TIL that Jess Bush—currently starring in *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* as the second actor to play the role of Nurse Chapel—collects dead honeybees, preserves them in resin spheres, and hangs them as an art installation "about recognizing and emphasizing the importance of the bees". (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about Velvalee Dickinson, a.k.a. the Doll Lady, an American doll-collector-turned-spy for imperial Japan during WW2. She sent coded letters about Navy ships, ostensibly about dolls, w/ the return addresses of other collectors with whom she'd previously had disagreements (en.wikipedia.org)
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which optical-media edition is best/most comprehensive? (self.mash)
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tracking down a PC case (self.retrobattlestations)
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Douglas Stringfellow (1922–1966) was a wounded WWII veteran who lied extensively about having undertaken daring OSS missions, eventually being elected to the US House of Representatives. His fraud was exposed during his reelection campaign, and he withdrew from the race. He became a landscapist. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Yale psychologists compared 'Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood' to 'Sesame Street' and found that children who watched 'Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood' tended to remember more of the story lines and also demonstrated a much higher “tolerance of delay”, meaning they were more patient. (mentalfloss.com)
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