Friday, January 9, 2015

From the day

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

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Taylor Swift

#1 at the box office

$39,201,657

The must-have

BB-8 App-Enabled Droid

On This Day

• The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.

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• A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was contaminated with Burkholderia gladioli leaves 75 dead and over 230 people ill.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Richard Nixon (1913)
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908)
• AD 727 (727)
• Karel Čapek (1890)
• Catherine, Princess of Wales (1982)

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Tech Check

OpenAI, Discord & Reusable Rockets (SpaceX).

Style of 2015

Silhouette: Athleisure and contoured

Material: Tech fleece and spandex

• Yeezy sneakers
• Bomber jackets
• Dad hats

Cost of Living (2015)