Saturday 3/23/24
Sunday 3/24/24
Celebrate:
Saturday
Cuddly Kitten Day
National Chia Day
National Chip and Dip Day
National Melba Toast Day
National Puppy Day
National Tamale Day
Near Miss Day
OK Day
Ravenclaw Pride Day
Take Your Parents to the Playground Day
World Meteorological Day
Sunday
International Day for Achievers
National Cheesesteak Day
National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
Naitonal Cocktail Day
Palm Sunday
Purim
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It's going to be a bumper year for Cicadas. Thankfully not around here in the numbers the Midwest will see.
When the ground temperature hits 64 degrees Fahrenheit this Spring, the New York Times reports that trillions of cicadas will dig their way up from beneath the soil across the United States.
Cicadas, known for their distinctive features and signature mating call, also have another interesting fact about them. As they are flying or sitting in a tree, they could end up urinating on you.
The creatures eliminate waste in the form of urine, and with more force than their size would suggest, according to the New York Times. The article also notes that scientists recently revealed the insects hold the record for “strongest urine jet stream” of any studied animal close to their size.
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The winter hasn't been that bad this year, but they have still put down salt on the roads a few times. This of course makes the roads nothing but a salt lick for deer.
Also it covers your car, and in the same vein makes your car a big salt lick.
In Canada it's not deer but Moose! So there's a warning
Parks officials in Canada have a warning. Please don't let moose lick your car. The animals love the taste of road salt and need salt in their diets. Watching this seems fun for the occupants of the car, but the interaction can cause the moose to lose their fear of cars and people, leading to traffic accidents.
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The desire to dunk a basketball is shared by people around the world. Those who can do it describe dunking as a way to temporarily defy gravity.
But most human beings can't dunk. Being able to seemingly levitate and fly through the air in a powerful display of athleticism is mostly limited to basketball stars and those gifted in height and vertical leaping abilities.
Low-rim basketball leagues are here!
By lowering the height of a traditional 10-foot basketball hoop by up to a foot and a half, more players in recreational leagues can now dunk.
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Don't you hate when your bananas turn brown? Guess it's time for bread.
But!
Tropic, a United Kingdom-based agriculture-biotechnology company, gene-edited the fruit so it never turns brown, isn’t susceptible to Panama disease (which is a major issue and threatens 80% of global banana production), and can help reduce food waste and carbon dioxide pollution.
Over 60% of exported bananas go to waste, but the non-browning bananas could cut supply chain carbon pollution by 25% — equal to the removal of two million passenger vehicles from the road annually — and “significantly reduce food waste,” according to the company.
Tropic is also working on coffee and rice that doesn’t cost as much to produce in terms of energy and planet-warming gases.
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Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi might not have a wedding date yet, but they already found their officiant: Matthew Modine. He plays government scientist Dr. Brenner on "Stranger Things". Eleven calls him "Papa".
Matthew says, quote, "I have one of those licenses to get people married, and Millie thought it'd be great, and then Jake said it would be a great idea, so I wrote the wedding vows and they loved what I wrote for them . . .
It's such a beautiful thing to be able to join two people in holy matrimony."
Will he be in Season 5 of Stranger Things??? We shall see sometime in 2025.
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If you've ever wondered what slime (really etoplasam) tastes like, Finn Wolfhard is your guy. He takes a face full of it in "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire", and here's his review:
Quote, "It really didn't taste like anything. It was almost like minty, thick water. Which sounds gross, but it's so much better than having, like, fake blood in your mouth! Way less sugary and gross.”
As for the experience itself, he says, quote, "It was really awesome. I read that [scene in the script] and I was like, 'Oh, this is crazy. Like, I get to be the one that gets slimed.'"
Could have just been on You Can't Do That On Television!
(by the way, her nickname was Moose..it all ties together)
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Someone asked people to name things Millennials save that their kids will immediately toss as soon as they die. Here are some fun ones . . .
1. The box your phone came in. We save it in case we want to sell the phone when we get a new one. And because those boxes are just really nice, right?
2. The box of random cords and dongles you've saved your whole life. Even now, half of them are cords no one uses anymore.
3. All those rubber bracelets promoting different charities and causes. Your old yellow "Livestrong" one might still be tucked in a drawer somewhere.
4. That Dave Matthews Band shirt you stood in line for at a concert in 2001. There are going to be SO many of those t-shirts at Goodwill someday.
5. The hundreds of plastic shopping bags you've saved up. Everyone's got at least one bag stuffed with more bags, just in case.
6. All the DVDs you're still saving. And you don't even have a DVD player anymore.
7. All that old makeup you're still hoarding. Most cosmetics are supposed to be tossed after a few years at most.
8. Your collection of thermoses and water bottles. Why so many?
9. The random workout gear you never used. You thought the Ab Roller was it until you heard about the Shake Weight . . . and then you tried P90X for one day, and all the sneakers.
10. Those jeans you swore you'd fit into again someday. Never happened.
Funko pops and similar figurines
bath and body works products
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