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Five News Stories of the Day
Less Than 1% of People Are Excited to Reunite with Their Coworkers (Story)
Is "Snazzy" the Safest Word to Use When Complimenting a Coworker? (Story)
Stop Being So Picky: A Study Finds That Having a "Type" in Dating Is a Myth (Story)
Lay's Just Released Five New Restaurant-Inspired Flavors Including Cheesesteak and Hot Chicken (Story)
Kids Today Make a Different Hand Gesture to Pretend They're on the Phone (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. The first song ever played on an iPod was a house music dance song called "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" by Spiller.
2. The first self-made female millionaire in the U.S. was Black. Her name was Madam C.J. Walker and she died in 1919, shortly after becoming a millionaire selling beauty and hair products specifically designed for Black women.
3. The phrase "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" comes from a Lord Tennyson poem from 1849 called "In Memoriam A.H.H." It's NOT about romantic love . . . he was mourning a friend's death.
4. IBM has gotten the most patents of any company in the United States for the past 27 years in a row. It got 9,262 of them last year.
5. The Harlem Globetrotters were founded in Chicago. Their offices are now in Georgia. They've never been based anywhere in New York . . . let alone Harlem.
Celebrity Birthdays
Georgie Henley is 25. Lucy Pevensie in the "Chronicles of Narnia" movies. Now she's Meg Tudor on the Starz series "The Spanish Princess".
Mitchel Musso is 29. Hannah's dorky best friend Oliver on "Hannah Montana". And occasional drunk-driver.
Kiely Williams is 34. Cheetah Girls star who used to be in 3LW.
Fred Savage is 44. Kevin Arnold on "The Wonder Years", The Grandson in "The Princess Bride" and The Mole in "Austin Powers in Goldmember".
Jack White is 45. The White Stripes, the Raconteurs, the Dead Weather and who knows how many other badass bands we haven't heard of yet.
Scott Grimes is 49. Helmsman Gordon Malloy on "The Orville" and Dr. Archie Morris on "ER".
Courtney Love is 56.
Jim Kerr is 61. Simple Minds' singer . . . who you'd know from the "Breakfast Club" theme song "Don't You Forget About Me".
Kevin Nash is 61. Pro wrestler-turned-actor.
Kelly McGillis is 63. Tom Cruise's flight instructor in "Top Gun", and the Amish mom that Harrison Ford fell for in "Witness".
Tom Hanks is 64.
Jimmy Smits is 65.
John Tesh is 68. Best contribution to society . . . the NBA on NBC theme song.
O.J. Simpson is 73.
Dean Koontz is 75. Horror writer. He wrote "Odd Thomas" and a novel called "Watchers" that inspired a Corey Haim movie and its three sequels.
Richard Roundtree is 78. "Shaft".
James Hampton is 84. "Love, American Style" superstar who played Michael J. Fox's dad in "Teen Wolf", and Trooper Hannibal Dobbs on "F Troop".
Five News Stories of the Day
Less Than 1% of People Are Excited to Reunite with Their Coworkers (Story)
Is "Snazzy" the Safest Word to Use When Complimenting a Coworker? (Story)
Stop Being So Picky: A Study Finds That Having a "Type" in Dating Is a Myth (Story)
Lay's Just Released Five New Restaurant-Inspired Flavors Including Cheesesteak and Hot Chicken (Story)
Kids Today Make a Different Hand Gesture to Pretend They're on the Phone (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. The first song ever played on an iPod was a house music dance song called "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" by Spiller.
2. The first self-made female millionaire in the U.S. was Black. Her name was Madam C.J. Walker and she died in 1919, shortly after becoming a millionaire selling beauty and hair products specifically designed for Black women.
3. The phrase "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" comes from a Lord Tennyson poem from 1849 called "In Memoriam A.H.H." It's NOT about romantic love . . . he was mourning a friend's death.
4. IBM has gotten the most patents of any company in the United States for the past 27 years in a row. It got 9,262 of them last year.
5. The Harlem Globetrotters were founded in Chicago. Their offices are now in Georgia. They've never been based anywhere in New York . . . let alone Harlem.
Celebrity Birthdays
Georgie Henley is 25. Lucy Pevensie in the "Chronicles of Narnia" movies. Now she's Meg Tudor on the Starz series "The Spanish Princess".
Mitchel Musso is 29. Hannah's dorky best friend Oliver on "Hannah Montana". And occasional drunk-driver.
Kiely Williams is 34. Cheetah Girls star who used to be in 3LW.
Fred Savage is 44. Kevin Arnold on "The Wonder Years", The Grandson in "The Princess Bride" and The Mole in "Austin Powers in Goldmember".
Jack White is 45. The White Stripes, the Raconteurs, the Dead Weather and who knows how many other badass bands we haven't heard of yet.
Scott Grimes is 49. Helmsman Gordon Malloy on "The Orville" and Dr. Archie Morris on "ER".
Courtney Love is 56.
Jim Kerr is 61. Simple Minds' singer . . . who you'd know from the "Breakfast Club" theme song "Don't You Forget About Me".
Kevin Nash is 61. Pro wrestler-turned-actor.
Kelly McGillis is 63. Tom Cruise's flight instructor in "Top Gun", and the Amish mom that Harrison Ford fell for in "Witness".
Tom Hanks is 64.
Jimmy Smits is 65.
John Tesh is 68. Best contribution to society . . . the NBA on NBC theme song.
O.J. Simpson is 73.
Dean Koontz is 75. Horror writer. He wrote "Odd Thomas" and a novel called "Watchers" that inspired a Corey Haim movie and its three sequels.
Richard Roundtree is 78. "Shaft".
James Hampton is 84. "Love, American Style" superstar who played Michael J. Fox's dad in "Teen Wolf", and Trooper Hannibal Dobbs on "F Troop".
