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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Aug 5, 2021
August 5, 2021
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Today (Thursday) is National Underwear Day. The company Freshpair, Inc., began the holiday back in 2003 to celebrate your bra and panties, tighty whities, boxers or whatever you wear underneath those street clothes. Of course this can lead to several questions, including:
--Do you ever go without underwear (and if so, when)?
--Has anybody ever surprised you wearing just your underwear?
--How often do you put on clean underwear (eew!).
--Their website: https://www.freshpair.com/
Congratulations to RIHANNA, who Forbes magazine sez is now the wealthiest female musician in the world. She racks up $1.4 billion from her Fenty Beauty cosmetics company, another $270 million from lingerie company, Savage x Fenty, and even more when you add in her salaries from acting and her music income. This makes her the second richest female entertainer behind... (wait for it)... OPRAH WINFREY.
Did you put AN AN on your birthday list today? An An happens to be the oldest living panda in captivity and the longest-living male giant panda in captivity as well. An An turned 35 and that makes him 105 years old in human years. He lives in Hong Kong’s Ocean Park theme park, where the folks gave him a special dessert for his birthday with his favorite treats --bamboo, some sweet potato, carrots, pears and Fuji apples.
In case you missed it: There's yet still ANOTHER Coronavirus variant going around. Scientists say the "Delta Plus" variant may be more dangerous than the original Delta strain, and has been found twice so far in South Korea --both times in people who returned from the United States.
As long as we're on the subject of Coronavirus, the folks at Mattel announced yesterday that it's made a Barbie doll to honor Professor SARAH GILBERT. She headed the team which created the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The Barbie has Sarah's long, red hair; wears black glasses, along with navy pantsuit.
And --the organizers of the New York International Auto Show have canceled this year's show because of concerns about the delta variant of the Coronavirus. The show was postponed since April of last year --for the first time since World War II-- but now, organizers say it'll likely be early next year.
Fast food: The folks at IKEA --who do have a restaurant and sell food at the store's Bistro along with their Swedish furniture-- is now selling candles that smell like Swedish meatballs. And as you can imagine, the candles smell just like the meatballs you can buy at the store. The candles are part of the company’s limited-edition “IKEA Store in a Box” promotion, which also celebrates IKEA Family’s tenth anniversary
Finally, congratulations of actor JOHN CORBETT, who's tied the knot with BO DEREK. The couple has been together for 20 years, and he told CBS-TV's "The Talk" that "After 20 years, we decided to get married. We didn't want 2020 to be that thing that everybody looks back at and hated," said Corbett. "We thought let's get one nice thing out of it." So they were married at a secret ceremony this past December. He's 60 years old and plays Aidan Shaw, Carrie's furniture maker ex-fiancé on "Sex and the City." Bo is now 64 years old. -
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