In case you weren’t obsessively refreshing mentalfloss.com all week, here’s what you missed:

1. 5 Classic Poisons and the People Who Used Them, by Miss Cellania
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2. The Quick 10: If 10 Fast Food Joints Had Stuck With the Original Plan, by Stacy Conradt
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3. R2-D2, GOB Bluth & Other Fictional Folks Who Stopped by Sesame Street, by Joe Hennes
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4. Was There Really a Granny Smith? 9 Fruit & Veggie Origins, by Ethan Trex
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5. Worth More Dead Than Alive: 5 Famous Grave Robberies, by Rob Lammle
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6. How Superman Defeated the Ku Klux Klan, by Mark Juddery
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7. Strange Geographies: The Forgotten High School of Goldfield, Nevada, by Ransom Riggs
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8. The Quick 10: 10 Really Bizarre Soap Opera Plots, by Stacy Conradt
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9. Can Boat Captains Really Marry People? by Matt Soniak
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10. One Sweet Severance Package & Other Tales of the ABA, by Keith Law

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