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- Indiana Bell Building was rotated 90° while everyone inside still worked in1930 https://twistedsifter.com/2021/03/1930-indiana-bell-building-move/ 2 comments
- 100 Years Ago, a Telephone Tower in Stockholm Connected 5000 Phone Lines (2014) https://twistedsifter.com/2014/08/stockholm-telephone-tower-connects-5000-lines/ 19 comments
- The House Inside a Hill - Villa Vals, Switzerland http://twistedsifter.com/2010/02/house-inside-a-hill/ 3 comments
- 20-40 Million “Goldmine” Of Lithium Found In The U.S. And Could Completely Change The EV Battery Game https://twistedsifter.com/2023/11/20-40-million-goldmine-of-lithium-found-in-the-u-s-and-could-completely-change-the-ev-battery-game/ 162 comments economics
- Some valiant efforts of a group of Englishmen trying to identify USA's states and a group of Americans trying to identify Europe's countries - collection of hand-filled maps. https://twistedsifter.com/2014/01/americans-and-brits-label-maps-of-europe-and-us/ 6 comments europe
- Quantum Processor Completes 9,000 Years of Work in 36 Microseconds https://twistedsifter.com/2022/07/quantum-processor-completes-9000-years-of-work-in-36-microseconds/ 7 comments cryptocurrency
- Blue Honey Mystery Solved as Bees Found Visiting Local M&M Factory https://twistedsifter.com/2021/06/blue-honey-mystery-solved-as-bees-found-visiting-local-mm-factory/ 3 comments nottheonion
- Oldie but good: How accurately could you draw a bike from memory? https://twistedsifter.com/2016/04/artist-asks-people-to-draw-bicycle-from-memory-and-renders-results/ 4 comments bicycling
- Lunatic Rides Inflatable Pizza Slice Off 300 ft Iceberg in Greenland https://twistedsifter.com/videos/lunatic-rides-inflatable-pizza-off-iceberg/ 7 comments nottheonion
- TIL the old town of Bonn has streets lined with Japanese Cherry trees, which are absolutely stunning when in bloom. http://twistedsifter.com/2017/05/cherry-blossom-tunnels-of-bonn-germany/ 21 comments germany
- Rare Photos of Egypt from 1870s http://twistedsifter.com/2011/11/vintage-photos-of-egypt-from-1870s/ 5 comments history
- About that speech last night. Unfortunately, President Trump's AG is also a Putin Puppet. http://twistedsifter.com/2017/02/best-of-tiny-trump-meme/ 4 comments politics
- Turkish Engineers Build Full-Scale, Driveable BMW Transformer http://twistedsifter.com/2016/09/bmw-transformer-by-letrons/ 4 comments europe
- "Bosco Verticale", the Vertical Forest Residential Towers in Milan, Italy http://twistedsifter.com/2016/06/vertical-forest-residential-towers-in-milan-by-boeri-studio/ 37 comments europe
- The White House’s Pete Souza Has Shot Nearly 2M Photos of Obama, Here are 55 of His Favorites http://twistedsifter.com/2016/07/pete-souza-white-house-photog-favorite-obama-photos/ 13 comments politics
- 100 Years Ago, Artists Were Asked to Depict the Year 2000, These Were the Results http://twistedsifter.com/2015/11/artists-from-1900-depict-the-year-2000/#.v1f1ia_hcmo.facebook 35 comments history
- What it's like to return a 150 mph serve (video) http://twistedsifter.com/videos/what-its-like-to-return-150-mph-tennis-serve/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Twistedsifter+%28TwistedSifter+%29 4 comments tennis
- 30 Rare Color Photos of the Russian Empire from 100+ Years Ago http://twistedsifter.com/2015/04/rare-color-photos-of-the-russian-empire-from-100-years-ago/ 15 comments russia
- The Largest Airplane Ever Built «TwistedSifter http://twistedsifter.com/2015/01/largest-airplane-ever-built-antonov-an-225-mriya/ 6 comments russia
- During WWII, Lockheed air force base was hidden from enemy aircraft by throwing a giant net on top. Complete with houses, roads and trees, the disguise gave the appearance of a rural community living over the base http://twistedsifter.com/2012/01/camouflage-cali-hiding-air-bases-factories-plants-netting-wwii/ 45 comments history
