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Five News Stories of the Day
The Least Fun Age Is . . . 45 (Story)
Your Social Life Peaks at 29, Because You Can Finally Afford One (Story)
The Best Whistling Songs of All Time (Story)
A Guy with His Name Tattooed on His Neck Tries to Give the Cops a Fake Name (Story)
Watch a Baseball Prospect Get Ejected for Arguing with a Robot Umpire (NSFW: Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1.JFK didn't push to get to the Moon because he cared about space exploration . . . all he was worried about was beating the Russians.
2. Vikings didn't wear helmets with horns. It comes from a performance of Richard Wagner's opera "The Ring" in 1876. The costume designer made horned helmets for the Vikings in the show, and the image stuck.
3. Before Kurt Vonnegut was a famous author, he worked at "Sports Illustrated". But he got fired quickly when he was supposed to write an article about a race horse that escaped and only wrote one sentence: "The horse jumped over the [effing] fence."
4. The late fashion designer Kate Spade was David Spade's sister-in-law.
5. The first assassination attempt on a president happened in 1835, when a guy named Richard Lawrence tried to shoot Andrew Jackson. But his gun jammed, and Jackson beat him up with his cane.
Celebrity Birthdays
Chuck Berry (1926 - 2017) "Johnny B. Goode" genius.
Tyler Posey is 28. Scott McCall on MTV's "Teen Wolf".
Bristol Palin is 29.
Zac Efron is 32.
Freida Pinto is 35.
Lindsey Vonn is 35.
Ne-Yo is either 37 or 40.
Jean-Claude Van Damme is 59.
Martina Navratilova is 63.
Chuck Lorre is 67. Creator of "Two and a Half Men". He also produces "The Big Bang Theory", "Young Sheldon", "Mike & Molly", and the Anna Faris sitcom "Mom".
Pam Dawber is 68.
Joe Morton is 72. Arthur Finer on "God Friended Me". He's the reverend whose atheist son is getting messages from God. You also know him as Olivia's father Eli Pope on "Scandal", and Miles Dyson in "Terminator 2".
Mike Ditka is 80. NFL Hall of Famer.
Five News Stories of the Day
The Least Fun Age Is . . . 45 (Story)
Your Social Life Peaks at 29, Because You Can Finally Afford One (Story)
The Best Whistling Songs of All Time (Story)
A Guy with His Name Tattooed on His Neck Tries to Give the Cops a Fake Name (Story)
Watch a Baseball Prospect Get Ejected for Arguing with a Robot Umpire (NSFW: Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1.JFK didn't push to get to the Moon because he cared about space exploration . . . all he was worried about was beating the Russians.
2. Vikings didn't wear helmets with horns. It comes from a performance of Richard Wagner's opera "The Ring" in 1876. The costume designer made horned helmets for the Vikings in the show, and the image stuck.
3. Before Kurt Vonnegut was a famous author, he worked at "Sports Illustrated". But he got fired quickly when he was supposed to write an article about a race horse that escaped and only wrote one sentence: "The horse jumped over the [effing] fence."
4. The late fashion designer Kate Spade was David Spade's sister-in-law.
5. The first assassination attempt on a president happened in 1835, when a guy named Richard Lawrence tried to shoot Andrew Jackson. But his gun jammed, and Jackson beat him up with his cane.
Celebrity Birthdays
Chuck Berry (1926 - 2017) "Johnny B. Goode" genius.
Tyler Posey is 28. Scott McCall on MTV's "Teen Wolf".
Bristol Palin is 29.
Zac Efron is 32.
Freida Pinto is 35.
Lindsey Vonn is 35.
Ne-Yo is either 37 or 40.
Jean-Claude Van Damme is 59.
Martina Navratilova is 63.
Chuck Lorre is 67. Creator of "Two and a Half Men". He also produces "The Big Bang Theory", "Young Sheldon", "Mike & Molly", and the Anna Faris sitcom "Mom".
Pam Dawber is 68.
Joe Morton is 72. Arthur Finer on "God Friended Me". He's the reverend whose atheist son is getting messages from God. You also know him as Olivia's father Eli Pope on "Scandal", and Miles Dyson in "Terminator 2".
Mike Ditka is 80. NFL Hall of Famer.
