"Cat is thought to have snuck across the wet tiles which were drying in the sun in AD 100" bbc.com/news/uk-england-glou…

"A wager between Thackeray, Brooks, and Tenniel to see who could write the smallest." theguardian.com/books/galler…

Perhaps the only rare book auction listing that could double as a Hollywood spec script (spotted by @marktewfik)

"Road to the Stars," a Soviet film about space exploration from 1957. youtube.com/watch?v=9CX0oSjw…!

The ancient Roman version of a Swiss Army knife, 3rd century CE, at @fitzmuseum_UK. fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/se…

Detail from "The Entombment," an unfinished painting by Michelangelo from c. 1500. upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped…

A question to an NYPL librarian from October 1976, via @nypl and @GuardianBooks. theguardian.com/books/2015/m…

A catalog of imaginary seeds drawn by two boys in the 19th c., via @rebeccaonion slate.com/articles/news_and_…

"I found my arm taken off above the elbow." A Crimean war soldier's ambidextrous diary, 1855 opinionator.blogs.nytimes.co…

Last day for $5 merch tomorrow, including @beardhero's map of Freuchen’s Greenland expedition shop.theappendix.net/product…