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Five News Stories of the Day
100 Years After Prohibition, Here Are Some of the Strangest Drinking Laws Still on the Books (Story)
There's a Calculator That Determines How Long It Takes Athletes to Earn Your Salary (Story)
The Ten Most Annoying Things When You're Driving Include Potholes and People Texting and Driving (Story)
Ben & Jerry's Has Created a New "Netflix & Chill'd" Ice Cream Flavor (Story)
The Average Person Had 105 Bad Nights of Sleep Last Year, and 102 Failed Naps (Story)
Bonus:
A Restaurant Will Charge You a Fee If You Sit There for More Than 90 Minutes (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Redheaded people need about 20% more anesthesia than people with other colors of hair . . . the gene mutation for red hair also affects the body's pain tolerance.
2. There are two governors of California with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. No governor from any other state has a star.
3. Mattel passed on making "Star Wars" toys in the late '70s because they didn't want to pay the massive $750,000 licensing fee. So they had their designers come up with ideas for their own line of action figures and they created "He-Man".
4. Around half of Fortune 500 companies started during a depression or recession, including Disney, HP, FedEx and Microsoft.
5. George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln all had smallpox, and they all beat it.
Celebrity Birthdays
Connor Cruise is 25. The adopted son of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. He was in the "Red Dawn" reboot and the 2008 Will Smith movie "Seven Pounds".
Kelly Marie Tran is 31. Finn's love interest Rose in the "Star Wars" movies.
Calvin Harris is 36. Scottish DJ who did "This Is What You Came For" with Rihanna . . . and one of the many men who had a contentious breakup with Taylor Swift. Her song "I Did Something Bad" is probably about him.
Dwyane Wade is 38. NBA superstar from the Miami Heat.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy is 40. "Dancing with the Stars". He won the show once, with Olympic figure skater Meryl Davis in Season 18. He married fellow dance pro Peta Murgatroyd shortly after the birth of their son.
Zooey Deschanel is 40. Jessica Day on "New Girl". Zooey sings with M. Ward as the duo She & Him. As an actress, she's the Gimbel's employee in "Elf" . . . the sister in "Almost Famous" . . . Trillian in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" . . . and the goth chick in "The Good Girl" with Jennifer Aniston.
Freddy Rodriguez is 45. Benny on "Bull". He was also Dr. Ragosa on the NBC medical drama "The Night Shift" . . . Frederico on "Six Feet Under" . . . and a zombie tail-kicker in "Planet Terror", one of the "Grindhouse" movies.
Kid Rock is 49.
Naveen Andrews is 51. Alan Cumming's CIA contact Julian on "Instinct", and Jonas Maliki on "Sense8" and Sayid on "Lost".
Michelle Obama is 56.
Jim Carrey is 58.
Denis O'Hare is 58. Liz Taylor on "American Horror Story: Hotel". In previous seasons, he was Stanley for "Freak Show", Spalding for "Coven", and Larry Harvey for "Murder House". He was also Russel Edgington on "True Blood".
Susanna Hoffs is 61. Singer for The Bangles.
Steve Harvey is 63.
Steve Earle is 65. Country rocker who sang "Copperhead Road".
Mick Taylor is 71. Rolling Stones guitarist from 1969 to 1974.
Maury Povich is 81.
James Earl Jones is 89.
Betty White is 98.
Five News Stories of the Day
100 Years After Prohibition, Here Are Some of the Strangest Drinking Laws Still on the Books (Story)
There's a Calculator That Determines How Long It Takes Athletes to Earn Your Salary (Story)
The Ten Most Annoying Things When You're Driving Include Potholes and People Texting and Driving (Story)
Ben & Jerry's Has Created a New "Netflix & Chill'd" Ice Cream Flavor (Story)
The Average Person Had 105 Bad Nights of Sleep Last Year, and 102 Failed Naps (Story)
Bonus:
A Restaurant Will Charge You a Fee If You Sit There for More Than 90 Minutes (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Redheaded people need about 20% more anesthesia than people with other colors of hair . . . the gene mutation for red hair also affects the body's pain tolerance.
2. There are two governors of California with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. No governor from any other state has a star.
3. Mattel passed on making "Star Wars" toys in the late '70s because they didn't want to pay the massive $750,000 licensing fee. So they had their designers come up with ideas for their own line of action figures and they created "He-Man".
4. Around half of Fortune 500 companies started during a depression or recession, including Disney, HP, FedEx and Microsoft.
5. George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln all had smallpox, and they all beat it.
Celebrity Birthdays
Connor Cruise is 25. The adopted son of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. He was in the "Red Dawn" reboot and the 2008 Will Smith movie "Seven Pounds".
Kelly Marie Tran is 31. Finn's love interest Rose in the "Star Wars" movies.
Calvin Harris is 36. Scottish DJ who did "This Is What You Came For" with Rihanna . . . and one of the many men who had a contentious breakup with Taylor Swift. Her song "I Did Something Bad" is probably about him.
Dwyane Wade is 38. NBA superstar from the Miami Heat.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy is 40. "Dancing with the Stars". He won the show once, with Olympic figure skater Meryl Davis in Season 18. He married fellow dance pro Peta Murgatroyd shortly after the birth of their son.
Zooey Deschanel is 40. Jessica Day on "New Girl". Zooey sings with M. Ward as the duo She & Him. As an actress, she's the Gimbel's employee in "Elf" . . . the sister in "Almost Famous" . . . Trillian in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" . . . and the goth chick in "The Good Girl" with Jennifer Aniston.
Freddy Rodriguez is 45. Benny on "Bull". He was also Dr. Ragosa on the NBC medical drama "The Night Shift" . . . Frederico on "Six Feet Under" . . . and a zombie tail-kicker in "Planet Terror", one of the "Grindhouse" movies.
Kid Rock is 49.
Naveen Andrews is 51. Alan Cumming's CIA contact Julian on "Instinct", and Jonas Maliki on "Sense8" and Sayid on "Lost".
Michelle Obama is 56.
Jim Carrey is 58.
Denis O'Hare is 58. Liz Taylor on "American Horror Story: Hotel". In previous seasons, he was Stanley for "Freak Show", Spalding for "Coven", and Larry Harvey for "Murder House". He was also Russel Edgington on "True Blood".
Susanna Hoffs is 61. Singer for The Bangles.
Steve Harvey is 63.
Steve Earle is 65. Country rocker who sang "Copperhead Road".
Mick Taylor is 71. Rolling Stones guitarist from 1969 to 1974.
Maury Povich is 81.
James Earl Jones is 89.
Betty White is 98.
