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This show liked to hurt people.

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From pickles to Peeps, cities across the country have established their own unique traditions for ringing in the new year.

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Bacon is everywhere these days: You can find it in ice cream, coffee, cupcakes, chewing gum, candles, lip balm, and even deodorant. As it now saturates every corner of the market, it’s worth looking at the origins of this smoky, salty food.

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Abraham Lincoln's successor—and the first United States president to be impeached—liked to tend to a family of mice.

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In Nora Ephron's first draft of the 'When Harry Met Sally...' script, Harry and Sally did not end up together.

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"About four episodes in, I thought 'Yeah, no one's going to watch this.'"

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You may not want a $100 gift certificate to Outback Steakhouse, but someone else surely does.

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Is Thor's brother the ultimate villain or an unwitting victim?

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The furry sentinels ward off vermin. They also sleep in empty stock boxes. But are they a health hazard?

Oliver Wainwright's Inside North Korea provides a visual tour of the isolated nation.

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There are five possible endings.

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Did a typo help end World War II? Does a realtor have to disclose if a house is supposedly haunted? What's the best way to wipe your butt? We answered all these questions and more in 2018.

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It's not quite a Walter White stack of cash, but it'll do.

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Sometime during the late 1990s, consumers noticed that their credit cards with expiration dates in the year 2000 were being declined by merchants.

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Sometimes criminals are done in by greed. Sometimes it's forensic evidence. And sometimes it's a large extra cheese.

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When wizardry and teenagedom collide.

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The author is talking about the books, which may or may not end the same way as the HBO series.

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The facial hair fail seen 'round the world.

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One of the rides will be the biggest Disney attraction of all time.

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“Leia follows me like a vague smell.”

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Most of the signs you think are neon are actually made with other gases.

Linda Blair stars in The Exorcist (1973).

Some theaters handed out barf bags with every ticket to 'The Exorcist,' which arrived in theaters on December 26, 1973.

A blood moon as seen from Sydney, Australia on July 28, 2018

Here's when to see it.

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7. Kit Harington is extremely claustrophobic, which posed an issue while shooting an iconic 'Game of Thrones' scene.