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I printed out Facebook’s terms of service (10 point font or smaller) and attached all the pages together into a single master document, eliminating all blank spaces. (The picture on the bottom shows the first page of this massive undertaking.) Then I took this picture of this enormous monstrosity:

The cake pictured below was baked in honor of the great Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, whose abstract art “reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements,” to quote from Wikipedia. (As an aside, both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day of the same year: 12 February 1809!)

Hat tip: @pickover

We have mixed feelings about “Black History Month.” On the one hand, joyous celebrations of so many great heroes (especially unsung heroes) are in order, but at the same time, such celebrations and remembrances should not be confined to a single month. Bravo to Black history writ large!