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Five Stories of the Day
Neighbors Refuse to Give a Family Back Their Missing Cat (Story)
Santa's Salary Is $157,000-a-Year (Story)
A Woman Sues Her Boyfriend After Eight Years of Dating Without a Proposal (Story)
FAO Schwarz Is Offering a One-Night-Only Stay on Airbnb (Story)
Megan Thee Stallion and Tinder Are Teaming Up to Give Away $1 Million (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Millions of Americans including the Bush family are descendants of a guy from the Mayflower who fell overboard and only survived by grabbing a rope.
2. When Oprah gave everyone in her audience a car back in 2004, they all ended up owing the IRS about $6,000 in taxes.
3. Weird Al Yankovic started the Volcano Worshippers club at his high school in California. He says they didn't actually worship volcanoes, they just wanted to get another photo of themselves in the yearbook.
4. John Wilkes Booth planned on assassinating both Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, but Grant decided not to go to the theater that night because his wife didn't like Mary Todd Lincoln.
5. Jupiter's gravity field is so huge that it basically acts like a vacuum cleaner and sucks away things like comets, asteroids, and debris that would otherwise hit and possibly destroy the Earth.
Celebrity Birthdays
Melissa Roxburgh is 28. Michaela Stone on NBC's "Manifest".
Raven-Symoné is 35. "The Cosby Show", "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper", "That's So Raven", and its sequel "Raven's Home".
Meghan Linsey is 35. Country singer. She came in second on Season 8 of "The Voice", and got her start with a cover of One Republic's "Counting Stars".
Emmanuelle Chriqui is 45. Sloan on "Entourage", and Lorelei Martins on "The Mentalist". She'll play Lana Lang on the upcoming CW show "Superman & Lois".
Meg White is 46. White Stripes badass.
Bobby Flay is 56. "Iron Chef".
Nia Peeples is 59. Pam Fields, Shay Mitchell's mom on "Pretty Little Liars".
Kenneth Branagh is 60.
Rod Blagojevich is 64. Former Illinois governor who's doing hard time for trying to sell Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison, but President Trump has said he's considering commuting his sentence.
Susan Dey is 68. Laurie Partridge on "The Partridge Family" and Grace Van Owen on "L.A. Law".
Johnny Rodriguez is 69. Country singer who was acquitted of murder for the 1998 shooting death a friend who he thought was a burglar.
Tommy Kirk is 79. Disney legend: "Old Yeller" and "Swiss Family Robinson".
Five Stories of the Day
Neighbors Refuse to Give a Family Back Their Missing Cat (Story)
Santa's Salary Is $157,000-a-Year (Story)
A Woman Sues Her Boyfriend After Eight Years of Dating Without a Proposal (Story)
FAO Schwarz Is Offering a One-Night-Only Stay on Airbnb (Story)
Megan Thee Stallion and Tinder Are Teaming Up to Give Away $1 Million (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. Millions of Americans including the Bush family are descendants of a guy from the Mayflower who fell overboard and only survived by grabbing a rope.
2. When Oprah gave everyone in her audience a car back in 2004, they all ended up owing the IRS about $6,000 in taxes.
3. Weird Al Yankovic started the Volcano Worshippers club at his high school in California. He says they didn't actually worship volcanoes, they just wanted to get another photo of themselves in the yearbook.
4. John Wilkes Booth planned on assassinating both Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, but Grant decided not to go to the theater that night because his wife didn't like Mary Todd Lincoln.
5. Jupiter's gravity field is so huge that it basically acts like a vacuum cleaner and sucks away things like comets, asteroids, and debris that would otherwise hit and possibly destroy the Earth.
Celebrity Birthdays
Melissa Roxburgh is 28. Michaela Stone on NBC's "Manifest".
Raven-Symoné is 35. "The Cosby Show", "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper", "That's So Raven", and its sequel "Raven's Home".
Meghan Linsey is 35. Country singer. She came in second on Season 8 of "The Voice", and got her start with a cover of One Republic's "Counting Stars".
Emmanuelle Chriqui is 45. Sloan on "Entourage", and Lorelei Martins on "The Mentalist". She'll play Lana Lang on the upcoming CW show "Superman & Lois".
Meg White is 46. White Stripes badass.
Bobby Flay is 56. "Iron Chef".
Nia Peeples is 59. Pam Fields, Shay Mitchell's mom on "Pretty Little Liars".
Kenneth Branagh is 60.
Rod Blagojevich is 64. Former Illinois governor who's doing hard time for trying to sell Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison, but President Trump has said he's considering commuting his sentence.
Susan Dey is 68. Laurie Partridge on "The Partridge Family" and Grace Van Owen on "L.A. Law".
Johnny Rodriguez is 69. Country singer who was acquitted of murder for the 1998 shooting death a friend who he thought was a burglar.
Tommy Kirk is 79. Disney legend: "Old Yeller" and "Swiss Family Robinson".
