Friday 11/19/21
Celebrate National Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine, Play Monopoly, Substitute Educator, Have a Bad Day, Equal Opportunity, Blow Bagpipes, Camp, International Men's, and World Toilet Day.
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Can drinking coffee and tea lower the risk of dementia or stroke?
A group of researchers from China's Tianjin Medical University found that drinking the caffeinated beverages either separately or together was associated with a lower risk of developing stroke and dementia.
Additionally, the authors said Tuesday in a study published in Plos Medicine that the intake of coffee alone or combined with tea was associated with a lower risk of post-stroke dementia.
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A new study has found the perfect time to fall asleep for your heart.
Researchers say the sweet spot for falling asleep is between 10:00 and 11:00 P.M. To come up with this time, they tracked and analyzed data from more than 88,000 adults over six years.
They found there's a 12% greater risk of cardiovascular disease among people who go to bed between 11:00 to 11:59 P.M, and a 25% higher risk among people who fell asleep midnight or later.
Night owls weren't the only ones affected. Falling asleep earlier than 10:00 P.M. was associated with a 24% increased risk of heart disease.
Researchers don't have all the answers for these results, but they suspect that our body's internal clock, the "circadian rhythm" gets disrupted by going to bed either too late or too early. And that has adverse effects on our heart.
For the record, the study did take into account things like sleep duration, sleep irregularity, being an early bird or night owl, and other factors and the results still said that the best time to go to bed is 10:00 to 11:00.
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The makers of Pop-Tarts want us to start slathering them with butter. They claim it's a thing people do.
They found 6,946 tweets about "Pop-Tarts and butter" from this year alone. So they're partnering with a company called Banner Butter, and releasing a limited run of Pop-Tart branded butters to go with different flavors.
The six butters they're selling are Chocolate, Strawberry, Sea Salt, Cinnamon with Cardamom and Ginger, Honey Habanero, and Balsamic Fig. They go on sale next Tuesday at BannerButter.com/PopTarts. For $25, you get a kit with all six, plus three boxes of Pop-Tarts to spread them on.
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A new study found Americans are more afraid to speak their mind than ever before.
90% of people said they've held back at least once in the past 18 months, because they felt it would be "emotionally or physically unsafe" to say what they were really thinking. The two topics we're most intimidated to talk about are politics and the pandemic.
In the last year-and-a-half, 47% of us have avoided someone, so our opinions wouldn't clash 19% have pretended to agree with a statement we disagreed with and 14% have stopped talking to someone we didn't see eye-to-eye with.
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There are two French fry-flavored craft vodkas on the way, from a Minneapolis-based distillery called Tattersall through a partnership with Arby's. I know, this just keeps getting better, right?
There are two flavors Crinkle Fry and Curly Fry and they'll be released in "extremely limited" quantities for $60 a bottle. If you want to get your hands on it, check ArbysVodka.com for updates.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - In most advertisements, including newspapers, and in stores, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Why??? Who knows, but possibly.....
1.) Clock and watch makers normally if not always, put their logo under the number 12. So placing the hands of the clock to 10 and 2, helps to frame and show the logo.
2.) When we look at the clock and it shows t 10:10, it makes a resemblance to a smiley face. It is better to see it that way, because it can produce a positive vibes at the store and will then increase the sales of the clocks and watches.
3.) Many claim that Abraham Lincoln has a great influence on this because he died at 10:10 pm. But, facts say that he was shot at 10:15 night and died the next morning.
4.) When the hands of the clocks are place at 10:10, the other details are clearly visible as compared to placing it on other numbers. Take note that they don’t place the hands of the clock on one number because both hands of the clock must be visible.
5.) They say that clocks set on 10:10 time looks more symmetrical, therefore it is better for advertisement.
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