More than 230 people die in shootings over the Fourth of July weekend.
Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, U.S. firm's CEO says.
Study links early-onset colorectal cancer with sugar-sweetened drinks. (Video)
The U.S. military is testing a pill that could delay aging.
Beware of "shrinkflation,"" inflation's devious cousin. "Consumers tend to be price conscious. But they're not net-weight conscious. They can tell instantly if they're used to paying $2.99 for a carton of orange juice and that goes up to $3.19. But if the orange juice container goes from 64 ounces to 59 ounces, they're probably not going to notice."
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From Crazytown:
QAnon followers think secret trials will be held for COVID rule enforcers- 'Nuremberg 2.0'.
QAnon spreads Biden photo online claiming it shows Trump is secretly in the White House.
The Trump kids look likely to turn on their dad... Ivanka will go first. The former president is not in immediate danger of jail, but his problems are piling up fast. Not least the fact that, in his family, loyalty means nothing.
GETTR, the pro-Trump social media platform, gottrd hacked on its launch day.
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KGB's daily agglomeration of stuff I find interesting:
Among other things, today is
- Father-Daughter Take a Walk Together Day
- Global Forgiveness Day
- National Dive Bar Day
- National Macaroni Day
- National Strawberry Sundae Day
- Tell the Truth Day
- World Chocolate Day
On this date:
- 1456 - A retrial verdict acquitted Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
- 1863 - The United States began its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
- 1865 - Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt were executed for their role in the conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln
- 1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
- 1928 - Sliced bread was sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
- 1930 - Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
- 1954 - Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right". (Video)
- 1981 - US President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1992 - The New York Court of Appeals ruled that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
- 2035 - Launch date of NASA's Aries 3 mission to Mars in the novel and movie "The Martian"
Birthdays
- 1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1911) (Video)
- 1899 - George Cukor, American director and producer (d. 1983) (Video)
- 1901 - Sam Katzman, American director and producer (d. 1973)
- 1906 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (d. 1982)
- 1907 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 1988) (Video)
- 1927 - Doc Severinsen, American trumpet player and conductor (Video)
- 1933 - David McCullough, American historian and author
- 1940 - Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (Video)
- 1949 - Shelley Duvall, American actress, writer, and producer (Video)
- 1963 - Vonda Shepard, American singer-songwriter and actress (Video)
- 1966 - Jim Gaffigan, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
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Miscellany
Remembering Richard Donner: With "Superman" and the "Lethal Weapon" Films, he made the blockbuster era both bigger and smaller. Trivia: Donner directed all the live action segments of the first season of Hanna-Barbera's kid show, "The Banana Splits."
Please stop putting garlic up your nose on TikTok, doctors request.
Man bitten by neighbor's escaped python while sitting on the toilet. Why was the python sitting on the toilet?
Labor Department announces plans to stop counting jobs and just enjoy economy.(satire: The Onion)
Charlotte flight to Bahamas canceled when high schoolers refuse to wear masks.
There is a sunken continent hidden under Iceland and scientists dubbed it Icelandia. Other Iceland news: Four-day work week 'an overwhelming success' in Iceland.
Time to cancel police dogs, experts say. Police K-9s are "grossly, disproportionately" used against people of color, inflict gruesome lifelong injuries, and often attack people who have committed minor crimes. I oppose their use because the dogs are unaware of the danger in which they're often placed. To them, it's just a game.
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