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Like any year in modern cinema, 1986 saw the release of lots of horror movies. Most of these were pretty bad. Horrible, even.

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

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In June 1940, Foss hitchhiked 300 miles to Minneapolis to enlist in the Marine Corps Reserve so he could join the Naval ...