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This year's annual cost of living adjustment [bumps up payments by 8.7%](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/business/money/social-security-cost-of-living-adjustment-cola-increase/index.html), CNN reports. About 70 million people receive Social Security payments annually.

**$1,827**

Social Security payments are getting their biggest increase since 1981. How much is the average monthly payment expected to be by 2023?

NASA shot "a refrigerator-size spacecraft" at a small asteroid and "altered the space rock’s orbit, shortening its trip around a larger asteroid by 32 minutes," Sarah Scoles [wrote for the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/science/nasa-dart-asteroid-spacecraft.html). Scientists are taking this as a strong indicator that a spacecraft could successfully deflect potential asteroids headed towards Earth.

**NASA successfully changed an asteroid's orbit by hitting it really hard.**

"We showed the world that NASA is serious as a defender of this planet,” a NASA administrator said at a press conference on Tuesday. What is this a reference to?

The artifacts were among many art pieces [stolen by the British](https://apnews.com/article/travel-museums-africa-70f80520cf1bfcca6059e16a316bc76e) in the late 19th century, AP reports.

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**After keeping 31 West African cultural artifacts for 70 years, the US has agreed to return them to which country?**

Horticulturist Travis Gienger [told the Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/12/pumpkin-growing-record-minnesota-travis-gienger/) that he spent 180 days growing his pumpkin named "Maverick." The gourd clocked in at 2,560 pounds at this year's Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, California.

Six months

There's a new record for the heaviest pumpkin in America. How long did the gourd take to grow to its full size?

Indeed. The line comes from a Sept. 22 [“getting to know you” promotional YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bntzdxHIixE&t=5s) from HBO Max featuring [_House of the Dragon_](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ericthurm/house-of-the-dragon-season-1-review) stars Emma D'Arcy (Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen) and Olivia Cooke (Queen Alicent Hightower).  
Still confused? Read reporter David Mack's [full explanation](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/negroni-sbagliato-prosecco) of its virality.

**Two _Game of Throne_ cast members discussed the merits of this beverage in a clip that went viral in queer online spaces.**

"Negroni. Sbagliato. With prosecco in it." Why did this phrase take the internet by storm this week?

After a week of voting, Bear 747 was declared the winner of Fat Bear Week, the [annual knockout-style competition](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annabetts/fat-bear-week-winner-announced) in which the public votes on which bear in Katmai National Park, Alaska, has gained the most weight from summer to fall. He is one of the [largest brown bears](https://explore.org/meet-the-bears#bear-747) on Earth.

1,400 pounds

How much did this year's official winner of Fat Bear Week weigh?

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