December 19, 2019

December 19th is the 353rd day of the year. There are 12 days remaining until the end of the year.

Come by Sons of Kent for Rise House Trivia Night tonight.

Trivia starts at 7. Cost is $20 per person and all proceeds go to support Rise House.

Email cktrivia@gmail.com for more info.

Last night, the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump on two articles, Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress.

In the 243-year history of the United States, Trump is only the third President to be impeached.

To be removed from office, the Republican-led Senate will have to vote to impeach, and that seems unlikely since the votes toed party lines.

More with Matt Weverink on Blackburn News this morning.

8-year-old Ryan Kaji was the highest-earning star on YouTube this year.

His Ryan’s World channel raked in $26 million. This is the kid that started unboxing toys when he was just 3. He has almost 23 million subscribers.

The second biggest channel this year was Dude Perfect, those five guys who play sports, perform stunts, and break Guinness World Records. They made $20 million this year. And 5 year old Russian Anastasia Radzinskaya’s Like Nastya made $18 million in 2019.

YouTube’s Highest-Paid Star of 2019 Made $26 Million… And Is 8-Years-Old https://t.co/s5yaJXmJAb

— E! News (@enews) December 19, 2019

Amazon has added an Alexa feature where it will help you change the subject if a family argument breaks out over the holidays. Just say, “Alexa, change the subject,” and it’ll throw out a new topic.

According to Amazon’s survey, money is the issue families are most likely to fall out over, ahead of what to watch on television, bad behaviour or someone being a sore loser after a Christmas game.

The research suggests arguments are most likely to break out between siblings or with mother.

Researchers at the University of Reading in England had people eat two large apples a day for two months.

And by the end, the average person had lowered their blood pressure, cut their heart attack risk and reduced their cholesterol by about 4%.

It worked for men and women. But for some reason, women saw an even bigger effect.

Juice doesn’t count though. Another group drank two glasses of apple juice a day and didn’t see the same effects. Probably because it doesn’t have as many nutrients or fiber. Two large apples have about 25% of the fiber you need in a day.

I guess an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but two might.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod