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Children dressed in Halloween costumes (Getty Images/Ariel Skelley)

The origins of 25 fall traditions

Stacy Conradt - Mental Floss
Freddie Mercury of Queen on September 19, 1980 in Chicago, Il. (Paul Natkin/WireImage)

32 facts about Freddie Mercury

Stacy Conradt - Mental Floss
Looking up a word in the dictionary (Getty Images/JGI/Jamie Grill)

7 fake words now in the dictionary

Angela Tung - Mental Floss
Linda Blair on the set of "The Exorcist" (Warner Bros. Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

26 fascinating facts about "The Exorcist

Jennifer M Wood - Mental Floss
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Squirrel close up with a pigeon in the background (Getty Images/Sara Lynch/EyeEm)

25 animals that had run-ins with the law

Kirstin Fawcett, Zoë Randolph - Mental Floss
Lisa Simpson and Ms. Hoover in "The Simpsons" (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)

10 perfectly cromulent "Simpsons" words

Roger Cormier - Mental Floss
Painter Bob Ross in "Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed" (Netflix)

35 happy little facts about Bob Ross

Alvin Ward - Mental Floss
Weird Al Yankovic performing "Amish Paradise," a parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise," in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2019 (Jeff Hahne/Getty Images)

Musicians who refused a Weird Al parody

Rudie Obias - Mental Floss
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Illustration of two Victorian gentlemen dancing a jig (Whitemay/Getty Stock Images)

30 jolly puns from the Victorian Era

Keith Johnston - Mental Floss
Cyndi Lauper, 1984 (Chris Walter/WireImage/Getty Images)

25 of the most covered songs in history

Stacy Conradt - Mental Floss
Cats (Universal Pictures)

20 fails from pop culture history

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Ernie & Sherlock Hemlock on "Sesame Street" in late 1970 (Photo by Children's Television Workshop/Courtesy of Getty Images)

8 FCC complaints about kids' TV

Sonia Weiser - Mental Floss
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Divers taking part in a project to document shipwrecks in Cyprus (EMILY IRVING-SWIFT/AFP via Getty Images)

12 weird lost-and-found shipwreck items

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise on the set of "Top Gun," directed by Tony Scott (Paramount Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

10 surprising facts about Val Kilmer

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Six hands crossing fingers (Getty Images/RapidEye)

20 American behaviors considered rude

Adam D'Arpino, Erika Wolf - Mental Floss
Woman reading in bed (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez)

The reason reading makes you sleepy

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
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Italian model Fabio leaning against a tree in Hawaii. (Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Did Fabio kill a goose with his face?

Ken Ossea, Jr. - Mental Floss
Marleen Puzak of Denver celebrates the 2014 Denver Pridefest with her French Bulldog "Beignet" at Civic Center Park. Denver, Colorado. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images))

When are the dog days of summer?

Kara Kovalchik - Mental Floss
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6 common misconceptions about flying

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
September 1899 llustration from Le Petit Journal of "Raft of the Medusa" (Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

7 historical cases of cannibalism

Lucas Reilly - Mental Floss
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The etymology of 15 Olympic words

John Kelly - Mental Floss
The back of a red corset with black laces (Getty Images)

6 terrifying historical beauty practices

Therese O'Neill - Mental Floss
Man in tinfoil hat and tinfoil-lined bedroom (Getty Images/Matt Carr)

17 facts about conspiracy theories

Stacy Conradt - Mental Floss
John Travolta in scene from the film "Battlefield Earth" (Warner Brothers/Getty Images)

15 summer "blockbusters" that tanked

Matthew Jackson - Mental Floss
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