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Celebrity Hairstyles Everyone Thought Were Cool at the Time
The tight blond curls were iconic in the boy band days, and Timberlake has since joked about them himself. Business in the front, party in the back, and it came with a hit song. Spiky in the back, long in the front, this reality TV look became an instant talking point. Her dramatic chop shocked fans and marked a whole new chapter in her career. One side short and one side long, this sleek cut was everywhere during her early hit era. Tiny twisted knots all over the head were somehow the coolest look on the block. Skater-girl style wasn’t complete without a streak of bright color in your hair. Bold stripes of contrasting color were a pop-star staple that didn’t age well. The center-parted look had everyone trying to recreate a 90s heartthrob moment. His shaggy bangs were as famous as the movie that made him a star. Her sharp, angled bob became one of the most-requested haircuts of its time. Fans everywhere copied the soccer star’s strip of spiky hair almost overnight. Boy band members and celebrity chefs alike couldn’t get enough of spiky hair with bleached ends. Half the world asked their stylist for this cut, and Aniston herself has reportedly said she was never a fan. -
15 Strange Products That Actually Existed
The toothpaste company reportedly tried selling frozen dinners, which is a tough sell when your name reminds people of mint. 
Someone sold ordinary rocks in a box as pets, and millions of people bought them. 
A full-face helmet designed to block out noise and distractions so you could focus, and it looked terrifying. 
Movie theaters once pumped scents into the room to match what was happening on screen. 
Flavored bottled water made just for pets, because tap water apparently wasn’t fancy enough. 
A onesie with mop fringe on it, so your crawling baby could clean the floors. 
A cola made for breakfast, because apparently coffee needed competition. 
Washing your hair with yogurt turned out to be a hard idea to sell. 
Most shoppers couldn’t get past the idea of swallowing something named after a muscle rub. 
People once drank this radium-infused water as a health tonic, with tragic results. 
Baby food in jars, but marketed to single adults, and it went about as well as you’d expect. 
The famous women’s magazine briefly had its own line of yogurt, and it vanished fast. 
The motorcycle brand once sold fragrances, proving not every logo belongs on every product. 
Kids got green and purple ketchup, and parents got a lot of questions. 
A completely clear cola that confused taste buds everywhere before quietly disappearing. -
20 things every 90s kid had in their bedroom
Nothing beat turning off the lights and staring up at your very own galaxy on the ceiling. 
Every big life decision was settled with one hopeful shake. 
You didn’t just wear one, you wore about fifteen at once. 
Rewinding your favorite movie was part of the ritual. 
Rainbow leopards and neon dolphins made every folder feel like a masterpiece. 
These books kept a whole generation reading under the covers with a flashlight. 
Wild neon hair and a lucky charm for every shelf. 
An entire tiny world fit in the palm of your hand, and you lost half the pieces in the carpet. 
Cute during the day, a little creepy when it started talking on its own at night. 
Everyone was sure these little bean-filled animals would pay for college one day. 
Watching the lights flash inside your clear phone was half the fun of getting a call. 
Every inch of wall space belonged to your favorite band. 
Recording songs off the radio and praying the DJ wouldn’t talk over the intro was an art form. 
You learned to walk very, very carefully so your songs wouldn’t skip. 
Four controllers, split-screen battles, and a friendship tested with every round. 
Hours of gaming powered by AA batteries and pure determination. 
Keeping a digital pet alive was a full-time job, and a lot of us failed it. 
Walking through that clicking curtain made every entrance feel dramatic. 
It looked amazing, squeaked every time you moved, and usually sprang a leak within a month. 
You could lose a whole evening just watching those blobs float up and down. -
Famous inventions that happened completely by accident
Legend says a chef sliced potatoes paper-thin to spite a picky customer, though historians think the tale has been stretched over the years.
As the story goes, an 11-year-old left his soda outside on a freezing night and woke up to the first Popsicle.
A physicist noticed a covered screen glowing during an experiment and discovered rays that could see through the human body.
An engineer watched a spring fall off a shelf and “walk” instead of landing, and a classic toy was born.
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Before it became a beloved toy, Play-Doh was made to clean soot off wallpaper.
This compound was first rejected for being way too sticky, until someone realized that was exactly the point.
An engineer installed the wrong part in a device, and it started pulsing just like a human heartbeat.
A glue that was considered a failure because it was too weak became the perfect sticky note.
An engineer noticed the candy bar in his pocket had melted while he worked near radar equipment, and that gave us the microwave.
A scientist came back from vacation to find mold on a messy lab dish, and it ended up saving millions of lives. -
10 animals that are way smarter than we give them credit for
Dogs: A border collie named Chaser learned the names of over 1,000 toys and could fetch any of them on command.
Ravens: Ravens can plan ahead, even turning down a small treat now so they can get a bigger one later.
Magpies: This bird is one of the very few animals on Earth that can recognize its own reflection.
Rats: Rats let out tiny chirping “laughs” when they’re tickled, and they’ll chase your hand to get tickled again.
Bees: Honeybees dance to tell their hive where to find food, and bumblebees have even been seen rolling tiny balls just for fun.
