3/20/25 - Happy Spring!
- bribriny
- Mar 20
- 5 min read
Thursday 3/20/25
Celebrate:
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
Alien Abduction Day
Atheist Pride Day
Bibliomania Day
Companies That Care Day
Crawfish Cravers Awareness Day
French Language Day
Great Amerian Meatout
Hufflepuff Pride Day (hooray)
International Astrology Day
International Day of Happiness
International Earth Day
National Bock Beer Day
National Jump Out! Day
National Kiss Your Fiance Day
National Ravioli Day
Proposal Day!
Snowman Burning
Oranges and Lemons Day
Won't You Be My Neighbor Day
World Day of Theater for Children and Young People
World Frog Day
World Sparrow Day
World Storytelling Day
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First Day of Spring!!!!
The equinox (Latin for “equal night”) happens at 5:01 AM.
After the spring equinox, many places will experience more daylight than darkness in each 24-hour day. The amount of daylight each day will continue to increase until the summer solstice (in June) when the longest period of daylight occurs.
Equinoxes are the only two times yearly that the Sun rises due east and sets due west for all of us on Earth! While the Sun passes overhead, the tilt of Earth is zero relative to the Sun, which means that Earth’s axis neither points toward nor away from the Sun.
According to folklore, you can stand a raw egg on its end on the equinox.
(and any other day too....) Since eggs are so expensive, try it with all the condiments..just stack them all up!
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"Stranded" Space Station astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore finally came home yesterday. They splashed down off the coast of Florida around 6:00 P.M. Eastern.
They went up on Boeing's Starliner capsule last June, and were supposed to be there eight days. But the ship's thrusters malfunctioned, so they couldn't come home on it. They ended up hanging out in space for nine months, or more than 280 days.
That's a long time, but not the record. Astronaut Frank Rubio was up there for 371 straight days in 2022 and 2023. A Russian cosmonaut holds the overall record, 437 straight days.
And cool thing, when they splash landed, Dolphins were seen swimming around almost like welcoming them home.
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There are a lot of frustrating things involved with doing laundry, and one is: Fighting with detergent. It's always a mess . . . unless you have one that drains itself back into the bottle.
So is this a genius hack . . . or the most ridiculous thing you've heard?
A woman on TikTok asked her boyfriend where the cap to the liquid detergent was, and he said, "Oh I just fill it up and throw it in." Yes, with all the clothes.
He wasn't goofing around. He was SO CONVINCED that he was reading the back label to find "where it says so on the container." And he was RIGHT.
Some brands of liquid detergent have a small message on the cap that says, "Rinse After Use or Toss in Wash."
In the comments, a lot of people seemed surprised that this was an ACTUAL thing. Some were worried that the cap could damage delicate clothes or that the cap itself could get messed up in the spin cycle.
Others claim they already do it . . . and a few said they've heard about people tossing the cap in, but don't think it's necessary.
Either way, be careful to remove the cap before tossing the clothes into the DRYER. That could be a problem.
I have the high efficincy washer and put it in the little drawer to be drained in during the cycle.....I guess I could put the cap in.....I don't like this.
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Happy National Backyard Day!
Whether you're barbecuing this weekend or just hanging out, what's your go-to GAME you like to play in the backyard?
National Today did a ranking of the 10 BEST backyard games of all time based on fun, accessibility, and overall popularity. See if you agree . . .
1. Cornhole. It's kind of THE go-to game now. Cincinnati gets credit for coming up with the modern version in the 1960s. But someone also patented a similar game with square holes way back in 1883.
2. Bocce. It's good for multiple people, and you can play it anywhere. You don't need a legit bocce court, or even a nice patch of grass. Just open space.
3. Wiffle ball. A guy in Connecticut made backyard baseball possible when he came up with it in 1953.
4. Two-hand-touch. Flag football is even better. Just stuff a rag in your belt.
5. Kickball. Fun fact: Brits call it "football rounders," and Canadians call it "soccer baseball."
6. Horseshoes. It's harder for little kids to play than cornhole. And you have to add permanent sandpits to do it right.
7. Badminton. Not as popular as it used to be, but still fun. It's a little annoying to set up and take down the net.
8. Ladder toss. It's gotten pretty popular in the last 20 years. A mailman in Pennsylvania sold the idea in 2005. Then a company called Ladder Golf LLC started selling sets.
9. Lawn darts. Bonus points to the original version for being LETHAL. Modern versions are safer, but still fun. You land darts in circles to score points.
10. Croquet. Not a lot of people play it now, but it used to be really popular. The word is French, but it originated in England in the mid-1800s.
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There's a new list online of things that have "gradually disappeared" over the past decade without people really noticing.
10 years ago was 2015, which doesn't feel THAT long ago.
Here are some of the things people say have slowly disappeared since then:
1. The good old $800 beater car that would actually run and drive.
2. Fairly-priced streaming services.
3. Small independent hardware stores.
4. Everything has become planned obsolescence. Being built to last is gone, technology and the price wars have ruined quality as an option.
5. A real live person answering a business telephone. Someone else joked, "Unexpectedly low call volumes."
6. 24-hour businesses. "The pandemic killed them and it seems a lot of them aren't coming back."
7. Coins on the sidewalk.
8. Toys in cereal boxes. (haven't they been gone for a long time?)
9. People smoking cigarettes.
10. A teacher said, "Critical thinking and self-reflection."
11. Physical checks as payment.
12. Ownership. "Everything is rented, leased, or subscription-based now."
13. Semicolons.
14. Someone said, "Glaciers."
15. Someone said, "My hair."
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Tweety Bird was created three years before Sylvester. Tweety debuted in 1942, and Sylvester debuted in 1945.
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