Friday 3/25/22
Celebrate International Waffle, National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy, Lobster Newburg, Pecan, Old New Years Day (was observed on March 25 by many countries up until the creation of the Gregorian calendar in 1582), No Homework, National Medal of Honor, and Tolkien Reading Day.
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Yesterday we talked about which cereal is best without milk. Today, When do you eat cereal?
A new survey from YouGov Omnibus found that 90% of people like cereal, and 81% think it's normal to substitute cereal for meals that occur later in the day.
Since Americans aren't strict about when cereal should or should not be consumed, 79% admit they sometimes eat it at different points throughout the day as a snack or meal replacement. For the most part, this fondness for cereal transgresses the bounds of age, sex, and income level.
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The Academy Awards are on Sunday. And it’ll look a bit different from the show you didn’t watch last year (it was the lowest-rated ever). After three years of going hostless, the Oscars will have three emcees: Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes. Eight categories have been stripped out of the live broadcast.
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A guy in Palm Coast, Florida recently got pulled over for speeding and offered the cop three different excuses.
They pulled him over for running a stop sign and doing 50 in a 30-mile-per-hour zone. The cop's chest cam got their whole exchange on video.
First, the guy claimed he'd just bought the car, and was only speeding because he didn't know how to get it out of "sport mode."
Then his story changed, and he claimed he only ran the stop sign to avoid another car that was coming. But the cop had seen the whole thing and said that wasn't true.
So then his story changed again . . . and he claimed he'd just found out Putin was threatening to Nuke The World. So he was rushing home to read the news.
They just released the video, but the stop happened on February 24th so the timeline does work, that's the day Russia invaded Ukraine.
The cop decided it wasn't a good enough reason to speed through a residential area though, and gave him a ticket. Police posted the video with the hashtag, "Russian Home."
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A guy in Austin named Dan Graham was sick of getting so many calls from telemarketers so last year, he started suing them.
He works as a financial consultant, and says ignoring random calls isn't an option for him. He has to answer them even though they're spam calls half the time.
He tried adding his number to the Do Not Call list, and filed complaints with the Better Business Bureau but that didn't do any good.
So last April, he sued one of the companies that kept calling him and won, or technically, they settled. They had to, because he showed they were violating something called the Federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
So after that, he kept doing it and in the last 11 months, he's filed 50 more lawsuits and made 75 grand in settlements.
He says some of the companies didn't even know it was happening. A lot of them use outside contractors for marketing, and once they found out, they stopped it.
He says around 10 of the companies he's sued have now changed their marketing strategy, and aren't calling random people anymore.
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People on Reddit are sharing gifts they would love to get for their birthday or holidays but that no one even considered buying for them because they're adults. Here are seven of the most popular answers
1. "Remote-controlled cars, planes, or helicopters."
2. "Art kits."
3. "Legos."
4. "Candy, like ridiculous amounts of candy."
5. "Stuffed animals . . . or even just a trip to Build-a-Bear."
6. "Nerf guns."
7. "Something I didn't have a hand in planning or acquiring. Everyone asks what I want for gifts and never just buys something for me."
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The year 1666 contains every single Roman numeral once, in order from largest to smallest: MDCLXVI.
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