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Five News Stories of the Day
A Wedding RSVP Card Offers People Better Food Depending on the Price of Their Wedding Gift (Story)
Should a "Jeopardy!" Contestant Have Gotten This Answer Wrong? (Story)
The New Emojis Coming Next Year Have Just Been Announced (Story)
A New App Lets You Hire an Anonymous Person to Spy for You (Story)
The Philadelphia Eagles Are Still Being Booed at Home . . . with Zero Fans (Tweet)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Shakespeare invented the name Jessica in "The Merchant of Venice".
2. The word "turquoise" is based on the word "Turkish," because it described the color of the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of southern Turkey.
3. Mort Walker, the guy who created the "Beetle Bailey" and "Hi and Lois" comic strips, came up with the idea for using random symbols like exclamation points and hashtags to represent swear words in cartoons. And the official term for it is grawlix.
4. College basketball players aren't allowed to have a jersey number that includes a six, seven, eight, or nine. That's because after a foul, the refs signal the player's number to the scorer's table with both hands, and small numbers make it easier.
5. In the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme, there's no mention of him being an egg . . . that's just how he's evolved to look in pop culture.
Celebrity Birthdays
Christian Serratos is 30. Rosita Espinosa on "The Walking Dead". She's playing Selena on the upcoming Netflix series.
Jason Derulo is 31.
Wale is 36.
Maggie Grace is 37. Althea on "Fear the Walking Dead", Shannon on "Lost", and Liam Neeson's daughter in the "Taken" movies.
Nicole Richie is 39. "Simple Life" star and Lionel Richie's daughter. She has two babies with Joel Madden from Good Charlotte. They have a daughter named Harlow and a son named Sparrow.
Aleksa Palladino is 40. Angela Darmody on "Boardwalk Empire".
Paulo Costanzo is 42. Kiefer Sutherland's White House consultant on "Designated Survivor". Before that you knew him as Hank's brother Evan on "Royal Pains", Michael Tribbiani on "Joey", and Rubin in "Road Trip".
Liam Gallagher is 48. 12-toed singer for Oasis. Biggest hits: "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova".
David Silveria is 48. Former Korn drummer. He went on "hiatus" in December of 2006, and never came back. His band mates say he dropped out of the music scene altogether, and doesn't even own a drum set anymore.
Alfonso Ribeiro is 49. Carlton on "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air".
Luke Wilson is 49. Owen's brother.
Ricki Lake is 52. Daytime talk show host.
Trugoy the Dove is 52. Revolutionary rapper from De La Soul.
Faith Hill is 53.
Cheryl Hines is 55. Larry's wife on "Curb Your Enthusiasm". She married Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Rob Morrow is 58. "Numb3rs" and "Northern Exposure".
David James Elliott is 60. "J.A.G."
Dave Coulier is 61. Uncle Joey on "Full House" and "Fuller House". He's the guy Alanis Morissette is singing about in her bitter jam "You Oughta Know".
Bill Murray is 70.
Stephen King is 73.
Don Felder is 73. Eagles guitarist and keyboardist. He also wrote and performed the mind-bending track "Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)" from the 1981 animated classic, "Heavy Metal".
Jerry Bruckheimer is 77. The man behind "CSI", the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, the "National Treasure" movies and "Top Gun" and its upcoming sequel.
Five News Stories of the Day
A Wedding RSVP Card Offers People Better Food Depending on the Price of Their Wedding Gift (Story)
Should a "Jeopardy!" Contestant Have Gotten This Answer Wrong? (Story)
The New Emojis Coming Next Year Have Just Been Announced (Story)
A New App Lets You Hire an Anonymous Person to Spy for You (Story)
The Philadelphia Eagles Are Still Being Booed at Home . . . with Zero Fans (Tweet)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Shakespeare invented the name Jessica in "The Merchant of Venice".
2. The word "turquoise" is based on the word "Turkish," because it described the color of the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of southern Turkey.
3. Mort Walker, the guy who created the "Beetle Bailey" and "Hi and Lois" comic strips, came up with the idea for using random symbols like exclamation points and hashtags to represent swear words in cartoons. And the official term for it is grawlix.
4. College basketball players aren't allowed to have a jersey number that includes a six, seven, eight, or nine. That's because after a foul, the refs signal the player's number to the scorer's table with both hands, and small numbers make it easier.
5. In the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme, there's no mention of him being an egg . . . that's just how he's evolved to look in pop culture.
Celebrity Birthdays
Christian Serratos is 30. Rosita Espinosa on "The Walking Dead". She's playing Selena on the upcoming Netflix series.
Jason Derulo is 31.
Wale is 36.
Maggie Grace is 37. Althea on "Fear the Walking Dead", Shannon on "Lost", and Liam Neeson's daughter in the "Taken" movies.
Nicole Richie is 39. "Simple Life" star and Lionel Richie's daughter. She has two babies with Joel Madden from Good Charlotte. They have a daughter named Harlow and a son named Sparrow.
Aleksa Palladino is 40. Angela Darmody on "Boardwalk Empire".
Paulo Costanzo is 42. Kiefer Sutherland's White House consultant on "Designated Survivor". Before that you knew him as Hank's brother Evan on "Royal Pains", Michael Tribbiani on "Joey", and Rubin in "Road Trip".
Liam Gallagher is 48. 12-toed singer for Oasis. Biggest hits: "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova".
David Silveria is 48. Former Korn drummer. He went on "hiatus" in December of 2006, and never came back. His band mates say he dropped out of the music scene altogether, and doesn't even own a drum set anymore.
Alfonso Ribeiro is 49. Carlton on "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air".
Luke Wilson is 49. Owen's brother.
Ricki Lake is 52. Daytime talk show host.
Trugoy the Dove is 52. Revolutionary rapper from De La Soul.
Faith Hill is 53.
Cheryl Hines is 55. Larry's wife on "Curb Your Enthusiasm". She married Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Rob Morrow is 58. "Numb3rs" and "Northern Exposure".
David James Elliott is 60. "J.A.G."
Dave Coulier is 61. Uncle Joey on "Full House" and "Fuller House". He's the guy Alanis Morissette is singing about in her bitter jam "You Oughta Know".
Bill Murray is 70.
Stephen King is 73.
Don Felder is 73. Eagles guitarist and keyboardist. He also wrote and performed the mind-bending track "Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)" from the 1981 animated classic, "Heavy Metal".
Jerry Bruckheimer is 77. The man behind "CSI", the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, the "National Treasure" movies and "Top Gun" and its upcoming sequel.
