You’re about to be the most interesting person at your next cocktail party, client dinner, or 8 hour QBR meeting.
Welcome to Click Clique, the monthly creative culture wrap up curated by the Wpromote Creative Department.
Pop by for a quick blast of fascinating, inspiring, imaginative, and straight-up weird bits bubbling up in culture. Then go forth and dazzle your friends and colleagues with a few epic nuggets of cultural gold.
01
Knock knock. Who's there? I have no idea, there's 80 secret doors in this house.
The O Museum in Washington DC has over 100 rooms and over 80 secret doors hidden throughout. Adding to the randomness is that the house was once used by early FBI agents, and Rosa Parks lived here for nearly a decade. Not a secret anymore.
02
Apparently, the world does need more cats on the Internet.
Scientists have discovered a new wild species of cat, the first in over a century. 'Leopardus Tilcayo' lives in Bolivia's Yungas forest ecoregion. Very little is known about it, although you can safely assume it will ignore you and claw your ankles when you walk by.
03
The newest 'it' museum for subversive art is a Walmart clearance section.
The artist currently known as "Obvious Plant" makes art by planting absurdly packaged bootleg products in stores for fans to find, and presumably for hourly employees to perform some incredibly frustrating price checks on.
04
Artist with time on his hands makes trash clock to remind him how much time he has on his hands.
“Glashütte Trash Clock” is a fully functioning clockwork made from trash and other stuff that artist Niklas Roy found in Glashütte, Saxony. It runs for about half an hour, striking a gong whenever the minute hand reaches the 12 o’clock position. You'd be hard pressed to find another garbage-related Youtube video that's as soothing as this one.
05
Trying to get swol? Skip the steroids and just take a whiff of a Hershey bar.
According to a new study published in Frontiers in Physiology, simply smelling chocolate helped men complete more leg extension repetitions without making the workout feel harder, with dark chocolate producing the strongest effect. The researchers think familiar food aromas may influence appetite and motivation by making the brain anticipate eating. Maybe we should sniff a Snickers before doing some heavy status reporting.
06
Can't find your lucky hat? Have you checked inside Old Faithful?
4.5 million visitors come to Yellowstone National Park every year to get their mind blown by massive geysers. While there, many of them also have their hats, sunglasses, and friendship bracelets blown off into nearby geysers, leaving the Park staff to pick up a literal ton of random objects that spoil the pristine beauty of the park's hydrothermal areas. $5 says there's a "Leave no Trace, Take Only Memories" hat in there somewhere.
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