John Green and Mental Floss Make Halloween Educational with 38 Facts About Candy [Video]

Protip: hand out the URL for this video to trick-or-treaters. Some candy might be nice, too.

Dan Van Winkle

Published: Oct 23, 2013 04:47 pm

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Mental Floss makes education fun by making candy, which is already fun, educational. In their weekly trivia webseries, John Green shares 38 little known facts about candy and debunks several myths including gum staying in your digestive system for years.

He’ll also tell you how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop as determined by science. We always lost count, which is why we’re guessing they brought in a licking machine. Yup, that’s a thing that exists now, because somebody just couldn’t let those commercials go.

(via Mental Floss)

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Dan Van Winkle

Dan Van Winkle (he) is an editor and manager who has been working in digital media since 2013, first at now-defunct Geekosystem (RIP), and then at The Mary Sue starting in 2014, specializing in gaming, science, and technology. Outside of his professional experience, he has been active in video game modding and development as a hobby for many years. He lives in North Carolina with Lisa Brown (his wife) and Liz Lemon (their dog), both of whom are the best, and you will regret challenging him at Smash Bros.