4/14/26 - Grits, Puffnstuf, and R&R Hall Inductees!
- bribriny
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Tuesday 4/14/26
Celebrate:
Children with Alopecia Day
Dreams of Reason Feast Day
Ex-Spouse Day
Holocaust Remembrance Day
International Be Kind to Lawyers Day
International Moment of Laughter Day
Look Up at the Sky Day
National Dolphin Day
National Library Workers Day
National Pecan Day
Pan American Day
Pathologists' Assistant Day
Reach as High as You Can Day
National Grits Day
Explorers on Sir Walter Raleigh’s 1584 expedition were the first Europeans to record eating grits. They called the Native American Muscogee dish rockahomine, which colonists later shortened to "hominy."
In 2002, Georgia declared grits its official state prepared food.
A staggering 75% of all grits sold in the U.S. are purchased in the South, specifically in the "Grits Belt," which stretches from Texas to Virginia.
Much like the Mason-Dixon line, cultural geographers often refer to the "Grits Line" as the border where menus transition from home fries and hash browns to grits as the default breakfast side.
The Grits Record: The world record for grits eating belongs to Patrick Bertoletti, who downed 21 pounds of grits in just 10 minutes back in 2007.
Traditional "Charleston-style" grits are never boiled in water. Culinary purists insist on using milk or cream to achieve a velvety texture.
The National Grits Festival—which just wrapped up its 2026 event this past weekend in Warwick, GA—features a "Grits Pit." People actually compete to see how much weight in grits they can "pick up" by diving and rolling in a vat of them.
This is what it looks like from 2009.
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The First American Dictionary (1828)
Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language 198 years ago today. He spent nearly 30 years compiling it because he wanted Americans to have their own identity separate from England. He is the reason Americans spell "color" without a "u" and switched the "r" and "e" in words like "center."
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Sid Krofft, who with his late brother Marty created and produced memorable kids shows “H.R. Pufnstuf” and “Land of the Lost” died Friday in Los Angeles at the age of 96.
His brother died in 2023.
After “H.R. Pufnstuf,” the brothers created the series “Lidsville,” involving hat people and starring Charles Nelson Reilly, and “The Bugaloos,” about winged bug people in a rock ‘n’ roll band in a magical forest who must contend with an enemy, Benita Bizarre, played by character actress Martha Raye.
Another show in the classic Krofft style was 1973’s “Sigmund and the Sea Monsters,” which starred child actors Johnny Whitaker and Scott Kolden and featured oversized puppets. Sigmund, played by little person Billy Barty (who’d been in “The Bugaloos”), was a sea monster who didn’t want to scare anybody, causing great embarrassment to his family; the two kids hid him in their clubhouse but had to worry that his family would kidnap or that someone else would find out about him.
Read more of all the shows I know you watched here.
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The 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction class has been announced.
First time on the ballot
Phil Collins
Luther Vandross
Wu-Tang Clan
Billy Idol
Iron Maiden
Joy Division/New Order
Oasis
Sade
In addition to the performer inductees, Celia Cruz, Fela Kuti, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte and Gram Parsons will be honored with the Early Influence Award.
Linda Creed, Arif Mardin, Jimmy Miller, and Rick Rubin will receive the Musical Excellence Award.
The annual Ahmet Ertegun Award will remember Ed Sullivan.
The ceremony will be November 14th
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If you feel like you’re tuning out commercials, you aren't alone. A new survey released today shows that 81% of U.S. consumers now actively aim to ignore or tune out ads. About half are taking it a step further by paying for ad-free content or using blockers to defend their "attention bandwidth."
(Best $5 a monty for ad free Hulu with my Disney+)
I have in my lifetime started having to sit through commercials as a kid, to skipping them or fast forwarding them on the VCR and DVR to now back to having to watch ads on streaming! Full circle!
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - A blue whale's heart is so large that a human being could swim through the arteries. However, their throat is so narrow they couldn't swallow anything larger than a grapefruit.
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