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Colin Perkins is an author and a comedian. In addition to mental_floss, he's written for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Splitsider, McSweeney's, and Cracked.

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The Missing Links: Not Your Average Pool Party

I never get invited to any kind of shindig that’s this cool. Maybe that's because I use words like "shindig."... READ ON

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The Missing Links: Rewriting the Hobbit

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DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)