July 9

Better Than News

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  Baywatch: The Next Generation is an American science fiction action drama television series about lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Federation-controlled planets starring David Hasselhoff.

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  Johnny Mnemonic 4: The Voyage Home is an American science fiction nature adventure film about an intelligent dolphin (William Gibson) who must rely upon a criminal hacker (Keanu Reeves) and a lost time-traveler (Leonard Nimoy).

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  Friends of the Leprechaun is an American comedy horror television series starring Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer.

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  We Need to Talk About Cabins is a 2011 American drama film about cabins.

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  The Silence of Laura Mars is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film a young FBI trainee who is hunting a glamorous fashion photographer who sees real-time visions of the murders of her friends and colleagues.

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  Tide Pod Pop-Tarts is a seasonally available variety of Pop-Tarts flavored with Tide laundry detergent pods.

Beyond Plausible

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  When a Riddler Calls is a 1979 American superhero psychological horror film based on the classic folk legend of "the babysitter and the man upstairs".

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  Dune: the Heart Plug Years is a reality television series starring Baron Harkonnen and Sting.

In Other Words

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  Metropolitan Triffid is a British police procedural science fiction television show about the Triffids, an aggressive alien plant which has taken hold in the Metropolitan Police Service.

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  Twitter is a billion-headed bird chirping on the Internet. Twitter is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell [ACCOUNT SUSPENDED].

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  Placebo is a brand of insert substances in pill form, designed to have no therapeutic value.

Are You Sure

... that anatomist and anatomical wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini created a collection of wax models which gained fame throughout Europe as Supellex Manzoliniana, and that the collection was prized as an aid in the study of anatomy?

... that Cucumber Eyes is a 2021 personal hygiene drama film starring Woody Harrelson, Javier Bardem, and Tim Robbins & Tim Robbins 1.1?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1774: Anatomist and anatomical wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini dies. Her collection of wax models gained fame throughout Europe as Supellex Manzoliniana; it was sought after to aid in the study of anatomy.

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  1824: Physician, anatomist, and anthropologist Paul Broca born. He will discover that the brains of patients suffering from aphasia contain lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region -- the first anatomical proof of the localization of brain function.

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  1911: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler born. He will link the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coin the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".

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  1918: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn born. He will make contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.

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  1996: Physicist Edward P. Ney dies. Ney made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy, discovering cosmic ray heavy nuclei and solar proton events. He pioneered the use of high altitude balloons for scientific investigations, and was one of the first researchers to put experiments aboard spacecraft.

Topic of the Day

Sports

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  Parkour for Liberty is a transdimensional parkour competition held annually in 1884 Paris.

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  The Chromo-Pee Olympics is an international sporting event in which participants attempt to urinate in five contrasting colors.

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  Break Point is a 2021 tennis thriller film starring Keanu Reeves and Björn Borg.

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  Bollard ball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, compete with the objective of using the bollard in an appropriate manner, for example locking a bicycle or mooring a ship.

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  Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Scout is an action-horror-politics film starring Abraham Lincoln and Duke One. During the darkest hours of the American Civil War, President Lincoln scouts for vampires with on-court charisma while defending the terms of his Nike contract.

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  So, it has come to Miami Shark.

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  The Trampoline in the Woods is a short horror documentary film about allegations of malefic supernatural trampoline events deep in the haunted forests surrounding sites of Olympic games.