Modern Compendium of Junk Knowledge

Junk Drawer Index

1859 Carrington Event

7-UP

Acoustic Shadow

Antikythera Mechanism

Are You Down for It?

ASMR

Attention Economy

Baghdad Battery

Bee-Line

Bless Your Heart

Blue Devils

Boarding House

Bubble Wrap

Busman's Holiday

Contrast Effect

Dancing Plague of 1518

Everything is Cake

Five Second Rule

Fossil Word

Frisbie AKA Frisbee

Garden Gnomes

Glued Screwed and Tattooed

Great Circle Route

Great Emu War

Great Emu War

Great Stork Derby

Groucho Glasses

Hermits for Hire

History of Pencil Erasers

Invention of the Stapler

Ivan Krylov’s Fable

Kinsley Gaffe

Lady Godiva Legend

Lawn Flamingos

Letter "E" Frequency

Level Playing Field

Library of Alexandria

Lindy Effect

Loneliest Whale in the World

London "Pea Soupers"

Magic 8-Ball

Melting Point of a Diamond

Midwest Goodbye

Minced Oaths

One-Hit Wonder

Origin of the "High Five"

Pandora’s Box

Paper Clips

Pez Dispensor

Planning Fallacy

Plug Nickel

Post-it Notes

Quaker Rebellion

Red Tape

Rubber Chicken

Sea Monkeys

Scuttlebutt

Silly String

Speed of a Sneeze

Three Body Problem

Triple-Hearted Octopus

Unlucky Thirteen

Velcro and Burrs

Voynich Manuscript

Weimar Reality

Whoopee Cushion

Wow! Signal