Happy Saturday

We're celebrating National Candy Corn Day today with a vengeance! Sweet fact: Candy corn has been around for more than a century. George Renninger of the Wunderlee Candy Company invented your favorite tricolored candy in the 1880s, according to the National Confectioners Association. Learn more about this sweet treat in our article.

Crossing the Darién Gap Is Extraordinarily Dangerous. Here's Why

All roads on the Pan American Highway end in the Darién Gap, a dense jungle that separates Panama and Colombia. We talked to two women who have explored this treacherous area. Read more >>

Strawberry Pop-Tarts Don't Have Enough Strawberries, Lawsuit Alleges

Actually make that three current U.S. lawsuits filed about those beloved breakfast pastries. Read more >>

10 Worst Ways History Has Repeated Itself

History may be full of warnings, but we haven't always been very good at heeding them. Read more >>

Don't Look Down: Strolling the Coiling Dragon Cliff Skywalk

Just looking at the pictures of this walkway are enough to make you feel woozy, or filled with adrenaline. Read more >>

6 Roaring Waterfalls That Slowed to a Trickle

It's hard to imagine a thundering waterfall drying up. But they do. Read more >>

How Ben Franklin Helped Ignite the Jersey Devil Hysteria

Just in time for Halloween we bring you an unexpected tale about Ben Franklin, a few Quakers and a legendary monster from ... New Jersey. Read more >>

Test Your Knowledge

If you've been reading our emails this week, you might get these questions right!

True or false: Magic Erasers — touted for cleaning just about anything from grease to tarnish — are composed of only one ingredient.
What might constitute a "trigger" for someone suffering from misophonia?
a) An object or surface that is colored yellow.
b) The sound of someone chewing.
c) The thought of being buried alive.
d) A surface with many dense holes.
The blue-ringed octopus holds enough venom to kill more than 20 humans within minutes. How many recorded deaths have been from this octopus's bit?
a) 3
b) 84
c) 432
d) 8,783
True or false: A micronation is a small country that has less than 50,000 citizens, such as Monaco or Vatican City.
Flyting has been around for centuries. What is a modern example of flyting?
a) Rap battles
b) Pick up lines
c) Wedding vows
d) A personality change after drinking
True or false: All of the ingredients in a witches brew — such as eye of newt and toe of frog — are simply ancient terms for herbs, flowers and plants.