Thursday links

It's the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Here's an uncropped version of the Sgt. Pepper album cover, with the unused Hitler cutout. 

Why It’s So Hard to Find the Original Owners of Nazi-Looted Art.

If We Want Bionic Limbs That Actually Work, We Might Need Smarter Amputations.

June Is Goat Trauma Awareness Month: here's a map of every goat in the United States, with bonus goat-related links.

Japan is suffering from a ninja shortage.

Who Started the First Fire?

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include the problem of bodies on Everest, what it's like to be struck by lightning, the anniversary of the fall of Constantinople, and Kurt Vonnegut's letter home after being released from imprisonment in an underground slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse Five) during the Dresden bombing.

A Map of Every Goat in the United States, with bonus goat-related links

At WaPo:

There were 2,621,514 goats in the United States as of 2012, the year of a recent USDA Agricultural Census. If America's goats were their own state, its population would be larger than that of Wyoming, Vermont, D.C. and North Dakota -- combined. This is what all those goats look like on a map.

America's goat population is heavily concentrated in the Southwest, Texas in particular. Nearly 80 percent of America's goats are raised for meat. Sixteen percent are raised for milk, with the remaining 6 percent is comprised of Angora goats raised for mohair.

You'll find commercial goat farms operating in 2,996 of the country's 3,143 counties. Of the top ten goat-producing counties, 8 are in Texas and two are in Arizona. In Sutton County, Texas, goats outnumber people 14-to-1. In Edwards County, also in Texas, the ratio is 22-to-1. All in all, goats outnumber people in 21 U.S. counties, all but one of which are in Texas. 

And, because no post about goats is complete without it, here's the supercut of goats yelling like humans (Turn the sound down but not off):

Pelated posts and links:

Here are goats singing the US national anthem.

Apparently "Goat Arousal Expert" is a real job.

The Obama administration put in place new goatherder regulations to assist foreign workers who fill goat herding positions in the U.S.

How Mariah Carey makes goats produce more milk.

Tree-Climbing Goats Scatter Seeds By Spitting.

Friday links

Churchill's "We shall fight on the beaches...we shall never surrender" speech: it's the anniversary of the evacuation of Dunkirk by a flotilla of small boats.

The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster.

Dagger in King Tut's tomb was made with iron from a meteorite.

June Is Goat Trauma Awareness Month.

Stonehenge Rock Source Identified.

Read the NSA's Exceedingly Weird Guide to the Internet.

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include Vonnegut's letter home after imprisonment in an underground slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse Five, specifically) during the Dresden bombing, what happens when you swallow gum, laser helicopters, and Beatrix Potter's pet pothead bunny (on which she based Peter Rabbit).

Thursday links

Watch (and listen to) this goat eating Doritos, with bonus goat links.

How long would it take for a single person to fill up an entire swimming pool with their own saliva?

10 Real-Life Technologies Inspired By Video Games

Finalists from Smithsonian’s Annual Photo Contest - and you can vote for the Readers Choice awards.

How Many Nobel Prizes Could Sir Isaac Newton Win?

10 of History's Most Famous Prostitutes.

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include a video tour of the Museum of Bad Art, the unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night", $8.4 million for Michelangelo’s Tuscan villa, how not to get killed by a cow (and the Brit farmer who turned Nazi super cows into sausage because they were too aggressive, and Picasso’s self portraits from age 15 to age 90.

Watch (and listen to) this goat eating Doritos, with bonus goat links

He/she/it actually sounds rather human:

And, because no post about goats is complete without it, here's the supercut of goats yelling like humans (Turn the sound down but not off):

Related links:

A Map of Every Goat in the United States.

Here are goats singing the US national anthem.

Apparently "Goat Arousal Expert" is a real job.

Obama admin's new goatherder regulations to assist foreign workers who fill goat herding positions in the U.S.

How Mariah Carey makes goats produce more milk.

June Is Goat Trauma Awareness Month

Game of Goats, A Yelling Goats Version of the ‘Game of Thrones’ Theme Song.

Goat eating Doritos via Joanne Casey

Wednesday links

Terrible pictures of men with cats, plus Nazis with cats.

Well, that's handy: Butterflies Have an Extra Stomach Attached to Their Vaginas.

How the Second World War Made America Literate.

June Is Goat Trauma Awareness Month: here's a map of every goat in the United States, with bonus goat-related links.

Rich Star Trek Fan Creates the World's First USS Enterprise Building.

What Your Beer Says About You.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include Vonnegut's letter home after his imprisonment in an underground slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse Five) during the Dresden bombing, France's no-man's land due to poisoning during World War 1,  how to ship a whale via UPS, and the banning of pre-sliced bread in the US. 

Yelling goats are so last year: here are goats singing the US national anthem

For reference, or just because you want to watch it again, here's the supercut of goats yelling like humans (Turn the sound down but not off):

via Unique Daily

June Is Goat Trauma Awareness Month

The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation was created in 1982 by a small group that originally came together as a an informal support group for problems that were the result of traumatic experiences at petting zoos as children.

Related, here's the supercut of goats yelling like humans - turn the sound down, but not off: