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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Oct 28, 2016
October 28, 2016
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Top-10 Candy sales:
Looking for that perfect Halloween candy to give out that everyone loves? Here are the candies that have the most sales in the past month:
10. Life Savers, $13.2 million
9. Werther's, $13.3 million
8. Skittles, $15.8 million
7. Twix Caramel, $16.6 million
6. M&M Plain, $26.6 million
5. Hershey's Milk Chocolate, $27.8 million
4. Snickers, $35.1 million
3. Kit Kat, $36.3 million
2. M&M Peanut, $37.0 million
1. Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, $51.7 million
(Source: in US sales last month, Nielsen)Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places:
Sexting and driving never ends well.
A student at Texas A&M was arrested after she crashed her car while taking a topless photo of herself to send to her boyfriend. Unfortunately, MIRANDA KAY RADER crashed her SUV right behind a campus police cruiser and as the officer approached her vehicle, she was frantically trying to put her shirt back on. Rader admitted to Snapchatting her boyfriend a topless pic and the officer observed an open bottle of wine in her car. She failed a field sobriety test and was arrested on a DUI and being a minor in possession of alcohol. She was released on two thousand dollars bond. (Myers)Food and Nutrition:
Cranberries may not help prevent urinary tract infections the way many people believe they do.A new study of women in a nursing home who took high-potency cranberry capsule had no fewer episodes of urinary tract infection than those taking a placebo. CNN says cranberry juices and other products aren't going to hurt anything, but they said spending money on cranberry capsules with "limited potential benefit" for preventing urinary tract infections "does not seem worthwhile." (Bartha)
Grace notes from Vinny Marino:
"The Ramones Way" will be officially unveiled Sunday in Queens, New York. The street sign goes up at the corner of 67th Avenue and 110th Street, which is right in front of the band's alma mater, Forest Hills High School. This shouldn't come as a shock to you, but the members of the RAMONES were not exactly honor students. JOEY was left back a year and DEE DEE never graduated. The ceremony is part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Ramones self-titled debut album. (Marino)
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