Monday 3/21/22
Celebrate Act Happy, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Day of Forests, Memory, National California Strawberry, Common Courtesy, Countdown, Crunchy Taco, Flower, Fragrance, French Bread, Healthy Fats, Single Parent's, Teenager, Slytherin Pride, World Down Syndrome, Poetry, and Puppetry Day.
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It’s 2022 and the rock ‘n’ roll biopic is not going anywhere. Following the trailer drop for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and the perplexing news that a Billy Joel film is in the works with zero permission or participation from the Piano Man himself, it was announced on Friday that Netflix is developing a scripted series about Irish rock legends U2.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, J.J. Abrams is pivoting from his sci-fi and action comfort zone to create the series under his Bad Robot Productions banner. Anthony McCarten, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind The Theory of Everything and Bohemian Rhapsody, will be working on the script. The iconic band—made up of frontman Bono, beanie enthusiast and guitarist the Edge, bassist Adam Clayton, and drummer Larry Mullen Jr.—is said to be involved, though the nature of their participation has yet to be revealed.
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MaybeTurning Red and the fictional band 4*Town got The AV Club thinking about 5 fictional musicians they would pay to see live.
Interesting list of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem from the Muppets, Powerline from The Goofy Movie. Diva from The Fifth Element, Dewey Cox from Walk Hard, and Soggy Bottom Boys from O Brother, Where Art Thou.
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What time is it? It’s Fat O’clock! Fat O’clock is the time when we ditch our diet and start eating comfort food and, according to research, that time is 7 PM on Sundays. Almost half in the study fell for comfort food between 7 PM and 10 PM on Sundays. Another dangerous time for your diet is between 3 and 5 in the afternoon. Between 5 and 7 PM was the third most popular time to abandon your healthy snacks and go for something good.
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According to a small study, the number one thing we do on our smartphones — after texting — is, well, pretty boring. It’s… checking email.
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It’s a great party trick and useful for circus performers but scientists say that learning to juggle can cause changes in areas of the adult brain. Mastering the skill increases the amount of grey matter in areas of the brain that process and store visual information, proving what was not thought possible — that new stimuli can alter the brain’s structure.
A comparison of brain-imaging scans of non-jugglers and other volunteers before they learned to juggle and three months later, revealed an increase in grey matter in certain areas of the newly trained jugglers’ brains.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The first song that hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in two different decades was: Rupert Holmes' "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)". It was the last number one hit of 1979, and also had that spot the second week of 1980.
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