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Five News Stories of the Day
A Woman Just Discovered Adult Swim on Cartoon Network . . . And Is Offended by It (Story)
The Most Ridiculous Reasons People Have Been Rejected for Jobs (Story)
If You Had a Time Machine, Would You Visit the Future or the Past? (Story)
The Top "How To" Searches of 2020 Include Baking, Cutting Hair, and Making Masks (Story)
It's National Junk Food Day! Here's Every State's Favorite Snack (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Albert Einstein, Edgar Allan Poe, Jesse James, H.G. Wells, and Charles Darwin all married their first cousins.
2. The 37 NFL players with the most points in their careers are all kickers. The 38th highest scoring player is Jerry Rice, who was a wide receiver.
3. "Lawrence of Arabia" is over 220 minutes long, and doesn't have a single line of dialogue spoken by a woman.
4. The island of Puerto Rico was originally called San Juan Bautista, and the main city was called Puerto Rico. But eventually, those switched the island became Puerto Rico and the main city became San Juan.
5. Bananas contain about 450 milligrams of potassium and about .01% of it is RADIOACTIVE. So if you managed to eat 150 trillion bananas in one sitting, you'd die from radiation poisoning.
Celebrity Birthdays
Robin Williams (1951 - 2014)
Juno Temple is 31. The fairy Thistletwit in "Maleficent", Sally in "Sin City: A Dame to Die For", and Violet the unstable mental patient in "Unsane".
Rory Culkin is 31. He was Mel Gibson's son in "Signs", one of the killers in "Scream 4", and Michael Douglas' youngest son in "It Runs in the Family".
Diane Guerrero is 34. Maritza Ramos on "Orange is the New Black", and Jane's best friend Lina on "Jane the Virgin".
Vanessa Lengies is 35. Sugar Motta on "Glee".
Josh Hartnett is 42. Ethan on "Penny Dreadful". You may also remember him from "Pearl Harbor", "Black Hawk Down", and "Sin City".
Damian "Junior Gong" Marley is 42. Bob Marley's youngest son.
Justin Bartha is 42. Doug in the "Hangover" movies, and Nicolas Cage's sidekick Riley in the "National Treasure" movies.
Ali Landry is 47. Miss USA 1996 and star of the old Doritos commercials. She kicked Mario Lopez to the curb just two weeks into their marriage after she found out he'd cheated on her at his bachelor party . . . the night before their wedding.
Charlotte Gainsbourg is 49. One word: "Nyphomaniac".
Emerson Hart is 51. Lead singer from Tonic. "If You Could Only See"
Brandi Chastain is 52. Became famous when she ripped off her shirt after scoring the winning goal in the 1999 women's soccer World Cup.
Lance Guest is 60. "The Last Starfighter" and the cinematic masterpiece that was "Jaws: The Revenge".
Jon Lovitz is 63.
Both Cat Stevens and Yusuf Islam are 72. "Father and Son", "Peace Train", "Wild World", and "The First Cut is the Deepest".
Garry Trudeau is 72. "Doonesbury" cartoonist who once offered $10,000 if anyone could prove that George W. Bush had fulfilled his military duties in the '70s.
Kenneth Starr is 74. #1 on Billy Clinton's Christmas card list.
Five News Stories of the Day
A Woman Just Discovered Adult Swim on Cartoon Network . . . And Is Offended by It (Story)
The Most Ridiculous Reasons People Have Been Rejected for Jobs (Story)
If You Had a Time Machine, Would You Visit the Future or the Past? (Story)
The Top "How To" Searches of 2020 Include Baking, Cutting Hair, and Making Masks (Story)
It's National Junk Food Day! Here's Every State's Favorite Snack (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Albert Einstein, Edgar Allan Poe, Jesse James, H.G. Wells, and Charles Darwin all married their first cousins.
2. The 37 NFL players with the most points in their careers are all kickers. The 38th highest scoring player is Jerry Rice, who was a wide receiver.
3. "Lawrence of Arabia" is over 220 minutes long, and doesn't have a single line of dialogue spoken by a woman.
4. The island of Puerto Rico was originally called San Juan Bautista, and the main city was called Puerto Rico. But eventually, those switched the island became Puerto Rico and the main city became San Juan.
5. Bananas contain about 450 milligrams of potassium and about .01% of it is RADIOACTIVE. So if you managed to eat 150 trillion bananas in one sitting, you'd die from radiation poisoning.
Celebrity Birthdays
Robin Williams (1951 - 2014)
Juno Temple is 31. The fairy Thistletwit in "Maleficent", Sally in "Sin City: A Dame to Die For", and Violet the unstable mental patient in "Unsane".
Rory Culkin is 31. He was Mel Gibson's son in "Signs", one of the killers in "Scream 4", and Michael Douglas' youngest son in "It Runs in the Family".
Diane Guerrero is 34. Maritza Ramos on "Orange is the New Black", and Jane's best friend Lina on "Jane the Virgin".
Vanessa Lengies is 35. Sugar Motta on "Glee".
Josh Hartnett is 42. Ethan on "Penny Dreadful". You may also remember him from "Pearl Harbor", "Black Hawk Down", and "Sin City".
Damian "Junior Gong" Marley is 42. Bob Marley's youngest son.
Justin Bartha is 42. Doug in the "Hangover" movies, and Nicolas Cage's sidekick Riley in the "National Treasure" movies.
Ali Landry is 47. Miss USA 1996 and star of the old Doritos commercials. She kicked Mario Lopez to the curb just two weeks into their marriage after she found out he'd cheated on her at his bachelor party . . . the night before their wedding.
Charlotte Gainsbourg is 49. One word: "Nyphomaniac".
Emerson Hart is 51. Lead singer from Tonic. "If You Could Only See"
Brandi Chastain is 52. Became famous when she ripped off her shirt after scoring the winning goal in the 1999 women's soccer World Cup.
Lance Guest is 60. "The Last Starfighter" and the cinematic masterpiece that was "Jaws: The Revenge".
Jon Lovitz is 63.
Both Cat Stevens and Yusuf Islam are 72. "Father and Son", "Peace Train", "Wild World", and "The First Cut is the Deepest".
Garry Trudeau is 72. "Doonesbury" cartoonist who once offered $10,000 if anyone could prove that George W. Bush had fulfilled his military duties in the '70s.
Kenneth Starr is 74. #1 on Billy Clinton's Christmas card list.
