Sunday 11/28/21
Celebrate National French Toast, Advent Sunday (there's four before Christmas), Letter Writing, Red Planet, Small Brewery Sunday, and Turkey Leftover Day (like that hasn't been happening for the last two)
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Science has apparently determined that the ultimate all-around song is "Every Breath You Take" by the Police.
Researchers at a university in Denmark set out to determine if there's a pattern to the music we listen to throughout the day. They broke the day into five blocks: Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night, and Late Night / Early Morning.
They found that we do prefer different types of music at different times of day like "slow but energetic" songs in the morning, "Louder, faster" music in the afternoon, "danceable" songs in the evening, and so on.
But "Every Breath You Take" has musical qualities that allow it to drift through all five blocks.
One of the researchers says, quote, "It's a very in-the-middle type of song. It's a medium tempo. It's a bit groovy, but not too much groovy. It doesn't have any loud surprises. And it's all over just a very pleasant, perhaps even a bit bland song."
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Netflix has released a list of its most popular TV shows and movies of all time by the amount of hours they were viewed.
They separated them by English language and non-English, but here they are consolidated.
Here are their top shows:
1. "Squid Game" . . . 1.6 billion.
2. "Bridgerton" . . . 625 million.
3. "Money Heist: Part 4" . . . 619 million.
4. "Stranger Things 3" . . . 582 million.
5. "The Witcher" . . . 541 million.
6. "13 Reasons Why: Season 2" . . . 496 million.
7. "13 Reasons Why: Season 1" . . . 476 million.
8. "Maid" . . . 469 million.
9. "You: Season 3" . . . 468 million.
10. "You: Season 2" . . . 457 million.
For movies, none of the non-English ones were able to crack the top 10. They are:
1. "Bird Box" . . . 282 million.
2. "Extraction" . . . 231 million.
3. "The Irishman" . . . 215 million.
4. "The Kissing Booth 2" . . . 209 million.
5. "6 Underground" . . . 205 million.
6. "Spenser Confidential" . . . 197 million.
7. "Enola Holmes" . . . 190 million.
8. "Army of the Dead" . . . 187 million.
9. "The Old Guard" . . . 186 million.
10. "Murder Mystery" . . . 170 million.
In related news, Netflix announced yesterday that they'll release weekly lists ranking shows and movies by their total hours viewed on Top10Netflix.com.
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