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* Strained use: You can use Coca-Cola to clean your toilet bowl. Miracle Whip can be used for a facial. Carnation Nonfat Dry Milk will work as paint. Find these and many other nontraditional product uses at Wacky Uses (https://www.wackyuses.com).

* Solar tour: Take an interactive tour of our solar system at https://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/nineplanets.html. Lots of info for the budding astronomer.

* True grits: The Moonlit Road (https://www.themoonlitroad.com) serves up ghost stories and strange folk tales from the American South, both in print and in streaming audio.

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* Obsessive fan site of the week: Got a thing about Scully on “The X-Files”? Learn to say “Gillian Anderson is beautiful” in many languages at https://www.geocities.com/hollywood/3318/language.html. Expected but still sad: One of the languages is Klingon.

* Underground: Subway Navigator (https://metro.ratp.fr:10001/bin/cities/english) will help you find your route in more than 60 cities worldwide. But, like, the Los Angeles section could totally get into this century.

* I want it that way: You can’t escape the Backstreet Boys, but now you can get even at Must Be Destroyed: https://www.mustbedestroyed.com.

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