Monday 2/28/22
Celebrate National Car keys and Small Change, Floral Design, Chocolate Soufflé, Public Sleeping, Science, Tooth Fairy, Rare Disease, Shrove Monday, and Global Scouse Day.
Global Scouse Day is an annual celebration in Liverpool that is centered on scouse, a stew that goes hand in hand with the city. Liverpool bars, restaurants, and cafes serve it on the day, as do the city's hospitals and schools.
Scouse is usually a meat stew, more often than not made with chunks of beef, but sometimes with lamb, and usually also with potatoes, onions, and carrots, although its ingredients tend to vary. Traditionally, leftovers were used to make it, and ingredients were also contingent on what the season happened to be.
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A man in France who was trying to limit his kids internet time, was desperate enough to try using a multi-wave band jammer to temporarily cut off the internet connection at his house. But he didn't just cut off the internet to his place he shut it down for the whole town.
"Jammers" interfere with telecommunication signals, and they're illegal in France as well as in the U.S. Still, people get caught using them all the time.
It's unclear what went wrong, but once they traced the outage back to this guy, he was arrested. He's looking at six months in jail, and a fine of up to $34,000.
He told the police it was an accident, he was trying to block the internet to his house, between the hours of midnight and 3:00 A.M. so that his kids would go to bed. It's unclear if he'll catch a break, or get the maximum punishment.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - In honor of the 29th..which we don't get this year, According to the World Heritage Encyclopedia, in the 1800s, the British-born James Milne Wilson, who later became the eighth premier of Tasmania, “was born on a leap day and died on a leap day.” Wilson died on February 29th, 1880, on his “17th” birthday, or aged 68 in regular years. Maybe that’s not that crazy though, since you are more likely to die on your birthday.
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