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Amazon just announced they're jacking up the price of a Prime membership. They're raising the monthly fee from $13 to $15 and the annual price will be bumped from $119 to $139. That's a hefty 17% increase. It's their first increase since 2018. The higher rates kick on February 18th for new customers and March 25th for existing customers. Social media is already being lit up with people saying nonsense like "Well, they just lost a loyal customer!" https://cnn.it/3AWe4ll
Renee Zellweger wears a fat suit to play a real-life murderer in the upcoming NBC series "The Thing About Pam". Will she face the same criticism Sarah Paulson did when she wore one last year in "American Crime Story"? https://bit.ly/3sjzncn
A couple in Ireland bought a used couch but didn't realize what came with the couch until they lost their remote for the first time. They reached down to look for the remote and pulled They reached down to look for the remote and pulled
up a handful of fingernails. It turned out the couch was filled with thousands of them. https://bit.ly/330ubSm
7 am Headlines
Someone plopped a 410-pound block of pure gold down in the middle of Central Park this week, and called it an art installation. It's a perfect cube, over a foot-and-a-half on all sides. But it's not actually a solid block. The walls are about a quarter-inch thick. https://bit.ly/3rphytd
A 50-year-old woman in North Dakota slapped a police officer's backside, and told him he was "sexy" and that she "loves a man in uniform". She was arrested, and is now looking at up to six years in prison. https://bit.ly/3sfogkL
9 am Headlines
"Luca" was the most-streamed movie of 2021. It was streamed for a total of 10.6 billion minutes. It's followed by "Moana", with 8.9 billion minutes. But "Moana" is actually the most-streamed kids' movie of all time. https://bit.ly/35PWrrS
Ads for Super Bowl 56 are sold out, and some of them were purchased for $7 million. Anything above $6 million would have been a record this year. Meanwhile, 62% of Americans say they're at least as interested in the commercials as they are in the game. https://prn.to/3Hsu0hJ
The Kinsey Institute partnered with an adult toy company to find out which cities and states have been the kinkiest during the pandemic. Pittsburgh ranks first in "sexual experimentation." Atlanta ranks first in fantasies. And Delaware is the kinkiest state. https://bit.ly/3HFfFhG
