Wednesday 11/15/23
Celebrate:
American Enterprise Day
America Recycles Day
Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
Day of the Imprisoned Writer
Geographic Information Systems Day
I Love to Write Day
International Whole Grain Day
Little Red Wagon Day
National Bundt Day
National Educational Support Professionals Day
National Philanthropy Day
National Raisin Bran Cereal Day
National Spicy Hermit Cookie Day
National Zinfandel Day
Pack Your Mom's Lunch Day
Steve Irwin Day
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How many email addresses do you have? According to Lifehacker.com, it's good to have at least FOUR email addresses.
1. Your personal email. This is your most protected email address. Only friends and other people you want to hear from should have it. Don't ever enter it into web forms, don't use it to sign up for accounts or shopping. Protect it.
2. An email for apps, trials, and shopping. Use this address whenever you buy something, sign up for an app, or start a free trial. This address will get a LOT of marketing messages, most of which you really don't want or need.
3. An email for newsletters. Email newsletters are everywhere. If you sign up for them using one email, that inbox becomes kind of like a curated news feed for you. You can open it and just focus on reading and enjoying.
(you can do this with vigilant filtering)
4. An email for your side hustle or other personal business. This address is one where you're going to get a lot of sales pitches.
What about one for Work?
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The Beatles made a return to the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time since 1996. Their FINAL song "Now and Then" debuted at #7.
It marks their 35th Top 10, which is the most for any group. The Rolling Stones follow with 23, and Chicago and The Supremes are tied for third with 20 each.
The Beatles also lead with the most Hot 100 hits overall for a group with 72. They're followed by the Rolling Stones with 57, The Beach Boys with 55, and The Temptations with 53.
They also became the 13th act to have a Top 10 hit in FOUR decades: the '60s, '70s, '90s, and 2020s. The only other group to do it is Aerosmith.
In England, it chalked up 78,200 combined chart units in the U.K., including 48,600 sales (physical and download) – making it the fastest selling single of 2023. Its 38,000 physical sales are the most by a single in almost a decade.
It's a full 60 years and six months after the Beatles’ first No. 1, “From Me To You,” marking the longest span between an act’s first and last chart-topping hit.
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Some people complain that they NEVER look good in photos . . . despite using several techniques like angling the camera down, tilting their head, or the "duckface."
In a new poll, 49% of Americans say they look better in-person than in photos. 13% say the opposite, that they look better in photos.
23% of people say there's "no difference," and 15% aren't sure.
Women are more likely to say they look better in-person, while men were more likely to say it makes "no difference."
Younger people are more likely to say that they look better in photos.
People were also asked if "being photogenic" is a SKILL. 21% of people think it's something that can be learned, while 54% say it comes naturally.
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You have probably seen real-life versions of classic toys.
A company in Japan has created a 15-foot, four-wheeled robot that looks like "Mobile Suit Gundam", which is similar to what you'd recognize as a character from Hasbro's "Transformers".
And they're hoping to be able to sell them . . . for $3 MILLION.
It's a giant robot, and you can climb in and pilot it around. There are 26 different joints you can control from the cockpit, and it can also just "drive" down a street.
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A single mom in Virginia with six kids just got a free car and has a bunch of high school students to thank for it. They spent all year fixing it up in their automotive tech class at school. A local business worked with a charity called Giving Words, and donated over $10,000 to make it happen.
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AVClub.com put together a list of the most expensive movie props ever sold at auctions:
Here are the Top 10:
1. James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 from "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball": $6.4 million
2. Robby the Robot from "Forbidden Planet": $5.375 million
3. Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress worn in "The Seven Year Itch": $4.6 million
4. The Maltese Falcon statue in "The Maltese Falcon": $4.1 million, plus an additional buyer's premium of $585,000
5. Audrey Hepburn's dress in "My Fair Lady": $3.7 million
6. Sam's piano in "Casablanca": $3.4 million
7. An X-wing model used in "Star Wars: Episode 4 – A New Hope": $3.1 million
8. The Cowardly Lion costume from "The Wizard of Oz": $3.1 million
9. R2-D2 unit made using parts from different "Star Wars" films: $2.76 million
10. Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz": $2 million
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - When I was a kid..the Bermuda Triangle and Quicksand were things to be worried about. Not sure I would ever encounter it, but we saw it in countless movies, tv shows, and video games.
Quicksand.
It's impossible to die in quicksand in the way that's depicted in old movies, which used to show people basically drowning in it.
Quicksand is denser than the human body, so people and animals can get trapped in it . . . but while you could be immobilized, you wouldn't get sucked down past your waist. And if you do get stuck, it HELPS to move around.
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