2/7/22 "e" Day (not as good as Pi) and Chocolate and Roses!

Monday 2/7/22

Celebrate National "e" day, Fettuccine Alfredo, Wave All Your Fingers at Your neighbor's, Send a Card to a Friend, Ballet, Periodic Table, and Rose Day.

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Pi gets all the glory. "e" - The first two digits of the number e are 2 and 7, so "e" Day is celebrated on 2/7. e is a mathematical constant. It is also an irrational number—it can not be put into a fraction, and its decimal goes on forever, never repeating. The first digits of e are 2.718281828459.

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Rose colors have different meanings. With Valentine's Day coming soon, you should know what you are giving.

Red - Love and Passion

Orange - Energy and Desire

Yellow - Friendship and Joy

Blue - Mystery and Uniqueness

Pink - Elegance and Sweetness

Black - Change and Courage (or on a negative side, Death and Mourning)

White - Young Love and Innocence

Read on for more colors and a more detailed description.

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Chocolate-lovers are doing their part to boost the economy, but candy-conglomerate Hershey is struggling to keep up with demand. Despite the company hitting record production levels and adding four new manufacturing lines in 2021, the company said it's still playing "catch-up" and prices will be going up.

Demand for chocolate shot up during the pandemic, as more consumers celebrated the holidays at home, and now the trend is proving stickier than expected.

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Attention New Yorkers: If you happen across a giant cube of 24-karat gold in the middle of Central Park, don't try to steal it. It's a sculpture from German artist Niclas Castello, and it's flanked at all times by heavy security detail. It also weighs 410 pounds.

The cube is not for sale, but perhaps unsurprisingly, the artist is launching an NFT and an accompanying cryptocurrency called Castello Coin, which will sell for an initial price of $.44 cents.

Read more here.

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Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor wasn’t born to wear the crown. But destiny intervened.

The woman who became Queen Elizabeth II will mark 70 years on the throne Yesterday, an unprecedented reign that has made her a symbol of stability as the United Kingdom navigated an age of uncertainty.

From her early days as a glamorous young royal in glittering tiaras to her more recent incarnation as the nation’s grandmother, the queen has witnessed the end of the British Empire, the advent of multiculturalism, the rise of international terrorism, and the challenges posed by Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. In a world of relentless change, she has been a constant — representing the U.K.’s interests abroad, applauding the nation’s successes and commiserating in its failures, and always remaining above the fray of politics.

For the queen, Sunday is likely to be bittersweet, marking both her long reign and the 70th anniversary of her father’s death.

If you want to know more (in a mostly historical way) watch The Crown on Netflix. It really give you a good history.

https://apnews.com/article/queen-elizabeth-ii-70-years-ab40326fbd7bdca7a536ece0497f2da7

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Weekend Boxoffice

1 Jackass Forever $23.5M

2 Moonfall $10.0M

3 Spider-Man: No Way Home $9.6M

4 Scream $4.7M

5 Sing 2 $4.2M

Next Weekend is J-Lo's new Movie Marry Me (also on Peacock), Death on the Nile, and Blacklight starring Liam Neeson.

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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - The only letter not in the periodic table is the letter J.