From the day
On the date
Friday, May 23, 2008
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The Headlines
F.A.A. Tests Ways to Detect Runway Junk
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Take a Bow
Rihanna
#1 at the box office
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
$100,137,835
The must-have
Wall-E Animatronic
On This Day
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Carl Linnaeus (1707)
- Pär Lagerkvist (1891)
- John Bardeen (1908)
- Anatoly Karpov (1951)
- Lena Meyer-Landrut (1991)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
sketchypeepsnewbie
Text Speak
brblolomgrofltmi
Emo
rawrsqueescene
Reality Tv
you're firedthe tribe has spoken
Tech Check
App Store, Android (Release), Spotify & Chrome.
Cost of Living (2008)
Loaf of Bread
$1.37
Gallon of Gas
$3.27
Average Home
$229,600
New Car
$25,200
Meanwhile
- The Great Recession — Housing market crash; Lehman Brothers collapse (2008-09-15).
Time Elapsed
6,587 days ago
(18 years, 17 days)