10/21/26 - Chocolate Bars, Yodeling, and Kidulting.
Wednesday 10/21/26
Celebrate:
"Back to the Future" Day - in the second movie, they travel to the future..10/21/2015
Apple Day
Babbling Day
Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day
Celebration of the Mind Day
Check Your Meds Day
Count Your Buttons Day
Garbanzo Bean Day
Global Dignity Day
Hagfish Day
International Day of the Nacho
International Pronouns Day
Love Your Body Day
Medical Assistants Recognition Day
National Mezcal Day
National Pets for Veterans Day
National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day
National Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce Day
National Witch Hazel Day
Reptile Awareness Day
Unity Day
World Bolognese Ragu Day
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A high school football player in Texas had a wild story to tell his teammates after putting on his helmet for practice. After wearing the helmet for an hour during drills, he felt a strange movement and looked inside to find a non-venomous snake curled up inside the padding. Animal control safely relocated the snake to the nearby woods, and the player swapped helmets and went right back to practice!
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In Austria, yodeling is big! But no mountain to practice on? The next best thing is...the parking garage.
it produces echoes like those they can get in the landscapes of the Alps.
“It’s not too dissimilar to the high mountains,” said yodeling teacher Anna Maria Gutschi as she led a group of 30 through an empty parking garage earlier this week. “You have wide hallways; you have walls that reflect a lot.”
The group has been holding a series of courses on yodeling in unusual places to keep the tradition alive in modern times. Whether it is an underground car park, a canal or a gas station — as long as the acoustics work, up to 30 people are allowed to join each time for a unique experience.
Yodeling emerged centuries ago as a way of communicating in the Alps over long distances — not just between people, but also between man and animal. Cattle would recognize their owner from his voice and return to the stable from far away. Over time this primeval form of singing has evolved into its own musical genre first made popular internationally by the U.S. musical film The Sound of Music.
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The World Series is set to start Friday with The Tampa Bay Rays and the Milwaukee Brewers.
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You have a favorite chocolate bar from childhood—the one for which you once traded six Tootsie Roll Pops on Halloween 1998—but then life happens, and you don’t have one for months or even years. When you finally eat one again, it doesn’t taste the same and you’re not sure why. What gives?
For one, your palate changes as you get older.
But, check the ingredient list. Has it changed recently? Even if you don’t monitor ingredient lists on the regular, a quick Google search of many candy bars will yield images of wrappers going back years. The producer may have switched up the recipe.
Maybe it's harder to get what they were using and they replaced it with something, and with costs of things these days, maybe use cheaper ingredients!!
Of course, they won't tell you that!
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A fashion designer created an intentionally garish, brightly patterned Hawaiian shirt specifically engineered to confuse artificial intelligence surveillance cameras.
The chaotic pixel and color patterns trick AI object-detection algorithms into reading the wearer as an inanimate object like a potted plant or bench rather than a human being.
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A new Harris Poll shared with Fortune reveals that "kidulting"—adults buying childhood toys and experiences for themselves—has gone mainstream. In a survey of 2,158 U.S. adults, 80% said they'd done something playful for their own enjoyment in the past year. Among millennials who did something playful, 92% spent money on it, and 78% spent $100 or more. Fifty-seven percent of Gen Z and millennials bought a blind box or mystery box for themselves, compared to just 16% of Gen X and boomers. "It's got the same psychological draw as a slot machine," said Libby Rodney, chief strategy officer at The Harris Poll. "It's like a fun, physical lotto ticket that you can buy and then play with and then display." Nostalgia is the hook: 87% of millennials feel more connected to brands that tap into childhood memories. The toy industry has noticed—adult-only households accounted for 55% of U.S. toy sales in the first half of 2026, growing 16%.
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Yelp's 2026 Top 100 US Restaurants list has identified a trend they're calling "grandma-core"—food that evokes family recipes and the feeling of being cared for at someone's home. Think slow-cooked dishes, handmade pasta, braised meats, and familiar desserts. The National Restaurant Association's 2026 Culinary Forecast confirms comfort and nostalgia are major forces shaping menus. But here's the twist: diners still care about value. Good Housekeeping found that 65% of the restaurants on Yelp's list cost less than $30 per person. As the Washington Times notes, "Chicken simmered in gravy, broccoli rice casserole pulled from the oven or a dessert made from pantry staples can deliver the same basic promise: food that feels familiar, generous and personal." It's not about replicating your grandmother's exact recipes—it's about recreating the feeling of being cared for.
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Today is National Apple Day, an annual celebration of one of the world's most beloved fruits. The holiday began in the UK in 1990, launched by the charity Common Ground to celebrate the diversity of apple varieties and the cultural importance of orchards. There are around 7,500 varieties grown worldwide.
Today's Useless Fact of the Day - A flight attendant and nurse named Violet Jessop survived three of the most catastrophic maritime disasters in history. She was working on board when the RMS Olympic collided with a British warship (1911), when the HMHS Britannic struck a sea mine and sank (1916), and she was even a stewardess on the RMS Titanic when it hit an iceberg in 1912. She lived to be 83 years old. (Lady..stay off the boats!!)
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