If you’re bored at work, and tired of playing those endless games of online sudoku, maybe you should try freerice.com. Why bother playing this game instead of perfecting your 1337 skillz at 3D pong? For every answer you get right, Freerice gives away 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger, also you could probably use the vocabulary help. As Mitch Hedberg might say, “Rice is a great food when I feel like eating a thousand of something.”

http://www.freerice.com

You see that ridiculous looking car at the top of this article? That comical abomination gets 95 miles per a gallon. It’s not even a modded hybrid. It’s an old civic. It is all at once ludicrous and inspiring, and an interesting example of hypermiling.

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