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Five News Stories of the Day
A Guy Secretly Left $500,000 to Whoever Showed Up at His Funeral (Story)
A New Bar Is Charging by the Hour, Not by the Drink (Story)
The Ten Most Loved and Most Hated Halloween Candies in 2019 (Story)
Are You Friends With Your Coworkers? (Story)
Glenlivet Has Created Whiskey-Filled Tide Pods (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. You're far closer to having a net worth of exactly $1 million than a billionaire. After all, you'd just have to find a way to make $1 million . . . they'd have to find a way to lose at least $999 million.
2. When Judy Garland got cast as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz", she was put on a diet of chicken soup, black coffee, and 80 cigarettes a day . . . even though she was 16.
3. "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison was originally called "Brown Skinned Girl". But he had to change it because a song about interracial romance was too controversial for the 1960s.
4. McDonald's didn't start accepting credit cards until 2003.
5. No sitting U.S. president has visited Antarctica.
Celebrity Birthdays
Holland Roden is 33.Lydia on MTV's "Teen Wolf".
Bree Olson is 33.
Shawn and Aaron Ashmore are 40. Shawn played Iceman in the "X-Men" movies, Agent Mike Weston on "The Following", and is a lawyer on "The Rookie". Aaron stars as a bounty hunter on Syfy's "Killjoys", and used to play Jimmy Olsen on "Smallville", and some guy on "Warehouse 13".
Omar Miller is 41. Charles Greane on HBO's "Ballers". Now he's on the new CBS sitcom "The Unicorn".
Taylor Hicks is 43. "American Idol" fifth season winner.
Nicole Ari Parker is 49. Giselle on "Empire".
Thom Yorke is 51. Lead singer for Radiohead.
Toni Braxton is 52.
Simon Cowell is 60.
Yo-Yo Ma is 64.
Tico Torres from Bon Jovi is 66. He's their drummer.
Vladimir Putin is 67.
John Cougar Mellencamp is 68.
David Hope from Kansas is 70.
Kevin Godley is 74. 10cc, and Godley & Crème. You'd know the 10cc hits "The Things We Do for Love" and "I'm Not in Love".
Oliver North is 76. Gangster.
Joy Behar is 77.
Desmond Tutu is 88. South African Archbishop and civil rights leader.
Five News Stories of the Day
A Guy Secretly Left $500,000 to Whoever Showed Up at His Funeral (Story)
A New Bar Is Charging by the Hour, Not by the Drink (Story)
The Ten Most Loved and Most Hated Halloween Candies in 2019 (Story)
Are You Friends With Your Coworkers? (Story)
Glenlivet Has Created Whiskey-Filled Tide Pods (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. You're far closer to having a net worth of exactly $1 million than a billionaire. After all, you'd just have to find a way to make $1 million . . . they'd have to find a way to lose at least $999 million.
2. When Judy Garland got cast as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz", she was put on a diet of chicken soup, black coffee, and 80 cigarettes a day . . . even though she was 16.
3. "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison was originally called "Brown Skinned Girl". But he had to change it because a song about interracial romance was too controversial for the 1960s.
4. McDonald's didn't start accepting credit cards until 2003.
5. No sitting U.S. president has visited Antarctica.
Celebrity Birthdays
Holland Roden is 33.Lydia on MTV's "Teen Wolf".
Bree Olson is 33.
Shawn and Aaron Ashmore are 40. Shawn played Iceman in the "X-Men" movies, Agent Mike Weston on "The Following", and is a lawyer on "The Rookie". Aaron stars as a bounty hunter on Syfy's "Killjoys", and used to play Jimmy Olsen on "Smallville", and some guy on "Warehouse 13".
Omar Miller is 41. Charles Greane on HBO's "Ballers". Now he's on the new CBS sitcom "The Unicorn".
Taylor Hicks is 43. "American Idol" fifth season winner.
Nicole Ari Parker is 49. Giselle on "Empire".
Thom Yorke is 51. Lead singer for Radiohead.
Toni Braxton is 52.
Simon Cowell is 60.
Yo-Yo Ma is 64.
Tico Torres from Bon Jovi is 66. He's their drummer.
Vladimir Putin is 67.
John Cougar Mellencamp is 68.
David Hope from Kansas is 70.
Kevin Godley is 74. 10cc, and Godley & Crème. You'd know the 10cc hits "The Things We Do for Love" and "I'm Not in Love".
Oliver North is 76. Gangster.
Joy Behar is 77.
Desmond Tutu is 88. South African Archbishop and civil rights leader.
