Open Culture
openculture.com

The best free cultural & educational media on the web

The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks

Open CultureHN
Read on Scour →
Feeds

Nikola Tesla Accurately Predicted the Rise of Wireless Technology & the Smartphone in 1926

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

Celebrate Halloween with Michael Jackson’s Horrifically Entertaining “Thriller” Music Video—and a Behind-the-Scenes Documentary

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

When Marcel Duchamp Drew a Mustache & Goatee on the Mona Lisa (1919)

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

Roger Waters Reflects on the Haunting Psychological Decline of Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

A Tour of a Utopian Home Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Presented by His Last Living Client

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

Leck Mich Im Arsch (“Kiss My Ass”): Listen to Mozart’s Scatological Canon in B Flat (1782)

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

Meet the Forgotten Female Artist Behind the World’s Most Popular Tarot Deck (1909)

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

How Saul Bass Designed the Strange Original Poster for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

74 Ways Characters Die in Shakespeare’s Plays Shown in a Handy Infographic: From Snakebites to Lack of Sleep

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

Aldous Huxley to George Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949)

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

You Can Now See the Parthenon Without Scaffolding for the First Time in 200 Years

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe’s Death: 19 Theories on What Caused the Poet’s Demise

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

How Did The World Get So Ugly?: Then Versus Now

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

Explore 1,100 Works of Art by Georgia O’Keeffe: They’re Digitized and Free to View Online

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

The 135 Movies You Must See to Understand Cinema

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

Alejandro Jodorowsky Explains How Tarot Cards Can Give You Creative Inspiration

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

When a Salvador Dalí Sketch Was Stolen from Rikers Island Prison (2003)

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

How Thieves Stole Priceless Jewels at the Louvre in 8 Minutes

Open Culture
Read on Scour →
Feeds

Keyboard shortcuts

Navigation

Next / previous post
j/k
Open post
oorEnter
Preview post
v

Post actions

Love post
a
Like post
l
Dislike
d
Undo reaction
u
Save / unsave
s

Recommendations

Add interest / feed
Enter
Not interested
x

Go to

Home
gh
Interests
gi
Feeds
gf
Likes
gl
History
gy
Changelog
gc
Settings
gs
Discover
gb
Search
/

General

Show this help
?
Submit feedback
!
Close modal / unfocus
Esc

Press ? anytime to show this help