Reality Checks: Benefits of Wealth, Paying Rent in Horse Shoes, Sunken Ships, and Ghost Ships

Elizabeth — October 20, 2016

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Wealthy people get more sleep and better commutes. (via Ars Technica)
The queen of England is still paid rent in horseshoes and nails for a lease from the thirteenth century. (via Atlas Obscura)
Wreck of a German U-boat, supposedly disabled by a sea monster. (via The Guardian)
Abandoned ship creepily sails the arctic by itself. (via Vintage News)

Featured image credit: Steven Lilley via Flickr

Elizabeth

Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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