Monday 3/28/22
Celebrate Children's Picture Book, Eat an Edy's Pie, National Something on a Stick, Black Forest Cake, Hot Tub, Weed Appreciation (the ones in your yard), and Respect Your Cat Day.
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Well, that didn't take long. Just one week after Amazon closed its acquisition of MGM, the studio behind the James Bond movies, a Bond TV series is in the works at Prime Video — and it's … a competition show?
According to Variety, Amazon has greenlit 007's Road to a Million, which will be an eight-part competition series in which contestants go on a "global adventure" to win £1 million. It will apparently involve "passing physical obstacles" and answering "questions hidden in different locations around the world."
Actually, this has been in the works for four years, but it's fun to put things together.
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Want to improve your diet in seconds? Eliminate any food that has a mascot. Healthy foods don’t need mascots to promote themselves.
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This sounds so counterintuitive.
When you want to put a two liter bottle of soda away, shake it up a little bit first. It will stay fizzy for weeks.
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A study (Ohio State University) found that boys are more afraid of snakes, monsters, and scary amusement park rides than girls, while girls are more afraid of thunderstorms and the dark.
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If you’re focusing on your eating habits then be mindful of the clock striking 2:41 PM. A survey of 2,000 Americans found that that is the specific time of day when willpower is most tested and cravings strike hardest.
The study also found that we spend 40 minutes per day thinking about food. The flavors we crave most often are sweet (79%), salty (54%), and spicy (45%).
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Children's Picture Book Day, here's some fun facts.
-Dr. Seuss’s all-time bestselling book Green Eggs and Ham (1960) was sparked by a bet with Suess’s publisher that the writer-illustrator couldn’t write a book with 50 or fewer words.
-The main characters in Dave Pilkey’s Captain Underpants stories, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, were named after two children’s book heroes. Harold is named after the protagonist of Crockett Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955) and George is taken from the H. A. Rey’s Curious George books.
-Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day (1962) won the 1963 Caldecott Medal, which marked a significant milestone: The Snowy Day was the first book featuring a Black character to win a major children’s literary award.
-Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon (1947) was banned by the New York Public Library in 1947 for being “overly sentimental.” It was reinstated in 1972.
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