June 20
Better Than News
Donut Heist is a 2023 crime thriller film about a gang of thieves who steal the world's most valuable donuts, only to find that the donuts are not what they appear to be.
Days of Wine and Thunder is an American action drama film starring Tom Cruise, Lee Remick, and Jack Lemmon.
The Holy Mountain 2 is a Mexican surreal Muppets film written and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jim Henson.
Undercover Jester is a 1955 medieval police procedural training film starring Danny Kaye as a police forensic dramatist working undercover as a court jester.
Smilodon is a 2018 American nature thriller film about a paleontologist (Tom Cruise) who must stop saber-tooth tigers from evolving teeth so large that they cannot close their mouths.
Alabama in My Mind is a song by James Taylor.
Mister Rogers' Op-Center is an American half-hour educational children's television series that was created and hosted by Fred Rogers.
Are You Sure
... that during the Second World War, five Navy planes become permanently trapped in the Bermuda Triangle Dead Letter Office after a junior Gnomon algorithm engineer in the United States Navy Advanced Philately Division misplaced a decimal point?
... that inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer designed and built several hand-powered submarines?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1840: Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1875: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer dies. He designed and built several hand-powered submarines.
1877: Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
2024: Self portrait.
Topic of the Day
Airplanes
"Silvery Aeroplanes" is an anagram of "Elvis Aaron Presley".
Less Than Zero is a 1987 American war film about a college freshman and airplane restoration enthusiast who is also a drug addict.
Black Phaeton is a historical drama film based on the race films of the 1920s.
Guess Hughes Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American romantic aviation drama film, one of the few films of the time to depict Howard Hughes in a positive light, as Hughes had become an eccentric recluse.
The inverted Charles Lindbergh stamp misprint is a famous example of a stamp misprint apparently caused by the printers' emotional response to Charles Lindbergh's intimate association with Nazi Germany.
"Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy For Adult Airplane Disorders: A Meta-analysis Of Randomized Placebo-controlled Airshows" is a research paper published by Playskool's My First DSM.
"Mendelevium on a Jet Plane" is a song by John Denver and a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Four Honeymoons and a Snake on a Plane is a 2021 romantic herpetology thriller film starring Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, and Samuel L. Jackson.