Monday 3/7/22
Celebrate National Fun Facts About Names, Crown Roast of Pork, Plant Power, Be Heard, and Cereal Day.
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There's a TikTok challenge called the Bark at Your Dog Challenge where . . . yeah . . . people are barking at their dogs. And since their dogs usually look shocked, it makes for funny videos.
Except . . . those shocked looks aren't funny to the dogs. According to the American Kennel Club, barking at your dog . . . or any dog . . . actually TRAUMATIZES them.
When you bark at your dog, you're doing three things they find threatening: Getting up in their space . . . making eye contact . . . and making a loud noise in their face.
So the dog's reaction is FEAR . . . they're nervous, they don't know how to react, and they don't know what's coming next.
Your dog will probably just be freaked out . . . but if you bark in the face of a strange dog, it might even respond aggressively and BITE you. So don't bark in your dog's face. There are much, much better ways to get those sweet TikTok likes.
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With Baseball not starting on March 31st, a sure sign of spring, we turn to The Old Farmers Almanac and their 5 signs of Spring!
-The Birds are singing!
-Trees are budding, sap is flowing (yea..on to my windshield)
-Peepers are peeping! (i was deafened by peepers one time at the Big Flats Community Park trails! So loud)
-The "spring" smell
-Butterflies and Bumblebees Return! (link to how to attract butterflies to your garden in the full article.)
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This hack always makes me laugh. Out of brown sugar? You can make your own by blending 1 cup of white sugar and 2 tablespoons of molasses. (who has molasses on hand?)
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The average adult will spend a total of 416 days of their life in the bathroom. Men will spend 373 days using the bathroom — around 23 minutes a day — and women will use them 456 days — typically for 29 minutes a day.
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Do you like your pickles wrapped in cheese? How about popcorn with beans? What about ice cream on meatloaf? In a survey of Americans, these are just a few of the surprising food combinations some of us love.
Research revealed mayo and peanut butter sandwiches, and cookies dipped in guacamole also made the cut. The survey found the most popular weird food combo Americans love is the dipping of French fries in their chocolate milkshake.
What's your weird food pairings????
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Warner Brothers wouldn't let Colin Farrell's version of the Penguin smoke in the "The Batman" movie. He says, quote, "[As if] a bunch of 12-year-olds are going to start smoking Cuban cigars because [of The Penguin]."
Doesn't matter, it was the #1 movie of the weekend
The Batman $128.5M
Uncharted $11.0M
Dog $6.0M
Spider-Man: No Way Home $4.4M
Death on the Nile $2.7M
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day -
-The term “cereals” comes from Ceres, ancient Roman goddess of agriculture.
-Americans eat 160 bowls of cereal a year
-Battle Creek, Michigan is considered the "Cereal Capital of the World" because it is the hometown of Kellogg and Post, two of the four largest cereal manufacturers in the world. (the other two are General Mills and Quaker Oats.)
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