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Oxygenics is making Star Wars–themed showerheads featuring R2-D2 and Darth Vader.

Larry David delivered a pitch-perfect Bernie Sanders impression during Saturday Night Live’s Oct. 17 opening sketch. Sanders later quipped:

‘I think we’ll use Larry at our next rally. He does better than I do.’

Australian fast-food franchise Chicken Treat had a live chicken run its Twitter account by pecking at or walking over a keyboard.

Facebook added a feature that allows users to block their exes–or anyone else–from appearing in their “on this day” memory streams.

General Mills made 10 boxes of marshmallow-only Lucky Charms that fans could win via social-media competition.

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A man accused of leading police on a high-speed chase in Manatee County, Florida, reportedly told officers that his dog was the one driving the car.

Rapper Drake said he was “kicked off” Degrassi–the popular teen soap that first made him famous–because the show made him choose between acting and music.

As of Oct. 21, 2015, the date Marty McFly traveled to in Back to the Future Part II, many of the 1989 movie’s technological advancements were either real or in development. (Among them: hoverboards, self-tying sneakers and even Pepsi Perfect.) But we still don’t have flying cars.

Lindsay Lohan hinted that she might run for President in 2020 (even though she won’t be old enough).

After saying he wasn’t going “to be sexist,” rapper T.I. made a series of sexist comments about Hillary Clinton.

New research published in mBio suggests that caramel apples are more apt to breed listeria than plain apples, thanks to the sticks they’re impaled on.

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