How 25 of Your Favorite Halloween Candies Got Their Names
(via Mental Floss) Soon, small superheroes and ghosts and all sorts of other strange creatures will be canvassing your neighborhood
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The 50 Biggest Box Office Flops of All Time
(via Mental Floss) Considering the convenience of streaming services—not to mention the unconscionably high price of movie tickets these days—it’s
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13 Facts About Amadeus On Its 35th Anniversary
(via Mental Floss) Though much has been written about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the most entertaining look at
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The 30 Highest-Grossing Actors in Hollywood
(via Mental Floss) Earlier this summer, Avengers: Endgame surpassed James Cameron’s Avatar to become the highest-grossing movie of all-time worldwide.
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Coolest cars in television history
(via Grunge) Sometimes the only difference between a great TV show and a bad TV show is that one of
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The Strange Origins of 17 Popular Songs
(via Mental Floss) You’ve hummed along to them in the car, belted them out in the shower, performed them on
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9 Facts About The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(via Mental Floss) On its surface, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a straightforward story about a boy
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7 Facts About Jenga
(via Mental Floss) Since the early 1980s, players all over the world have tested their nerves and tried to maintain
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The Curse of Playing the Wicked Witch of the West
(via Narratively) After nearly dying while filming “The Wizard of Oz,” Margaret Hamilton spent the rest of her career trying
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14 Fun Facts About Roller Coasters
(via Smithsonian) For starters, one of the oldest coasters in America carried coal before it carried passengers.
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Visit the World’s Only Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum
(via Smithsonian) The Milwaukee attraction showcases the oldest and rarest of all the bobbleheads—and thousands more.
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This Is What the Early Days of Digital Were Like
(via Great Big Story) Dial-up, floppy disks, Listservs. If you don’t know what any of these terms mean, you weren’t
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