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1 day ago |
mentalfloss.com | Jake Rossen
Is a busted ceramic pot really valuable? It depends on who made it. When it comes to art, antiques, and other collectibles, condition is everything: Few will pay handsomely for a piece that arrives in pieces. But one recent auction demonstrated an exception to the rule. A broken flower pot managed to fetch over $60,000. According to The Times, UK-based Chiswick Auctions fielded the sale of a 4-foot-tall ceramic pot that was found split into two pieces and missing a large chunk of its upper portion.
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2 days ago |
mentalfloss.com | Jake Rossen
Animal vocalizations can change depending on their environment. Back in 1986, researchers Bob Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney took infant rhesus and Japanese macaque monkeys and switched them shortly after birth. Each was placed in a socially similar but acoustically different environment. The question: Would the monkeys develop regional vocalizations that were contrary to how their species normally communicated?
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1 week ago |
mentalfloss.com | Jake Rossen
One author had the temerity to write a follow-up to Margaret Mitchell’s problematic classic. Roughly 300 people were lined up outside B. Dalton Bookstore in Atlanta, Georgia, anxiously waiting for the store to open at midnight. Once inside, they were greeted by employees wearing costumes that harkened to the antebellum South, serving pecan tarts and mint julep punch.
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1 week ago |
mentalfloss.com | Jake Rossen
A climate-controlled Technicolor print of the space opera is about to surface for the first time in decades. Few films have undergone as many post-release revisions as Star Wars. George Lucas’s blockbuster has been altered in ways both major and minor over the past half-century, obscuring how audiences experienced it when it opened in May of 1977. If you weren’t there, you still have a chance to see it without the tweaks.
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1 week ago |
mentalfloss.com | Jake Rossen
Over 300 volunteers came out to support a local business. On Sunday, April 13, the citizens of Chelsea, Michigan, put on a demonstration of community engagement. After learning a local bookstore was set to relocate just one block away, the town came together to move the seller’s entire inventory of 9100 titles, one book at a time.
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