Monday 1/23/23
Celebrate:
Better Business Communications Day
Community Manager Appreciation Day
Measure Your Feet Day
National Handwriting Day
National Pie Day
National Rhubarb Pie Day
Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day
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Two out of three Dry January participants are replacing booze with something else, according to a new survey. The replacement might be a mocktail, nonalcoholic beer or seltzer, but the most common swap is for cannabis or CBD. After all, it's called Dry January, not Sober January.
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As the price of eggs continues to rise, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials are reporting a spike in people attempting to bring eggs into the country illegally from Mexico, where prices are lower.
A 30-count carton of eggs in Juárez, Mexico, according to Border Report, sells for $3.40. In some parts of the U.S., such as California, just a dozen eggs are now priced as high as $7.37.
Bringing poultry, including chickens, and other animals, including their byproducts, such as eggs, into the United States is prohibited, according to CPB.
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Do you remember the last time you dialed 411 or 0 to reach an operator or to get directory assistance? If so, how old are you? (Yes it is a valid question)
Starting sometime later this month, AT&T customers with digital landlines will no longer be able to dial 411 or 0. That isn't really surprising. Two years ago, AT&T ended operator services for cell phones.
Verizon, T-Mobile, and other major carriers still offer it . . . but for a fee.
Operator services like 411 have been around for 100 years, so why are they ending now? An AT&T spokesperson said, "Nearly all of these customers have internet access to look up this information." In other words, you don't need an operator because you can just GOOGLE IT yourself.
In 2021, there were fewer than 4,000 telephone operators, down from a peak of 420,000 in the 1970s. But there ARE still people who call the operator. In 2019, the FCC estimated that 71 million calls annually were placed to 411.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day -
Albert Einstein was so sure he was going to win a Nobel Prize that he included the prize money in a divorce settlement three years before he won it.
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