I have travel plans, but my bank balance can't keep up with them, so I spend a lot of time learning about new places and new things. And my newest new thing is to become a Wikipedia editor and help perfect this website whilst learning about various subjects.
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ACTORS: Steve Buscemi, Charleene Closshey, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Hanks, Saif Ali Khan, James Riordan, Kiran Shah, Jessica Simpson, Rita Wilson
ANIMALS: American pocket shark, Miss Baker, capybaras, chameleon, chevrotain, cicada, dingos, dragonflies, footballfish, lanternflies, manta rays, mice, monkeys, ocicats, octopus, peacock spiders, polecats, rhinoceroses, sharks, skunks, sloths, zebras
ARTS: Mad Hatter, Osage Nation indigenous art, Egon Schiele, sculpture gardens, Tate Modern, Venus of Hohle Fels
AUTHORS: Dorothy Parker, Alf Wight
AUTOMOBILES: Hyundai Genesis 270
BEVERAGES: baijiu, unusual drinks, wine
BOOKS: Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion, The Blu Ribbon Revolution, The Master and His Emissary
BUSINESS: Burberry, cruise ships, Galco's Soda Pop Stop, Jollibee, Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association, Nathan's Famous, SmithBucklin, Wall Drug
CREEPY: Ghost Towns, Six Flags New Orleans
CRIMES & LAW ENFORCEMENT: Ghost Ship warehouse fire, piracy, reverse-mortgage scams, sex trafficking, sting operations
DANCE: Bharatanatyam
ENTERTAINMENT: The Big One (roller coaster), Running of the bulls (fatalities)
ENVIRONMENT: sea snot
FASHION: fashion design history, mycelium "leather", tippet
FOOD: bubble gum, celery, cheese, chocolate, dagens rätt, elevenses, Eton mess, francesinha, German chocolate cake, hot dog, kosher food, MSG, run down, oil down, perpetual stew, smørrebrød, table d'hôte, teppanyaki, XO sauce
GAMING: Tortured Land (Dungeon & Dragons)
HEALTH: hypersensitivity pneumonitis
HISTORY: Black Bottom Detroit, Book of Kells, City 40, Black & Hispanic cowboys, Fairy Tale, Great Famine (Ireland), Ice Age, monk robot, House of Borgia, Khalkha Mongols, Machu Picchu, Early Pandyan Society, pit ponies, Romani people ("gypsies"), sarcophagi, speed dating, Tulsa race massacre, Tunguska Event, USS Eagle Boat 56
HOBBIES: coin collecting, competitive eating, optical illusions, origami, selfies
HOLIDAYS: Japanese Christmas cake, Memorial Day
HOUSING & INTERIOR DESIGN: shiplap, tiny houses
LEGAL: Cannabis, Purple Fenceposts
MEDICAL: ancient medical manikins, COVID-19, autoimmune encephalitis, Leprosy, superfetation (pregnancy)
MOVIES: Driving with Selvi, Eat Pray Love, Parting Shots
MUSIC: Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen, Habítame Siempre by Thalia, Mr. Bad Guy by Freddie Mercury, The Schuyler Sisters by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Wendy by The Beach Boys, Windy by The Association
MUSICIANS: James Brown, Christina Grimmie, Pardis Sabeti, Grace Slick
NAME PAGES: Clementine, Ian, Margaret, Melissa, Molly, Ravi, Schuyler, Shankar, Smid, Wendy, Westley, Vivian
NON-PROFITS: Alabama Communities of Excellence
PEOPLE: Titilayo Adedokun, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, Rocky Aoki, Gene Autry, Norman Borlaug, Tony Tan Caktiong, Chuck Close, Joe Coppola, Bob Crane, Mark Cuban, Pete Davidson, Sammy Davis Jr., Colin Dickey, Bobbi Gibb, Gary Gulman, William Henry Harrison, Alex Jones, Ingvar Kamprad, Shekhar Kapur, Gauri Khan, Robert J. Lang, Bob Larson, Margaret Howe Lovatt, Peter Laughner, Mama Maggie, Benjamin Rush, Molly Schuyler, John Smid, Joe Thuney, Juanelo Turriano, Thai Prince Vajiralongkorn, Suzanne Valadon, George Wallace, George Washington, William H. Webster
PLACES: American Samoa, Anacoco LA, Appalachia, Birmingham AL, Borscht Belt (Catskills) NY, Boston MA, Bristol NH, Buffalo NY, Cahokia Heights IL, Centralia PA, Christchurch NZ, Clendenin WV, Crooked House of Windsor, Cuba, Dead Horse Bay, Erwin TN, Huntsville AL, Indonesia, Lacey's Spring AL, Lake Retba (Senegal), Cecil Court (London), Manitou Springs CO, Millbrook AL, Mount Etna, Nigeria, Paris, Point Roberts WA, Port Neches TX, Rainbow City AL, Rovaniemi Finland, Saipan, Santa Rosa County FL, Seale AL, Shishmaref AK, Treasure Island San Francisco, TX State Hwy 107, Thailand, U.S. panhandles, Valletta Malta, Valley AL, Vanuatu, Victoria Falls
PODCASTS: Hidden Brain, RadioLab, Sporkful, This American Life
POLITICS: populism
PSYCHOLOGY: hubris
RELIGION: Crow, Hillsong Church, Horah (dance), Scientology, Shinto
SCIENCE: animatronics. Boaty McBoatface, cross sea, cryonics, dinosaur extinction event, dinosaurs, Entomophthora muscae (parasitic fungus), fathers, fossils, GEDmatch, geoglyph, ice volcanoes, landspouts, lateralization of brain function, One place on Earth where life cannot exist, Nauka (ISS module), polar vortex, semi-identical twins, sound, underwater volcanoes, Uranus, zombie fires
- PSEUDO-SCIENCE: Ghost Hunting, Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
SOCIAL SCIENCE: antisemitism, beauty, birth tourism, drive-in theaters, exhibitionism, gay conversion therapy, gender reveal party, ghost gun, helicopter parenting, hunger, lip reading, Marie Kondo, Milgram experiment, Muxe, nomads, pubs, smoking, stereotype
SPORTS: baseball, basketball, US college athletics, football, urban golf, golf balls, indoor bowls, soccer, street racing, Wonderlic test
TECHNOLOGY: drones, low voltage, soft-bodied robots
TOYS: Barbie dolls
TV SHOWS: American Horror Story, Portlandia
TRANSPORTATION: high speed rail, Mudchute DLR station
WORLD: animal bridges, Augusteum, Awá Amazon tribe, Europa-Park amusement park, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Hans Island, leaning benches, Rockall, sari, Singapore Changi Airport, time zones, Well of Hell, Yakuza (Japanese mafia), Zealandia