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curious bit of movie theater history

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/22/movie_blood_recipe_and_history_from_hershey_s_to_corn_syrup_and_beyond.html

http://news.sky.com/story/1156051/halloween-house-too-spooky-for-children

Once, in a little pond, in the muddy water under
the lily pads,
there lived a little water beetle in a community of
water
beetles.  They lived a simple and comfortable life in the pond
with
few disturbances and interruptions.

Once in a while, sadness would come to the community when one of
their fellow beetles would climb the stem of a
lily pad and
would never be seen again.  They knew when this happened;
their
friend was dead, gone forever.

Then, one day, one little water
beetle felt an irresistible urge
to climb up that stem.  However, he was
determined that he would
not leave forever.  He would come back and tell his
friends what
he had found at the top.

When he reached the top and
climbed out of the water onto the
surface of the lily pad, he was so tired,
and the sun felt so
warm, that he decided he must take a nap.  As he slept,
his body
changed and when he woke up, he had turned into a
beautiful
blue-tailed dragonfly with broad wings and a slender
body
designed for flying.

So, fly he did!  And, as he soared he saw
the beauty of a whole
new world and a far superior way of life to what he had
never
known existed.

Then he remembered his beetle friends and how
they were thinking
by now he was dead.  He wanted to go back to tell them,
and
explain to them that he was now more alive than he had ever
been
before.  His life had been fulfilled rather than ended.

But, his
new body would not go down into the water.  He could
not get back to tell his
friends the good news.  Then he
understood that their time would come, when
they, too, would
know what he now knew.  So, he raised his wings and flew
off
into his joyous new life!


~Author Unknown~

http://news.sky.com/story/1148497/green-liquid-thief-caught-by-hi-tech-trap

This may sound like a horror movie or a nightmare or an urban legend, but it happened last week in Ohio. A group of Ohio State University students rented a house near campus. To be specific, five students rented the first floor, and ten other students rented the second and third floors. That's fifteen people in a house. Or make that sixteen -with so many people in one house, it's easy to overlook someone. It turned out there was another guy living in the basement, who none of the other residents knew.

The roommates thought a locked door in the basement led to a utility closet. When maintenance workers knocked the door down, they found a bedroom complete with framed photographs and textbooks, said Jimmy Alderman, a fourth-year in civil engineering.
The residents had the locks changed that night and posted a note asking their houseguest to call them, said resident Brett Mugglin, a fourth-year in computer science and engineering. A man named Jeremy contacted them and then moved his belongings out of the room.
“He was a nice enough guy,” Mugglin said. “He just wasn’t supposed to be there.”

Jeremy's cousin had lived in the house the year before, and since the locks weren't changed, he was able to use the old key. One of the residents had actually met the guy earlier, but assumed he belonged to the other unit.

http://thelantern.com/2013/09/ohio-state-students-discover-stranger-living-basement/