Tuesday 2/13/24
Celebrate:
Dream Your Sweet Day
Employee Legal Awareness Day
Extraterrestrial Culture Day
Galentine's Day
Get a Different Name Day
International Day of Self Love
International Pancake Day
Kiss Day
National Break Up With Your Carrier Day
National Cheddar Day
National Crab Rangoon Day
National Italian Food Day
National Tortellini Day
Paczki Day (punch-key)
Safer Internet Day
World Radio Day
Mardi Gras - In French, Mardi means Tuesday, and gras means fat, so it makes sense that Mardi Gras is often called Fat Tuesday. It is also called Carnival or Carnaval.
The last day of "fat eating" or "gorging" before the fasting period of Lent.
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Superbowl leftovers.
The Taylor Swift conspiracy nonsense didn't happen, but someone on the Joe Biden page they poked fun at it after the game. They posted a "Dark Brandon" meme where Biden had laser eyes, and the caption said, "Just like we drew it up."
Someone scanned social media posts to find the most popular Super Bowl beer in all 50 states. And the official sponsor of the game . . . Bud Light was only #1 in one state, Missouri..
Miller Lite was #1 across the Midwest . . . in New England, Michelob Ultra . . . in much of the Northwest, Coors Light . . . Yuengling in Pennsylvania and a handful of states around it . . . and from California to Florida across the south, it was Modelo.
People were again searching the "Superb Owl" joke from What We Do In the Shadows so owl photos were all over social media this weekend. Google searches for it also spiked.
Google Trends live-tweeted a bunch of stats on what Americans were searching for during the game.
During the first half, lots of people were asking Google what the "lowest scoring Super Bowl" was. It was five years ago when only 16 total points were scored in Super Bowl 53. The Patriots beat the Rams 13 to 3 that year. - I did to and it was yesterday’s Useless Fact of the Day.
Searches for "Super Bowl overtime rules" spiked 4,200% after regulation ended.
the best question we googled was "Why do football players have TAILS?" Turns out it was just a lot of people mistyping the word "TOWELS". The answer is . . . because football players tend to sweat a lot.
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Super Bowl 58 was the first to be fully powered by renewable energy. Allegiant Stadium in Vegas gets its power from an array of 621,000 solar panels out in the Nevada desert.
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There were two record-setting field goals in Super Bowl 58. In the second quarter, San Francisco kicker Jake Moody drilled a 55-yard field goal to make it 3-0. That was the longest field goal in Super Bowl history.
The record had stood for 31 years. The previous record of 54 yards was set in 1993 by Buffalo kicker Steve Christie.
If Moody also missed an extra point in the fourth quarter that MIGHT have ultimately prevented overtime . . . but who knows. Moody was previously 68-for-68 on extra point kicks. The kick was blocked.
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Ozzy Osbourne went off on Kanye West on social media the other day. Apparently, Kanye had asked permission to use a sample of Ozzy performing the Black Sabbath classic "Iron Man", and Ozzy refused.
But Kanye used it anyway, during a listening party for his new album "Vultures".
Ozzy said, quote, "He is an antisemite and has caused untold heartache to many . . . I want no association with this man."
You know, it's one thing to piss off Ozzy, but I'd worry more about with Sharon!!!
She took it to another level, saying, quote, "Kanye [effed] with the wrong Jew this time."
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - Steve Jobs picked the name "Apple" because he was on a diet of nothing but fruits and vegetables when the company was starting up.
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