10/29/26 - Cereal, Don't Doomscroll, and Candy Corn
Thursday 10/29/26
Celebrate:
International Internet Day
National Cat Day
National Hermit Day
National Oatmeal Day
World Psoriasis Day
World Stroke Day
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Is the antidote to doomscrolling finally here?
Meet "bloomscrolling," a social media trend encouraging people to intentionally curate their feeds with positive, uplifting and educational content. The idea is that scrolling through this content can leave users feeling better than they did before they opened the app.
Sreela Roy-Greene, a licensed mental health counselor and therapist at BetterHelp says, "For young people in particular, seeing examples of hope and resilience can push back against the message that the world is only getting worse and nothing they do matters,"
Just remember to watch your friends or favorites feeds instead of the main Facebook feed which is garbage.
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Mental Floss is at it again!
This time, the most popular cereal from the year you were born.
The first cereal was actually served in a sanatorium in upstate New York. According to The Guardian, Dr. James Caleb Jackson mixed water with dried graham flour pieces to create "granula," and softened it with milk.
Thirty years later, at a sanitarium in Michigan, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his brother Will accidentally invented flaky cereal, later calling it "granola." One of their patients, C.W. Post, created Grape-Nuts in 1897, and just like that, the cereal revolution began! Wheaties hit shelves in the 1920s, Cheerios in the ‘40s, and Sugar Frosted Flakes in the ‘50s.
They start in the 70s
Honeycomb
Fruity Pebbles
Count Chocula
Pink Panther Flakes
Magic Puffs
Golden Grahams
Kellogg's Concentrate Cereal
Crazy Cow Cereal
Cookie Crisp
Waffelos
1980s
Powdered Donutz
Banana Frosted Flakes
Marshmallow Krispies
Smurf Berry Crunch
C-3PO's Cereal
Circus Fun
Ice Cream Cones Cereal
Crooncy Stars Cereal
Nintendo Cereal System
1990s
Honey Bunches of Oats
Cinnamon Mini Buns
Berry Berry Kix
Sprinkle Spangles
Pop-Tarts Crunch
Reese's Puff's Waffle Crisp
Oreo O's
French Toast Crunch
Reptar Crunch
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Happy Halloween!!! What's the story with Candy Corn?
One of the most inescapable Halloween treats—Candy Corn—wasn’t marketed as a Halloween goody at first. In fact, it was marketed as a whimsical candy version of chicken feed.
It was created back in the 1880s in Philadelphia, which was then a candy-making hub. One popular trend among candy companies was nature: treats inspired by the agricultural world, like pumpkins, leaves and chestnuts.
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Looking for a new pancake recipe for pancakes? Upworthy.com has one from Rosa Parks. Yes, the civil rights activist. She wrote it down on the back of a bank deposit envelope.
It's all pretty normal except for 1/3 cup melted peanut butter in the batter.
adding peanut butter to pancakes makes them more filling. That can be great for growing kids or people who do a lot of physical work. Regular pancakes don’t have much protein or fat, so adding peanut butter beefs them up.
Read more and see the recipe here.
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In consumer surveys on media habits, over 70% of viewers admit to watching movies or TV shows they’ve already seen 10+ times as a form of "stress relief," rather than starting a brand-new series.
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In workplace and home-life surveys, 48% of adults admit they spend up to 15 minutes a day looking for lost items around their own house—with keys, TV remotes, and reading glasses topping the list.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - John Glenn Returns to Space at Age 77 in 1998: The legendary astronaut and U.S. Senator launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, becoming the oldest human ever to travel into space.
He was already famous for being the first American to eat in space during his 1962 Friendship 7 orbit—testing pureed applesauce squeezed directly out of an aluminum toothpaste-style tube!
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