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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - May 24, 2021
May 24, 2021
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Lottery: Somebody picked up a half-a-billion dollars in Friday's Mega-Millions drawing. The $515-million bucks is the ninth-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history and somebody in Pennsylvania is holding the ticket.
Good news for wrasslin' fans --the WWE says they'll be doing a 25 city tour with live shows in front of crowds. WWE star JOHN CENA --who's in all those Experian commercials-- is also expected to be showing up for the first show, which would be the SmackDown in Houston, Texas, at the Toyota Center. It'd be the first time Cena would be back since WrestleMania 36, where he was in the Firefly Funhouse Match against BRAY WYATT.
If you can afford to get into Disneyland, you'll probably be able to afford their new, $100 sandwich. Fox Business reports the new sandwich will debut when Avengers Campus opens at Disney's California Adventure Park on June 4th. It's a gimmick and themed to the movie "Ant-Man and the Wasp" --either shrunk down or expanded in size. Yes, that $100 sandwich is meant to serve up to eight people, and is loaded with salami, rosemary ham, provolone along with a sun-dried tomato spread on toasted focaccia. But you can get just a single portion for $14.99.
Movie news: "F9," the latest "Fast & Furious" movie, opened overseas this past weekend and pulled in $162.4 million from eight foreign markets, including China. Here in the U.S., it won't be in theatres until June 25th, but it's a pretty good sign that it'll do pretty well.
More movies: actor KEVIN SPACEY is coming back to the movie business. You may remember that after he was accused of sexual harassment, his career was sidetracked for awhile despite his denials. But now, the London Telegraph reports in his new movie, he'll play a detective who'll investigate accusations of pedophilia against a blind artist. Actress VANESSA REDGRAVE will co-star, and her husband, Italian director FRANCO NERO, will be directing the film.
How much would you pay for the phrase "E epuals MC-squared" in Albert Einstein's handwriting? Turns out there's only three other examples of the equation in his handwriting, and the BBC reports one of them sold at an auction over the weekend for more than $1.2 million dollars. The equation is part of a one-page letter written in German back in October of 1946. Einstein first published the equation in a scientific paper in 1905, but apparently refused to write it down in letters to other scientists or acquaintances.
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