A great painting can turn your world upside down, especially if the painting is also upside down. We take a trip through the website Weird Universe's Gallery of Art Hung Upside Down. Plus: a 9 year old who can't stop doodling, even in class, is now a professional artist. He's paid to doodle. 

The Gallery of Art Hung Upside-Down (Weird Universe)

9-Year-Old Kid Who Kept Getting In Trouble For Doodling In Class Gets A Job Decorating A Restaurant With His Drawings (Bored Panda) 

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It’s time to celebrate 70 years of Clue, the invention of musician Anthony Pratt, who used to play piano for murder mystery nights at big mansions and thought, this would make a good board game! Plus: the movie "Clue" is well known for the on-camera antics of its amazing cast. But what did the actors do when the cameras weren't rolling? 

The Game Clue Was Borne of Boredom During WWII Air-Raid Blackouts (History.com)

The Crazy Story Of How "Clue" Went From Forgotten Flop To Cult Triumph (Buzzfeed)

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Today in 1800 President John Adams moved into the White House, the first chief executive to live in what was then called the President’s Mansion. One of the house's most adorable stories - though possibly an apocryphal one - is the time in 1862 that Abraham Lincoln supposedly helped a couple elope. Plus: the New England WizardFest gets underway this weekend in Massachusetts. Mischief managed!

Adams moves into the White House, Nov. 1, 1800 (Politico)

Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was supposedly a wedding planner? (White House History on Twitter)

The New England Wizardfest

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This isn’t just Halloween. It’s also the anniversary of the passing of the legendary illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini, who they say wanted to make the greatest escape of all time... from mortality. Hence why Bess Houdini held seances every Halloween, trying to pick up whatever signals her late husband might be sending out from the hereafter. Plus: the creepiest hike of all time! 

The Successful Séance: Houdini May Have Spoken From Beyond the Grave, But No One Bothered to Listen (Week in Weird)

Atlanta's Doll's Head Trail May Be the Creepiest Hike in the Country (Mental Floss)

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it’s National Candy Corn Day, and while no candy gets more hassle around this time of year than candy corn, it also has its fans. I mean, someone's eating those 9 billion pieces produced each year. Plus: a haunted house in Utah with an unforgettably creepy name. 

The Saccharine History of Candy Corn (National Geographic)

2019 Strangling Brothers Haunted Circus (Visit Salt Lake)

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There's still time to get ready for Halloween in most places, but in Anoka, Minnesota, it’s kind of always Halloween. The community north of the Twin Cities bills itself as the Halloween Capital of the World. Plus: Pennsylvania invites you on a Halloween-themed trip it calls the Trail of the Living Dead. 

‘Halloween Capitol Of The World’ Anoka Gears Up For Halloween Season (CBS Minnesota)

Anoka Halloween History

Pennsylvania's Trail of the Living Dead (Visit PA)

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A project in Russia tracks the movements of steppe eagles through trackers that can send text messages back to research HQ about their whereabouts. There's one problem: the eagles have been crossing into other countries and their trackers are using roaming data! Plus: the town of Remer, Minnesota is home to a very large eagle that doesn't get around. Oh, and also, Bigfoot. 

Roaming Russian eagles leave scientists broke (Agence France-Presse)

Eagle Statues (Roadside Architecture) 

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Today is the anniversary of the day the first consumer microwave oven went on sale, back in 1955. But the microwave has roots that go back well before that, and it's at least in part a byproduct of radar technology from World War II. Plus: Los Alamos, New Mexico is trying to break a world record for simultaneous pumpkin carving.

Oct 25, 1955: Time to Nuke Dinner (Wired)

A Brief History of the Microwave Oven (IEEE.org)

"Carving out" a moment in history (Los Alamos Arts Council)

A startup called Beetl is developing an autonomous device that’s ready to clean up after our dogs on demand, thanks to a large scooper on its underside. If they’re willing to do this job, maybe robots aren’t trying to conquer us after all. Plus: "dogfishing" is a problem for online dating. People are using other people's dogs in their profile pics in the hopes it will land them more dates. The internet is weird.

Beetl Robotics 

Dogfishing: When online daters pose with adorable pets that aren’t theirs (Washington Post)

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Languages change over time; Merriam-Webster said it added over 500 new words to the dictionary last month. But you can also see those new additions over time through the Time Traveler feature on Merriam-Webster's website. Plus: a piece on Mental Floss explains how some of the most beloved Halloween candies got their names.

We Added New Words to the Dictionary for September 2019 (Merriam-Webster)

Find Out What Words Were First Used in Print The Year You Were Born (Lifehacker) 

How 25 of Your Favorite Halloween Candies Got Their Names (Mental Floss)

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