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Five Stories of the Day
What Temperature Is "Shorts Weather" For You? (Story)
Lady Gaga Has Offered a $500,000 Reward After Someone Shot Her Dog Walker and Stole Her Dogs (Story)
The Top Sounds We Miss Hearing Include Live Music and People Cheering (Story)
Roombas Are Now Acting Like "Drunk" People After a Recent Update (Story)
A Former USA Gymnastics Coach Charged with Sex Crimes Killed Himself Yesterday (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Only 5% of the calls routed to fire departments in the U.S. are for actual fires. Most of them are for medical emergencies.
2. Can openers were invented in 1858 . . . which is 48 years after cans. During those years in between, the most popular way to open cans was smashing them with a hammer and chisel.
3. Your rectum has similar cells to your mouth . . . which is why spicy foods can burn on the way out as much as they do when you're eating them.
4. There are only two companies with a perfect "AAA" credit rating: Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft.
5. Antarctica gets about 44,000 tourists a year . . . that's up from 5,000 tourists a year in 1990.
Celebrity Birthdays
Taylor Dooley is 28. Lavagirl in "Sharkboy and Lavagirl".
Teresa Palmer is 35. The blonde from the "Point Break" remake. You'd also know her from "Hacksaw Ridge", "Warm Bodies", "I Am Number Four", "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and the Nicholas Sparks movie "The Choice".
Nate Ruess is 39. Singer from the bands Fun and The Format. You'd also know him from Pink's song "Just Give Me a Reason".
Corinne Bailey Rae is 42. British singer who does "Put Your Records On".
Erykah Badu is 50. Birth name: Erica Wright. Biggest hit: "On & On".
Mark Dacascos is 57. He was Wo Fat on "Hawaii Five-0", Eric Draven on the TV version of "The Crow", and the extremely nimble host of "Iron Chef America".
Michael Bolton is 68.
Johnny Cash (1932 - 2003)
Fats Domino (1928 - 2017)
Five Stories of the Day
What Temperature Is "Shorts Weather" For You? (Story)
Lady Gaga Has Offered a $500,000 Reward After Someone Shot Her Dog Walker and Stole Her Dogs (Story)
The Top Sounds We Miss Hearing Include Live Music and People Cheering (Story)
Roombas Are Now Acting Like "Drunk" People After a Recent Update (Story)
A Former USA Gymnastics Coach Charged with Sex Crimes Killed Himself Yesterday (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Only 5% of the calls routed to fire departments in the U.S. are for actual fires. Most of them are for medical emergencies.
2. Can openers were invented in 1858 . . . which is 48 years after cans. During those years in between, the most popular way to open cans was smashing them with a hammer and chisel.
3. Your rectum has similar cells to your mouth . . . which is why spicy foods can burn on the way out as much as they do when you're eating them.
4. There are only two companies with a perfect "AAA" credit rating: Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft.
5. Antarctica gets about 44,000 tourists a year . . . that's up from 5,000 tourists a year in 1990.
Celebrity Birthdays
Taylor Dooley is 28. Lavagirl in "Sharkboy and Lavagirl".
Teresa Palmer is 35. The blonde from the "Point Break" remake. You'd also know her from "Hacksaw Ridge", "Warm Bodies", "I Am Number Four", "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and the Nicholas Sparks movie "The Choice".
Nate Ruess is 39. Singer from the bands Fun and The Format. You'd also know him from Pink's song "Just Give Me a Reason".
Corinne Bailey Rae is 42. British singer who does "Put Your Records On".
Erykah Badu is 50. Birth name: Erica Wright. Biggest hit: "On & On".
Mark Dacascos is 57. He was Wo Fat on "Hawaii Five-0", Eric Draven on the TV version of "The Crow", and the extremely nimble host of "Iron Chef America".
Michael Bolton is 68.
Johnny Cash (1932 - 2003)
Fats Domino (1928 - 2017)
