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Peter Cushing returns from the grave in "Tales From the Crypt," 1972. (Getty Images/Bettmann )

12 chilling "Tales From the Crypt" facts

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
International crime concept (Getty Images/tzahiV)

10 fascinating facts about Interpol

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne in "Gone Girl" (Twentieth Century Fox/Salon)

11 Gillian Flynn "Gone Girl" facts

Anastasia Rose Hyden - Mental Floss
Circa 1535, King Henry VIII of England (1491 - 1547) and his second wife, Anne Boleyn (1507 - 1536). He had broken with the papacy following the divorce of his first wife, Catherine of Aragon in 1533. Anne Boleyn was beheaded in 1536 and Henry married Jane Seymour. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

11 influential British royal lovers

Samantha Arrowsmith - Mental Floss
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8 facts about Philip K. Dick

Katie Dancey-Downs - Mental Floss
Trinity the Tuck, Shea Couleé, Raja, The Vivienne, Jaida Essence Hall, Jinkx Monsoon, Monét X Change and Yvie Oddly in Season 7 of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" (Jordin Althaus/World of Wonder/Paramount+)

11 drag slang terms you should know

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
"Avengers: Infinity War" (Marvel Studios)

20 facts about the MCU’s Avengers movies

Scott Beggs - Mental Floss
Toilet flush handle (Getty Images/Kinga Krzeminska)

11 historically significant toilets

Ken Ossea, Jr. - Mental Floss
Ray Ramano (Bill Bufalino) Al Pacino (Jimmy Hoffa) and Robert De Niro (Frank Sheeran) in "The Irishman" (Netflix)

The 50 best 3-hour-or-longer movies

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Fountain figure of Manneken Pis in Brussels (Getty Images/LUke1138)

Why many old fountains show boys peeing

Mike Rampton - Mental Floss
Gorgeous Samoyed smiling for photo (Getty Images/zhao hui)

20 scientifically cute dogs

Michele Debczak - Mental Floss
Portrait of American gay liberation activist Marsha P Johnson (1945 - 1992) on the corner of Christopher Street and 7th Avenue during the Pride March (later the LGBT Pride March), New York, New York, June 27, 1982. (Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

8 trans activist Marsha P. Johnson facts

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner - Mental Floss
Mel Brooks in History of the World: Part I (1981) (20th Century Fox)

11 "History Of The World, Part I" facts

Mark Mancini - Mental Floss
Richard Attenborough, Laura Dern and Sam Neill in a scene from "Jurassic Park," 1993 (Universal/Getty Images)

20 "Jurassic Park" facts you didn't know

Sean Hutchinson - Mental Floss
Business people have a meeting in a tech start-up office (Getty Images/Compassionate Eye Foundation/Gary Burchell)

The 10 most hated business buzzwords

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Scrabble World Championship final match winning board on display at Westfield White City, London (Jonathan Brady/PA Images via Getty Images)

15 fascinating facts about Scrabble

Erin McCarthy - Mental Floss
John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and George Clooney emerge from a forest in a scene from the 2000 film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (Universal/Getty Images)

22 best movie soundtracks of the 2000s

Todd Gilchrist - Mental Floss
Cleopatra's Needle in Central Park in New York mid-1900s. The obelisk was originally erected by Tuthmosis III during his reign in Eqypt between 1504 and 1450 BC, later moved to Alexandria, and finally arrived in New York as a gift of the Eqyptian government in 1880. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

11 time capsules waiting to be opened

Michele Debczak - Mental Floss
Theo James and Rose Leslie in "The Time Traveler's Wife" (Macall Polay/HBO)

8 facts about "The Time Traveler's Wife"

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Abbey Road (Apple Records)

The 10 most popular artists on vinyl

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
American Civil War, The Battle of Pea Ridge, Northwest Arkansas 1862. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

7 misconceptions about the Civil War

Jay Serafino - Mental Floss
Bob Odenkirk (Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)

8 surprising facts about Bob Odenkirk

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Kevin Costner as John Dutton in "Yellowstone" (Kevin Lynch/Paramount Networ)

10 TV shows with big dad energy

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Man lying on the couch ready for the hydrocolonotherapy in the SPA and medical salon (Getty Images/Ross Helen)

11 of Kellogg's strangest inventions

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
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