Well here's a worthy earworm for ya. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxyUFRholnA&t=126s

A free app built by fans of the blocks, Brickit for iOS is a handy tool for situations where you have tons of bricks but no idea what to do with them. https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/03/how-to-identify-a-pile-of-lego-on-your-iphone

1971 gave us, among other things, A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick's shocking descent into dystopian cruelty; Get Carter, the British crime film, whose murky fatalism offered an antithesis to the cheerful escapism of the swinging sixties; and Dirty Harry, in which Clint Eastwood's squinting, gravel-voiced cop announced a return to cowboy justice against hippie "punks."
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210616-why-1971-was-an-extraordinary-year-in-film

In the U.S., multiple subscriptions are becoming more common. Here, 21% of respondents said they pay for at least one online news outlet, and for those who pay up, the median number of subscriptions is two. https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/06/many-people-worldwide-say-theyre-losing-interest-in-news-but-more-are-paying-for-it/

Wang word processors -- the giant killers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuX-6761KTQ

A group of academics partnered with the military to try to predict the next war using novels.
"The name of the initiative was Project Cassandra: for the next two years, university researchers would use their expertise to help the German defence ministry predict the future." https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/26/project-cassandra-plan-to-use-novels-to-predict-next-war

This made me laugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU90TL7EdaY

Hundreds of Franz Kafka's private letters, sketches, and other papers have been digitized
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/647344/franz-kafka-personal-document-archive-online

Researchers have developed a face mask that can detect SARS-CoV-2 in a wearer’s breath within just 90 minutes. The sensor technology can be programmed to detect any kind of virus or toxin and is small enough to be integrated into clothing fabrics. https://newatlas.com/science/face-mask-detects-coronavirus-mit-harvard-biosensor

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. --Fredrick Douglas
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

HOW IS THIS GUY NOT THE HERO IN A HISTORICAL NOVEL?
The French refused to accept the potato, referring to it as “hog feed” and believing that these tubers caused leprosy. In fact, the French Parliament officially banned potatoes in 1748. https://www.farmersalmanac.com/parmentier-made-potatoes-popular-28537

Like Bowie? Pulp book covers? This'll make you smile. https://www.openculture.com/2019/04/david-bowie-songs-reimagined-as-pulp-fiction-book-covers.html

"Of all the land ever protected and conserved by official action, 42% was in the past decade. That pace of problem-solving sets a good example of what can be done with other global challenges." https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2021/0628/Park-it!-Why-the-world-is-greener

Why does every culture have legends of monstrous humanoids, and why are they are always depicted as fearsome and dangerous?
Because the legends were real. The orcs were real. https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/when-orcs-were-real

The farmed oyster reefs filter water and create habitats for marine life, but they'll also help protect the coastline against climate change, creating reefs that act as natural barriers against erosion and storm surges. https://modernfarmer.com/2021/06/can-oyster-farming-save-the-north-carolina-coast/

Unlike frisbees, beer mats tend to flip in the air and fly with a backspin. Now physicists at the University of Bonn have come up with a theoretical model to explain the phenomenon. #ILoveScience https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/the-physics-of-why-that-flying-beer-coaster-is-nothing-like-a-frisbee/

"In the strongest gain since August, employers added 850,000 jobs last month. And average wages rose a healthy 3.6% from a year earlier, a sign that businesses need workers so badly they're willing to ramp up pay."
https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-c3f1e519ada8bf7b83c07d3c87a89df8

There might have been a Black sailor on the Mary Rose. King Henry VIII’s flagship sank in 1545, but archaeologists have been studying bones recovered in 1982. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-wales-57601942

The underground heart of Rome’s Colosseum, a labyrinth of passageways and chambers called the hypogeum, has opened to the public fully following an extensive restoration https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/colosseum-underground-labyrinth-opens-fully-to-visitors.html