Pokemon
US Presidents
Accidental Inventions
Idioms
Cinema Throughout History
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The English motto of Pokemon

What is Gotta Catch 'Em All?

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On record, he is America's heaviest president

Who is William Howard Taft?

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Thinking on her feet, a baker decided to chop up a block of Nestle semi-sweet chocolate, assuming that it would melt and spread evenly throughout the batter. Instead, what came out of the oven was the very first batch of these

What are Chocolate Chip Cookies?

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Don't pork fun of my dreams! The implication of this phrase is that the circumstances in question will never occur.

What is When Pigs Fly?

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An computer-animated 2010 film where longtime supervillain Gru formulates a plan to steal the Moon

What is Despicable Me?

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Ghastly, Polteageist, and Spiritomb are all examples of this pokemon type

What is Ghost Type?

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This president died just 31 days after his inauguration in 1841

Who is William Henry Harrison?

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11-year-old Frank Epperson mixed some soda powder with water and left it out overnight with the stirrer still in entirely by accident. When he woke up in the morning, he had created this frozen treat

What is a Popsicle?

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Did your hose backfire when you needed it most? This idiom means to fail suddenly and spectacularly.

What is Go Down in flames?

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A 2009 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation, loosely based on the 1978 children's book of the same name. Bill Hader voices Flint Lockwood, the movie's protagonist

What is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?

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Garbodor, a Poison type, is just a big pile of this

What is Garbage?

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In January 1835, he was confronted by a deranged man as he left a funeral held at the Capitol. The man fired point-blank at him with a pistol, but the gun misfired. Old Hickory then started beating the man with his cane

Who is Andrew Jackson?

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Chemist John Walker discovered what are now called these when he accidentally scraped a stick coated in chemicals across his hearth and found that it caught fire.

What are Matchsticks?

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Daily Double! -- Astrophysicists barely use this idiom when talking about how hard their work is

What is It's not Rocket Science?

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A 1964 spy film, the third installment in the James Bond series

What is Goldfinger?

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Abra, Kadabra, and Alakazam are all this type of pokemon

What is Psychic Type?

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While he was a quiet president, a person seated next to him at a dinner said, "I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you." He replied, "You lose."

Who is Calvin Coolidge?

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Scientist Dr. Spencer accidentally made an adhesive that stuck lightly to surfaces but didn't bond tightly to them. A colleague came to him with the idea to create a bookmark that could stick to paper without damaging it, known as this

What is a Post-it Note?

800

Is it freezing in here, or is it just me? This phrase is commonly used when meeting new people

What is Break the Ice?

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A Tim Burton 1990 American fantasy gothic romance film starring Johnny Depp who portrays an unfinished artificial humanoid who has scissor blades instead of hands

What is Edward Scissorhands?

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Daily Double! -- You've ain't never had a pokemon like them! Tornadus, Landorus, and Thundorus are all based off this entity from mythology

What is a Genie?

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He was the 15th president and was the only president who never got married

Who is James Buchanan?

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Physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen was experimenting on a vacuum tube covered in cardboard when he noticed a mysterious glow emanating from a chemically coated screen nearby. After playing around some more, he discovered that putting his hand in front of the glow allowed him to see past his skin to his bones, leading to this machine

What is an X-Ray Machine?

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This whining is udderly ridiculous! This idiom means that there's no reason to complain about something that can't be fixed

What is Don't Cry over Spilt Milk?

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Combining live-action and animation, this film is set in an alternate history Hollywood where humans and cartoon characters (referred to as "toons") co-exist

What is Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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