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A look at people's Facebook comments after they believe an Onion article. My hope for humanity's redemption remains extremely low.

Guy visits every country on Earth, which is impressive enough, but also does it sans airplane travel!

Sure the parentheses in these songs probably don't make much sense, and don't have a lot of meaning, but try to get a point in Music Trivia with my friends without mentioning them and you'll be sorry!

No one can say they are the best at living off the grid until they get more remote than this family.

Wait, what? There are going to be standalone character movies within the next set of Star Wars movies? And the first one will be about Yoda? I'll give them this...Good or bad, Disney is definitely taking control of the Star Wars universe.

So there's a new show coming out called The Cult. And it's about people who start watching a new show called The Cult. But then weird things start happening in real life (the fake real life outside the fictional show The Cult, which is what the real television show is about). I'm so watching this.

Jam of the Day

Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945

More Empire Strikes Back Fun

In keeping with the unofficial theme of Empire Strikes back here at The Popcorn Trick, here are 10 things you probably didn't know about the movie. My favorite?

Vader wasn’t Luke’s father at first. In Leigh Brackett’s first script draft, Luke meets his real dad, who says he sent away Luke and his secret sister for their own safety. (Luke’s sister has been training to be a Jedi knight in secret, just as Luke has.) And Papa Skywalker administers the oath of a Jedi Knight to Luke, in which Ben, Minch, Anakin and Luke cross lightsabers, and Luke swears to “dedicate my life to the cause of freedom and justice.”

Reading through these, I can't imagine the movie being that good if these choices had been made. There's also some really cool concept art from the movie, so you'll definitely want to check it out. If you're a Star Wars fan of course.