Thursday 4/21/22
Celebrate:
Big Word Day
Bulldogs are Beautiful Day
College Student Grief Awareness Day
Get to Know Your Customers Day
Keep Off the Grass Day
Kindergarten Day
National Ask an Atheist Day
National Chocolate-Covered Cashews Day
National D.A.R.E. Day
National High Five Day
National Tea Day (UK)
Thank You for Libraries Day
Tuna Rights Day
World Creativity and Innovation Day
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International Pizza Cake Day - According to legend, the first pizza cake—a cake that looks like a pizza—was created by Chef François Gundermeaux, for the wedding of France's Duke of Angoulême and Italy's Lady Mauriello. This wedding was said to have happened in France during the time of the Italian Wars, during the French Renaissance, in part to form an alliance.
As the story goes, Lady Mauriello's father, Geomar, requested to Chef Gundermeaux that a traditional Italian pizza be included with the wedding meal. As it was the day before the wedding, and Chef Gundermeaux was not familiar with pizzas besides seeing them in paintings but was an expert at making pastries, he created a cake that looked like a pizza. Upon tasting the creation, Geomar exclaimed, "This is not pizza, this is pizza cake!"
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Netflix's revenue growth is slowing with a loss in subscribers. So....CEO Reed Hastings says an ad-supported tier is something "we're trying to figure out over the next year or two" and that Netflix is "quite open to offering even lower prices with advertising as a consumer choice."
Those who follow Netflix know I've been against the complexity of advertising and a big fan of the simplicity of subscription," Hastings said. "But as much as I'm a fan of that, I'm a bigger fan of consumer choice, and allowing consumers who would like to have a lower price and are advertising-tolerant get what they want makes a lot of sense."
When Netflix adopts ads, "it would be a plan layer like it is at Hulu so if you still want the ad-free option, you'll be able to have that as a consumer. And if you'd rather pay a lower price and you're ad-tolerant, we're going to cater to you also."
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Will the tenth Fast & Furious' title go down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in Hollywood history? Vin Diesel revealed Wednesday the next Fast & Furious film will be called Fast X, though he didn't clarify whether that's supposed to be pronounced "Fast Ex" or "Fast Ten."
Either way, fans were immediately disappointed they didn't go with the punny title everyone's been suggesting: Fast 10 Your Seat Belts. It was right there, guys! This continues the series' streak of hilariously inconsistent titles following F9, not to mention installments with nearly the exact same name like The Fast and the Furious and Fast & Furious. Normally, we'd joke that Fast X suggests the franchise is headed to space, Jason X style — but, well, they're way ahead of us. Is an X-Men crossover the only place left to go?
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Nicholas Cage announced that he is “extremely excited” to welcome another child to the world, this time with his wife Riko Shibata. Cage, 58, currently has two sons - Kael-El, 16 and Weston, 31, from previous relationships. “My boys are all grown up, and I miss going to the toy store. I miss singing lullabies and rocking in the rocking chair,” he said. “I'm looking forward to getting back to that.”
Watch for Nick this weekend at the box office. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent opens.
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There's a thread online where foreigners are talking about the American foods and drinks they really crave when they're back home. The people are from different countries . . . and some countries may have things that others don't . . . but apparently, these are some of the things that they miss the most:
1. Americanized Chinese food . . . and that's coming from someone in Asia.
2. "Great Mexican food" . . . it's fairly likely this person is not from Mexico.
3. Maple syrup . . . it's fairly likely this person is not from Canada.
4. Chick-fil-A . . . Wendy's was also mentioned, along with In-N-Out Burger, Taco Bell, and Cracker Barrel.
5. Mozzarella sticks, with marinara sauce for dipping.
6. Root beer.
7. "Gas station beef jerky," which is expensive and hard to find in Europe.
8. Jambalaya.
9. American BBQ.
10. American breakfasts . . . pancakes, bacon, eggs, and fried potatoes.
11. Pop Tarts . . . which are available in some specialty "American shops" abroad, but they also cost three-times the price.
12. The cereal selection at grocery stores.
13. "Everything" bagels.
14. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
15. Peanut butter.
16. Hidden Valley ranch dressing.
17. Chicken wings with buffalo sauce.
18. Someone said "those huge cans of Arizona Iced Tea."
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - A grown cat can jump between five- and eight-times its height. That would be the equivalent of a human jumping from the ground . . . up to the third floor.
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