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Five News Stories of the Day
What's the Most Unprofessional Thing You've Done at Work? (Story)
What's Every State's Least Favorite State? (Map on Instagram)
Do You Always Put Your Shopping Cart Back? Or Only If It's Convenient? (Story)
Will This Year See the Most Expensive Super Bowl Tickets Ever? (Story)
People Spend Two Months in a Relationship with Someone They're Going to Dump . . . Here Are the 10 Reasons Why (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. The first TV commercial aired on July 1st, 1941, before a Brooklyn Dodgers-Philadelphia Phillies game. It was for the Bulova Watch Company.
2. Harriet Tubman and Ronald Reagan were alive at the same time. She died in 1913 when she was 91 years old and he was born in 1911.
3. When Australia was colonized in 1788, the first currency they used was rum. And that lasted for more than a decade before they came up with a real type of money.
4. We call our grandparents' brothers and sisters great uncles and great aunts but technically that's incorrect. We're supposed to call them grand uncles and grand aunts.
5. Canada is the only country to host an Olympics and not win a gold medal, when it hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Canadian athletes only won five silvers and six bronzes.
Celebrity Birthdays
Booboo Stewart is 26. Telepathic werewolf Seth Clearwater in the "Twilight" movies and the son of Jafar in the Disney Channel "Descendants" movies. When he was 10 he was also one of the kids dancing in the Eminem video "Just Lose It".
Nick Gehlfuss is 35. Dr. Will Halstead on "Chicago Med".
Luke Grimes is 36. Kevin Costner's son Kayce on "Yellowstone", and Christian Grey's older brother Elliot in the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movies.
Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton is 44. The Spice Girls.
Ken Leung is 50. Miles on "Lost", and Karnak on "Inhumans". Horror fans would also remember him as Detective Sing in "Saw".
Charlotte Ross is 52. "NYPD Blue" actress.
Hakeem Olajuwon is 57.
Geena Davis is 64. "Thelma & Louise", "A League of Their Own", "Beetlejuice", and "Commander In Chief". Fun Fact: Geena is a member of Mensa, and was a semifinalist for the U.S. Women's Olympic Archery team.
Robby Benson is 64. He isBilly Joe McAllister in the 1976 cinematic classic "Ode to Billy Joe". He did the voice of the Beast in Disney's animated version of "Beauty & The Beast".
Billy Ocean is 70.
Jill Eikenberry is 73. "L.A. Law".
Mac Davis is 78.
Placido Domingo is 79. One of the Three Tenors and the Man in the Moon in "Moulin Rouge".
Jack Nicklaus is 80. Legendary golfer.
Five News Stories of the Day
What's the Most Unprofessional Thing You've Done at Work? (Story)
What's Every State's Least Favorite State? (Map on Instagram)
Do You Always Put Your Shopping Cart Back? Or Only If It's Convenient? (Story)
Will This Year See the Most Expensive Super Bowl Tickets Ever? (Story)
People Spend Two Months in a Relationship with Someone They're Going to Dump . . . Here Are the 10 Reasons Why (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. The first TV commercial aired on July 1st, 1941, before a Brooklyn Dodgers-Philadelphia Phillies game. It was for the Bulova Watch Company.
2. Harriet Tubman and Ronald Reagan were alive at the same time. She died in 1913 when she was 91 years old and he was born in 1911.
3. When Australia was colonized in 1788, the first currency they used was rum. And that lasted for more than a decade before they came up with a real type of money.
4. We call our grandparents' brothers and sisters great uncles and great aunts but technically that's incorrect. We're supposed to call them grand uncles and grand aunts.
5. Canada is the only country to host an Olympics and not win a gold medal, when it hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Canadian athletes only won five silvers and six bronzes.
Celebrity Birthdays
Booboo Stewart is 26. Telepathic werewolf Seth Clearwater in the "Twilight" movies and the son of Jafar in the Disney Channel "Descendants" movies. When he was 10 he was also one of the kids dancing in the Eminem video "Just Lose It".
Nick Gehlfuss is 35. Dr. Will Halstead on "Chicago Med".
Luke Grimes is 36. Kevin Costner's son Kayce on "Yellowstone", and Christian Grey's older brother Elliot in the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movies.
Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton is 44. The Spice Girls.
Ken Leung is 50. Miles on "Lost", and Karnak on "Inhumans". Horror fans would also remember him as Detective Sing in "Saw".
Charlotte Ross is 52. "NYPD Blue" actress.
Hakeem Olajuwon is 57.
Geena Davis is 64. "Thelma & Louise", "A League of Their Own", "Beetlejuice", and "Commander In Chief". Fun Fact: Geena is a member of Mensa, and was a semifinalist for the U.S. Women's Olympic Archery team.
Robby Benson is 64. He isBilly Joe McAllister in the 1976 cinematic classic "Ode to Billy Joe". He did the voice of the Beast in Disney's animated version of "Beauty & The Beast".
Billy Ocean is 70.
Jill Eikenberry is 73. "L.A. Law".
Mac Davis is 78.
Placido Domingo is 79. One of the Three Tenors and the Man in the Moon in "Moulin Rouge".
Jack Nicklaus is 80. Legendary golfer.
