Friday 12/30/22
Celebrate:
Bacon Day
Falling Needles Family Fest Day
Festival of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
National Bicarbonate of Soda Day
No Interruptions Day
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A poll asked people how long it's acceptable to stay after the ball drops. And 52% said no longer than one hour. But don't leave too early either . . . 45% also think it's rude to take off before midnight. Here are a few more quick stats . . .
1. The average host will invite 19 guests. And a lot of us THINK we'll be hosting this year, but probably won't be. Close to a third of us expect to host, but that would mean lots of VERY small parties.
2. The best things you can bring to a New Year's party are booze, desserts, other food, and party favors.
3. Over half of people said it's the one day of the year you should never be alone. But 59% of us HAVE spent New Year's Eve alone before.
4. 60% of us have made a friend or met a significant other at a New Year's party.
5. 36% already have a New Year's resolution in mind.
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Google released their year-end search data yesterday.
Here's what people were searching for the most in 2022 . . .
People:
1. Johnny Depp
2. Will Smith
3. Amber Heard
4. Antonio Brown
5. Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake
Actors:
1. Johnny Depp
2. Will Smith
3. Amber Heard
4. Chris Rock
5. Julia Fox . . . She was briefly Kanye's girlfriend.
Passings:
1. Betty White
2. Queen Elizabeth
3. Bob Saget
4. Anne Heche
5. Aaron Carter
Movies:
1. "Encanto"
2. "Thor: Love and Thunder"
3. "Top Gun: Maverick"
4. "The Batman"
5. "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
TV Shows:
1. "Euphoria"
2. "Stranger Things"
3. "The Watcher"
4. "Inventing Anna"
5. "House of the Dragon"
Musicians and Bands:
1. Adam Levine
2. Mary J. Blige
3. Lil Tjay
4. Kendrick Lamar
5. Migos
Songs:
1. "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from "Encanto"
2. "Surface Pressure" from "Encanto"
3. "Jiggle Jiggle", Duke & Jones and Louis Theroux
4. "Unholy", Sam Smith and Kim Petras
5. "As It Was", Harry Styles
Athletes:
1. Antonio Brown
2. Serena Williams
3. Joe Burrow
4. Aaron Judge
5. Manti Te'o
Sports Teams:
1. Philadelphia Phillies
2. Boston Celtics
3. Golden State Warriors
4. Cincinnati Bengals
5. Los Angeles Rams
This next category is the "Hum to Search" feature on the Google app. How it works is you tap on the mic icon, then click the "search a song" button. Then you hum a song for 10 to 15 seconds and it SHOULD be able to identify it.
Here are the Top Songs that were hummed:
1. "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)", Backstreet Boys
2. "Never Gonna Give You Up", Rick Astley
3. "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from "Encanto"
4. "Enemy", Imagine Dragons
5. "Seven Nation Army", The White Stripes
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Many wait till the weekend after New Year to take down the tree, make sure to do it as this article is headlined "The best ways to store holiday decorations so your future self doesn't hate you"
Take photos and label everything. If you like your set up, snap some photos before you dislodge everything! Label your boxes so you can find them in 11 months.
Wrap lights to avoid tangles
Pack ornaments to prevent breaking or chipping
Carefully store any artificial greenery. The less you scrunch up the tree the better!
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We all love memes. Viral funny things that happen quickly sometimes. This year, the memes were about Wordle, Harry Styles spitting/or not on Chris Pine, Spirit Halloween costumes, Elon Musk and Twitter, and the Will Smith Slap.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - In 1840, a man named Friedrich Frobel first coined the term "kindergarten" because he believed that children should be nurtured "like plants in a garden."
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