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Five News Stories of the Day
Do We Really Need a Show Where Celebrities Tell Us What to Do? (Story)
The Top Things We Forget Include Passwords, Keys, and What Day It Is (Story)
There's a New Fragrance Developed by NASA That Smells Like Outer Space (Story)
What's Something You've Said Recently That Would Make No Sense in 2019? (Story)
R.I.P. to the Man Who Brought Us One of the Creepiest Songs and Videos Ever (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Letters are "upper case" and "lower case" because that's where typesetters at printing presses would keep their letters.The smaller letters were in a lower case that was easier to access.
2. The average person will take about 216.3 million steps in their lifetime, which is the equivalent of walking all the way around the Earth five times.
3. The first college football all-American team was picked in 1889, and the quarterback was a player from Princeton named Edgar Allan Poe. He was second cousins with the author Edgar Allan Poe, and he was named after him.
4. PG-13 movies are allowed to use the "F word" once . . . but only if it's used in anger and doesn't directly refer to sex.
5. Martha Stewart once dated Anthony Hopkins but she broke up with him because she couldn't stop associating him with Hannibal Lecter from "The Silence of the Lambs".
Celebrity Birthdays
Michael Phelps is 35. The most decorated Olympian of all time. He's won a total of 28 Olympic medals and 23 of them are gold.
Fantasia is 36. The third American Idol. "I Believe".
Angela Sarafyan is 37. Clementine on "Westworld".
Lizzy Caplan is 38. Virginia Johnson on "Masters of Sex", Marlena in "Cloverfield", and Lula May in the "Now You See Me" movies.
Rick Gonzalez is 41. Rene / Wild Dog on "Arrow".
Matisyahu is 41.
Molly Parker is 48. Maureen Robinson on the Netflix version of "Lost in Space".
Monica Potter is 49. Kristina Braverman on "Parenthood", Lori Coleson on "Boston Legal", and the poor man's Julia Roberts in movies like "Patch Adams", "Saw", and "Along Came a Spider".
Brian Bloom is 50. Prisoner #01B784 Ronnie Barlog on HBO's "Oz". Now he spends more time doing voices for video games.
Phil Anselmo is 52. Singer for Pantera, Down, and Superjoint Ritual.
Mike Tyson is 54.
Yngwie Malmsteen is 57. Temperamental Guitar God. Check out his "Arpeggios from Hell".
Vincent D'Onofrio is 61. Kingpin on the Netflix "Daredevil" series. He was also Private Pyle in "Full Metal Jacket", the head of security in the last "Jurassic World" movie, and Detective Goren on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent".
David Alan Grier is 64. "In Living Color" superstar.
Nancy Dussault is 84. Muriel Rush on "Too Close for Comfort".
Five News Stories of the Day
Do We Really Need a Show Where Celebrities Tell Us What to Do? (Story)
The Top Things We Forget Include Passwords, Keys, and What Day It Is (Story)
There's a New Fragrance Developed by NASA That Smells Like Outer Space (Story)
What's Something You've Said Recently That Would Make No Sense in 2019? (Story)
R.I.P. to the Man Who Brought Us One of the Creepiest Songs and Videos Ever (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Letters are "upper case" and "lower case" because that's where typesetters at printing presses would keep their letters.The smaller letters were in a lower case that was easier to access.
2. The average person will take about 216.3 million steps in their lifetime, which is the equivalent of walking all the way around the Earth five times.
3. The first college football all-American team was picked in 1889, and the quarterback was a player from Princeton named Edgar Allan Poe. He was second cousins with the author Edgar Allan Poe, and he was named after him.
4. PG-13 movies are allowed to use the "F word" once . . . but only if it's used in anger and doesn't directly refer to sex.
5. Martha Stewart once dated Anthony Hopkins but she broke up with him because she couldn't stop associating him with Hannibal Lecter from "The Silence of the Lambs".
Celebrity Birthdays
Michael Phelps is 35. The most decorated Olympian of all time. He's won a total of 28 Olympic medals and 23 of them are gold.
Fantasia is 36. The third American Idol. "I Believe".
Angela Sarafyan is 37. Clementine on "Westworld".
Lizzy Caplan is 38. Virginia Johnson on "Masters of Sex", Marlena in "Cloverfield", and Lula May in the "Now You See Me" movies.
Rick Gonzalez is 41. Rene / Wild Dog on "Arrow".
Matisyahu is 41.
Molly Parker is 48. Maureen Robinson on the Netflix version of "Lost in Space".
Monica Potter is 49. Kristina Braverman on "Parenthood", Lori Coleson on "Boston Legal", and the poor man's Julia Roberts in movies like "Patch Adams", "Saw", and "Along Came a Spider".
Brian Bloom is 50. Prisoner #01B784 Ronnie Barlog on HBO's "Oz". Now he spends more time doing voices for video games.
Phil Anselmo is 52. Singer for Pantera, Down, and Superjoint Ritual.
Mike Tyson is 54.
Yngwie Malmsteen is 57. Temperamental Guitar God. Check out his "Arpeggios from Hell".
Vincent D'Onofrio is 61. Kingpin on the Netflix "Daredevil" series. He was also Private Pyle in "Full Metal Jacket", the head of security in the last "Jurassic World" movie, and Detective Goren on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent".
David Alan Grier is 64. "In Living Color" superstar.
Nancy Dussault is 84. Muriel Rush on "Too Close for Comfort".
