Amanda Mannen
TV Question: How Does 'Gilmore Girls' Town Economy Makes Sense?
We should all be worried about Miss Patty’s credit card situation.
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Prince Behind The Scenes Of 'New Girl' Was Even Princier
When you’re Prince, your ships are less hopes than plans.
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First Woman To Become A Pinkerton Detective (Kate Warne) Deserves Her Own Movie
The entirety of genre fiction couldn’t invent a character as slick as Kate Warne.
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That Time The 'Sherlock Holmes' And 'Christmas Carol' Writers Became Ghost Hunters
Even in death-obsessed Victorian England, they were pretty much immediately a laughingstock.
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You Learned the Recorder Due To School Cheapness
Why can you play 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' on an instrument that fell out of favor in the Vivaldi era?
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Soooo The Assassin Plan In 'Manchurian Candidate' And 'Zoolander' Was Real
In the early '50s, Project ARTICHOKE 'attempted to induce amnesia and highly suggestive states in its subjects' ...
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Being 'Peter Pan' Ruined Its Young Star's Life
Do you remember being 16? Do you remember Peter Pan being a particularly cool thing for a 16-year-old to be?
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'Frozen's Fairy Tale Inspiration Was A Product of Incel Rage
We've heard of ice queens, but this is ridiculous.
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4 Historical Figures With Undeserved Reputations
The thing about history is that it tends to concern people who are no longer at liberty to say “Wait, I can explain.”
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Charles Dickens' Jerk Bird Inspired Edgar Allan Poe' 'The Raven'
That’s right: One of the most well-known poems in the world today is essentially fan fiction.
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Can't Make It Up: The Reason Oklahoma's Shaped Like That
Why is Oklahoma?
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Movie Differences: Elle Woods In The 'Legally Blonde' Book Is A Monster
Rare case where the movie is clearly better than the book.
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Movie Lies: Titanic Designers Didn’t Cut the Number of Lifeboats For Looks
They actually had more lifeboats than they were legally required to carry.
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Why Big Bird Looks Different in Different Countries' 'Sesame Street'
Wouldn't it be cheaper and easier just to dub the existing episodes in different languages? Probably, but it wouldn't be better.
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Inventor of Modern Condoms' Family Battle To Get Their Factory Back
Fromm was forced by the Nazis to sell his business at a fraction of its value because Fromm was Jewish and Nazis are evil.
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The Eyebrow-Arching Tale Of The 'Q' Of 2000, John Titor
Turns out that posting on wild claim on Internet forums of inside knowledge of society inner working and future events and actually being believed isn't new.
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Victorian-era England Fought Public Peeing With ... Architecture?
The wonders of geometry, everyone.
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Uh ... Is 'Game of Thrones' is Just Feudal 'Gone With the Wind?'
'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a dragon.'
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One of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers Was ... A Yugoslavian Grannie
It’s a real shame that her trial took place before the advent of television.
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Why Old People Love Using Ellipses
They learned to write under an entirely different set of circumstances back in the day.
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