“When Chuck Norris left home for college, he told his father, ‘You are now the man of the house,’ one joke says. “The Great Wall of China was created to keep Chuck Norris out,” another ...

Chuck Norris, the man, the myth, the meme—turns 85 today. Born on March 10, 1940, in Ryan, Okla., Norris didn’t just carve out a career in Hollywood; he single-handedly defined what it means ...