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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
By Beau Hayhoe
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
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This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game 12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game
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12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game

From Tiger Woods’ surprisingly beatable low round to the golf course sitting 15,000+ feet above sea level.

By Cool Material
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

Good luck spotting Nike's best releases this week. They're all camo.

By Cool Material
Accessories
The Real McCoy’s Aviator Kit Bag

The aviator kit bag was originally designed to be used by paratroopers as a place to stuff their parachute after a successful landing. With it's wide opening and shorter design, it grew to become way more popular than the traditional duffel bag because it was easier to carry and access…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Microblade Pill Sized EDC Cutting Tool

Wallets. Pens. Watches. Knives. Caches. Flashlights. Lighters. Multi-tools. Bags. We could go on and on about the things that are part of the average everyday carry, but the specific items always vary from one guy to the next. The general trend is to keep going smaller and smaller, which is…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Amazon Prime Day 2019 [Updating Regularly]

Amazon Prime Day is back again to bring you another iteration of "Black Friday in July" with steep discounts on, well, pretty much everything. Yes, there will be a lot of junk on sale that the Internet will endlessly deride Amazon for with clever hashtags, but there will also be…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Prepare Yourselves: Amazon Prime Day Starts on Monday

The chaos that is Amazon Prime Day is almost upon us once again. It officially kicks off on Monday, July 15, but this time around it's a "A two-day parade of epic deals." Seeing as how many of the deals start earlier and last longer, they should probably just start…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gear
Handy Gym

Okay, so maybe the name needs work, but the idea is brilliant. Using magnetic isointertial exercise technology developed by NASA for astronauts in zero gravity environments, the Handy Gym requires no weights and very little space. The idea behind Handy Gym is to increase convenience while reducing the chance of…

By Amos Kwon
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