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Five News Stories of the Day
A Federal Reserve official believes we'll see 18 months of rolling shutdowns (Story)
16% of People Would Choose Staying at Home and Watching Netflix Over a Return to Normalcy? (Story)
91% of People Who've Asked for Breaks on Credit Card Payments Have Been Approved (Story)
Experts Say Live Concerts Won't Return Until the Fall of 2021 . . . at the Earliest (Story)
The WWE Has Been Deemed an "Essential" Business in Florida (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. The word crayfish isn't based on the word "fish." It comes from the French word "ecrevisse." (Pronounced eh-krev-eese.)
2. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" didn't win Video of the Year at the first Video Music Awards in 1984. It lost to "You Might Think" by The Cars.
3. Daddy longlegs are arachnids, but they're not classified as spiders because they don't produce silk.
4. There's a town in Nevada on the way from Southern California to Las Vegas called Jean, with a casino and the world's largest Chevron gas station but a population of ZERO. Everyone who works in the town lives somewhere else.
5. The word "dibs" comes from a children's game from the 1600s called dibstones. It was sort of like jacks, and kids would try to win little pieces of animal bones by yelling "Dibs!"
Celebrity Birthdays
Abigail Breslin is 24. Chanel #5 on "Scream Queens", and Baby in the "Dirty Dancing" remake. She was also the little girl from "Signs" and "Little Miss Sunshine", and an ass-kicking junior zombie killer in "Zombieland".
Skyler Samuels is 26. The telepathic Frost Sisters on "The Gifted".
Claire Coffee is 40. Adalind Schade on "Grimm".
Sarah Michelle Gellar is 43.
Adrien Brody is 47. "King Kong", "Predators", and "The Pianist".
Anthony Michael Hall is 52. '80s superstar from "Sixteen Candles", "Weird Science", "The Breakfast Club" and "National Lampoon's Vacation". At age 17, he became the youngest "Saturday Night Live" cast member ever until he had to enter rehab. In his post-Brat Pack years, he was Winona Ryder's boyfriend in "Edward Scissorhands" and the star of "The Dead Zone".
Greg Maddux is 54. Retired Major League Baseball pitching legend.
Robert Carlyle is 59. Rumplestiltskin on "Once Upon a Time". He was also brilliant as Dr. Rush on the severely underrated "Stargate Universe".
Brad Garrett is 60. 6-foot-8 Robert Barone on "Everybody Loves Raymond" and the first Grand Prize winner on "Star Search".
Ritchie Blackmore is 75. Former Deep Purple guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
Pete Rose is 79. WWE Hall of Famer.
Loretta Lynn is 88. Country legend. Biggest hit: "Coal Miner's Daughter".
Five News Stories of the Day
A Federal Reserve official believes we'll see 18 months of rolling shutdowns (Story)
16% of People Would Choose Staying at Home and Watching Netflix Over a Return to Normalcy? (Story)
91% of People Who've Asked for Breaks on Credit Card Payments Have Been Approved (Story)
Experts Say Live Concerts Won't Return Until the Fall of 2021 . . . at the Earliest (Story)
The WWE Has Been Deemed an "Essential" Business in Florida (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. The word crayfish isn't based on the word "fish." It comes from the French word "ecrevisse." (Pronounced eh-krev-eese.)
2. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" didn't win Video of the Year at the first Video Music Awards in 1984. It lost to "You Might Think" by The Cars.
3. Daddy longlegs are arachnids, but they're not classified as spiders because they don't produce silk.
4. There's a town in Nevada on the way from Southern California to Las Vegas called Jean, with a casino and the world's largest Chevron gas station but a population of ZERO. Everyone who works in the town lives somewhere else.
5. The word "dibs" comes from a children's game from the 1600s called dibstones. It was sort of like jacks, and kids would try to win little pieces of animal bones by yelling "Dibs!"
Celebrity Birthdays
Abigail Breslin is 24. Chanel #5 on "Scream Queens", and Baby in the "Dirty Dancing" remake. She was also the little girl from "Signs" and "Little Miss Sunshine", and an ass-kicking junior zombie killer in "Zombieland".
Skyler Samuels is 26. The telepathic Frost Sisters on "The Gifted".
Claire Coffee is 40. Adalind Schade on "Grimm".
Sarah Michelle Gellar is 43.
Adrien Brody is 47. "King Kong", "Predators", and "The Pianist".
Anthony Michael Hall is 52. '80s superstar from "Sixteen Candles", "Weird Science", "The Breakfast Club" and "National Lampoon's Vacation". At age 17, he became the youngest "Saturday Night Live" cast member ever until he had to enter rehab. In his post-Brat Pack years, he was Winona Ryder's boyfriend in "Edward Scissorhands" and the star of "The Dead Zone".
Greg Maddux is 54. Retired Major League Baseball pitching legend.
Robert Carlyle is 59. Rumplestiltskin on "Once Upon a Time". He was also brilliant as Dr. Rush on the severely underrated "Stargate Universe".
Brad Garrett is 60. 6-foot-8 Robert Barone on "Everybody Loves Raymond" and the first Grand Prize winner on "Star Search".
Ritchie Blackmore is 75. Former Deep Purple guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
Pete Rose is 79. WWE Hall of Famer.
Loretta Lynn is 88. Country legend. Biggest hit: "Coal Miner's Daughter".
