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On the date
Friday, August 8, 2008
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The Headlines
Reasons Some Firms Left the U.S.
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Kissed a Girl
Katy Perry
#1 at the box office
The Dark Knight †
$26,117,030
The must-have
Wall-E Animatronic
On This Day
The 29th modern summer Olympic Games took place in Beijing, China until August 24.
Wikipedia →A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Roger Federer (1981)
- Paul Dirac (1902)
- Mohamed Morsi (1951)
- Dustin Hoffman (1937)
- Giuseppe Conte (1964)
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
6,510 days ago
(17 years, 305 days)