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Month: January 2025

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Washington

The Elephant in the Dome Podcast: Senate Republican Priorities, Budget Challenges and Transportation Funding

January 10, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on The Elephant in the Dome Podcast: Senate Republican Priorities, Budget Challenges and Transportation Funding

From the Washington State Association of Broadcasters and Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington legislative session preview:

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Oddities

TP-ing your neighbor’s house no longer most dangerous use of toilet paper

January 10, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on TP-ing your neighbor’s house no longer most dangerous use of toilet paper

In what’s like the bathroom version of the “do not use the popcorn button” warning on the microwavable popcorn bag, a Japanese toilet maker is warning users to not use toilet paper to wipe its […]

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Oddities

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never be brought back to jail?

January 10, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never be brought back to jail?

In terms of drunken New Year’s Eve mistakes, letting a group of suspects free from police custody is probably up there. That was how Zambian police officer Titus Phiri spent the final day of 2024. According to […]

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Lifestyle

Retro coffee is social media’s latest trend

January 10, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Retro coffee is social media’s latest trend

Move over cold brew and matcha lattes, there’s a new coffee trend in town — but it’s not really new at all. The art of brewing espresso the old-fashioned way is making a major comeback, and […]

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Entertainment

The Los Angeles landmarks from film and TV damaged by wildfires

January 10, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on The Los Angeles landmarks from film and TV damaged by wildfires

The high school where Brian De Palma brought Stephen King’s “Carrie” to life, Will Rogers’ ranch house and a motel owned by William Randolph Hearst are among some of the famous structures that have been damaged […]

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Thursday 3/12

Challenge your mind and your friends to Random Trivia!

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An amendment to the US Constitution must be ratified by what fraction of all the states?

An amendment to the United States Constitution must be ratified by three-fourths (3/4) of all the states. In the current 50-state union, this requires approval from 38 states for an amendment to become part of the Constitution.

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In what city did Rosa Parks refuse to move to the back of the bus?

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of going to the back of the bus, which was designated for African Americans, she sat in the front. When the bus started to fill up with white passengers, the bus driver asked Parks to move. She refused. Her resistance set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Who does Eddie Murphy trade places with in the 1983 movie "Trading Places"?

In the 1983 film Trading Places, Eddie Murphy's character, a streetwise con artist named Billy Ray Valentine, trades places with an upper-class commodities broker named Louis Winthorpe III, played by Dan Aykroyd.

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What is the soft, triangular, fleshy part of the inside of a horse's hoof called?

The soft, triangular, fleshy part on the underside of a horse's hoof is called the frog. This V-shaped structure is located between the heel bulbs and extends toward the toe, typically occupying about 25% to 33% of the hoof's bottom surface.

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Woodrow Wilson kept a herd of what animal to cut the White House lawn?

During World War I (starting in 1918), President Woodrow Wilson kept a flock of sheep to graze on the White House lawn. The flock, which grew to 48 sheep at its peak, was used to save manpower, provide natural fertilizer, and raise over $50,000 for the Red Cross by auctioning their wool.

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