Today in 1913, the birthday of President Richard Nixon. In addition to being a politician, Nixon was a capable piano player who once said on tape that he would've gone into music "if there had been a good rap group around in those days."
Today in 1897, the birthday of William Faulkner, the Nobel Prize winning author of novels like The Sound and the Fury, and, for a few years, one of the most unproductive postmasters the US mail has ever seen.
Researchers in Europe make a stunning discovery: playing hip-hop to cheese makes it taste better.
If you pay close attention to the dialogue, you'll hear the boss chew the trio out for eating 16 chocolate cakes"for the fifth time in a week." That's eighty cakes split among three guys - Kool, Buffy and Markie each gained 42 pounds that week in cake alone.
