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Embittered as we may seem, we’re suckers for an inventive and unexpected pronouncement of ever-lasting love. Really. (This also means that we hate seeing a marriage proposal backfire spectacularly.) But we love mental_floss’s listicle of 10 Quirky Marriage Proposals so much we might ask it to marry us, and although we’d be a couple days [...]

As one of the last weekend mornings before Halloween officially hits next weekend, this seems like the best time to foreshadow what so many around the world will be doing next Sunday morning after their costumed revelry–since, were we to do this next week, you might not find it so funny. The folks at Holytaco [...]

Today is World Food Day, a completely ridiculous and nebulously vague holiday. Aside from sending food to those in need, we’re not sure how to celebrate. Except, maybe, by eating worldly foods. We’ll get right on our planetary feast with these 12 Globe-Shaped Foods.

And to think, several trillion years ago it was just a few [...]

Though we fastidiously maintain that it’s much, much too early to be doing anything Halloween-related, we’re also suckers for robots. And so, one of our most long-standing sci-fi weaknesses has won out over one of our seasonal qualms, and here we are posting a Halloween listicle more than two weeks before the day. But seriously, [...]