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Five News Stories of the Day
Which Cereal Leaves Behind the Best Milk? (Story)
The Five Chores We Hate and Fight Over the Most (Story)
A Six-Year-Old Girl Got a Toy Company to Start Making Little Green Army Women (Story)
Which Kids' Movie Was So Disturbing, You Had to Leave the Theater? (Story)
1 in 7 of Us Will Bet on an NFL Game This Season . . . Plus, the Four Teams We Think Will Win the Super Bowl (Story)
Five Random Facts of the Day
1. The board game Candy Land was invented in a polio ward during an epidemic in the 1940s to give quarantined kids a distraction.
2. The word "collision" is only supposed to be used when two moving objects hit each other. When one moving object hits something standing still, that's called an "allision."
3. Even though "Borat" made Kazakhstan look racist . . . and the country threatened to SUE Sacha Baron Cohen over the movie . . . tourism went up 1,000% the year after it came out.
4. There are 41 independent cities in the U.S., which means they aren't part of a county. Thirty-eight of them are in Virginia. The other three are Baltimore, Maryland . . . St. Louis, Missouri . . . and Carson City, Nevada.
5. Ian Fleming only wrote three books that weren't about James Bond . . . and one of them was "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
Celebrity Birthdays
Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991)
Skandar Keynes is 28. Edmund in the "Chronicles of Narnia" movies.
Kat Graham is 30. Bonnie on "The Vampire Diaries".
Annabelle Wallis is 35. Jenny in the Tom Cruise "Mummy" movie.
Carice Van Houten is 43. The red priestess Melisandre on "Game of Thrones".
Brad Wilk is 51. Rage Against The Machine / Audioslave drummer.
Michael Keaton is 68.
George Lazenby is 80. The forgotten James Bond. His one movie, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", divided Bond fans so much, he was fired and eventually replaced by Roger Moore.
Bob Newhart is 90.
