Friday 3/4/22
Celebrate Courageous Follower, Friday Fish Fry, Holy Experiment, Dress in Blue, Employee Appreciation, Hug a GI, International Game Master's, International Scrapbooking Industry, March Forth, Marching Music, Dance the Waltz, Day of Unplugging, Grammer, Pound Cake, National Snack, Songs, Speech and Debate Education, Tartar Sauce, Toy Soldier, World Day of Prayer, World Obesity, and Old Inauguration Day.
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The world is awash in plastics, and 175 nations are teaming up to stem the tide. The countries have agreed to begin sketching out a legally-binding treaty designed to improve recycling practices, clean up waste, and curb plastic production worldwide. The United Nations-led effort aims to seal the deal by 2024, and is set to rival the 2015 Paris Agreement as one of the biggest global environmental accords in history.
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States including Ohio, Oregon, Utah, and New Hampshire are jumping on the sanction train and boycotting Russian-made vodka. The governors of Texas and Maine are also asking retailers and state agencies to remove Russian spirits from shelves.
While these snubs may raise awareness about the war in Ukraine, Americans prefer their Texas-made Tito’s: Russian vodka only accounted for about 1.3% of all vodka imported into the US last year, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the US.
Plus, some non-Russian vodka brands are also feeling the effects.
American businesses have mistakenly removed vodkas like Stoli and Smirnoff, which are made in Latvia and the US, respectively, in protest.
After one Maine liquor store owner bumped Stoli from his shelves only to learn it wasn’t made in Russia, he doubled down. “I think it sends a signal,” he told the Portland Press Herald.
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What's the one clothing item you lose more than any other?
It's your socks, right?
An exciting new survey on laundry habits has found that the average person will lose 756 socks in their lifetime.
On average, we will do 13,000 loads of laundry in our lifetime.
Through all those loads, the average person will ruin 95 pieces of clothing by washing whites with darker colors, or by not choosing the appropriate settings.
Which seems low, especially since 29% of people say don't bother separating colors, and 76% say they use the same washer and dryer settings for everything.
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If you discovered something that could allow you to travel forward in time or backward in time which way would you go?
According to a new poll, 49% of people would prefer to travel back in time, 30% would jump forward, and 21% don't know.
If you break it down, men were more likely to want to travel forward in time and old people were less likely to want to travel forward.
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A recent poll asked people if they type faster on a computer keyboard or a phone, and 66% of people said they're faster on a computer while 21% claimed their typing skills were better on a phone.
Not surprisingly, the results were different based on age. For people age 50 and up, more than 70% said they type faster on a computer and less than 15% said they're faster on a phone.
For Gen Z . . . ages 18 to 25 . . . 46% said they type faster on a phone, and 37% said computer keyboard.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Studies found that women also have a more heightened sense of smell.
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