☀️ Awesome Things, Vol 185: Moo Deng, Kid Carousel, Party Train, Florida Man
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On to this week’s Awesome Things:
Meet Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo so popular you can visit her for only 5 minutes
A baby pygmy hippopotamus in a Thailand zoo has quickly become a worldwide internet sensation after the zoo began posting videos of her. [If you wanna see her in action, Twitter is chock full of Moo Deng clips.]
How to Stop Giving a F*ck What Anyone Thinks
Caring too much about what others think can be a real buzzkill. It can hold you back from living your best life, pursuing your dreams, or being authentic.
Here’s how to stop giving a f*ck what anyone thinks and start living life on your terms.
Croissant-shaped lamp on Temu discovered to be actual pastry
When the TikToker user received a parcel from Temu, she was shocked to see that inside was a real croissant, not the croissant lamp she had ordered.
Play DOS games online in your browser
The site currently features 639 original DOS games to play online in your browser.
SoCal-to-Vegas bullet train shares renderings of train interiors, including ‘party car’
Brightline West, the company working to build the nation’s first electric high-speed rail system between Southern California and Las Vegas, has released new renderings that show what its trains might look like when the system is operational.
florida man
Shirtless Florida man found climbing tree ‘like Tarzan’ after police chase
“He’s literally in a tree right now, trying to climb it like Tarzan,” an officer said shortly before Kiser was caught on camera failing to swing from one branch to the other.
Totally Kid Carousel
When Milo Mottola was commissioned to create a carousel for the Riverbank State Park on Manhattan's Hudson River atop the North River Sewage Treatment Plant, he united the children from the neighborhood to design it along with him.
Living for the unremarkable moments
Age grants us permission to be curious about every ordinary day.
How to live? When I look up and around, I finally see that almost everything I need is here. It is not everything I’ve ever wanted, which I’m sure would make me feel happy and fulfilled every moment. But all the facets of love are here: voices, faces, the sounds of the garden, music, rich and elaborate silences.
From the Twittersphere
🐦 I interviewed my daughter every first day of school since kindergarten. The last one is now done, since she is a senior. Here's how it turned out.
🐦 Dawid Godziek riding a bike, performing tricks, on top of moving train.
🐦 Disco in the 80s but everyone is Lionel Messi.
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