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TIME’S WEEKLY TAKE ON WHAT POPPED IN CULTURE

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Avengers star Chris Hemsworth was officially cast as the secretary in the Ghostbusters reboot.

Hillary Clinton’s first Instagram photo was of red, white and blue pantsuits with the caption “Hard choices.”

Pepsi hinted it might revive Crystal Pepsi–the caffeine-free soft drink it axed in 1993–thanks to a fan-started petition. Will it take off? Here’s how other resurrected foods and drinks have fared:

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Coca-Cola partnered with Amazon last year to offer this citrus soda, discontinued in the early 2000s, online. It quickly sold out.

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Nixed from McDonald’s national menu at least four times, it occasionally returns to participating restaurants.

FRENCH TOAST CRUNCH

The cereal was toast in 2006; now it seems here to stay after General Mills brought it back in 2014.

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They became permanent Burger King menu items this year, after being cut in 2012 and revived in 2014.

Hulu plans to build a replica of Jerry’s apartment from Seinfeld to celebrate acquiring the rights to stream the show.

Scientists confirmed that a 15-year-old intern at Keele University in the U.K. discovered a new planet 1,000 light-years away.

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Pizza Hut’s latest creation: a pizza with 28 mini hot dogs baked into the crust.

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‘I’m that character in Harry Potter they can’t talk about.’

LANCE ARMSTRONG, disgraced athlete, on how U.S. TV stations treat him during cycling events

A truck carrying several live sharks, headed for a New York aquarium, crashed in Florida. One of the sharks died.

A U.K. banking company is allowing users to set emoji-based passwords.

Actor John Stamos was arrested in Beverly Hills for allegedly driving under the influence.

Paris authorities have started to remove the famous “love locks”–many of which were left by couples who wanted to make romantic gestures–from two bridges, the Pont de L’Archevêché, above, and the Pont des Arts, because of structural concerns.

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