The World’s Largest Rubber Duck

Measuring nearly 46 feet tall by 55 feet long, Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman’s Rubber Duck is making waves across the globe. Its most recent splashdown is in Hong Kong, where it will sit in Victoria Harbour through June 2, making passersby feel like children again, both in spirit and in stature.

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Movies in Color takes iconic film stills and breaks them down into their corresponding color palettes, updating daily, with an option to search by cinematographer.

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The Herschel Observatory officially reached the end of its helium supply this past week, marking the mission’s shutdown after nearly four years of capturing truly stunning images of outer space.

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What does the average human look like? Wikipedia editors had to argue it out amongst themselves in choosing a single image to illustrate the article entitled “Human,” and the lucky winning image that gets to represent the entire human race is of a northern Thai couple from an indigenous hill tribe, carrying a banana plant.

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This rare recording of the Beatles playing through a number of White Album outtakes at George Harrison’s home in Esher, England is unusually clear for a bootleg album, and the acoustic renditions put quite a different spin on well-known staple songs.

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Even the cutest kids can be truly terrifying sometimes, as a recent Reddit thread on “the creepiest thing your young child has ever said to you” proves.

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The Tony Awards will take place on June 9 this year, so in the lead-up to the awards ceremony, here’s a full list of the nominees with some highlight clips.

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The Netherlands just crowned the first Dutch king in over a hundred years. Goodbye, Queen Beatrix; hallo en welkom, King Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand.