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Psychology says the reason some retired men struggle after their last day of work isn’t the money, it’s that

For some men, leaving work means more than giving up a paycheck: it can disrupt sources of identity and meaning. Researchers ...
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M&M’s turned down E.T., and Reese’s Pieces sales exploded 65 percent in two weeks

In 1982, Mars declined an offer to put M&M’s in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Reese’s Pieces took their place, giving Hershey a ...
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Spielberg’s forgotten war film launched Christian Bale AND Ben Stiller, and it secretly birthed Tropic Thunder

Steven Spielberg’s 1987 drama gave Ben Stiller an early screen role. Stiller later said the experience inspired Tropic ...
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Cheers was dead last in the ratings its first season, and NBC’s patience invented modern TV

Cheers ran for 11 seasons on NBC and drew an estimated 93 million viewers for its finale. Its future was far less certain ...
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Depp’s first studio movie in 8 years makes him unrecognizable, and he designed the face himself

Johnny Depp plays Scrooge in a Ti West film opening in US theaters on November 13, his first major US studio movie since 2018. Prosthetics designer Barrie Gower created the latex transformation, while ...
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Psychology says the men who age best in their 60s and 70s aren’t the ones with the best doctors, they’re the ones who kept one person in their life who still tells them t…

In the Harvard Study of Adult Development, close relationships were linked to happiness across the men followed over decades.
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Jeff Goldblum’s Fly mutation suits took 5 hours a day, and the makeup won the Oscar

David Cronenberg’s The Fly arrived in US theaters on August 15, 1986, with Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz in its ...
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Psychology says people who say sorry to the chair they bump into aren’t awkward, they’re running an empathy reflex so fast it fires before their brain can check wheth…

Nicholas Epley’s 2007 theory of anthropomorphism describes how people attribute human qualities to nonhuman things, offering ...
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Michael Conrad was dying while filming Hill Street Blues, and the show wrote his farewell with him

Michael Conrad quietly fought urethral cancer while Hill Street Blues was in production. He died at 58 on November 22, 1983, ...
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Vivian Vance’s contract allegedly required her to stay heavier than Lucille Ball, and the truth is better

The familiar claim that Vivian Vance’s I Love Lucy contract required her to outweigh Lucille Ball remains a rumor, not a ...
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Psychology says people who keep every birthday card they’ve ever received aren’t sentimental hoarders, they’re holding proof that someone once took the time

The handwriting on a saved birthday card can recall the person who wrote it. Object-attachment research helps explain why a ...
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Andy Griffith never got a single Emmy nomination, and Don Knotts won five playing his sidekick

Andy Griffith played Sheriff Andy Taylor throughout The Andy Griffith Show without earning an Emmy nomination for the role.