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

1. The Quick 10: 10 Things You Didn't Know Had Names, by Adrienne Crezo
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2. Why Do Fake Phone Numbers Always Start With 555?, by Ethan Trex
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3. Get Out! How 8 Dictators Spent Their Exile Years, by Erik Sass
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4. What is a Woot? The Origins of 8 Tech Names, by Rob Lammle
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5. Strange Geographies: Abandoned Belgium, by Ransom Riggs
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6. 13 Exquisite Easter Eggs, by Jill Harness
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7. How the NCAA Made Robert Parish Disappear, by Ethan Trex
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8. 10 Variations on The March of Progress, by Miss Cellania
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9. The Quick 10: 10 Facts About the Golden Age of Looney Tunes, by Adrienne Crezo
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10. Amazing Tales from the Boston Marathon, by Bud Shaw