Oct. 3, 2026

Oct 4-Vodka, Charlton Heston, Susan Sarandon, Triumph, Dakota Johnson, Melissa Benoist, Alicia Silverstone

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National Vodka day! Entertainment from 2020. One of largest naval battles of all time took place in China, Pocket watch invented, Soviet Union launched 1st satalite Sputnik 1. Todays birthdays - Rutherford B. Hayes, Charlton Heston, Anne Rice, Susan Surandon, Gil Moore, Bill Fagerbakke, Alicia Silverstone, Melissa Benoist, Dakota Johnson. Janis Joplin died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Vodka - Zenshi
Franchise - Travis Scott Young Thug MIA
I hope - Gabby Barrett
What the frequency Kenneth - REM
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Magic power - Triumph
Mercedez Benz - Janis Joplin
Exit - Better by the day - Clayton Anderson https://www.claytonandersonofficial.com/

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Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids

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About Today. Today is October the 4th.

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Today is National Vodka Day. Vodka, it's the number one

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spirit in America.

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Actually, it's the number one spirit in the world. Now,

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that's a liquor that you mix with other mixed drinks,

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you know, and that kind of stuff. Now, vodka, it's

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ahead of tequila and rum. I bet tequila, it's coming

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on strong, though. Vodka, it's a Russian for water. It

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basically is. Vodka was created in Russia in the 5th century. Now,

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it does not have a taste or a smell, but

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it does kind of have a burn to it. Now,

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it is really potent, though. It can mess you up.

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So you've got your Bloody Marys, Cosmopolitans, Screwdrivers, White Russians, Martinis,

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Long Island Iced Tea. I think you all know how

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to celebrate National Vodka Day. If you don't like vodka, yeah,

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it's National Cinnamon Bun Day today, too. Let's check out

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what's going on in entertainment on October 4th, back in 2020.

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Number one album was Folklore by Taylor Swift. Travis Young,

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Young Thug, and Mia had their number one song with Franchise.

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Gabby Barrett had the number one country song with I Hope.

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I hope it comes alive and hits every one of

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your plans.

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That number one book was The Evening and the Morning

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by Ken Follett. Top movie was The War with Grandpa. Peter,

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he is mad that he has to share his bedroom

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with his grandpa. So he declares war to try and

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get him out of there. Starts Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman,

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and Oaks Fegley. All right, let's see what happened in

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the world on October the 4th. In China, the largest

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naval battle in history was fought. It was the Battle

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of Lake Poyang. Yes, the largest lake over there in China. Now,

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over 850,000 sailors fought in the battle. Chinese rebel leader

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Zhu Yangjing, he defeated Chen Yuling. Yep, it was a

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huge upset. Vegas took it really beating on that one. 1675,

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in the Netherlands, Christian Huggins invented the pocket watch. Now,

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that was actually pretty huge. It might not sound like

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it today. I mean, today, you can get your time anywhere. Computer,

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your phone, your wall clock, wristwatch, microwave oven, bank buildings, anywhere.

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Back then, you couldn't get the time of day from anywhere. 1873,

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the Toronto Argonauts Football Club formed. Now, they play in

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the Canadian Football League. They are the oldest pro sports

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team in North America that still uses their original name. 1883,

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the famous train that Orient Express left on its first

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trip went from Paris to Istanbul. Now they'd had luxury

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dining cars, luxury sleeping cars. The trip took 80 hours.

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Ran until 1977. Then people kind of thought, you know what?

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Screw 80 hours. I can take a plane and get

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there in three and a half hours. 1915, Dinosaur National Monument.

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It was established. It's in western Colorado, eastern Utah, along

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the border there. Pretty cool if you're into dinosaurs. Kind

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of a barren place, maybe if you're traveling on I-70

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and want to take a break from the desert. South Dakota,

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Gutsman Borland. He started sculpting Mount Rushmore today in 1927.

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Kept at it until 1941 when he died. Now, he

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wasn't done with his original plans, what he wanted to do,

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but nobody else wanted to finish it, so they just

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called it good. 1957, the Soviet Union, they launched Sputnik 1,

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the first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth. Now, it

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was the size of a beach ball, weighed 184 pounds.

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Took it 98 minutes to orbit the Earth. Now, it

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orbited for three months, and then it fell back to

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the Earth. All it did up there was send back

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a radio signal, kind of pinged, let everybody know it

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was there. 1965, Pope Paul VI, he became the first

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pope to leave Italy since 1809. Yeah, he came to

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the United States, New York City, more specific, first pope

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to actually go to the Western Hemisphere. So he gave

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a speech at the UN. He visited the World's Fair.

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He held mass at Yankee Stadium. Yeah, it sounds like

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he had a good time.

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What's a fancy cat at the shop? Things are dry.

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Have you ever wondered with the R.E.M. song, what's the

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frequency Kenneth actually about? Well, in 1986, CBS newscaster Dan Rather,

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he was docking down the street in New York City

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when he was attacked and knocked to the ground. Now

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the guy who did it, he stood over him and

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he started shouting at him. Kenneth, what's the frequency? Kenneth,

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what's the frequency? Yeah, he was really irate and irrational. See,

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the guy believed that the TV networks were beaming signals

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into his brain. Now he wanted the frequency so he

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could block it. Well, he took off before the police

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showed up. Then in 1994, that same guy, he killed

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a stagehand when he tried to burst into the NBC studios.

