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For one day in 1998, Topeka, Kansas, renamed itself “ToPikachu” to mark Pokemon’s U.S. debut.

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Animals that only bite tourists.

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Office Rat-A-Tat: when typos get in the way

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5 Questions: None of your Beeswax

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Five Great Prison Escapes

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Advanced Tetris Gameplay

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Take Survey, Win Shirt*

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The year 2000 that never was

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Mad men, vagrants and secret symbols

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5 Questions: Draw the Line

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Vices, paychecks, fate

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Have A Baby, Win A Car

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Progress at Ground Zero

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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.)