Sites to browse instead of doomscrolling

i.e. a list of cool sites i have bookmarked

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Internet Sacred Text Archives - literally any religious text you can think of

CrimeArchives - complete history on seven famous murder cases, I discovered this while researching the clutter family murder after reading "in cold blood".

The Met Collection - all the art in the Metropolitan Museum, digitized

firstVIEW - runway fashion archive (Dolce & Gabbana spring/summer 2006 you'll always have my heart)

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Practical Homicide Investigation - the 'research material' section contains a ton of articles about crime cases and the psychology of serial killers

Mental Labour - one of my favourite neocities, i love reading the commonplace pages+ there's some great media recs on there too

Most Popular SCPs - I'm still new to SCP and in my opinion, reading the highest rated ones is the best place to start 

Magnifica Humanitas - Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on Artificial Intelligence, I'm still working my way through it but it's so dense (╥﹏╥)

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list animals until failure -  what it says on the box, way more stressful than you'd think!

Spellcheck - a collection of little spelling games

Hakononaka - fanmade Death Note visual novel, i have more to say about this game so i might post a review later in the comments on this post

National Geographic Kids Games - NGK was my whole childhood, my earliest memories of using the computer was doing personality quizzes on this site

Typelit - typing practice

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both of these sites host older films on the public domain

The Cave of Forgotten Films

Public Domain Movies

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coolthingswefound.com - basically what i tried to do with this post but a full-fledged website

17776 - I really couldn't explain this if I tried to and I don't want to anyway, It's just the kind of thing you have to discover it for yourself

The Public Domain Review - essays, films, books etc in the public domain

ribo.zone - you could spend hours on here... links, games, media recs etc etc

i'll add more when i find them but i hope y'all have fun with these :3