Tuesday 1/4/22
Celebrate National Dimpled Chad, Free Flower Basket, Spaghetti, Trivia, Pop Music Chart, Tom Thumb, World Braille, and Hypnotism Day.
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You want to wish everyone a Happy New Year, but when is it time to stop that. Obviously today or tomorrow you are seeing people at the office for the first time, so that’s ok…but when to stop?
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Japan's Kane Tanaka was born January 2, 1903 celebrating her 119th birthday! Her immediate goal is to make it to 120. She likes chocolate and carbonated drinks.
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A guy in North Carolina named Arrik Schmidt went to a used car dealership last Wednesday, and wanted to buy a Lincoln Navigator, but didn't have money.
Instead, he offered the owner something better. He asked if they'd just give him the SUV if he could rap good enough.
They obviously said no. But then he went back on Friday and said he was planning to, quote, "make some moves" and come back the next day to work out a deal. Then the next morning he stole a delivery truck from a grocery store next door to the dealership.
There was a Frito-Lay truck parked outside while the diver was making a delivery. So Arrik took off in it, and led cops on a high-speed chase.
It's not clear what his plan was . . . or if he had one . . . but he made it about 80 miles before they finally stopped him with spike strips.
He's facing several charges, including larceny of a motor vehicle, which is a felony.
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If your phone battery’s down to single digits and you have only minutes for a quick charge, should you first put your phone in airplane mode? So-called tech experts say it will help to charge your phone faster so someone tested it and — it does help.
The less energy your phone is consuming, the faster it’ll charge. The study that tested the power consumption of various components on Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Beam found that Wi-Fi and GPS consume 18.1% and 13.7% of the device’s battery. On the other hand, airplane mode only consumes 1.1% when switched on.
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A book returned to an Idaho library was so long overdue that there was no record of it in the catalog. The book, New Chronicles of Rebecca, a sequel to the classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, was originally checked out from the Carnegie Public Library in Boise in 1910. It turned up in the Garden City, Idaho, library last month, but the Boise Library sticker caught a staffer’s eye at the checkout desk and it was sent over to the Boise Public Library.
… Inside the book’s cover, the last stamp is from November 8, 1911. There’s no record of who checked out the book but in sifting through records that do exist, library staff saw that the book was marked as lost and paid for, or just missing. Inside the book is a warning that after two weeks, the borrower incurs a fine of 2 cents per day overdue. That would put the fine at roughly $800 for a book that goes for more like $5 these days.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The Great Lakes of North America (Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario) are home to more than 6,000 wrecked ships.
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