72
Calories in a fun-size Snickers bar. Calories in a single piece of candy corn: about 3.5. Either way, best by the handful.
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1930
The year the Snickers bar was introduced, by candy maker Frank C. Mars of Minnesota (the confection was named after a Mars family horse, BTW). It was preceded by the Milky Way in 1923, and followed by the Three Musketeers in 1932. Who knew the middle child could be such a star?
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500
pounds. Size of the giant clam that will be on display in the Bell Museum of Natural Historyās āOdditiesā exhibit, on view weekends only from October 8 to 30. See a mummified pigeon, a manatee skull, and other creepy curiosities of nature. And donāt miss the āEat-a-Bug Cookoffā the weekend of October 22 and 23. Tastier than a popcorn ball!
$5
Cost to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Riverview Theater in Minneapolis. The flick has been showing at midnight every other Saturday for the past 6 years.
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50,000
Estimated number of visitors who will descend on Anokaāthe self-proclaimed āHalloween Capital of the Worldāāfor this yearās fright-filled festivities. Percentage of those who will be dressed as hometown hero Garrison Keillor: hard to say. Probably a few will show up in red socks.
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$175
Three-day rental cost for The Goblin costume, the biggest, scariest most elaborate getup available from CostumeRentals, a combined project of the Guthrie and the Childrenās Theatre Company. The enormous rubber and fabric suitāwhich was used onstage in a CTC production of The Hobbitācomes complete with glowing red eyes, fangs, and bony spikes from head to tail. Just donāt try driving your Kia in it.