August 16th is the 228th day of the year. There are 137 days remaining until the end of the year
There are 18 days left until Labor Day
There are 98 days until Thanksgiving
Today is National Bratwurst Day, National Roller Coaster Day, National Rum Day and National Tell a Joke Day
The Texas State Fair is offering several new food items this year including a fried bacon-wrapped Twinkie. The Twinkie is topped with ice cream, powdered sugar and funnel cake pieces.
Dunkin Donuts will begin selling their pumpkin donut on Wednesday, August 27th. Some stores will get the glazed pumpkin cake donut sooner.
Cinnabon is selling a new ice cream sandwich where both buns are made of churros
Doctors in the U.K. recently removed a small cyst from above a woman’s eye. And inside the cyst, they found an old contact lens she lost 28 YEARS ago.
A new study out of England looked at whether it’d be possible to watch EVERYTHING that comes out on Netflix. Last year, Netflix released 3,274 hours of new content. So if you watched for nine hours a day, every day, you could bang all of that out in a year. That’s doable. Or, if you just wanted to watch “Clockwork Orange” style with your eyes held open and no breaks, you’d have to watch for 136-and-a-half straight days, or about four-and-a-half months. This year they’re planning to spend about 33% more on originals than they did in 2017, so it might take you a little longer to watch everything.
Meghan Markle’s chatty father, Thomas, is reportedly developing his own clothing line.
Lindsay Lohan is earning $40,000 per episode for her new reality show
Simon Cowell is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Wednesday, August 22nd
Campbell Soup is honoring the Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl win by releasing limited edition Chunky Soup cans that highlight their victory over the Patriots.
MOVIE NEWS- Steven Spielberg’s 1991 movie Hook is getting a 4K Blu-ray release which will include 11 never-before-seen deleted scenes. The movie stars Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter Pan, Dustin Hoffman as the infamous Captain Hook, and Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell.The Hook 4K Blu-ray will be available for purchase starting October 9, 2018.
New Movies Opening Tonight
Mile 22 (Rated R) … STARRING: Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Ronda Rousey, John Malkovich … CIA operative James Silva (Mark Wahlberg) must transport a valuable intelligence asset through 22 miles of dangerous territory.