Monday 2/13/23
Celebrate:
Clean Out Your Computer Day
Dream Your Sweet Day
Employee Legal Awareness Day
Galentine's Day - celebrates female friendship, and more broadly, women and their worth, as well as feminism.
Get a Different Name Day
International Epilepsy Day
Kiss Day
Madly in Love With Me Day
National Break Up With Your (phone) Carrier Day
National Cheddar Day
National Crab Rangoon Day
National Foodball Hangover Day
National Poop Day
National Tortellini Day
Oatmeal Monday
World Radio Day
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Superbowl:
Tails called - Tails win
Best line - "And a good drive ends with a doink!"
Rihanna's set list. And the one thing almost everyone noticed immediately ... Rihanna looked to possibly be pregnant -- and she even seemed to acknowledge she may be, rubbing her belly. No official word yet ... but all signs point to her potentially having another bun in the oven. (update...she is!!!)
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Hope your snacks held out!!
A new poll found half of us would rather see our team lose the Super Bowl than run out of snacks mid-game. 51% would rather be snackless and see their team win.
1. When's a better time to run to the kitchen for more snacks? During the commercials, or the game itself? 62% said during the commercials.
2. Around 1 in 4 people think Super Bowl parties should start early, around lunchtime. So, several hours before the game starts.
3. If you don't want to talk football, talk snacks instead. 59% said they've used it as an ice-breaker before. Just don't get too heated about it. 30% of us have gotten into a snack-related argument.
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A 2007 study found that drinking hot chocolate increases the blood flow to key areas of the brain, boosting alertness and increasing performance for two to three hours. So drink up!
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David Jolicoeur -- also known as Dave and Trugoy the Dove, who was one of the three founding members of De La Soul -- has died.
Dave was with DLS since the beginning, getting together in '87 and going on to crank out some of the most famous rap songs of all time. The group went on an incredible three-album run through the '90s -- with two of those being certified platinum and gold, respectively.
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James Cameron is facing off against James Cameron for the third spot on the list of highest-grossing movies of all time -- with two of his offerings within inches of one another for the honor.
it looks like "Titanic" is holding firm at #3, and 'Avatar 2' is still #4 ... with the latest projections through the weekend for both movies being about $2.217B and $2.214B, respectively.
The first "Avatar" is still king with $2.92 billion, "Avengers: Endgame" is 2nd at $2.79 billion
Slow weekend with Magic Mike's Last Dance at #1 with $8.2 Million
2. Avatar
3. Titanic
4. 80 For Brady
5. Knock at the Cabin
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A trespassing owl that prompted a Georgia college to close its library for multiple days was successfully evicted from the building on Friday.
Officials with Agnes Scott College's McCain Library in Decatur said the owl flew down the chimney Monday afternoon, prompting officials to close the facility to students.
The owl ended up perching in the rafters about three stories up, out of the reach of library staff.
The library was able to open its ground floor on Thursday, but the owl remained on its perch.
Stewart Farron, a master falconer brought in by the library to help handle the situation, used a hydraulic lift Friday afternoon to reach the owl about 50 feet above the floor.
Farron was able to capture the owl in a net and release it outside, where it promptly flew away.
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Busy weekend for shooting down things from the sky. The U.S. military on Sunday shot down an as-yet-unidentified object over Lake Huron in Michigan.
The military shot down the object over a concern that it has "potential surveillance capabilities," the DOD said. The object’s “path and altitude raised concerns, including that it could be a hazard to civil aviation,” the Defense Department added, noting that it did not appear to pose a "kinetic military threat to anything on the ground."
This is the fourth object the U.S. military has taken down in the last week.
A U.S. official declined to rule out aliens as the source of the objects shot out of the sky in American airspace over the past few days. “I haven’t ruled out anything, at this point,” NORTHCOM Commander General Glen D. Vanherck said.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The "Gatorade shower" dates back to 1984, when New York Giants nose tackle Jim Burt dumped a cooler on his head coach, Bill Parcells.
The team continued to give Parcells Gatorade showers, and it went mainstream during the Giants' championship run in 1986.
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