Friday links

The inspiration for Churchill's "We shall fight on the beaches... we shall never surrender" speech: 75 years ago, the evacuation by a flotilla of small boats of 300K British and French troops from Dunkirk took place.

How Long You Can Freeze Various Foods For in One Giant Chart.

I Made an Untraceable AR-15 'Ghost Gun' in My Office — And It Was Easy.

Tomorrow, June 6, is D-Day: quotes (Shakespeare, Eisenhower, Churchill), videos (footage, FDR's and Reagan's speeches, a Lego re-enactment), lots of links.

Watch how seeds grow into vegetables in these fascinating time lapses.

How to Turn a Stadium Full of People into Thousands of Pixels.

ICYMI, Wednesday's links are here, including terrible pictures of men with cats (and Nazis with cats), what your beer says about you, how WW2 made America literate, the extra stomachs that butterflies have attached to their vaginas, and, for Goat Trauma Awareness Month, a map of every goat in the United States​.