Odd book titles, U.S. presidents’ net worth, movies’ predictions, a literal periodic table, old wives’ rules...

Off topic: Odd book titles, U.S. presidents’ net worth, movies’ predictions, a literal periodic table, old wives’ rules:“Cooking with Poo” and other books contending for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. (via Marginal Revolution) For what it’s worth at the moment: the net worth of U.S. presidents. Remote-control bodies and other predictions of the future according to films, a timeline. The guy who made a periodic-table table explains. And rules for wives published by New York City’s Legal Aid Society in 1923 include “Do not permit your person to become unattractive. A slovenly wife makes a truant husband,” and “Do not spend too much time with your mother.”

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