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Not even a lineup of the world's biggest artists could save "We Are The World" from annoying listeners.

If you don't want to spend the rest of the day humming "We Built This City," "Who Let the Dogs Out," or "We Are the World," stop reading this article right now.

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The saga of the 1972 skyjacking gets another twist.

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For all those awkwardly long layovers in the middle of the day.

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Avoid an unpleasant surprise at check-out.

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Sy Sperling had one reason to reinvent the toupee: He didn't want something that would fall off during sex.

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Yet another reason to never get on a crow's bad side.

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Pawnee, Indiana’s small-town quirks lend themselves perfectly to crackpot ideas.

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From Wakanda to Washington, D.C.

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You can wrestle at least one of the original GLOW cast members.

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It's almost impossible to botch.

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Batman is one of the most beloved superheroes of all time, which has made playing him a difficult task for more than one actor.

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The three-episode BBC drama, which premieres on Amazon on June 29, is indeed English to its core.

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It's not quite 'Twister,' but it's close.

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Great, just what we needed—flying spiders.

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The arterial threat is coming to Walmart.

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It may rankle purists, but American English isn’t the culprit.

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The U.S. doesn’t even crack the top 100.

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The '90s snack will be available for a limited time.

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The Pixar movie that had us all sobbing about a trash compactor debuted 10 years ago.

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It's the artist's largest mural in Europe, but it has been obscured by weatherboarding for decades.

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The caveman comic strip turned 60 this year.

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Tens of thousands of Americans might have it.

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The actress like you've never seen her before.

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Scientists fear that a single merciless pathogen could wipe out many grapes around the world in the same way that a single fungus eradicated the variety of potato common across Ireland in the 1840s.