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Listverse – The Ultimate Top 10 Lists
If you enjoy collections of trivia, this site is for you. There are Top 10 lists on just about every imaginable and unimaginable topic including the Top 10 Incredible Sounds, the Top 10 Well Deserved Nicknames, and the Top 10 Herbivores You Probably Want to Avoid. The archives page lists the most recent 25 lists and then all lists by category including Art, Crime, History, Literature, Movies, Music, and Nature.
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Time.com's 50 Best Websites of ... (2011 ed)
TIME's annual salute to sites and services that keep you entertained and informed, save you time and money — and maybe even change your life.
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Top10zen
“Our goal is to create the largest, most trustworthy and informative top 10 lists by using the power of our users to help write, contribute to, and vote on lists - thereby creating lists that the community agrees on.” [About Us] Each list includes five, ten, or even twenty items on topics as varied as 5 Mysterious Deep Sea Discoveries, 10 Famous Trios Throughout History, 20 Cool Sayings To Share With Your Loved Ones [images], and 20 Funny Bathroom Signs. There’s definitely something for everyone here!
Hobbies
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NGC Coin Explorer -- American coins
The NGC Coin Explorer is the most comprehensive reference for United States coins. This complete catalog has images and specifications for every U.S. coin, including mintage figures and current melt values for all gold, silver, and platinum coins. Detailed descriptions with insightful analysis are available for almost every coin. NGC certified populations are also displayed in simple chart and graph formats. Collectors—and future collectors—can easily find out how much coins are worth and how their values have changed over time using the integrated NGC Coin Price Guide and actual auction prices realized. NGC Registry scores and an upcoming auctions feature guide future purchases. Like other great online tools from NGC, it’s easy to use because of its innovative and intuitive features. Best of all – access to this valuable resource is free to all users.
The Great Outdoors
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American Field Guide
"Immerse yourself in the great outdoors without ever leaving your desk. Tap into the sights and sounds from a wide variety of environments throughout America. We've collected over 1400 video clips that enable you to experience America's wilderness firsthand - simply browse the topics or search for your particular interests." From PBS.
Games, Puzzles & Quizzes
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Classic Arcade Games
From the website: “Classic Games Arcade is a 100% free online arcade games website. We have lots of free classic arcade games which you can add to your myspace, blog or website. We have loads of retro games from mario, galga, metal slug, sonic, street fighter 2 to pac man. All the old arcade games on this site are proven console and arcade classics.”
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Free Rice
Play a word game and expand your vocabulary and at the same time earn free rice to be distributed by the United Nations World Food Program. WFP is the world’s largest food assistance agency, working with over 3,000 other organizations in over 75 countries. “WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, and job performance.”
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Jigzone
Do some online jigsaw puzzles--registration is not required.
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The Mensa Workout
Take a challenging quiz just for fun.
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20Q (Twenty Questions)
20Q takes the old Twenty Questions game to new levels as players think of an animal, vegetable, mineral or other item, and the 20Q artificial intelligence guesses what they are thinking in twenty questions, or less. Categories include 20Q TV, 20Q Movies, 20Q People, 20Q Music, and 20Q Sports as well as Star Trek, Disney, and The Simpsons.
Fun Sites to Browse
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Mental Floss
For the record: mental_floss magazine is an intelligent read, but not too intelligent. We're the sort of intelligent that you hang out with for a while, enjoy our company, laugh a little, smile a lot and then we part ways. Great times. And you only realize how much you learned from us after a little while. Like a couple days later when you're impressing your friends with all these intriguing facts and things you picked up from us, and they ask you how you know so much, and you think back on that great afternoon you spent with us and you smile.
Fun Stuff -- Odds & Ends
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Twisting Balloons 101
Learn how to twist balloons like a pro.
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Color Our Collections
Launched by The New York Academy of Medicine Library in 2016, #ColorOurCollections is an annual coloring festival on social media during which libraries, museums, archives and other cultural institutions around the world share free coloring content featuring images from their collections.
The annual #ColorOurCollections week generally occurs on the first full week of February, when new coloring books are released on this website and shared throughout the week by the participating institutions on social media. The coloring books from 2020 and previous years remain accessible year-round for free download.
Sports
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Sports Reference
"A combination of sites providing top notch statistics and resources for sports fans everywhere. Our aim is to be the easiest-to-use, fastest, most complete sources for sports statistics anywhere." Includes coverage of professional baseball, basketball, football, and hockey as well as college football and basketball.
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