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

Braille

Bubble Wrap

Busman's Holiday

Butt Load

Chia Pets

Contrast Effect

Dancing Plague of 1518

Duct Tape

Everything is Cake

Five Second Rule

Fossil Word

Frisbie AKA Frisbee

Garden Gnomes

Glued Screwed and Tattooed

Grape-Nuts

Great Circle Route

Great Emu War

Great Emu War

Great Stork Derby

Greenhorn

Groucho Glasses

Hermits for Hire

History of Pencil Erasers

Hula Hoop

"Hum"

Invention of the Stapler

Ivan Krylov’s Fable

Kinsley Gaffe

Kleenex

Lady Godiva Legend

Lame Duck

Lava Lamp

Lawn Flamingos

Letter "E" Frequency

Level Playing Field

Library of Alexandria

Lindy Effect

Listerine

Loneliest Whale in the World

London "Pea Soupers"

Lysol

Magic 8-Ball

Melting Point of a Diamond

Microwave

Midwest Goodbye

Mimetic Theory

Minced Oaths

Murphy's Law

Mystery Meat

Neon Sign

One-Hit Wonder

Origin of the "High Five"

Pandora’s Box

Paper Clips

Pepper's Ghost

Pet Rock

Pez Dispensor

Piggy Bank

Planning Fallacy

Play-Doh

Plug Nickel

Poison Pill

Post-it Notes

Quaker Rebellion

Red Tape

Rubber Chicken

Sea Monkeys

Scot-Free

Scuttlebutt

Silly String

Slinky

Sniper

Speed of a Sneeze

Spitting Image

Super Glue

Telephone Game

The Bloop

Three Body Problem

Triple-Hearted Octopus

Unlucky Thirteen

Velcro and Burrs

Voynich Manuscript

Weimar Reality

WD-40

Whoopee Cushion

Wow! Signal

Yes Man