1/14/26 - Stamps, Bouquets, AI and Clocks, and Highest Paid Actress

Wednesday 1/14/26

Celebrate:

Caesarean Section Day

Feast of the Ass

International Kite Day

National Dress Up Your Pet Day

National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day

Organize Your Home Day

Ratification Day

Take a Missionary to Lunch Day

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Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created Dilbert, has died. He was 68.

The humorist, who satirized office culture in his long-running comic strip, died Jan. 13 following a battle with prostate cancer. 

Dilbert was dropped from numerous publications in 2023 after he went on a rant.

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Muhammad Ali once joked that he should be a postage stamp because “that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked.”

Now, the three-time heavyweight champion's quip is becoming reality.

He is being honored for the first time with a commemorative U.S. postage stamp.

Also coming in new stamps, the year of the horse lunar new year, Bruce Lee, Lowriders as in cars, Route 66, and squirrels and chipmunks

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A UK man has officially entered the record books for his collection of over 500 unique traffic cones. The hobby reportedly started as a side effect of a legal dispute with a local council over parking, proving that some people don't just get mad—they get a very specific, orange-colored hobby.

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A florist has gone viral today for creating "vegetable bouquets" using cauliflower as the centerpieces. It’s being marketed as the "bouquet you can eat for dinner," and while it’s surprisingly beautiful, it might be the only romantic gift that requires a side of ranch dressing.

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We all know that AI is not good at everything. It still needs human input and cleanup.

It's terrible at making clocks and telling time.

The numbers seem to be consistently in the wrong place, and sometimes are outside the clock itself. The hands may or may not be in the correct position, and sometimes are floating off in space outside of the clock. Even the clocks that are pretty good look…off, somehow. 

A 2025 study by technologist Alek Safar suggests that humans are 89.1 percent accurate at telling the time on analogue clocks while the top-rated AI is only 39.4 percent accurate.

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IKEA is trending this morning for a bizarre but genius menu move: they’ve added Broccoli Leaf Soup to their cafeterias. By using the parts of the plant usually thrown away by farmers, they’ve created a "zero-waste" hit that is being ranked by foodies as surprisingly delicious.

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The "Tallow Takeover" in Cooking Move over avocado oil—Beef Tallow is officially making a massive comeback in 2026. Once a kitchen staple, this "ancestral ingredient" is trending on social media for its high smoke point and rich flavor. Even mainstream restaurants are ditching seed oils for tallow to elevate everything from fries to pastries.

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Zoe Saldaña sits atop the list of highest-grossing actors with a massive total of $16,859,193,100 at the worldwide box office.

Scarlett Johansson who was #1 now sits at No. 2 with $16,435,483,784.

Zoe is in the Avatar Movies and the latest Fire and Ash sent her over the top.

Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Downey Jr., Chris Pratt, Tom Cruise, Chris Hemsworth, Vin Diesel, Chris Evans, and Dwayne Johnson round out the top 10.

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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The clarinet is traditionally said to have been invented on this day by Johann Christoph Denner in Germany.

It was essentially an "update" to an older instrument called the chalumeau. Denner added a "register key," which allowed the instrument to play much higher notes. (I still would make it sound like a sick dying animal.)

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