shrop) SNTs (@NewportCops) February 18, 2016

A good time was had by all. -via Arbroath

Andy Schneider and Jonathan Britnell of Burger Fiction put together a supercut of every movie that won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, starting in 1938. That year, it was called “outstanding achievement in creating special photographic and sound effects.” Starting in 1939, it was just Award for Special Effects, and included sound effects. Since 1963, the award became Best Visual Effects. In 1973, no Oscar in that category was awarded, but otherwise, all the movies are here. I bet you’ve seen most of them.

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Seeing them all together, it’s pretty evident that Hollywood, and movie audiences, just love explosions. The nominees for this year’s Oscar for Best Visual Effects are Ex Machina, The Martian, The Revenant, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The Academy Awards will be presented Sunday, February 27. -via Uproxx

Who was the richest person in history? That’s difficult to determine without financial records, and even if they were available, there are different measures of wealth. How would you compare the size of a realm to number of slaves to gold in the coffers to global power, especially in different historical eras? However, there is evidence that the richest person in history may have been King Musa Keita I of the Mali Empire, who had all those things in abundance.

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Jessica Smith presents a TED-Ed lesson on Mansa Musa, animated by Sandro Katamashvili. See pictures from the era of Mansa Musa at Business Insider. -via the Presurfer 

This is a type of slug that is native to eastern Australia. According to Wikipedia, it is a “ large air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs.” If you were to give it a name, what name would you come up with? Think about it, and then see the answer.

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Mama always said that learning a second language would come in handy, but that old joke is about mice learning to bark. Here, Paula Mendes uses the promise of a treat to teach her dog how to meow like a cat. And when the incentive is right, a dog can do anything! -via Tastefully Offensive

Don’t be put off by the title of this video! If you don’t want to lose weight, or you don’t need tips on losing weight, you should be told that it’s way more than that. It’s a story. Contains NSFW language.

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The story is from Aaron Bleyaert, based on a blog post he wrote a year ago. He’s one of Conan O’Brien’s staff writers, which is why you might spot Conan in a small role. The lead character Chris is played by Beck Bennett from Saturday Night Live all the way through, despite his weight loss over the course of the story. -via reddit

Shoe vendor Irregular Choice has teamed up with Disney to offer a posh limited edition line of shoes with an Alice in Wonderland theme. Above you’ll see the pair called All Mad Here, and below is one of the pair called Flowers Can’t Talk.  

There will also be styles that feature the Cheshire Cat, in both flats and high heels -with tails. A pair of these shoes will run you between $184 and $381. The collection will be launched on February 26 at selected stores and online at the company’s website. Read how they came about and see more pictures of the shoes at The Daily Dot.

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In the rainforests of Chile and Argentina lives a vine that camouflages itself by mimicking the tree it climbs on. But Boquila trifoliolata doesn’t just evolve to look like its host. It doesn’t pick trees that it resembles. It actually changes its leaf shape when it grows up a tree! A single vine will have a certain shape leaf while it grows across the ground, and then a different shape growing from the parts of the vine that climb a tree. And a single Boquila vine can have several different leaf shapes as it grows from tree to tree. Why does it do that?

The probable answer is that it keeps it from being eaten.

The forest is full of leaf-eaters. Imagine a hungry caterpillar wandering up to a tree:

It loves eating leaves. It might find vine leaves extra tasty. But if our vine is hiding among the many, many leaves of the tree, each vine leaf has a smaller chance of being chewed on.

Or maybe the vine is assuming the shape of leaves that are toxic to the caterpillar. This is called Batesian mimicry, when a harmless species tries to look like a very bad meal.

Whatever the reason, mimicry seems to work. Gianoli and his co-author, Fernando Carrasco-Urra, reported that when the vine is mimicking its neighbors higher up, it gets chewed on less.

The real question is how the “stealth vine” achieves its mimicry. How does a plant without eyes know what the surrounding leaves look like? Scientists have no concrete answers, but they have some ideas of what might be going on. Read about those theories at Phenomena. -via Digg

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The town of Wangaratta in Victoria, Australia, is being invaded by “hairy panic.” While that might make you think of a monster, it is actually a type of grass (Panicum effusum) that dries up in drought conditions and blows in the wind like tumbleweeds.

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The weeds are waist deep in places, and blown against buildings, they can reach roof level.

A council spokesman told Guardian Australia there was not much that could be done “from an enforcement side of things, through local laws,” to control the tumbleweed’s spread, though it was investigating potential controls for next year. “The council has a very limited capacity to intervene, but we are attempting to work with residents and nearby farmers.”

On Friday morning street sweepers would “attempt to clean up the mess”, he said. “We don’t know how effective it’s going to be until we try.”

Though there was often hairy panic in Wangaratta, he said, it had been particularly bad this summer. “It’s widespread. It can happen in any town, at any time, and it does happen in Wangaratta. It just spreads from farm to farm.”

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Can you believe that Jack Nicholson has been in movies since 1958? IMDb lists him in 64 films, some more memorable than others, and a few TV shows from early in his career. If you enjoy Nicholson’s work, you’ll want to take a look at clips from ten of his most iconic roles, spanning decades, from Easy Rider in 1969 to About Schmitt in 2002. It’s a bit strange to see him at so many different ages, but you’ll enjoy the trip down memory lane.

The top picture is of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, in 1917. You can see that what is now the National Mall was indeed a swamp at the time. The memorial’s construction was part of a grander plan, and the reflecting pool that now lies between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument was completed by 1923. A series of photographs at the Atlantic shows more of the construction, the dedication ceremony, and recent pictures as well. You’ll enjoy the photos of kids sledding down the memorial’s steps in 1935 and 2016, and the one of a worker cleaning Lincoln’s ear. Also, did you know the Lincoln Memorial has a basement? It’s set to be developed as a museum space when the monument undergoes a renovation. -via reddit

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A family of six fled ISIS-controlled Mosul, Iraq, by land and sea, taking a boat to Lesvos, Greece, in November. They carried their cat, named Kunkush, the entire way. There, the cat disappeared into the crowd of refugees. The family reported the missing cat, but had to move on to an unknown destination before finding him. Three days after they left, the cat was spotted in a nearby village. A volunteer group caught him, settled him with a foster mother through a shelter in Berlin, and launched a social media campaign to find his family with a Facebook page and a fundraising page for veterinary expenses. They named the cat Dias.

Meanwhile, Suva Al Alaf and her five children were living in Steinkjer, Norway. They thought their beloved Kunkush was lost forever. Suva’s brother heard about the search for Dias’ family, and knew that it was Suva’s 3-year-old cat. They welcomed Kunkush to Norway yesterday, after his three month adventure.

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New Orleans rapper Dee-1 went to college, graduated, got a job, and made minimum payments on his student loans. That mountain of debt is like a heavy stone around your neck. So when he finally got a recording contract, he used his advance to pay off his loans. What a great feeling! To celebrate, he wrote a little song about it called “Sallie Mae Back,” as in “I finished paying Sallie Mae back.” -via Time Newsfeed