7/16/26 - Daytime Emmy Noms,
- bribriny
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Thursday 7/16/26
Celebrate:
Get to Know Your Customers Day
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National Atomic Veterans Day
National Cherry Day
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National DOLE Whip Day
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Rural Transit Day
World Snake Day
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Big movie up this weekend, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Based on the classic by Homer (no not Simpson) It is one of the oldest surviving works of literature and remains popular with modern audiences. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books. It follows the heroic king of Ithaca, Odysseus, also known by the Latin variant Ulysses, and his homecoming journey after the ten-year-long Trojan War.
Some number facts:
35: The height, in feet, of the Trojan Horses constructed
That’s about the height of a telephone pole. Production has not said exactly how many Trojan Horses there were, but there were more than one.
45: Duration of the 900-foot uphill hike, in minutes, to film the Ithaca scenes
Much of the cast and crew, including Nolan and Emma Thomas, hiked up a rugged hill to Castello di Santa Caterina every day. This is a moderately challenging hike that requires a good level of fitness.
1: Number of times actor John Leguizamo attempted the hike
“I hiked one day. I was like ‘I’m not doing this again,’” Leguizamo said. “I mean, 40 minutes climbing up that 900-foot cliff and then you got to act for 12 hours? No, I took the helicopter.”
$250 million: The reported production budget
But it’s not Nolan’s most expensive film; “The Dark Knight Rises” is. As far as modern production budgets go, this is in the range of a big blockbuster (the live-action “Moana” had the same), though sometimes they balloon. “Jurassic: World Dominion,” released in 2022, is considered one of the most expensive films ever made with a production budget of $531 million, which accounts for tax rebates and incentives.
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World Cup update.
Argentina won yesterday, so they will move to the finals against Spain on Sunday
The Bronze final will be Saturday, with France meeting England.
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The Daytime Emmy Award Nominations are out.
The Young and the Restless leads this year’s nominees with 18 nods, including for best daytime drama series, followed by fellow daytime drama series nominees Beyond the Gates with 16 nods and General Hospital with 13 nods.
The 53rd Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony is set to take place on Friday, Oct. 30 at the Hollywood Palladium.
Outstanding Daytime Drama Series
Beyond the Gates
Days of our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Daytime Talk Series
3rd Hour of TODAY
The Drew Barrymore Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Live with Kelly and Mark
TODAY with Jenna & Friends
The View
Outstanding Entertainment News Series
Access Hollywood
Entertainment Tonight
Extra
Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host
Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin & Ana Navarro
The View
Kelly Clarkson
Tamron Hall
Jennifer Hudson
Sherri Shepherd
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Mental Floss collected the word definitions in every US State.
This year, the #1 search is Gaslighting, followed by Love and Empathy.
In Pennsylvania, it's Metaphor. And in New York, it's Equity.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day
Trees are so common that it’s easy to assume no one has ever counted them. Surprisingly, scientists have. While no one has physically counted every trunk and branch, researchers have combined satellite imagery, artificial intelligence, forest inventories, and more than 400,000 ground-based measurements to estimate the number of trees across our planet.
The answer? About 3.04 trillion trees. Roughly 390 trees for every person on Earth.
Based on historical modeling, researchers estimate Earth has lost around 46% of its trees since the beginning of human civilization.
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