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Five Stories of the Day
The Key to Living a Long Life Is . . . Getting Chubby as You Get Older? (Story)
Here Are the Top 10 Foods People Will Eat During the Super Bowl (Story)
The Card Game "Uno" Is Being Turned Into a Movie (Story)
Does McDonald's Secretly Sell Full Cakes? (Story)
Does This Picture Show Bigfoot Running into the Woods or a Poodle Running Out of Them? (Photo)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Bill Lear, the guy who invented Lear Jets, also invented the eight-track tape player. But more importantly, one of his daughters was named Shanda. Shanda Lear.
2. Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon" was on the Billboard 200 album charts for a record 958 weeks and counting . . . but only spent ONE week at number one, in 1973.
3. A can of Coke is 90% water . . . a can of Diet Coke is 99% water.
4. Clownfish . . . like the ones in "Finding Nemo" . . . can change from male-to-female if they need to, for reproduction. So in the movie, once Nemo's mother was killed, his father would've grown female sex organs and started reproducing with Nemo.
5. The first commercial jingle was in a Wheaties radio ad in 1926.
Celebrity Birthdays
Esme Creed-Miles is 21. She's the star of that Amazon's new series "Hanna".
Henry Golding is 34. Nick in "Crazy Rich Asians". He's also starring in the upcoming movie "Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins".
Darren Criss is 34. Blaine on "Glee", and Versace's killer on "American Crime Story".
Cristiano Ronaldo is 36.
Tyler Farr is 37. Country singer who does "Redneck Crazy".
Tony Jaa is 45. Martial arts badass. Kiet in "Furious 7" and Talon in "xXx: Return of Xander Cage".
Sara Evans is 50. Country beauty who sang "Suds in the Bucket".
Michael Sheen is 52. Dr. William Masters on Showtime's "Masters of Sex".
Bobby Brown is 52.
Chris Parnell is 54. "SNL" alum, Dr. Leo Spaceman on "30 Rock", the voice of Cyril Figgis on FX's "Archer", and Garth in the "Anchorman" movies.
Duff McKagan is 57. Bassist for Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, and now Guns N' Roses again.
Laura Linney is 57. "Kinsey", "You Can Count on Me", "Mystic River", "Love Actually", and Showtime's "The Big C".
Jennifer Jason Leigh is 59. "The Hateful Eight", "Single White Female", and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High".
"The Ladies Man" Tim Meadows is 60.
Christopher Guest is 73. Count Rugen, the six-fingered man, in "The Princess Bride" . . . Harlan Pepper in "Best in Show" . . . and Nigel Tufnel in "Spinal Tap". He's married to Jamie Lee Curtis and he's also an "SNL" alumnus.
Darrell Waltrip is 74. NASCAR badass and voice of Darrell Cartrip in "Cars".
Al Kooper is 77. Blood, Sweat & Tears founder and former keyboardist. Al Kooper also played organ on Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone", French horn on the Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want", wrote the 1965 #1 hit "This Diamond Ring" AND produced Lynyrd Skynyrd's first album.
Roger Staubach is 79. Legendary Dallas Cowboys quarterback.
Five Stories of the Day
The Key to Living a Long Life Is . . . Getting Chubby as You Get Older? (Story)
Here Are the Top 10 Foods People Will Eat During the Super Bowl (Story)
The Card Game "Uno" Is Being Turned Into a Movie (Story)
Does McDonald's Secretly Sell Full Cakes? (Story)
Does This Picture Show Bigfoot Running into the Woods or a Poodle Running Out of Them? (Photo)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Bill Lear, the guy who invented Lear Jets, also invented the eight-track tape player. But more importantly, one of his daughters was named Shanda. Shanda Lear.
2. Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon" was on the Billboard 200 album charts for a record 958 weeks and counting . . . but only spent ONE week at number one, in 1973.
3. A can of Coke is 90% water . . . a can of Diet Coke is 99% water.
4. Clownfish . . . like the ones in "Finding Nemo" . . . can change from male-to-female if they need to, for reproduction. So in the movie, once Nemo's mother was killed, his father would've grown female sex organs and started reproducing with Nemo.
5. The first commercial jingle was in a Wheaties radio ad in 1926.
Celebrity Birthdays
Esme Creed-Miles is 21. She's the star of that Amazon's new series "Hanna".
Henry Golding is 34. Nick in "Crazy Rich Asians". He's also starring in the upcoming movie "Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins".
Darren Criss is 34. Blaine on "Glee", and Versace's killer on "American Crime Story".
Cristiano Ronaldo is 36.
Tyler Farr is 37. Country singer who does "Redneck Crazy".
Tony Jaa is 45. Martial arts badass. Kiet in "Furious 7" and Talon in "xXx: Return of Xander Cage".
Sara Evans is 50. Country beauty who sang "Suds in the Bucket".
Michael Sheen is 52. Dr. William Masters on Showtime's "Masters of Sex".
Bobby Brown is 52.
Chris Parnell is 54. "SNL" alum, Dr. Leo Spaceman on "30 Rock", the voice of Cyril Figgis on FX's "Archer", and Garth in the "Anchorman" movies.
Duff McKagan is 57. Bassist for Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, and now Guns N' Roses again.
Laura Linney is 57. "Kinsey", "You Can Count on Me", "Mystic River", "Love Actually", and Showtime's "The Big C".
Jennifer Jason Leigh is 59. "The Hateful Eight", "Single White Female", and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High".
"The Ladies Man" Tim Meadows is 60.
Christopher Guest is 73. Count Rugen, the six-fingered man, in "The Princess Bride" . . . Harlan Pepper in "Best in Show" . . . and Nigel Tufnel in "Spinal Tap". He's married to Jamie Lee Curtis and he's also an "SNL" alumnus.
Darrell Waltrip is 74. NASCAR badass and voice of Darrell Cartrip in "Cars".
Al Kooper is 77. Blood, Sweat & Tears founder and former keyboardist. Al Kooper also played organ on Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone", French horn on the Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want", wrote the 1965 #1 hit "This Diamond Ring" AND produced Lynyrd Skynyrd's first album.
Roger Staubach is 79. Legendary Dallas Cowboys quarterback.
