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Published Thursday, February 09, 2017 @ 12:00 AM EST
Feb 09 2017

Today is Thursday, February 9, the 40th day of 2017 in the Gregorian calendar, with 325 days remaining.

There are:
5 days until Valentine's Day;
11 days until Presidents' Day;
19 days until Mardi Gras;
20 days until Ash Wednesday;
31 days until Daylight Saving Time begins;
36 days until St. Patrick's Day;
39 days until the arrival of Spring;
59 days until Palm Sunday;
61 days until First Day of Passover;
55 days until April Fools' Day;
64 days until Good Friday;
65 days until Easter Sunday;
67 days until US Federal Income Tax filing day;
68 days until Last Day of Passover;
72 days until Earth Day;
77 days until Arbor Day;
634 days until the 2018 mid-term elections; and
1,441 days until the end of Donald Trump's term as President, assuming he isn't impeached.

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On this date in 1964, over 73 million Americans, or roughly 40% of the population of the entire country, gathered around television sets to watch the Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show.

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Among other things, today is also National Pizza Day and National Bagel Day. Celebrate both- have a pizza bagel!

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Florida man caught trying to steal $7 billion, blames Jesus.

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The KGB Quotations Database contains 51,848 quotations.

Some persons born on February 9 who said interesting things:

 

Quote of the day:

"It is the duty of a patriot to protect his country from its government."
-Thomas Paine

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A full moon, lunar eclipse, and comet all in one night. Here's how to watch it Friday.

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Archaeologists may have discovered another Dead Sea Scrolls cave. A team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Liberty University in Virginia have discovered what they believe to be a 12th cave on the cliffs west of Qumran. In addition to Biblical text, the scrolls contain hymns, prayers, commentaries, and mystical formulas. They're so valuable that a fragment of an original scroll the size of a fingernail can cost up to $1 million.

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There are 26 ingredients in Doritos Nacho Cheese Tortilla Chips. If you really want to know...

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President Trump has begun reaching out to veterans of earlier White Houses for advice, as he seeks to bring more order and stability to a chaotic internal power structure that relies on competing and sometimes conflicting centers of gravity.

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Wrong-way Trump... FBI reports show far more terror suspects coming from Canada. "We are looking the wrong direction," said a senior DHS official familiar with the data. "Not to say that Mexico isn’t a problem, but the real bad guys aren’t coming from there—at least not yet."

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It's not foreigners who are plotting here: what the data really shows... more than 76 percent of individuals arrested by the FBI over the past two years for terrorism-related offenses were U.S. citizens as a result of having been born in the United States.

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Have a project commitment due tomorrow. See you Monday. Have a great weekend!

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