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mentalflossr:

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

1. 17 Famous Literary Characters Almost Named Something Else
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2. 11 Product Names That Mean Unfortunate Things in Other Languages
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3. 10 Lines From Napoleon’s Love Letters That Sound Like Crazy Texts
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4. Why Does Getting Hit in the Testicles Hurt So Much?
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5. 5 Pop Culture Apocalypse Scenarios and How They Might Happen
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6. 11 Obscure Regional Phrases That Describe Excessive Heat
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7. 11 Memories of Not-So-Modern Medicine
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8. Blame the Media: 6 Disorders Caused by the Internet, TV, Magazines and Movies
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9. 8 Useful Tattoos for Practical Ink Enthusiasts
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10. Why Were CD Boxes So Big in the Early 1990s?
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11. 11 TV Theme Songs That Secretly Have Lyrics