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Dancing in John Travolta’s white Saturday Night Fever suit? You can scratch that off your bucket list—the three-piece is going up for auction. You’ll probably need around $200,000 to make it yours.
One big number
4 lbs: Weight of what KFC and Chick-fil-A consider the perfect-sized small-breasted bird for their sandwiches, but they’re getting more and more difficult to find.
Siberian tiger personalities can be mapped on a range from “majestic” ➡️ “steady”—sort of akin to humans’ extravert and introvert tendencies. We’ve assessed the cub above according to our own scale, and declared it “cuddly.”
NASA wanted to surprise the three US astronauts who have been selected to fly around the Moon, and so disguised the big reveal with a meeting request that sounded very low key. The problem with low-key-sounding meetings is… showing up on time feels optional.
The Canadian Space Agency took a more direct route: The Canadian astronaut who will be going on the trip got a simple phone call.
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Susan Howson