Mental Floss http://mentalfloss.com/node/52138/atom.xml 2014-11-23T02:23:15+00:00 http://mentalfloss.com/article/52138/morning-cup-links-ice-cream-truck-jingles-explained 2013-08-09T09:00:06+00:00 2013-08-09T09:02:01+00:00 Morning Cup of Links: Ice Cream Truck Jingles, Explained Erin

This brief history of ice cream truck music explains why we always hear the same jingles over and over.

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If you have to ask for a kiddie menu at a restaurant, just remember that it’s there mostly thanks to Prohibition.

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Go to YouTube for the videos, but stay for the Easter egg that lets you play Missile Command while you watch.

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The sun’s magnetic field is about to pull a 180 for the first time in 11 years.  

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If you can’t stay out of last place in Mario Kart 64, brush up on Kartalytics

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Two Wikipedia aficionados set the site’s real-time revisions to music

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Not even professional athletes can shirk jury duty.

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A long-abandoned Nazi train station between France and Spain is now an astroparticle laboratory.

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The Atlantic dug up a flight surgeon’s report on Alan Shepard’s pre-flight ritual before the Mercury-Redstone 3 mission.
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