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Four Things That Happen to Your Brain on Less Than Six Hours of Sleep (Story)
Pringles Is Releasing a New Mystery Flavor . . . Guess It and You Could Win $10,000 (Story)
Hershey's Just Redesigned Their Chocolate Bars for the First Time in 125 Years . . . to Add Emojis (Story)
"Carol Burnett Show" Star Tim Conway Died Yesterday (Story)
Is it Time for a New James Bond? Daniel Craig Injured Himself Running (Story)
Random Facts for Today
The English alphabet used to have six more letters: Eth, a "ye" sound . . . thorn, a "th" sound . . . wynn, another "w" sound . . . yogh, a "ch" sound . . . ash, a long vowel sound like "i" in "fine" . . . and ethel, an "oi" sound. (Story)
Only one player has ever died from an injury they got during a Major League Baseball game. Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head with a pitch in 1920, and died 12 hours later. (Story)
The United States has been around for 243 years, and involved in at least one war for 226 of them. And no president has ever gone their entire term without the country being involved in a war. (Story)
The first Sega has the longest lifespan of any video game console. The Sega Master System came out in 1986, and it's still being produced in Brazil by a company that bought the rights. They even make new games for it. (Story)
The oldest newspaper in the U.S. is the "Hartford Courant". It's been published without a break since 1764. (Story)
Celebrity Birthdays Today
Alexandra Breckenridge (37) - Jessie on The Walking Dead
Jamie-Lynn Sigler (38) - Meadow Soprano on The Sopranos
Ray Lewis (44)
Emmitt Smith (50)
Dan Patrick (63)
Nicholas Hammond (69) - The first live-action Spider-Man
Good Morning from the Big 12
West Virginia’s victory at PNC Park suggests Mountaineers well-armed for Big 12 Tournament (Story)
15 Jayhawks earn Academic All-Big 12 honors (Story)
OU softball: 'Right call' to cancel Big 12 Tournament (Story)
Four Things That Happen to Your Brain on Less Than Six Hours of Sleep (Story)
Pringles Is Releasing a New Mystery Flavor . . . Guess It and You Could Win $10,000 (Story)
Hershey's Just Redesigned Their Chocolate Bars for the First Time in 125 Years . . . to Add Emojis (Story)
"Carol Burnett Show" Star Tim Conway Died Yesterday (Story)
Is it Time for a New James Bond? Daniel Craig Injured Himself Running (Story)
Random Facts for Today
The English alphabet used to have six more letters: Eth, a "ye" sound . . . thorn, a "th" sound . . . wynn, another "w" sound . . . yogh, a "ch" sound . . . ash, a long vowel sound like "i" in "fine" . . . and ethel, an "oi" sound. (Story)
Only one player has ever died from an injury they got during a Major League Baseball game. Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head with a pitch in 1920, and died 12 hours later. (Story)
The United States has been around for 243 years, and involved in at least one war for 226 of them. And no president has ever gone their entire term without the country being involved in a war. (Story)
The first Sega has the longest lifespan of any video game console. The Sega Master System came out in 1986, and it's still being produced in Brazil by a company that bought the rights. They even make new games for it. (Story)
The oldest newspaper in the U.S. is the "Hartford Courant". It's been published without a break since 1764. (Story)
Celebrity Birthdays Today
Alexandra Breckenridge (37) - Jessie on The Walking Dead
Jamie-Lynn Sigler (38) - Meadow Soprano on The Sopranos
Ray Lewis (44)
Emmitt Smith (50)
Dan Patrick (63)
Nicholas Hammond (69) - The first live-action Spider-Man
Good Morning from the Big 12
West Virginia’s victory at PNC Park suggests Mountaineers well-armed for Big 12 Tournament (Story)
15 Jayhawks earn Academic All-Big 12 honors (Story)
OU softball: 'Right call' to cancel Big 12 Tournament (Story)
