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191A jeweled folding implement in the British Museum packs dining utensils, writing tools, grooming tools, and two tiny dice into one object.
192For the 1925 World’s Fair, André Citroën’s name appeared in giant illuminated letters on three faces of the Eiffel Tower.
193Rare Kafka manuscripts, sketches, letters, and a Hebrew-learning notebook eventually joined the Max Brod Archive at the National Library of Israel.
194Jeanne Villepreux-Power developed glass enclosures to observe living marine animals and test how the paper nautilus forms its shell.
195Record attempts have turned rows of people holding mattresses into large-scale falling-domino performances.
196Two trunks intercepted at Heathrow held a survey of Mesopotamian writing so complete that its very perfection helped reveal a modern forgery workshop.
197Archaeologists at Fort Stanwix recovered a four-centimeter Frozen Charlotte doll manufactured inside a glass vial whose intended use remains unknown.
198John Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem turned answering machines and ordinary telephone lines into a free, citywide poetry broadcast.
199A 1949 novelty radio placed tubes, an antenna, and controls on a pith helmet sold in bright colors.
The Weird Please editorial desk collects true stories about curious inventions, peculiar history, strange science, and the gloriously unexpected.
