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- The company that redesigned Oregon Trail consulted Native American historians to make sure the new version of the game isn't racist.
- Jay-Z, Carol King, and the Go-Go's are among the artists being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year.
- Box springs: don't need 'em!
- Flowers are having a huge moment.
- Grimes revealed yesterday that she was hospitalized for a panic attack after her partner Elon Musk hosted SNL.
- The Dublin townhouse that inspired James Joyce's "The Dead" is being turned into a tourist hostel.
- A Pacific football fish, which is the rarely seen and absolutely horrifying creature with spiky teeth that was made famous in Finding Nemo, washed up on the shores of Newport Beach recently.
- Enjoy these screenshots of Paddington photoshopped into Star Wars scenes.
- And finally, a classic case of "actually, it's good":
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