- Mugshots of Criminals that I found on twistedsifter.com, and thought r/history would appreciate http://twistedsifter.com/2013/10/vintagecandid-mugshots-of-dapper-criminals/ 4 comments history
- A different collection of 40 cool maps about the world (higher quality, much less BS than the Washington Post one) http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/ 3 comments geopolitics
- A lady prints 3D faces from DNA she finds on discarded objects such as gum, cigarettes, and hair. http://twistedsifter.com/2013/05/3d-faces-printed-from-dna-in-discarded-objects-heather-dewey-hagborg/ 23 comments technology
- Color pictures of life in the 1940s http://twistedsifter.com/2011/11/incredible-color-photographs-of-u-s-life-in-the-1940s/ 4 comments history
- Most amazing mayor. Jon Gnarr of Reykjavik. http://twistedsifter.com/2012/11/jon-gnarr-mayor-reykjavik-world-most-interesting/ 13 comments europe
- 15 Beautiful Libraries Around the World http://twistedsifter.com/2011/10/beautiful-libraries-around-the-world/ 24 comments books
- O Nature, U so scary! http://twistedsifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/70-lightning-bolts-ikaria-island-lightning-storm.jpg 4 comments reddit.com
- This is a woman. Taken after being charged for murder. http://twistedsifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/vintage-mugshots-black-and-white-3.jpg 8 comments reddit.com
- Mugshots of 1920's era Sydney criminals, with their names, crimes, dates. [x-post from r/Australia] http://twistedsifter.com/2011/05/vintage-mugshots-from-1920s-black-white/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+twistedsifter+%28twistedsifter+%29 6 comments reddit.com
- TIL That there is a parasitic louse that eats a fishes tongue and then acts as the tongue!! http://twistedsifter.com/2009/09/tongue-eating-parasite/ 4 comments reddit.com
- It starts with an innocent photograph. WARP 6 TO PHOTOSHOP. ENGAGE! And there it is. A baby is born. The original? Long forgotten. Extremely Bad parenting... http://twistedsifter.com/2011/02/born-free-baby-tossing-photoshop/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+twistedsifter+%28twistedsifter+%29 38 comments reddit.com
- Mike Tyson's Abandoned 80s Mansion in Ohio. http://twistedsifter.com/2009/03/mike-tysons-abandoned-80s-mansion-in-ohio/ 4 comments reddit.com
- This scares the shit out of me http://twistedsifter.com/2010/05/giant-hole-in-water-bell-mout-spillways/ 56 comments reddit.com
- It is a model of the known universe. Inspired by the writing of Stephen Hawking and loosely based on the anthropic theory. Scroll down the page. http://twistedsifter.com/2009/12/universe-ring-by-to-22/ 34 comments science
- How To Lose $1.93 Million in 7 Hands of High-Stakes Poker http://twistedsifter.com/2009/11/how-to-lose-193-million-in-7-hands-of-poker/ 6 comments poker
- Nerds Rule: reCAPTCHA is a brilliant renovation to CAPTCHA that will be used to digitize old text and transcripts...one CAPTCHA entry at a time http://twistedsifter.com/2009/06/why-nerds-rule-luis-von-ahn-and-recaptcha/ 14 comments technology
- What Are Your Thoughts on the Cowboys Stadium? Monstrosity or Modern-Day Colosseum? http://twistedsifter.com/2009/09/new-dallas-cowboys-stadium/ 11 comments sports
- The Most One-Dimensional Players in Professional Sports -- (Who would you pick Reddit?) http://twistedsifter.com/2009/06/the-most-one-dimensional-players-in-sports/ 3 comments sports
- Hi-Def F-16 Flight Simulator provides 20/40 visual acuity and nets $87.7 million contract from US Air Force http://twistedsifter.com/2009/06/the-ultimate-hd-f-16-flight-simulator-gets-877-million-us-air-force-contract/ 12 comments technology
- What's Par-3 and 900 yds? The 19th at Legend Golf Course, South Africa - Helicopter to tee box and a cool million for a hole-in-one http://twistedsifter.com/2009/05/the-longest-par-3-in-the-world-900-yards-legend-golf-safari-resort-south-africa/ 16 comments sports