There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, off by one errors, and that we only have one joke and it's not all that funny.

"The color chartreuse is named for the liqueur. Like orange, which began as a fruit, this sharp and bright shade of green only secondarily became a color." https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/12/17/chartreuse-the-color-of-elixirs-flappers-and-alternate-realities/

A hungry herd of 500 goats has helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from the California wildfires.
You had me at "Vincent Van Goat."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50248549

Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/undercover-reporter-reveals-life-in-a-polish-troll-farm

Breaking Bad: The Incomplete History of the St Albans Bible
https://medievalbooks.nl/2019/11/01/breaking-bad/

"Almost two decades after the first crew arrived to live at the International Space Station, astronauts will be able to make fresh food. That's if the test oven, designed to bake in zero gravity, works as planned." https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/03/us/cookies-in-space-trnd/index.html

You can make a digital version of mechanical music boxes, with your own tunes, at Music Box Fun https://musicboxfun.com/

Brian Kernighan has a "tell all" book about the birth of Unix. https://amzn.to/3397uGh

On-Line Pizza Idea Is Clever but Only Half-Baked (1994) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-25-fi-31168-story.html

A T. rex bite could have crushed a car. Here's how. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/09/t-rex-bite-could-have-crushed-a-car-thanks-to-its-stiff-skull/

650 people formed a human chain to move children’s books from one library to another
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/650-people-formed-a-human-chain-to-move-childrens-books-from-one-library-to-another/ar-AAJCUdM

"The Roman pearl craze began after Pompey the Great’s military campaigns in Asia Minor and Armenia (66-63 B.C.). During Pompey’s triumphal return to Rome in 61 B.C., his procession included 33 crowns encrusted with pearls, a pearl-decorated shrine, and a portrait of the general made entirely of pearls."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2019/03-04/roman-republics-captivation-with-pearls

This island for sale was built as a radio broadcast station in the 1940s. Asking a mere $13 million, a half hour from NYC. https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-1006-zfrjk7/1-columbia-island-new-rochelle-ny-10805

Dinner's in the oven for our 40th-anniversary meal: brisket braised with carrots and dried fruit. It's one way for us to try out this new-to-us cookbook.

https://amzn.to/2C2y9Zv

Here's what happens when people are asked to redraw famous logos from memory https://magazine.adler.co.uk/promotional-idea/we-asked-100-people-to-draw-famous-logos-from-memory-here-is-what-they-drew/

The Story of the Team Behind the 6502 https://www.team6502.org/

What are the best first lines in fiction? http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191022-what-are-the-best-first-lines-in-fiction

A royal obsession with black magic started Europe's most brutal witch hunts https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2019/10/royal-obsession-black-magic-started-europes-most-brutal-witch

“J.R.R. Tolkien created Middle Earth to give his languages somewhere to be spoken.” On the scientific and cultural impact of invented languages, or “conlags.” https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/conlangs-klingon-taensa-invented-languages.html