Monday 3/11/24
Celebrate:
Commonwealth Day
Debunking Day
Dream Day
Fill Our Staplers Day
Johnny Appleseed Day
National "Eat Your Noodles" Day
National 311 Day
National Promposal Day
National Workplace Napping Day
Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day
Ramadan
World Plumbing Day
Worship of Tools Day
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The Weekend Box Office
1. Kung Fu Panda 4 $58.3M
2. Dune: Part Two $46.0M
3. Imaginary $10.0M
4. Cabrini $7.6M
5. Bob Marley: One Love $4.1M
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The Oscars were handed out last night.
On time and entertaining! How did that happen?
For all the winners check out the official Oscar website.
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Rather than filling in a bubble answer sheet with a No. 2 pencil, US test-takers this past weekend were using a computer. US test-takers took the fully digital version of the SAT on Saturday.
Prospective college students are still required to go in person to a testing site, but they will take the exam on their personal laptop or tablet, a school-issued device or a borrowed device from the College Board, the non-profit organization that develops and administers the test.
Plus it's shorter by an hour. There are shorter reading passages, with one question tied to each, and a built-in calculator.
The new SAT is also what the College Board calls “adaptive.” This means that both the math and reading sections will be divided into two parts. The second section will be easier or harder depending on how the test-taker performed in the first section.
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If you want to be part of history, get yourself to St. Louis Thursday. A place called City Museum is hoping to break the world record for most people wearing UNDERPANTS on their head.
They already have the world's LARGEST pair of underwear. The waistband measures 16 feet. So they have some experience with this kind of thing.
The current record for most people with underwear on their head is 270. It was set at a bookstore in Naperville, Illinois in 2012.
They're hoping to crush that. They only need 271, but their goal is 314 because Thursday is March 14th.
That's Pi Day, as in the mathematical constant, 3.14. But 3-1-4 is also the St. Louis area code. So there's a separate holiday that's just about city pride.
You don't need to bring your own pair. Just show up there at 1:45 P.M. next Thursday, and they'll give you some underwear to put on your head . . . hopefully a clean pair.
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Last week a radio host in the U.K. was talking about the 200th anniversary of the RNLI, or "Royal Navy Lifeboat Institution". They're kind of like our Coast Guard.
He was trying to explain how dedicated they are, and did so by telling a story about a very strange man and his bathtub.
Someone at the RNLI told him about a guy in southwest England who kept trying to row a bathtub all the way to Scotland.
He always had his dog with him. They'd get about half-a-mile out to sea before they'd start sinking, but he KEPT doing it. They were rescuing him once a week, and bringing his tub back to shore.
They ultimately decided the only way to save the guy's life was by DESTROYING his bathtub. They smashed it in the middle of the night, and he never tried again. So in the end, he lived. But his dream died.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Only two people have sold 100 million albums worldwide as a solo artist AND 100 million as part of a group . . . Paul McCartney and Phil Collins.
Some sources are adding Michael Jackson to this group . . . but while The Jackson 5 sold over 100 million "records" . . . including singles . . . they sold less than 50 million full "albums."
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