Oscar pundits can make as many predictions as they want, but how much do they really know about the Academy Awards? Mental Floss' April Daley joins Cheddar to challenge us to an all-new Oscars trivia challenge. Did you know actress Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American Oscar winner ever?
The past few years have seen a few animated movies nominated for Best Picture, but which one was the first? Daley takes us back to when "Beauty and the Beast" made history back in the early 1990's. We also learn why Lupita Nyong'o's Best Supporting Actress win for "12 Years a Slave" was so memorable.
There have been six ties in Oscars history. Daley walks us through what when happens when the votes come in exactly even. Finally, we learn just how long it takes the accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers to tally the thousands of Oscar votes every year.
Oliver James is a 34-year-old man who has struggled with reading his whole life. He has taken to “book-tok” to document his goal of reading 100 books this year.
Cheddar recs, "Poker Face," "National Geographic Investigates: LSD and Psychedelics," "The Legend of Vox Machina," "The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker,""M3GAN," and "Last Night in Soho."
A Newport News, Virginia teacher is set to file a lawsuit against the local school district after she was shot and critically wounded by a six-year-old student.
Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalized homosexuality as "unjust" and said it's not a crime but considered it "a sin," according to the Associated Press.
