Saturday 2/18 & 19/23
Celebreate:
Saturday
Crab-Stuffed Flounder Day
National Battery Day
National Drink Wine Day
Pluto Day
Red Sock Day
Thumb Appreciation Day
World Pangolin Day
World Shale Day
Cow Milked While Flying in an Airplane Day - 1930, a Guernsey cow named Nellie Jay, who also was known as Elm Farm Ollie, flew from Bismarck, Missouri, on a Ford Trimotor plane, to the International Aviation Exhibition in St. Louis. Nellie Jay was chosen because she was a high milk-producing cow, and because she had a calm nature. The trip was taken to show the ability of the aircraft and to take scientific data about the cow's behavior. Claude M. Sterling piloted the aircraft, while Elsworth W. Bunce of Wisconsin accompanied the cow, and was the first man to milk a cow in flight.
Sunday
International Tug-of-War Day
Iwo Jima Day
National Arabian Horse Day
National Chocolate Mint Day
National Lash Day
Prevent Plagiarism Day
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A university professor in London with a PhD in music psychology claims to have cracked the formula to creating a happy song. Basically, the song has to be in a major key, with 137 beats per minute, and other musical technicalities. Oh, and dance-ability is a must.
1. "Good Vibrations", The Beach Boys
2. "I Got You (I Feel Good)", James Brown
3. "House of Fun", Madness
4. "Get the Party Started", Pink
5. "Uptown Girl", Billy Joel
6. "Sun Is Shining", Bob Marley
7. "I Get Around", The Beach Boys
8. "Y.M.C.A.", Village People
9. "Waterloo", ABBA
10. "September", Earth, Wind & Fire
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Stella Stevens, a prominent leading lady in 1960s and 70s comedies perhaps best known for playing the object of Jerry Lewis’s affection in “The Nutty Professor,” has died. She was 84.
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Ryan Seacrest will be saying farewell to Live with Kelly and Ryan after six years on the talk show. He's headed back to Los Angeles to take up hosting duties on ABC's other hit show, American Idol, and will remain ABC's host of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest. The show will go on in New York City with Kelly Ripa joined by her husband, actor Mark Consuelos. Live with Kelly and Mark will launch this Spring.
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A sequel to Will Smith's 2007 thriller I Am Legend is in the works. You might be confused on how a sequel could possibly happen with Smith considering his character died at the end, but filmmakers revealed that the next installment will pick up where the alternate ending of the original film left off. Instead of blowing up the lab, Smith's character was able to survive the zombie invasion of his home by curing one of them and returning her to her partner. The three survivors then traveled to Vermont to spread the cure. Smith will be joined by Michael B. Jordan in the sequel.
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Well, it was a good run for coffee. Story after story have all been good..until now with this story.
A new study found more than one cup of coffee a day could be bad for your health and even KILL you. Well for only half of you.
Researchers at the University of Toronto found that around half of us have a genetic variant that helps us metabolize caffeine quickly, which is good.
But if you're in the other half of people who DON'T have that gene, drinking too much coffee might be punishing your kidneys. And over the long term, it can lead to kidney disease.
A separate study they did in 2006 also found that people who don't metabolize caffeine well are at a higher risk for heart attacks. So drinking too much coffee could be putting you at risk in more ways than one.
There's no cheap and easy way to see if you have the gene. Even if you don't get a huge buzz from caffeine, that doesn't necessarily mean anything. And being able to fall asleep after a cup of coffee at night doesn't mean anything either.
Some DNA tests can tell you if you have the gene, but they're pricey, around $200. So the lead researcher says to just assume you DON'T metabolize caffeine well, and drink no more than one cup of coffee a day. (and this is caffeine....so tea? soda??)
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We are headed to the lenten season, with Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday next week. and one of the delicious treats is a King Cake is a frosted sweet bread—a delicious cross between a coffee cake and a French pastry—with a hidden bean or tiny plastic baby baked inside.
(or if you get it at the store these days, it's taped inside the box)
In old English tradition, King Cakes were often served on the eve of Epiphany (January 6th), popularly known as Twelfth Night, but today it’s any time during the Carnival Season up through midnight on Mardi Gras itself.
The “King Cake” takes its name from the three kings who visit the Christ child. The man or woman who finds the baby Jesus, bean, or trinket inside is the king or queen for the day. Whoever gets the King Cake baby is expected to buy the next cake for these get-togethers.
The icing is sprinkled in royal colors of purple, green, and yellow sugar. Purple represents justice, green is faith, and gold is power.
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A letter has finally been delivered to its destination – more than a century after it was written.
Sent in February 1916, the correspondence arrived at its intended address in Hamlet Road, south London, much to the bewilderment of the current occupants.
“We noticed that the year on it was ’16. So we thought it was 2016,” Finlay Glen told CNN Thursday. “Then we noticed that the stamp was a King rather than a Queen, so we felt that it couldn’t have been 2016.”
“Once we realized it was very old, we felt that it was okay to open up the letter,” said Glen, 27.
Under the Postal Services Act 2000, it is a crime to open mail not addressed to you. But Glen said he can “only apologize” if he’s committed a crime.
After realizing that the letter may be of historical interest, he gave it to the Norwood Review, a local quarterly magazine.
“As a local historian I was amazed and delighted to have the details of the letter passed to me,” said Stephen Oxford, editor of the magazine, in a release.
The letter was addressed to “my dear Katie,” who, according to Oxford, was the wife of local stamp magnate Oswald Marsh.
Oxford noted that the letter was postmarked “Sydenham,” an area in southeast London. He thinks it “may well have been lost sitting in a dark corner in the Sydenham sorting office and only recently discovered.”
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People are saying this guy should go on "Shark Tank" with this idea: A husband in Dallas wanted to help his pregnant wife sleep better. She likes sleeping on her stomach, but couldn't for obvious reasons.
So he bought a memory foam mattress topper . . . cut a big hole in it for her belly . . . and put it on top of their bed. People online were so impressed, he's now patented the idea, and he's accepting pre-orders on eBay.
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