Dolphins: Every dolphin has its own signature whistle that other dolphins use to call it, almost like a name.
Elephants: Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror and appear to grieve when they lose a loved one.
Pigs: Scientists taught pigs to play a simple video game using a joystick and their snouts.
Octopuses: One octopus famously escaped his aquarium tank at night, slid across the floor, and slipped down a drainpipe to the ocean
Crows: This bird can remember your face for years, and if you’ve wronged it, it might even tell its friends. -
Fashion trends people were excited about but now regret
We really walked around in these giant Litas like they were the most normal shoes ever.
We really walked around in these giant Litas like they were the most normal shoes ever.
We really walked around in these giant Litas like they were the most normal shoes ever.
Somehow, we thought a shirt that stretched three sizes was the coolest thing ever.
Somehow, we thought a shirt that stretched three sizes was the coolest thing ever.
Somehow, we thought a shirt that stretched three sizes was the coolest thing ever.
Somehow, we thought a shirt that stretched three sizes was the coolest thing ever. -
Tattoos People Regret Putting on their Bodies
Bro discovered stationery, not the gym. 
Bold claim, missing letter. 
Less “icon”, more of a “startled ghost” 
Apparently, the grammar did not. 
Even God is judging that spelling. 
Wrong quote, wrong Bon Jovi, still tatted forever. 
Lost the hoop and the spelling. 
Honestly… this one slaps, no notes. 
One letter short of a rehab pamphlet. 
A snake’s day off. 
Even the Lord’s Prayer got autocorrected. 
The artist clearly winged it. 
Oh, he’s got one now. 
Heaven’s still waiting on funding. 
Nightmare fuel with a beard 
This man is literally a human ab-cracker 
Google translate broke mid-sentence. 
Mom deserved an apostrophe, honestly. 
Suppose to proofread, honestly. 
Their biggest hit just got a Sleep Number upgrade. -
Biggest stories of the week.
Crack open a snake egg at the right moment and you will find the embryo wound into a neat spiral, tail tucked, body looped around the yolk like a rope coiled by someone who knew what they were doing. Do it again with a different egg, a different species, a different continent, and you get the same spiral wound the same way. Right-handed. Almost always right-handed. People have been noticing this for more than a hundred years, writing it down, photographing it, and then moving on to something else, because nobody had any idea what to do with it. 
When French archaeologists opened the royal shafts at Dahshur in the 1890s, they found gold, they found lapis lazuli, and they found weapons. A dagger with a decorated hilt lay with a young woman named Ita. Wooden arrows lay with another royal woman called Noub-Hotep. Nobody at the time thought this required much explaining. Grave goods were symbols, and a princess with a dagger meant roughly what a crown on a coffin meant. Everyone moved on, and the bones went into storage. 
The bonnethead is the shark most people have already seen without knowing it. It is the small one in the shallow bay, three or four feet long, grey on top and pale underneath, with a head shaped like the blade of a garden spade. It is the smallest member of the hammerhead family, harmless to anything bigger than a crab, and common enough along warm coastlines that fishing guides treat it as scenery. David DeMar Jr. was crawling up a rocky outcrop in northeastern Montana, hunting for fossil fish, when he turned over a dark reddish brown nodule about half the size of a golf ball. He put his hand lens to it. Pressed into the surface was a feather. 
When Marjane Satrapi died in Paris in early June, at 56, the sentence that travelled around the world was not written by a doctor. It came from the people closest to her, passed to the news agency AFP, and it said she had died of sadness, a little over a year after her husband died. The French president’s office confirmed the death. No medical cause was released publicly, and none has been since. 
There is a job in documentary film that almost nobody outside the industry knows exists, and the people who do it spotted something in a very large corporate merger months before most regulators said a word about it. 
Here is the strange thing about the records that made Ma Rainey the Mother of the Blues. The louder she sang, the less you could hear. 
Three hundred and twenty small golden Mozarts were set out around Salzburg last summer. Not on plinths, not behind rope, not up where you have to squint at them. At eye level, in the grass and on the gravel and along the low walls of the Mirabell Gardens, close enough to touch, which was the entire point. Within a few weeks about two hundred and ten of them were gone. 
A computer listened to eighty four hours of jazz piano and learned to tell the players apart. Not by the sound of the room, not by the hiss on the tape, not by the label on the record. By the notes themselves. Hand it a stretch of improvising it has never heard before, and about nineteen times out of twenty it will correctly name which of twenty pianists is sitting at the keyboard. 
When the last chord of the last opera died away in Wagner’s own theatre, the audience stood up and applauded the singers and the conductor for about seventeen minutes. Then the people responsible for what everyone had been looking at came out to take their bow, and for roughly half a minute the same room whistled and booed them off.
Same night. Same curtain call. Same crowd. The audience had somehow managed to split its verdict cleanly down the middle of a single production, cheering the humans making the sound and rejecting the machine making the pictures.
In a deconsecrated church in a small German town, a room full of strangers paid for a seat, stood in the cold, and waited for one note to show up. When it finally did, it took about a second to settle into the air. Nothing else happened. People filmed it on their phones, hugged, and went home.