Wednesday 2/21/24
Celebrate:
Card Reading Day
International Mother Language Day
National Grain-Free Day
National Sticky Bun Day
Single Tasking Day
World Kombucha Day
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Beyoncé-Knowles Carter is now the first Black woman to top Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart after her single "Texas Hold 'Em" debuted at No. 1.
Her other single "16 Carriages" hit No. 9 on the chart based on streaming, airplay and sales.
According to Billboard, the superstar now holds the No. 1 spot on seven of the outlet's charts: Hot 100, Hot Country Songs, Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Hot Gospel Songs, Hot Latin Songs, Hot R&B Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.
And she is the first in many regards, including as the first woman to have topped both Hot Country Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since the lists' inception.
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A new survey asked people to put a price on all the chores they do . . . both around the house, and out running errands. And the average person says they value it at $134 a day.
That would be almost $2,000 per two-week pay-period . . . because chores do NOT stop on the weekends . . . and it would be almost $50K per year.
Does this seem high or low? If you do a lot of work, you might feel like it's undervaluing your time, but you also have to think about it from the other side:
How much would you PAY someone else to do all the chores that you normally do: Cooking . . . cleaning . . . driving the kids to school . . . making sure they get to practice . . . shopping for groceries . . . and so on.
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When it comes to architecture, most people may not know the word for the type of building they like — they just know they like it.
The team at American Home Shield analyzed thousands of Zillow listings across the U.S. to reveal the most and least admired of the country’s most common home styles.
The most desired home style in America is the octagon.
Stick Style, Ranch (New York and PA's favorite), Neo-Mediterranean, shingle, Dutch Colonial, and Cap Code are next.
Read more here.
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A guy in Nebraska was cleaning out his glovebox . . . found an old unscratched lottery ticket for a game called "Trucks & Bucks" . . . and won the grand prize, a new Ford F-150 pickup. He'd been driving around with the ticket in there for months. They also took care of the taxes, so the full thing was valued at $81,000.
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The FDA approved the first drug to treat severe food allergies for things like milk, eggs, and peanuts. They also just approved the first drug to treat frostbite. (here's a great preventative for frostbite. Don't go outside in the cold. Keep subscribed for more tips.)
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The Navy has lifted its ban on sailors putting their hands in their pockets . . . which, is a major win for sailors who never know what to do with their hands.
A service memo says, quote, "Sailors are authorized to have hands in their pockets, when doing so does not compromise safety, nor prohibit the proper rendering of honors and courtesies."
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - The largest city in the world in terms of area (with at least a million people) is Hulunbuir, in Inner Mongolia in China. It's 101,913 square miles, which makes it bigger than 42 U.S. states.
Technically, there's a municipality in Greenland called Sermersooq that's TWICE that size . . . bigger than California . . . but it only has about 24,000 people.
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