Friday 3/29/24
Celebrate:
Good Friday
Knights of Columbus Founder's Day
National Veterans Day
No Homework Day
Smoke and Mirrors Day
Did you know you can download the entire Wikipedia database for offline use. This can come in handy if you ever lose signal, or there’s no wifi/data, you’ll still be able to access a massive amount of information. And it’s only 19GB.
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We have nothing better to debate than how to eat a sandwich. A TikTok poster has a video with a half-eaten sandwich and three options of where the next bite should be. Both B and C choices are perfect bites sticking out from the sandwich. C is an edge with crust and sticking out, B is a the center sticking out.
People say C with the crust to get it out of the way, the poster says it neatens up the sandwich leaving B with all the center goodness for that perfect bite without any mess.
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7-Eleven announced a new sparkling water that tastes like hot dogs.
A photo of the can is circulating on social media. It's supposed to taste like one of their Big Bites but in carbonated liquid form.
The press release says they partnered with a brand called Miracle Seltzer on four flavors: Lemon Lime, Green Apple, Sweet Orange . . . and Hot Dog.
They're calling it a "daring flavor that pushes the boundaries of flavor innovation," and something that's sure to "delight even the most adventurous of palates."
They say the three flavors are available now, but more details on the hot dog flavor are coming next Monday...um.....Monday....April Fools' Day.
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A study found two back-to-back nights of bad sleep can make us feel FOUR YEARS older than we really are. Maybe even more than that.
They looked at the sleep patterns of over 400 people and asked each person how old they felt. Then they had a second group get nine hours of sleep for two nights in a row, followed by just four hours for another two nights.
The average person felt 4.4 years older than their age after two back-to-back nights of bad sleep. The people it hit hardest said TEN years older.
So if you're 40, two nights in a row could make you feel like you're 50. But the good news is, there's also a way to feel 35 again.
When people got enough sleep every night for a full month, they felt an average of five years YOUNGER than they really were.
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A new poll found the average American spends 84 hours a year working sick. That's 10-and-a-half workdays or just over two weeks' worth.
And the top reason we do it is . . . we'd rather "power through" and not have people think we're just being dramatic.
47% said they'd rather work through an illness than take a sick day. And 34% worry people might think they're being lazy, or a wuss.
We're far more likely to skip out on friends when we're sick. The average person misses 17 social events a year because they're not feeling well.
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Toupees are back in a big way. "The New York Post" did a write-up on how "hyper-realistic" ones are the hottest new "FLEX."
They've gotten a lot better since their heyday in the '80s. The good ones use real hair that's stitched into a piece of polyester thin enough to sweat through.
They glue it to your scalp and give you the exact haircut you want. You can shower in it and go six months before it needs to be reapplied.
The downside is they're not cheap. Good ones cost several thousand dollars, and even those don't last long. You might need a new toupee every year or two.
That's still cheaper than a hair transplant though, especially if you're fully bald. And there a growing movement to normalize it. So eventually, "wigs for men" might not seem weird at all.
You can already find guys online bragging about how good their toupee looks. So it's less about hiding your baldness now, and more about owning it.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - The black box on an airplane is usually bright orange or red, not black. They were originally black, but that made them harder to find after a crash.
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