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It got him that time. Then after a lot of

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debate and a lot of studying the guy, the experts

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in authority, they all concluded that he had mental problems.

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His name was William Taggart.

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Okay, he was born on October the 4th.

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Rutherford B.

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Hayes, he was born in Delaware, Ohio in 1822. Now,

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he was a lawyer, then he became a brigadier general

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for the Union.

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Army during the Civil War. Then he became the 19th

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president of the United States, served from 1877 to 1881. Now,

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he did not win the popular vote, and no one

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running that year had enough electoral votes. That meant he

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went to the U.S. House of Representatives. Well, they picked Hayes,

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mainly because he said he would only serve one term.

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He would end Reconstruction and the occupation of the southern states. Well,

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he did keep his word. He was married, and they

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had eight kids. He died from a heart attack in

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1893 at 70 years old. Actor Charlton Heston. He was

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born in Wilmette, Illinois in 1923. He's in over 100 movies.

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Acted for 60 years. He won an Oscar for Being Her.

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Some of the other movies he starred in were The

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Ten Commandments, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Julius Caesar, Midway,

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Playing into the Apes. Now he served as president of

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the NRA for five years. He had married way back

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in 1944 and they had four kids. Heston, he died

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in 2008. 84 years old from Alzheimer's. Writer Anne Rice.

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She was born in New Orleans in 1941. Sold over

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100 million books. Best known for her vampire books. The

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big ones were Interview with a Vampire and Queen of

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the Damned. She was married for 41 years when her

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husband died. Then she died, or they had a son

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and daughter together. Then Anne died from a stroke, 20-21

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at 80 years old. Actress Susan Sarandon is 80. She

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was born in Queens, New York in 1946. Now Susan,

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she has been nominated for Best Actress Oscars for Atlantic City,

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Thelma and Louise, Lorenzo's Oil, The Client. Then she won one. Yeah,

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that's for Dead Man Walking. Now, she married a guy

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in college. They were married 11 years when they divorced,

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but she didn't want to do that again. So she

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had a daughter from a boyfriend. Then she dated actor

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Tim Robbins for 20 years, and they had two sons.

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I'm young now, I'm wild now, I want to be free.

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I've got the magic power and the music in me.

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I'm young now, I'm wild.

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Now, That was Gilmore singing for the band Triumph. He

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also plays their drums. Gil's 73 today. He was born

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in Toronto, Canada. Now, Triumph, they are a really underrated band,

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probably because they're Canadian. But they may or may not

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have just finished their last tour. They're not quite sure yet. See,

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they actually retired in 1993, but they're actually still out there.

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They started in 1975. Some of their biggest hits are

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Lay It On The Line, Magic Power, Fight the Good Fight,

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World of Fantasy. Now, Gil, he's built one of the

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largest recording studios in the world. So over the last

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30 years, pretty much everybody who records goes up there

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at least for a little bit to record with him.

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Just some of the artists who've gone up to Canada

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recording Gil's studio. Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Katy Perry, Black

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Eyed Peas, Drake. I guess Drake didn't have far to

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go in Canada. Now, Gil, he has two daughters and

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one son. Actor Bill Fagerbeke. He was born in Fontana,

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California in 1957. That 69-year-old grew up in Idaho. He

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even played defensive end for the University of Idaho football team. Yeah,

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but then he blew his knee out, so he went

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in and ended up graduating with a degree in drama.

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He got famous playing Dobber on the sitcom Coach. Biggest success, though,

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he's been voicing Patrick on SpongeBob SquarePants since 1999. But

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since 2021, he also has his own show. It's called

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The Patrick Starr Show. Now, he was married for over

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20 years when they divorced, and they had two daughters.

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Actress Alicia Silverstone, she's 50. She was born in San Francisco.

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She first hit the movie Crush. She's only 16 years old.

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Then she starred in a couple of Aerosmith videos, Crying

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and Crazy. Then Clueless. She was Batgirl in Batman and Robin.

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She married once for 13 years, and she has a

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son from that. Actress Melissa Benoist. She was born in

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1988 in Houston, Texas.

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38 today.

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First got known on TV. She's Batgirl. known for TV,

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pretty much. She was on Glee. Then she was Supergirl

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for six years. So, because she was Supergirl, that means

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she had to make appearances on Flash and Arrow. Melissa,

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she married her second husband in 2019, and they have

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one son. Actress Dakota Johnson's 37. She was born in Austin,

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Texas in 1989. Her famous parents are actors Don Johnson

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and Melanie Griffith. Dakota, she was in her first movie

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when she was 10 years old. Yeah, she had a

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small part in her mom's movie, Crazy in Alabama. She

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made a name for herself, though, in all those Fifty

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Shades movies. She was also in Madame Webb and Splitsville.

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She dated Chris Martin, the lead singer for Coldplay, for

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eight years. All righty, our quote of the day comes

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from Janis Joplin. Oh, Lord, won't you buy me? gianna's

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died today 1970 at 27 years old she said don't

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compromise yourself you've all you've got well thank you all

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song better by the day You guys have an awesome day,

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Every day's a dang good day that the good Lord

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lets us borrow. If today's any indication, what's waiting? I

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can't wait till tomorrow. Life's getting better by the day,

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by the day. Life's getting better by the day. Yeah,

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life's getting better by the day, by the day. Life's

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getting better by the day. Wish you could.

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