3/14/25 - Pi(e), Things We Never Talk About, and What's A Moment
- bribriny
- Mar 14
- 4 min read
Friday 3/14/25
Celebrate:
Celebrate Scientists Day
Crowdfunding Day
Genius Day
International Ask a Question Day
Learn About Butterflies Day
Legal Assistance Day
Moth-er Day
National Children's Craft Day
National Potato Day
National Preschooler's Day
National Reuben Sandwich Day
National Save a Spider Day
National Write Your Story Day
Pi Day (3/14)
Purim
Science Education Day
White Day - takes place exactly one month after Valentine's Day, and is a holiday when men give gifts to women they received chocolate from on the earlier holiday. It is still mainly observed in Japan and other Asian countries.
World Sleep Day
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This weekend at the movies
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie - Porky and Daffy team up for this animated movie. with the voices of Peter MacNicol, April Winchell, Eric Bauza, Fred Tatasciore, Candi Milo, and Jeff Bergman
Opus - Drama with John Malkovich, Tatanka Means, Ayo Edebiri, Amber Midthunder, and Murray Bartlett
Black Bag - Suspense movie from Steven Soderbergh with Cate Blanchett, Pierce Brosnan, Michael Fassbender, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke, Marisa Abela, and Regé-Jean Page
The Last Supper - the Lenten season always brings faith based movies.
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March 14th means it's National Pi Day, as in the mathematical constant, 3.14.
When I hear pie I think of...well Pie!
Google Trends posted the top pie each state googles more than other states. They broke them down into five categories. (Here's the full map.)
1. Chocolate or nut pies, four states. Oreo pie in Georgia and Ohio . . . French silk pie in Iowa . . . and derby pie in Kentucky. They'll eat a lot of it in May around the Kentucky Derby.
2. Fruit pies, six states. Apple is #1 in California, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, Raspberry pie is #1 in New York.
3. Custard pies, 17 states. Things like Boston cream, banana cream, and lemon meringue. Kool-Aid Pie is the top search in Tennessee, and Virginia wants a slice of old-fashioned vinegar pie.
4. Savory pies, 18 states. Things like chicken pot pie in Texas and Alaska, and shepherd's pie in Massachusetts. A bunch of states in the western half of the U.S. are obsessed with Frito pie. It's more of a casserole than a "pie" . . . or sometimes it's just a bag full of ingredients.
Pennsylvania might be in here since it's the Italian Easter Pie - a meat pie.
5. "Other". Five states didn't fit any of those categories: Honey pie in Wisconsin . . . sugar pie in Michigan . . . ricotta pie in Connecticut . . . peanut butter cheese pie in Alabama . . . and fried pie in Arizona.
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Have you ever gone to pull open a kitchen drawer . . . only to realize that the potato masher is FIGHTING IT HARD from the inside? Of course you have . . . we all have . . . but we never talk about it.
There's a new, relatable list of random things that everyone has experienced . . . but never talks about. (For obvious reasons.) Here are the highlights:
When you're in the backseat of a car that makes a sharp turn, and you push your fingers into the seat in front of you, to keep yourself from falling over.
When you're lying in bed, and you have to pee. You're both too tired to get out of bed to go to the bathroom . . . and your bladder is too full to fall asleep.
When you decide you don't need to make a list for a grocery run, but you get there, and just wander around for a while trying to figure out what you need.
When you briefly talked with someone at a party back in 2009 . . . and you've been Facebook friends ever since.
Whenever you think you have the perfect spot around a campfire, but the smoke keeps zeroing in on you.
When you walk into a room, but forget what you went in there to do, and you just stand there frozen, like a video that's buffering.
When you swallow some water weird, and it creates this really bad chest pain for a few minutes.
When you spend an entire day in "waiting mode," because you have an appointment at 2:00 P.M. (this happens more the older you get i believe)
When you're calling someone and you hope that they DON'T pick up, just so the missed call can show up and it looks like you reached out.
When you dismantle a pen . . . only to put it back together again.
When you stare at a bad driver as you pass them . . . to see if they look as stupid as they drive.
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Have you ever accidentally glued your eyes shut?
A TikToker named BreezyBre recently posted a video from the E.R. after she tried to use some eye drops . . . and grabbed fingernail glue instead.
A brand called Kiss sells it in the same type of bottle eye drops come in. It's like super glue for your nails, and it dries in seconds.
She's not the first person to get the bottles mixed up. Healthcare workers say it's become a real issue, and they're seeing more and more people who accidentally glue their eyes shut. One doctor called it "relatively common."
Experts say the safest thing to do is double check the dropper any time you put something in your eyes. Maybe even read the label out loud.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Technically, a "moment" is 90 seconds.
The word "moment" debuted in the 1398 Oxford English Dictionary, and it says there are 40 in an hour . . . so that's 90 seconds each. But obviously the definition has evolved to just mean "a short amount of time."
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