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Legendary record producer and musician, Quincy Jones, died on Sunday in his Bel-Air home. He was 91. Jones won an astonishing 28 Grammy Awards throughout his career as an arranger and producer.
The way it smells after it rains is called PETRICHOR.
The space between your eyebrows (assuming you have one) is called your GLABELLA.
The piece of plastic at the end of your shoelaces is called an AGLET.
Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader who was banned from the sport after gambling on his own team as a player and manager, died Monday. He was 83. Rose’s death was confirmed by the Clark County, Nevada, medical examiner’s office. Rose played 24 seasons in the major leagues, the last three of which were as a player-manager. He most famously played for the Cincinnati Reds from 1963-78, and again from 1984-86. Rose was placed on MLB’s ineligible list in August 1989 after an investigation revealed he gambled on baseball — including on the Reds’ own games — when he was manage
Kris Kristofferson, the actor, musician and long-haired activist who embodied the countercultural spirit of postwar America, died at his home in Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, a representative confirmed. He was 88.
James Darren, Gidget’s boyfriend and dreamboat to all girls born before 1950, died Monday, September 2, at 88.
The jersey Babe Ruth wore when he called his shot during the 1932 World Series, hitting a home run to center field, sold at auction early Sunday for over $24 million. Heritage Auctions said the New York Yankee slugger’s jersey went for a record-breaking $24.12 million after a bidding war that lasted over six hours when it went on the block in Dallas. The buyer wishes to remain anonymous, Heritage said.
The amount that the jersey sold for topped fellow Yankee Mickey Mantle’s 1952 rookie card, which the Dallas-based auction house sold for $12.6 million in 2022.
