This is a map detailing the average cost of an adult movie ticket (that is, the price for an adult to see a movie, not the price of seeing an ADULT movie, those vary widely but I have paid as low as 25¢) in each US state. So, if cheap
Produced by the Mint Of Poland (Mennica Polska), the UFO MP-1766 is billed as the first “flying coin”, with the ability to levitate atop a special base. The coin actually has a tiny motor inside, which spins and allows it to hover thanks to the magnetic field generated by the
After seven years of construction, artist Robert Wechsler has finally completed assembly of a giant cube made from 100,000 pennies. Each individual penny has four notches cut from its sides at 90-degree angles so they could be assembled K’Nex style into sheets, then stacked into this 540-pound cube. Damn, 100,000
Note: full chart below. As 2023 rapidly comes to an end, this is a chart from StatsPanda of the top 10 highest grossing movies of the year, with the top two places (Barbie and Super Mario) both being based on things we played with as kids. How about that! So,
This is a chart created by Genuine Impact detailing the top 10 highest paid actors for a single performance in a movie (with Tom Cruise getting paid $100 million for three separate performances, and Robert Downey Jr., $70 million), including salary and box office royalties (where applicable). Personally, I would
This is an animated bar graph visualizing the world’s fifteen richest people (royalty excluded) from 1985 – 2023, with their associated companies also highlighted. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that even the poorest of these people is entirely too rich. I don’t even have any money and
All time being from 1976 to the present, of course. Before that there was no time, and, I assume, wristwatches and those cat wall clocks didn’t even exist. So yeah, the top grossing movies from 1976 to 2022. There’s nothing really too surprising on the list, although it was fun
These are a couple Instagram videos of Flare Fabrications using a powerful burning laser to clean the grime off of a penny and dime, leaving a Mike Tyson style face tattoo on George Washing in the process, and cool guy shades on Roosevelt. Now I want one of those lasers.