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Oddities

Life is a highway, part 2: Stranded for six hours

December 26, 2024 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Life is a highway, part 2: Stranded for six hours

An Atlanta woman was stranded on the side of a highway for a quarter of a day due to good old-fashioned bureaucracy. According to WSB-TV, Latonya Rojas was driving down Georgia’s I-285 when she got in an accident with […]

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Oddities

This apartment features one bedroom & one unlicensed dentist

December 26, 2024 GNCadm1n Comments Off on This apartment features one bedroom & one unlicensed dentist

Going to the dentist is always an unpleasant experience, especially if you’re also cramped into someone’s one-bedroom apartment. That was apparently a service offered by 70-year-old Gladys Serrano, of Long Island, who WABC reports is accused of operating an […]

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Lifestyle

Show me the money! How to find out if you have unclaimed cash

December 26, 2024 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Show me the money! How to find out if you have unclaimed cash

Across the nation, more than $20 billion is waiting to be reclaimed by citizens who may not even know they’re owed cash from “unclaimed property,” which can include uncashed paychecks, refunds or deposits. “It turns […]

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Entertainment

Americans are exhausted by political news. TV ratings and a new AP-NORC poll show they’re tuning out

December 26, 2024 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Americans are exhausted by political news. TV ratings and a new AP-NORC poll show they’re tuning out

NEW YORK (AP) — As a Democrat who immersed himself in political news during the presidential campaign, Ziad Aunallah has much in common with many Americans since the election. He’s tuned out. “People are mentally […]

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Entertainment

‘Baby Driver’ actor Hudson Meek, 16, dies in a fall from a moving vehicle

December 26, 2024 GNCadm1n Comments Off on ‘Baby Driver’ actor Hudson Meek, 16, dies in a fall from a moving vehicle

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — Teenage actor Hudson Meek has died after he fell out of a moving vehicle in Alabama, authorities said. Meek, 16, was hurt on Dec. 19 while on a street in […]

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Challenge your mind and your friends to Random Trivia!

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What is the Capital of Louisiana?

Baton Rouge is a city on the Mississippi River, and the capital of Louisiana. Antebellum landmarks include the castle-like Old Louisiana State Capitol, now a museum, and Magnolia Mound Plantation, with its French Creole house. LSU Rural Life Museum is a complex of refurbished buildings illustrating 18th- and 19th-century life. On the river, the USS Kidd is a retired WWII destroyer that is now a museum.

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How old was J. K. Rowling when she published the first Harry Potter book?

J.K. Rowling was 25 years old when the idea for Harry Potter came to her on a train journey in 1990, and she started writing the magical adventure shortly after, living in relative poverty in Edinburgh, Scotland, while working on the manuscript for the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. JK Rowling was 32 when the first Harry Potter book came out. When she was done with the series, she was 42.

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What Andrew Lloyd Webber musical ran on Broadway from 1982 to 2000?

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What star of "The Breakfast Club" was also part of the cast of the TV show "The Facts of Life"?

Molly Ringwald starred in The Breakfast Club and was also one of the original cast members of the first season of The Facts of Life, playing Molly, before the show was retooled and she was let go to focus on her movie career, becoming a teen idol in films like Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink. 

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How many patents did Thomas Edison accumulate during his lifetime?

Thomas Edison accumulated a record 1,093 U.S. patents during his lifetime, with a total of 2,332 patents worldwide, covering inventions in electric light, phonographs, motion pictures, and more, making him one of history's most prolific inventors. 

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