World’s Strangest

Photo: David Clugston This looks like something fun you can build for/with your dad on Father’s Day weekend: Adam Savage of Mythbusters built his own hovercraft out of plywood, leaf blower, shower curtain, duct [...]

56-year-old Philippe Loret believes that his father Jean-Marie Loret was Hitler’s secret lovechild. Philippe had avoided going public with his claim w…

Have you stocked up on chips for the big football weekend? Enhance your enjoyment of Fritos and chili by reading up on the chips, which were first mass-produced by C.E. Doolin after he bought the recipe from a Mexican chef named Gustavo Olquin in 1932. Doolin’s daughter Kaleta wrote a book about her father and [...]

While researching the post 10 Heroic Battlefield Medics, I came across a couple of fascinating stories about military chaplains and their wartime exploits. Those stories were filed away for later, and they grew into a list of stories that deserve to be told and remembered. They are presented here in more or less chronological order. 1. [...]

These aren’t your father’s Green Army Men! GOOD ART in Los Angeles remade the iconic plastic green army men (with skulls) in sterling silver: Link – Thanks Shana!

Earlier this year, Rob Lammle discussed the life of Stalin’s daughter Svetlana in a piece on famous defectors. The New York Times is reporting that she passed away last week in Wisconsin. Here’s an excerpt from Rob’s story. Svetlana Alliluyeva was born in 1926 to Nadezhda Alliluyeva and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. She was the [...]

Princess Leia, say it ain’t so -he may be hardcore, but he’s not only evil, he’s also your father! Well, it still looks pretty darn awesome either way. Link

In this five-minute clip from The BBC’s The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out, physicist Richard Feynman talks about his father, and how Feynman was taught by his father, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and good old-fashioned experimentation. It’s a nice look into the origins of Feynman’s thought processes, and how he attempted to pass them on [...]

In 1983, when he as fifteen years old, Craig Smith broke his father’s soldering iron. He fixed it (above) using parts of a toy made to resemble Han Solo’s blaster (below). It still works! And, of course, it has a scope. You need a scope if you’re soldering from a great distance. Link | Photos: Craig [...]

The father of redditor BronyaCovooper carves monkey sculptures out of dried peach pits. All it takes him is a pocket knife and thirty minutes of work. Link -via Nerdcore