Winnie The Pooh gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  The funny smell is actually coming from the adjacent Tim Allen star.

The original Winnie was a orphaned Canadian black bear that an army soldier bought at a train station and brought to wartime Europe as a mascot.  Christopher Milne befriended the bear at a London zoo while the Canadian regiment was fighting and dying in WWI France.  A. A. Milne wrote short stories based on this friendship.

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