January 19·Every year

National Popcorn Day

Popcorn is at least 6,000 years old — ears found in Peru predate the Roman Empire. Americans consume 15 billion quarts annually, enough to fill the Empire State Building 18 times over. Movie theatres profit more per dollar from popcorn than from ticket sales, which explains everything about cinema economics.

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The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.

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