Monday 1/20/25
Celebrate:
Blue Monday - said to be the "most depressing day of the year." Maybe because it's cold, the winter is setting in, it's still dark, but it's more marketing. It is supposed to be the day when people are at their lowest and are thus most likely to try to make themselves feel better by booking a vacation, often to a place warm and sunny, giving them something to work towards and look forward to.
Camcorder Day
Elementary School Teacher Day
Inauguration Day
International Day of Acceptance
National Buttercrunch Day
National Coffee Break
National Disc Jockey Day
Penguin Awareness Day
Take a Walk Outdoors Day
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day - He was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which protested racial discrimination in federal and state law and civil society. The movement led to several groundbreaking legislative reforms in the United States.
National Day of Service came about in 1996 as a day of citizen action volunteer service in honor of King.
Let's hope that something else happening today doesn't forget the goal of what Martin Luther King Jr was trying to achieve. But I fear it's lost on certain people.
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Weekend Box Office
1. One of Them Days $11.6M
2. Mufasa: The Lion King $11.5M
3. Wolf Man $10.6M
4. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 $8.6M
5. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera $6.6M
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TikTok disappeared Saturday night but came back Sunday on the hope that President-elect Donald Trump announced he would issue an executive order on Monday to restore the platform.
Worth noting ... this ban was passed by Congress last year -- and, it has very specific conditions for extending the pause on the ban. It's not clear at this point if an executive order is sufficient to extend the period.
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Today is National Cheese Lovers Day!
The 5 most popular cheeses in the US:
Cheddar Cheese
Mozzarella Cheese
Parmesan Cheese
American Cheese
Cream Cheese
Who eats the most cheese? Well, not the US. Even though we produce the most cheese in the world (11.1 billion pounds followed by Germany at a paltry 4.81 billion) we only consume an average of 34.1 pounds per year.
#1 - France – 57.9 pounds per year
Germany – 53.2 pounds per year
Luxembourg – 53.2 pounds per year
Iceland – 53.2 pounds per year
Greece – 51.5 pounds per year
Finland – 49.5 pounds per year
Italy – 48 pounds per year
Switzerland – 48 pounds per year
Estonia – 45.8 pounds per year
Netherlands – 42.7 pounds per year
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The shortest war in history was the U.K. versus Zanzibar on August 27th, 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
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