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This site contains so much interesting stuff, like a list of great words, a catalog of the world's captive binturongs, and an incredible linkroll with so much cool stuff in it it inspired me to make my own list of underrated websites
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Wonderful foraging resource with a crowdsourced map of edible plants
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Another crowdsourced plant map, this time intended for citizen science. You can i.d. plants (and animals and fungi) with its algorithm and upload them, and sooner or later people will independently verify the i.d. or change it. If two people agree on the i.d., your observation is research-grade and could be used in a study! You can also find other people's observations on a map which makes this site a great foraging resource too.
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A joke conlang or "jokelang" which requires speakers to change their hat every syllable as a mandatory grammatical marker. Phonemes include a facepalm and clapping one's hands (only in syllables that pertain to penguins). The creator has translated the Babel text into kay(f)bop(t), and there is a 40 minute long video of him reading it aloud (with hats).
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A huge hand-color-penciled world to explore (there's a counter for how many of the 500 scenes you've visited so far)
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Reviews and sample swatches of nearly every fountain pen ink out there, you can also browse by color, brand, or properties (such as sheen or shading)
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The best beginner conlang resource I've ever encountered
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Another resource for conlangs (or whatever else you want to use the International Phonetic Alphabet for). If you click a sound, it'll say it aloud for you.
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Like Wordle but birds
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Like Wordle but morse code
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For all of your historical glass bottle date and identification needs
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A (now sadly inactive) annual contest to write the worst first sentence of a book. The archive is still up and still hilarious. An abridged version of the contest is still ongoing: Little Lytton Contest.
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Another annual contest, this time for wacky scientific research. In 2024, the Biology prize went to "Fordyce Ely and William E. Petersen, for exploding a paper bag next to a cat that’s standing on the back of a cow, to explore how and when cows spew their milk"
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