Aaugh! 10 Facts About ‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown’
(via mental_floss) 1966’s It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown remains one of the most endearing television specials ever produced. As
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Month: October 2016
40 Fascinating Facts About Your Favorite Horror Movies
(via mental_floss) Today’s the day when we pull out all of the scary movies in our collections and pile them
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Candy Corn Trivia: 8 Sweet Things To Know
(via Eat Out Well) It’s prime candy corn time! Those little tri-colored triangles have celebrated over 130 birthdays and are
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How 10 Iconic Movie Monsters Were Created
(via mental_floss) Movie monsters have been through an evolution as wild and nuanced as Charles Darwin’s. Back in the days
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What Happens If Someone Dies on Mars?
(via Atlas Obscura) It’s entirely possible that someone alive today on Earth will be the first person to die on
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The BBC Halloween Hoax That Traumatized Viewers
(via mental_floss) After more than 20,000 phone calls, one induced labor, and thousands of angry letters, the UK’s Broadcasting Standards
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The First Celebrity Chef
(via Jstor) Although he achieved almost unthinkable fame for the Victorian era, the life of chef Alexis Soyer is now
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“The Monster Mash”: The Most Popular Holiday Novelty Song
(via Neatorama) Whenever Christmas approaches, we will all be bombarded on our radios and at the malls we visit, by
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13 Creepy, Kooky Facts About ‘The Addams Family’
(via mental_floss) Starting in 1938, Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Grandmama, Wednesday, Pugsley, and Thing appeared in The New Yorker
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Sailing Solo Around the World … with a Pet Chicken
(via Great Big Story) Twenty-four-year-old Frenchman Guirec Soudée set out to see the world from a different vantage point: his
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Today’s Nukes Are Thousands of Times More Powerful Than WWII A-Bombs
(via Popular Mechanics) The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II—codenamed “Little Boy”
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9 Halloween Pumpkin Projects
(via mental_floss) There are traditional Jack-o-Lanterns with a face carved on the front and a candle inside. Then there are
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