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Five News Stories of the Day
The Music Industry Is Calling for a "Blackout" Today . . . What Does That Mean? (Story)
Here's a Hack from Domino's for Reheating Pizza in the Microwave Without Making It Soggy (Story)
What's the Least-Sharable Thing You Can Think Of? The Top 10 Include Underwear, Toothbrushes, and Passwords (Story)
Would Your Dog Rescue You If You Were in Trouble? A Study Finds Out (Story)
22 Characters We Loved When the Show Started, but Hated by the End (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Why does "Canadian tuxedo" describe wearing jeans with a jean jacket? In 1951, Bing Crosby wasn't allowed in a hotel in Canada because he was wearing a "double denim" look, so Levi's made him a denim tuxedo as a publicity stunt.
2. When Disneyland opened, it had a lingerie shop on Main Street. It lasted less than six months.
3. The Wright Brothers had two older brothers, Reuchlin and Lorin. But they didn't get included in the whole flying thing. (They also had a sister named Katharine.)
4. James Cameron's main motivation for making "Titanic" was to get the studio to pay for him to dive down to the real Titanic's wreckage. If it hadn't been for that, he says he didn't, quote, "particularly want to make the movie."
5. An iPhone contains 75 different chemical elements, which is about two-thirds of the elements on the Periodic Table.
Celebrity Birthdays
Morena Baccarin is 41. Vanessa in the "Deadpool" movies, Lee Thompkins on "Gotham", and Jessica Brody on "Homeland".
Justin Long is 42. Mac in Apple's old "Mac vs. PC" campaign. He's also the voice of Alvin in the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movies. And some of you may remember him from "Dodgeball", "Live Free or Die Hard" and "Jeepers Creepers".
Dominic Cooper is 42. He stars on AMC's "Preacher" as the comic book character Jesse Custer. He was also Howard Stark on "Agent Carter".
Zachary Quinto is 43. Got his break as Sylar on "Heroes". He now plays Spock in the "Star Trek" movies and stars on an AMC series called "NOS4A2".
Wentworth Miller is 48. "Prison Break". He's also Captain Cold on "The Flash" and "Legends of Tomorrow".
Wayne Brady is 48.
Liam Cunningham is 59. Davos on "Game of Thrones". He started out as the right hand man of Stannis Baratheon . . . who found Jon Snow's body and convinced Melisandre to bring him back from the dead.
Dana Carvey is 65. "Saturday Night Live" legend. He's Garth in "Wayne's World", the Church Lady, and Hans of Hans and Franz.
Dennis Haysbert is 66. In 1989, he was playing the stereotypical character Pedro Cerrano in "Major League", doing voodoo and speaking broken English. Twelve years later he would play a black president on "24" and become a spokesman for Allstate Insurance. He'll play God in the final season of "Lucifer".
Jerry Mathers is 72. The Beaver.
Charlie Watts is 79. Drummer for The Rolling Stones.
Stacy Keach is 79. Henry Pope, the warden on the first season of "Prison Break". Now he's Matt LeBlanc's father on "Man with a Plan". Back in the '80s, he was "Mike Hammer" until he did nine months in the clink for smuggling cocaine in 1984. Ironically, he played a narcotics cop in two Cheech & Chong films . . .1978's "Up In Smoke" and 1981's "Nice Dreams".
Sally Kellerman is 83. "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the "M*A*S*H" movie . . . and Rodney Dangerfield's English professor in "Back to School".
Five News Stories of the Day
The Music Industry Is Calling for a "Blackout" Today . . . What Does That Mean? (Story)
Here's a Hack from Domino's for Reheating Pizza in the Microwave Without Making It Soggy (Story)
What's the Least-Sharable Thing You Can Think Of? The Top 10 Include Underwear, Toothbrushes, and Passwords (Story)
Would Your Dog Rescue You If You Were in Trouble? A Study Finds Out (Story)
22 Characters We Loved When the Show Started, but Hated by the End (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Why does "Canadian tuxedo" describe wearing jeans with a jean jacket? In 1951, Bing Crosby wasn't allowed in a hotel in Canada because he was wearing a "double denim" look, so Levi's made him a denim tuxedo as a publicity stunt.
2. When Disneyland opened, it had a lingerie shop on Main Street. It lasted less than six months.
3. The Wright Brothers had two older brothers, Reuchlin and Lorin. But they didn't get included in the whole flying thing. (They also had a sister named Katharine.)
4. James Cameron's main motivation for making "Titanic" was to get the studio to pay for him to dive down to the real Titanic's wreckage. If it hadn't been for that, he says he didn't, quote, "particularly want to make the movie."
5. An iPhone contains 75 different chemical elements, which is about two-thirds of the elements on the Periodic Table.
Celebrity Birthdays
Morena Baccarin is 41. Vanessa in the "Deadpool" movies, Lee Thompkins on "Gotham", and Jessica Brody on "Homeland".
Justin Long is 42. Mac in Apple's old "Mac vs. PC" campaign. He's also the voice of Alvin in the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movies. And some of you may remember him from "Dodgeball", "Live Free or Die Hard" and "Jeepers Creepers".
Dominic Cooper is 42. He stars on AMC's "Preacher" as the comic book character Jesse Custer. He was also Howard Stark on "Agent Carter".
Zachary Quinto is 43. Got his break as Sylar on "Heroes". He now plays Spock in the "Star Trek" movies and stars on an AMC series called "NOS4A2".
Wentworth Miller is 48. "Prison Break". He's also Captain Cold on "The Flash" and "Legends of Tomorrow".
Wayne Brady is 48.
Liam Cunningham is 59. Davos on "Game of Thrones". He started out as the right hand man of Stannis Baratheon . . . who found Jon Snow's body and convinced Melisandre to bring him back from the dead.
Dana Carvey is 65. "Saturday Night Live" legend. He's Garth in "Wayne's World", the Church Lady, and Hans of Hans and Franz.
Dennis Haysbert is 66. In 1989, he was playing the stereotypical character Pedro Cerrano in "Major League", doing voodoo and speaking broken English. Twelve years later he would play a black president on "24" and become a spokesman for Allstate Insurance. He'll play God in the final season of "Lucifer".
Jerry Mathers is 72. The Beaver.
Charlie Watts is 79. Drummer for The Rolling Stones.
Stacy Keach is 79. Henry Pope, the warden on the first season of "Prison Break". Now he's Matt LeBlanc's father on "Man with a Plan". Back in the '80s, he was "Mike Hammer" until he did nine months in the clink for smuggling cocaine in 1984. Ironically, he played a narcotics cop in two Cheech & Chong films . . .1978's "Up In Smoke" and 1981's "Nice Dreams".
Sally Kellerman is 83. "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the "M*A*S*H" movie . . . and Rodney Dangerfield's English professor in "Back to School".
