4/24/26 - Arbor Day and TV Moms
- bribriny
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Friday 4/24/26
Celebrate:
Childcare Professionals Day
National Hairball Awareness Day
National Historic Marker Day
National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
New Kids on the Block Day
World Day for Laboratory Animals
World Meningitis Day
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National Arbor Day
While Earth Day (April 22) focuses on the general environment and climate, Arbor Day is all about one specific action: planting and caring for trees.
The holiday started in 1872 in Nebraska. A journalist and politician named J. Sterling Morton proposed a tree-planting holiday to the State Board of Agriculture. He argued that trees would serve as windbreaks, provide fuel and lumber, and offer much-needed shade on the flat Nebraska prairies. On that very first Arbor Day—April 10, 1872—prizes were offered to counties and individuals who planted the most trees. The result? Nebraskans planted an estimated one million trees in a single day.
Why Trees?
Beyond just looking nice, the holiday highlights the practical "utility" of trees:
Climate Regulation: They act as natural air conditioners for cities and "lungs" for the planet by absorbing CO2
Economic Impact: Strategically placed trees can reduce home cooling costs by up to 20% and increase property values.
Infrastructure: Their roots prevent soil erosion and help manage stormwater runoff.
A massive global milestone was reached this week—one billion trees have officially been planted as part of a coordinated international restoration effort. It’s a huge "green" win for the planet's birthday month.
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Michael - Biopic of Michael Jackson. Starring Miles Teller, Nia Long, Colman Domingo, Laura Harrier, Jaafar Jackson, and Juliano Krue Valdi.
Mother Mary - Drama with Anne Hathaway, FKA Twigs, Alba Baptista, Jessica Brown Findlay, Hunter Schafer, Michaela Coel, Sian Clifford, Kaia Gerber, Atheena Frizzell, and Isaura Barbé-Brown.
Over Your Dead Body - Suspense movie with Jason Segel, Juliette Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Samara Weaving, Keith Jardine, Paul Guilfoyle, Kayla Jenee Radomski, Nikolai Kinski, and Jake Curran.
Fuze - Action movie with Theo James, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sam Worthington, Honor Swinton Byrne, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Luke Mably, Saffron Hocking, Elham Ehsas, and Atul Sharma
American YoungBoy - A concert film that explores both the scale of YoungBoy’s cultural impact and the personal realities of life on the road at the highest level.
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Ranker.com is ranking The Best TV Moms of All Time.
1. Kitty Forman - That '70s Show
2. Moira Rose - Schitt's Creek
3. Morticia Addams - The Addams Family
4. Sophia Petrillo - The Golden Girls
5. Wilma Flintstone - The Flintstones
6. Marge Simpson - The Simpsons
7. Lucy Ricardo - I Love Lucy
8. Samantha Stevens - Bewitched
9. Carol Brady - The Brady Bunch
10. Reba - Reba
11. Jane Jetson - The Jetsons
12. Lily Munster - The Munsters
13. Jill Taylor - Home Improvement
14. Caroline Ingalls - Little House on the Prairie
15. Claire Huxtable - The Cosby Show
16. Lorelai Gilmore - Gilmore Girls
17. Marion Cunningham - Happy Days
18. Claire Dunphy - Modern Family
19. June Cleaver - Leave it to Beaver
20. Edith Bunker - All in the Family
See the reasoning here.
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After the bushfires tore through parts of Australia, the damage did not end when the flames died down. Large areas of forest were left burned and empty. The ground was covered in ash. Plants that animals depend on for food were gone.
For wildlife, that created a second crisis. Many animals survived the fire itself, but they were left with nothing to eat. Wallabies were among the hardest hit. They rely on ground vegetation, and in many burned areas, that food simply did not exist anymore.
Rescue teams knew this would happen. So they acted fast. Using helicopters, they dropped over 2,000 kilos of carrots into remote bushfire zones. These were areas that people could not easily reach on foot or by vehicle. The drops were spread out to give animals a chance to find food across a wider area.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Older maps included fake places to prevent plagiarism.
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