2/25/26 - Nerds, Survivor, and Cereal
- bribriny
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Wednesday 2/25/26
Celebrate:
Inconvenience Yourself Day
Let's All Eat Right Day
National Chocolate-Covered Peanuts Day
National Clam Chowder Day
Pistol Patent Day
Quiet Day
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Robert Carradine has died at age 71.
The actor is best known for his roles in The Long Riders, Revenge of the Nerds as head nerd Lewis Skolnick, and Lizzie McGuire's father.
His brother is Keith Carradine and family wanted everyone to know about Robert's struggle with Bipolar Disorder.
“We want people to know it, and there is no shame in it,” he said. “It is an illness that got the best of him, and I want to celebrate him for his struggle with it, and celebrate his beautiful soul.
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Tonight is the start of Survivor 50. That's right! 25 Years and 49 seasons have come and gone.
The contestants this season are from all across the shows long run.
Jeff says, “I never thought of 'Survivor' as a job or a game show. I thought of it as an adventure of the human spirit, and people still to this day think I'm a little over the top with it. It's never changed.”
If you want to know more, just listen to the official podcast On Fire with Jeff Probst. There is so much behind the scenes on how the show works, it's really fascinating for fans.
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Americans buy 3.1 billion packages of breakfast cereal each year.
Top 10 Most Popular Cereals (Based on Sales & Consumption)
1. Cheerios (General Mills): The top seller, often cited for its classic, versatile taste.
2. Frosted Flakes (Kellogg's): A consistent, high-volume favorite.
3. Honey Nut Cheerios (General Mills): A popular, sweeter alternative to original Cheerios.
4. Honey Bunches of Oats (Post): Known for its mixture of flakes and oat clusters.
5. Cinnamon Toast Crunch (General Mills): Often ranked as a top choice for its sugary, cinnamon flavor.
6. Froot Loops (Kellogg's): A colorful, fruit-flavored staple.
7. Lucky Charms (General Mills): A popular choice featuring marshmallow shapes.
8. Frosted Mini-Wheats (Kellogg's): A popular, fiber-rich option.
9. Life (Quaker): (Hey Mikey!!) A staple multigrain, square-shaped cereal.
10. Fruity Pebbles (Post): A widely consumed, fruity rice cereal.
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If winter’s got you down, hang in there — we’re about a month away from the start of spring. A survey finds that a third (33%) of adults see that as a good thing since spring is their favorite season. Almost as many (29%) will be happiest in a few months when their favorite season, summer, starts. 27 percent like fall the best, but just 6 percent prefer the colder months of winter.
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In Japan a man had a strange feeling someone had been in his apartment. In fact, he had this feeling nearly every week for a couple of months. Finally, the man became so suspicious that he set up a small camera and set it up to run each day when he left for work. After a few days he discovered the cause of those suspicions: an upstairs neighbor was entering his apartment to steal coffee. The man never took anything else and, apparently, only took enough for one pot. The neighbor confessed to police after being shown the video.
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A viral trend has dog owners photographing their pets wearing or holding the items they've stolen—from socks, underwear, backpacks, to sandwiches to entire rolls of toilet paper. The rule is simple: You Steal it, You Wear it! The "shame photos" show everything from guilty looks to a complete lack of remorse. While the dogs may not understand why they're modeling their ill-gotten gains, the internet can't get enough of these four-legged kleptomaniacs getting caught red-pawed.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Most people think a leap year happens every four years. That is a lie (or at least, a half-truth). If we only added a day every four years, we would eventually overcorrect and be out of sync again.
A year is a leap year if it is divisible by 4. HOWEVER, if it is divisible by 100, it is not a leap year... UNLESS it is also divisible by 400.
The year 2000 was a leap year, but 1900 was not, and 2100 will not be.
This keeps the average calendar year at exactly 365.2425 days, which is close enough to the Earth's actual solar orbit of 365.2422 days that we won't notice a problem for about 3,300 years.
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