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Five News Stories of the Day
Someone Served a Full Thanksgiving Dinner on the New York Subway (Story)
10 Interesting Behind-The-Scenes Facts from Christmas Movies (Story)
The World's Most Expensive Thanksgiving Dinner Is $181,000 (Story)
If You Could Only Choose One Thing, What Are You Most Thankful For? (Story)
There's a New Term Called "Wegifting" . . . and 74% of Us Have Done It (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. There are now about 1.71 billion websites but only about 200 million are actually active. The rest are mainly parked domains.
2. 90% of the people in the world live in the Northern Hemisphere.
3. Emil Jannings won Best Actor at the first Oscars in 1929 but he actually came in second in the voting to Rin Tin Tin. Yeah . . . the dog. The Academy wanted to make sure people took them seriously, so they gave Jannings the Oscar.
4. The average height in the NBA has gone up about four inches since the league started in the late '40s. It started at 6-foot-3, and now it's 6-foot-7.
5. "Sushi" means "sour rice" in Japanese because the Japanese believed the most important ingredient is the rice, not the fish.
Celebrity Birthdays
Aubrey Peeples is 26. Layla on "Nashville".
Alison Pill is 34. Ivy Mayfair-Richards on "American Horror Story: Cult", and Maggie Jordan on HBO's "The Newsroom".
Jaleel White is 43. Steve Urkel on "Family Matters".
Sharlto Copley is 46. He was amazing in "District 9". He was somewhat less amazing in "Chappie", "The A-Team", "Elysium", and "Maleficent".
Twista is 46.
Elizabeth Marvel is 50. President Keane on "Homeland". She was also presidential candidate Heather Dunbar on "House of Cards".
Michael Vartan is 51. Michael Vaughn on "Alias". He dated Jennifer Garner then awkwardly had to do love scenes with her on the show after she left him for Ben Affleck.
Robin Givens is 55.
Fisher Stevens is 56. Marvin Gerard on "The Blacklist". And Steve Guttenberg's buddy Ben in the "Short Circuit" movies.
Steve Oedekerk is 58. "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist". Steve is also a screenwriter who wrote or contributed to the scripts for "Ace Ventura 2", the "Nutty Professor" movies, "Patch Adams", "Bruce Almighty", "Evan Almighty" and "Ace Ventura 2" . . . which he directed.
Caroline Kennedy is 62. She was Neil Diamond's inspiration for the jam we ALL can agree on - "Sweet Caroline".
William Fichtner is 63. Alex Mahone on "Prison Break", Phil Yagoda on "Entourage", and the heart-eating villain in Johnny Depp's "Lone Ranger" movie.
Bill Nye "The Science Guy" is 64. Billions and Billions of Stars. Not so many dance moves.
Curtis Armstrong is 66. Booger in "Revenge of the Nerds" . . . Miles in "Risky Business", Charles De Mar in "Better Off Dead" and, who can forget . . . Goov in "Clan of the Cave Bear". More recently, he was Snot on "American Dad".
Kathryn Bigelow is 68. Oscar-winning "Hurt Locker" director.
Five News Stories of the Day
Someone Served a Full Thanksgiving Dinner on the New York Subway (Story)
10 Interesting Behind-The-Scenes Facts from Christmas Movies (Story)
The World's Most Expensive Thanksgiving Dinner Is $181,000 (Story)
If You Could Only Choose One Thing, What Are You Most Thankful For? (Story)
There's a New Term Called "Wegifting" . . . and 74% of Us Have Done It (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. There are now about 1.71 billion websites but only about 200 million are actually active. The rest are mainly parked domains.
2. 90% of the people in the world live in the Northern Hemisphere.
3. Emil Jannings won Best Actor at the first Oscars in 1929 but he actually came in second in the voting to Rin Tin Tin. Yeah . . . the dog. The Academy wanted to make sure people took them seriously, so they gave Jannings the Oscar.
4. The average height in the NBA has gone up about four inches since the league started in the late '40s. It started at 6-foot-3, and now it's 6-foot-7.
5. "Sushi" means "sour rice" in Japanese because the Japanese believed the most important ingredient is the rice, not the fish.
Celebrity Birthdays
Aubrey Peeples is 26. Layla on "Nashville".
Alison Pill is 34. Ivy Mayfair-Richards on "American Horror Story: Cult", and Maggie Jordan on HBO's "The Newsroom".
Jaleel White is 43. Steve Urkel on "Family Matters".
Sharlto Copley is 46. He was amazing in "District 9". He was somewhat less amazing in "Chappie", "The A-Team", "Elysium", and "Maleficent".
Twista is 46.
Elizabeth Marvel is 50. President Keane on "Homeland". She was also presidential candidate Heather Dunbar on "House of Cards".
Michael Vartan is 51. Michael Vaughn on "Alias". He dated Jennifer Garner then awkwardly had to do love scenes with her on the show after she left him for Ben Affleck.
Robin Givens is 55.
Fisher Stevens is 56. Marvin Gerard on "The Blacklist". And Steve Guttenberg's buddy Ben in the "Short Circuit" movies.
Steve Oedekerk is 58. "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist". Steve is also a screenwriter who wrote or contributed to the scripts for "Ace Ventura 2", the "Nutty Professor" movies, "Patch Adams", "Bruce Almighty", "Evan Almighty" and "Ace Ventura 2" . . . which he directed.
Caroline Kennedy is 62. She was Neil Diamond's inspiration for the jam we ALL can agree on - "Sweet Caroline".
William Fichtner is 63. Alex Mahone on "Prison Break", Phil Yagoda on "Entourage", and the heart-eating villain in Johnny Depp's "Lone Ranger" movie.
Bill Nye "The Science Guy" is 64. Billions and Billions of Stars. Not so many dance moves.
Curtis Armstrong is 66. Booger in "Revenge of the Nerds" . . . Miles in "Risky Business", Charles De Mar in "Better Off Dead" and, who can forget . . . Goov in "Clan of the Cave Bear". More recently, he was Snot on "American Dad".
Kathryn Bigelow is 68. Oscar-winning "Hurt Locker" director.
