Wednesday 3/30/22
Celebrate Grass is Always Browner on the Other Side of the Fence, Manatee Appreciation, National Doctors, I Am in Control, Little Red Wagon, Virtual Vacation, Pencil, Take a Walk in the Park, Turkey Neck, and World Bipolar Day.
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Competitive eater Leah Shutkever (UK) has done it again.
The record-breaker from West Midlands has snatched the record for most chicken nuggets eaten in one minute.
One of Guinness World Records' most coveted and hotly contested titles, the chicken nuggets record now is 352 g (12.42 oz and the equivalent of a share box of 19 nuggets) of the McDonald’s snack in sixty seconds.
She holds records for
Fastest time to eat three mince pies (52.21 seconds in 2019)
Fastest time to eat three pickled eggs (7.80 seconds in 2019)
Fastest time to eat a muffin (no hands) (21.95 seconds in 2019)
Most marshmallows eaten in one minute (no hands) (20 marshmallows in 2020).
Most tomatoes eaten in one minute (8 in 2020)
Leah took on competitive eating when she was 23, after her brother challenged her while they were dining at a local restaurant.
After that, she developed a true hunger for shattering goals.
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New York University will award Taylor Swift an honorary doctorate of fine arts May 18, and will speak at commencement at Yankee Stadium, the institution announced Monday.
Swift will deliver her address and receive her honors from NYU along with the class of 2022 at the stadium on the morning of May 18.
The official title that will be bestowed on Swift is Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa.
Swift has previously been associated with NYU, as the university has conducted a class in her work, although she played no direct role in that particular curriculum.
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A new batch of emojis are hitting iPhones next week, and some of them seem a little more useful than others.
For example, the world apparently needed a kidney beans emoji, and this is the update that also includes the "Pregnant Man" emoji that made waves when it was announced last year.
The update also includes a melting face emoji . . . a saluting emoji . . . a puppy dog eyes emoji that's holding back happy tears . . . a heart hands emoji . . . an empty nest emoji . . . a troll . . . a disco ball . . . and a low battery emoji.
They also added five emojis of people with different skin tones shaking hands.
This iPhone update also includes a new feature that lets you use Face I.D. with a mask on.
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You've probably heard this before from computer experts: If you want to be as safe as possible, you should change all your passwords once a year. But is that really true?
A guy named Glenn Fleishman has written a bunch of books on cyber security, and he says it's not really true. If a password is sufficiently strong, and hasn't been leaked on the dark web, it's overkill, and you don't need to change it ever.
There are two things to be careful about though . . .
1. Make sure it really is a strong password. Adding numbers and special characters makes it stronger. Ideally, it should be at least 12 characters long.
2. Don't use the same password on multiple sites. That does increase your chances of being hacked, because if your password for one site leaks, they can access multiple sites. But he says it's not a big risk if you have different passwords for different sites.
His suggestion is to use your computer or phone's password manager, and let it generate and save secure passwords for you.
Then never change them unless you find out one was part of a data breach.
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Since we are talking about passwords, make unhackable passwords on your phone by using accented letters. To access these letters simply hold down a letter on the keypad. The symbols will appear above it.
Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Around 6,000 Tweets are sent out every second. That's 500 million a day. And in the U.S., 10% of the users write 80% of the Tweets.
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Something to remember in this tax time, if the IRS calls you, it is a scam. Period. The IRS will always start a conflict or concern with you by contacting you through the US Postal Service. Because of the nature of their work, there have been a ton of phone scammers that disguise their scam as the IRS.
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