Monday 1/6/25
Celebrate:
Apple Tree Day
Cuddle Up Day
National "Thank God It's Monday" Day
National Bean Day
National King Cake Day
National Shortbread Day
National Smith Day
National Take a Poet to Lunch Day
National Take Down the Christmas Tree Day
National Technology Day
National Weigh-In Day
Today is the 12th Day of Christmas. Epiphany, also Three Kings' Day.
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Weekend Box Office
1. Mufasa: The Lion King $23.8M
2. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 $21.2M
3. Nosferatu $13.2M
4. Moana 2 $12.4M
5. Wicked $10.2M
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For all of the winners and moments from last night's Golden Globes, check it out here.
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The San Antonio Zoo is returning its popular "Cry Me a Cockroach" fundraiser, where patrons can symbolically name a cockroach, rodent, or veggie after their ex before being fed to animals. Cockroaches can be purchased for $10, rodents for $25, and veggies for $5.
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A Utah family raised over $30K for their daughter's prosthetic arm after insurers denied coverage. But then another company stepped in to cover the cost, so the family redirected the funds to help another child.
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3,000 pounds is the amount of hand-thrown confetti released in Times Square each year after New York City's New Year's Eve ball drop.
Just listen to the guy that has to clean it up grumble.
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100 years ago in 1925, some deep thinkers got together and imagined what life would be like in 2025.
One psychologist said - there won’t be a good-looking girl to be found 100 years from now. According to his calculations, homely, dull people were having more children than beautiful, intelligent people.
We would be living to 150 years old.
Author H. G. Wells predicted that global power would rest with confederations of people instead of independent countries.
“In a hundred years, there will not be numerous nations, but only three great masses of people — the United States of America, the United States of Europe and China,” he said.
Waking up on time: “A very useful service will be the radio alarm clock. Signals will be sent out at frequent intervals on different wavelengths, say, between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. every morning; and setting the alarm clock to catch the signal at the desired time will avoid any risk of over-sleeping. House and public clocks and even watches will be synchronized by signals sent several times daily, and we shall then know the right time instead of finding a variation of minutes all over a small city.”
A substitute for sleep would be found. Its chief ingredient would probably be acid sodium phosphate.
Chemistry would be used to produce synthetic foods, making them chiefly out of nitrogen from the atmosphere.
People would use a pocket-sized apparatus for communications to see and hear each other without being in the same room.
There would be world peace, a common world currency and universal free trade.
Read more here
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The flag is at half-staff in honor of Former President Jimmy Carter. With the inauguration coming soon, has it ever been half-staff at that time?
Yes
Andrew Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson all were sworn in with the flag at half-staff.
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