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Anyone can just eat a bowl of popcorn to celebrate National Popcorn Day, but we are not just anyone. For Nailed It Or Failed It on Friday, Jan. 14, we celebrated the upcoming holiday two ways - with a ...

For a lot of us, making popcorn is the reason we own a microwave oven. Now, our favorite snack food – Americans eat more than 1 billion pounds of popcorn a year – has taken a hit. The chemical ...

Popcorn has been around since 3600 B.C., according to archaeologists who have found popcorn remnants during research digs. Who knows how popcorn was originally discovered — but it is quite likely it ...

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Can any corn become popcorn? Not all corn pops! Popcorn is a special type of corn. Some other grains, such as quinoa and sorghum, can pop too; but popcorn is the biggest and best popper! This picture ...

We’ve all scarfed it down at the movies and made necklaces with it as children. But while we were getting liquid butter all over our hands and faces, roboticists at Cornell University’s Collective ...

Editor's note: It's National Popcorn Day! We're celebrating by bringing back this tale, first published in 2014, about the history of the beloved snack. Popcorn is a truly ancient snack.

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