When the hour comes, what will be your moment?

A schism between the pro-panhandle and anti-panhandle factions eventually led to war, but both sides spent too much time working on their flag designs to actually do much fighting.

These before-and-after pictures depict how nearly 6 years of war in Syria damaged the city of Aleppo, which is now in ruins. Source

Mark Hamill’s tribute to Carrie

You can play with this puzzle forever, but you’ll never complete it. The Infinite Galaxy Puzzle has pieces that are printed front and back, contains no straight edges, and could theoretically be assembled in every possible way. Source Source 2

There is a depressing poem about society called Lost Generation that ends with the line: “And all of this will come true unless we choose to reverse it.” If you read it again in reverse, each line has an opposite outcome and it becomes uplifting. source

In the Philippines, there are caves full of mummified corpses that are curled up inside nutshell-shaped coffins. The process for making ‘Fire Mummies’ began before death, when a dying person had to ingest a very salty drink. After death, the bodies were smoked above a fire, molded into the fetal position, and had tobacco smoke blown into their mouths to shrink their insides. Source

If you receive a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type, a very strong feeling that something bad is about to happen will occur within a few minutes. source

Happy Perihelion Day! According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, we’re 3% closer to the Sun today than we are in July.

“Stuck the landing. With my mouth.”