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Magnesium Glycinate Is TikToks New Favorite Sleep Aid

Everyone on TikTok is bleary-eyed and anxious, it sometimes seems. The generations that dominate the app—Gen Z and Millennials—are also those most beleaguered by anxiety, which is closely tied to sleep disturbances. It’s little wonder, then, that supposed sleep aids—like tart cherry juice, brown noise, melatonin, and CBD—are constant fixtures on the social media platform. Now, the app’s wellness community has latched onto the latest supplement touted to heal both poor sleep and anxiety: magnesium glycinate, one of nearly a dozen over-the-counter supplements that can be used to boost the body’s levels of magnesium.

Milestones: Dec. 18, 1964 | TIME

Divorced. By Sue Lyon, 18, cine-nymphet (Lolitd) and teen tease (The Night of the Iguana): Hampton Fancher III, 26, sometime flamenco dancer, who was banned from the Iguana set for Lyonizing Sue; on grounds of mental cruelty; after ten months of marriage; in Santa Monica, Calif. Divorced. By Dorothy Malone, 39, $3,000-a-week star of Peyton Place, TV’s serialized sexpose of small-town life: Jacques Bergerac, 38, French lawyer-actor previously married to Ginger Rogers; on grounds of extreme cruelty; after five years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles.

Milwaukee Brewers in History - On This Day

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Modern Living: Playing Sheik | TIME

At 29, Baron Arnaud de Rosnay is no run-of-the-disco jet-setter. The dashing entrepreneur already has behind him careers as France’s national surfboard champion, a photojournalist, a publicist and a backgammon promoter. Now, like a man who contemplates an ocean and invents the squirt gun, De Rosnay has come up with a parlor game based on the energy crisis. The game, which has just gone on sale at such stores as Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus and Garfinckel’s, is appropriately known as Petropolis.

Napoleon Bonaparte Engagement Ring Goes Up For Auction

Spencer Arnold/Getty Imagescirca 1800: Corsican born soldier and Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) and his wife Josephine De Beauharnais (1763 - 1814). The engagement ring that Napoleon Bonaparte gave to his fiancée and future empress Joséphine will go on sale this weekend at the Osenat auction house in Fonatinebleau outside Paris, reports the Daily Mail. The auction house describes the ring as a “simple” band decorated with two tear-shaped gems.

Next Case | TIME

Nineteen-year-old Michael Gillick was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at the age of 3 1/2 months. His cancer–which has spread to his face, bones and heart, filling much of his body cavity–could kill him at any time. Michael is just one of more than 100 children with cancer in or near the small town of Toms River, N.J. (pop. 7,524). It’s the kind of disproportionate grouping that epidemiologists call a “cancer cluster.” Residents put the blame on local companies that allegedly discharged cancer-causing chemicals into the water supply.

Nigerian fried rice: Easy-peasy method of preparing this meal without frying

It's almost like preparing jollof rice. Unfortunately, there is a certain dry oily texture to fried rice that most times cannot be achieved without frying. To get it with this recipe, it will require less water and lots of concentration. Ingredients 2 cups parboiled rice (add some curry when parboiling to give it the classic fried rice colour) ADVERTISEMENT Vegetable Oil Garlic and ginger Chicken stock water ADVERTISEMENT

Owning Guns Puts People in Your Home at Greater Risk of Death

I live with my partner. Neither of us owns a gun. Concerned about reports of rising crime rates in our neighbourhood, my partner decides to buy a handgun to help keep us safe. Is our home safer now? Am I? Millions of Americans may have asked themselves these questions, or versions of them—especially in the wake of horrific mass shootings like those in Buffalo and Uvalde. Record-breaking spikes in gun sales over the last two years, alongside surveys indicating that self-protection continues to be the dominant reason for buying guns, underscore a widely-held belief that a gun in the home has security benefits.

Ray Rice Ravens Jerseys: Fans Wear Them After Video of Domestic Abuse

According to the old adage, seeing is believing. But for some Ray Rice fans, it seems that not even witnessing a video of their hero violently punching a woman in the face and knocking her unconscious, is enough to make them believe that the running back deserved to be suspended from the NFL. At Thursday’s Baltimore Ravens game, several fans, both men and women, turned up sporting Rice jerseys, emblazoned with the number 27.

Singer Omah Lay says growing up in Nigeria makes one strong and unique

Speaking during a recent interview on the Zach Sang Show, the singer shared his perspective on growing up in Nigeria and how it has influenced his success. "It was beautiful growing up in Nigeria, where you have less," Omah Lay said. "Now that I have more, I can use my experiences and resources in ways that people who have always had more might not. In my opinion, it makes you very strong and unique.