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Month: January 2025

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Oddities

Group of firefighters cause a baby boom

January 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Group of firefighters cause a baby boom

One group of Arizona firefighters is really good at putting out fires — and other stuff, too. You see, in 2024, 18 members of the Chandler Fire Department welcomed 19 babies. The families recently got […]

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Oddities

Pug life: A South African woman has rescued more than 2,500 of the lovable ‘clowns of the dog world’

January 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Pug life: A South African woman has rescued more than 2,500 of the lovable ‘clowns of the dog world’

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A woman in South Africa has rescued more than 2,500 pugs over the years after she and her husband sold their house, lived in a trailer home for a while and generally […]

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Lifestyle

The baby names that ran out the door in 2024

January 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on The baby names that ran out the door in 2024

Olivia and Noah are the most popular baby names of 2024, according to BabyCenter.com — but which monikers are going out of style? The site, which compiles the data after parents register the names of their little […]

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Entertainment

Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan star in hilarious Super Bowl ad with nod to their iconic film

January 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan star in hilarious Super Bowl ad with nod to their iconic film

Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan’s reunion has been revealed and it’s … a Super Bowl commercial! In the new ad released Wednesday for Hellmann’s mayonnaise, the When Harry Met Sally co-stars are right back where it all started, sitting in New […]

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Entertainment

Adam Levine says none of the new Voice coaches can replace his BFF Blake Shelton

January 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Adam Levine says none of the new Voice coaches can replace his BFF Blake Shelton

When The Voice returns on Feb. 3 for season 27, a familiar face will be back in the big red chairs: original coach Adam Levine, who left the show after 16 seasons. His fellow coaches will be John Legend, country […]

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Challenge your mind and your friends to Random Trivia!

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From what language did English borrow the word "ukulele"?

In the Hawaiian language the word ukulele roughly translates as 'jumping flea', perhaps because of the movement of the player's fingers. Legend attributes it to the nickname of Englishman Edward William Purvis, one of King Kalākaua's officers, because of his small size, fidgety manner, and playing expertise.

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On what show did Heather Locklear make her TV debut in a recurring role?

In 1982, Locklear began a long term association with television producer Aaron Spelling. First, she was cast in a recurring role as Sammy Jo Dean on Spelling's Dynasty. The following year, while still appearing on Dynasty, Locklear took on a starring role as Officer Stacy Sheridan on the police drama T.J. Hooker.

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Originally called pimento, what popular spice was first grown in Jamaica?

Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world.

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Who recorded the song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"?

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is a song by the English pop rock band Tears for Fears from their second studio album Songs from the Big Chair (1985).

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Who wrote the book "Gone with the Wind"?

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind.

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