Thursday links

Fans of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: don't panic - today is Towel Day!

Why You Do Your Best Thinking In The Shower: Creativity and the “Incubation Period”.

15 Famous People Who Actually Married Their Cousins.

Classic Pin-Up Girls Before and After Editing: The Real Women Behind Gil Elvgren's Paintings.

The Curious Evolution of the Typewriter, in Pictures.

Finnish Brewery Sells 1000-Packs Of Beer.

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday, how to build your own medieval crossbow, when women started growing out and painting their nails, and the history of tea.

Friday links

Early attempts to produce the flying car we were supposed to have by now

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about male lactation.

How to find out everything Google knows about you.

Why Do We Put Candles on a Birthday Cake?

The Bloody History of the Barber Pole.

At What Age Do People Get Married Around the World?

A collection of  rarely-used funny inventions from the past.

ICYMI, Wednesday's links are here, and include Winston Churchill's "get out of prohibition free" doctor's note, the Floraphone (a WWI plan to turn trees into telephones), why we need a supervillain President, and  how monarch butterflies navigate.