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How Cotton Candy Was Popularised By… A Dentist
Cotton candy, in all of its colourful, puffy glory, is one of those timeless treats capable of evoking childhood with one disintegrating bite.
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What Would Happen If The Sun Ceased To Exist For Just One Second?
If you mean simply “is not visible” then very little, we’d have a second of darkness, not unlike an eclipse, and then we’d be back to normal. If on the other hand, you mean “ceases to exist momentarily” then you’re talking about something else entirely.
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The Bizarre Story Of How The Original Poster For Jaws Went Missing
The first pages of Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel, “Jaws”, as well as the opening minutes of Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster, begin with the attack of a young, late-night skinny dipper named Chrissie Watkins, who’s dragged to her watery doom by a great white shark, feeding in the waters off the seaside vacation town of Amity.…
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The Business Behind Fake Hollywood Money
In late 2000, the producers and crew for action flick Rush Hour 2 gathered at the now-defunct Desert Inn in Las Vegas and prepared to blow up a casino. The scene, which pitted policemen and Secret Service agents against a counterfeiter attempting to launder $US100 million in superdollars, was to culminate with hundreds of thousands…