Monday 2/17/25
Celebrate:
Champion Crab Races Day
My Way Day
National Cabbage Day
National Cafe au Lait Day
National Indian Pudding Day
National PTS Founders' Day
National Public Science Day
Random Acts of Kindness Day
Who Shall I Be Day
World Human Spirit Day
Presidents Day - officially known as Washington's Birthday, and is a holiday to honor the first president, George Washington (22nd), Lincoln also has a birthday around this time as well. First made a holiday in 1879, then in 1971 moved to the Monday holiday we have today.
I will celebrate 44 of our presidents. Enjoy.
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This weekend at the Box Office
1. Captain America: Brave New World $88.5M
It's the fourth biggest Presidents Day weekend ever giving the MCU all four of the top openings: Black Panther ($242M), Deadpool ($152M) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ($120M) and it is the 35th consecutive Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to open at No. 1 at the domestic box office.
2. Paddington in Peru $13.0M
3. Heart Eyes $10.0M
4. Dog Man $9.7M
5. Ne Zha 2 $7.2M
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The Bafta Film Awards were held last night.
Conclave (best Film and British Film) and The Brutalist won big, with four each; while Wicked, Emilia Pérez, Anora, Dune: Part Two, A Real Pain and Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (animated and Children/Family film)
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Spending too much time online? Here's a funny hack to try: Add JUMP SCARES to sites you can't stop visiting.
There's an app called TabBoo that does it through Google Chrome. You can download the extension at TabBoo.xyz.
When you visit a site that you want to use less, a scary picture pops up and prevents you from accessing it. You can also have it play sound effects.
You can add it for specific sites, or let it choose based on your browsing habits. You can also dial in how often it happens, anywhere from a 1% chance to 100%.
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The Ford F-150 has been the best-selling vehicle in America . . . for 42 STRAIGHT YEARS.
The F-Series was first introduced 77 years ago, but for more than four decades no vehicle has been able to dethrone it at the top. Until now.
According to new data from JATO Dynamics, the Toyota RAV4 has FINALLY displaced the Ford F-150 as the best-selling vehicle in America.
2. Ford F-150
3. Honda CR-V
4. Tesla Model Y
5. Chevrolet Silverado 1500
6. Toyota Camry
7. Toyota Corolla
8. Nissan Rogue
9. Honda Civic
10. GMC Sierra 1500
Overall, the U.S. sold 16.1 million passenger cars and light trucks last year . . . which was up 3% from 2023. But there may be trouble ahead.
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Stephen King is collaborating on his next book with Maurice Sendak. . . author and illustrator of "Where the Wild Things Are", with a new version of Hansel and Gretel on September 2nd.
Sendak died in 2012, but in the late '90s, he drew a series of sketches for a stage production of "Hansel and Gretel". So King wrote the text to go along with them.
King says, quote, "In a way, I have been writing about kids like Hansel and Gretel for much of my life."
In an interview two decades ago, Sendak said, quote, "Generally speaking, most [Grimm fairy tales are] about heroic children. Hansel and Gretel are the most heroic of them all."
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50th Anniversary last night.
It's one of the longest-running shows in US History. Premiering in 1975 there have been 980 episodes.
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