11/20/25 - Least Fav T-Giving Food, Analog Renaissance, and A Word of the Day

Thursday 11/20/25

Beaujolais Nouveau Day

Beautiful Day

Future Teachers of America Day

Globally Organized Hug a Runner Day

Great American Smokeout

Name Your PC Day

National Absurdity Day

National Peanut Butter Fudge Day

National Rural Health Day

Social Enterprise Day

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Use Less Stuff Day

World Children's Day

World Philosophy Day

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On this date in 1998, the first module (Zarya) of the International Space Station (ISS) was launched, making today the anniversary of the foundation of the ISS.

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A week away from Thanksgiving, and we always talk about the most favorite dishes at Thanksgiving.

What are the Least Favorite?

1. Cranberry Sauce 27%

2. Green Bean Casserole 25%

3. Roasted Autumn Vegetables 23%

4. Pecan Pie 23%

5. Sweet Potatoes or Yams

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Scientists have identified a brand new coat color in cats, genetically distinct from all others. They named it "Salty Licorice" because the fur is black at the root and white at the tip.

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A survey by Acuvue found that the average office worker spends approximately 1,700 hours per year in front of a computer screen—roughly the equivalent of 70 full days.

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A trend called the “analog renaissance” is blowing up — people are celebrating unplugged moments, using flip phones, hosting “no-phone” parties, and rejecting constant digital noise.

The website A Merry Loner says you should ditch the digital for the old-school and the manual.

Here are a few tips

Brew coffee yourself

Wake up to an alarm clock instead of your phone

Read on paper - everything

Cut unnecessary stimulation - run errands without listening to anything

Use candlelight - they say really!!!! Create a reading nook where you only read by the flickering flame

Enjoy dinner for one next to the heat of a candelabrum

Maybe I'm not cut out for this. Candlelight reading..nope..reading on paper..nope..don't listen to anything? Ugh....I'm out!

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Feel connected to a celebrity you’ve never met in person? "Parasocial" has been crowned Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year, highlighting the rise in “unhealthy” and “one-sided” relationships with celebrities, influencers and even AI chatbots.

The word is used to describe a relationship (or Parasocial Relationship - “PSR”) in which a person feels like they know a celebrity on a personal level even though they have never met them.

It’s only the second time that an adjective has been crowned Word of the Year, following “paranoid” in 2016, and Cambridge Dictionary defines this year’s word as: “involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc., or an artificial intelligence.”

The term was coined in 1956 by sociologists Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, who wanted to describe how television viewers formed “para-social” relationships with TV personalities.

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A real-life, well-funded startup is trying to blot out the sun to halt global warming! The highly controversial effort involves a company developing technology to release dust into the atmosphere, which critics warn could dangerously destabilize weather patterns.

Well this sounds like a terrible idea. 

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A major legal settlement involving merchants, Visa, and Mastercard could lead to more stores adding surcharges to credit card transactions to offset their processing costs. This would require consumers to pay additional fees, potentially making some reward cards less valuable or less appealing, and making the checkout process more complicated as consumers weigh different cards or payment methods.

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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - You are 13.8 percent more likely to die on your birthday.

According to a 2012 study published in the journal Annals of Epidemiology, humans are 13.8 percent more likely to die on their birthday than on any other day of the year. That’s according to Swiss mortality statistics from 1969 to 2008.

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