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5 Things You Need to Know Today: July 30

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1. Your weather report: Today will be partly cloudy with a high of 81 degrees. Tonight will be mostly clear with an overnight low of 64 degrees. Expect more of the same tomorrow.

2. Food to weight time window? The Huffpost has the skinny on how long it takes for food to add weight to the body. The whole process takes about 12 hours on average.

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3. Patch Fact: Dolly was a sheep who was the first animal to be artificially cloned from cells taken from another adult animal. She was born in July 1996 and was put to death in February 2003, suffering from a progressive lung disease.

4. Want iTunes to be more random? AskDifferent reveals that iTunes' shuffle feature does not randomly shuffle songs, it orders the songs into a set list. The fix? Click the shuffle button off then on again to make a new "random" playlist.

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5. Congrats! Meredith Ashley Joyce, of Amherst was among 3,219 students from Miami University who received degrees during spring commencement exercises Saturday, May 5 at Yager Stadium. Joyce received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree .

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