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If your experience with bears is largely limited to reading Winnie the Pooh as a kid, you might think that these fuzzy mammals will do anything to get their gigantic paws on a jar of honey.

Alvin Ward


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The gravitational pull of the supermoon will team up with that of the sun on August 30 to create super-charged "king" tides around the world.

Michele Debczak


Roddy Piper stars in They Live (1988).

John Carpenter’s masterpiece about a man who sees the world for what it really is with the help of a pair of sunglasses is one of greatest cult films of the '80s—and features one of the greatest movie lines of all time.

Matthew Jackson






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The popular retail chain has lots of iconography, from the red bullet logo to the dog. But "Alex from Target" isn't from Target anymore.

Jake Rossen


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Mark Twain is widely considered the author of the first great American novel—'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'—but his rollicking tales aren’t the only legacy he left behind.

Emily Petsko
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Pizza has helped prevent several crimes: In 2008 when a pizza delivery man in Florida was confronted by robbers, he threw the hot pizza he was delivering at them and escaped harm. (It's also pretty delicious.)

Anna Green
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Even if Latin is considered a dead language, it’s everywhere. And now, you can learn a little more of it on Duolingo, who just came up with new Latin words for decidedly modern things.

Erin McCarthy