4/25/26 - Coked Up Salmon, Snakes On A Plane Sequel (maybe), New Mac & Cheeses

Saturday 4/25/26

Sunday 4/26/26

Celebrate:

Saturday

Astronomy Day

DNA Days

East Meets West Day

Eeyore's Birthday

Hairstylists Appreciation Day

Independent Bookstore Day

International Financial Independence Awareness Day

International Marconi Day

National Crayola Day

National Day of Puppetry

National Go Birding Day

National Mani-pedi Day

National Plumber's Day

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

National Rebuilding Day

National Sense of Smell Day

National Telephone Day

National Zucchini Bread Day

Red Hat Society Day

Save the Frogs Day

World Healing Day

World Malaria Day

World Penguin Day

World Tai Chi and Qigong Day

World Veterinary Day

Sunday

Alien Day

Audubon Day

Get Organized Day

Hug a Friend Day

Hug and Australian Day

Mother, Father Deaf Day

National Dissertation Day

National Help a Horse Day

National Kids and Pets Day

National Pet Parent's Day

National Pretzel Day

National Richter Scale Day

National Static Cling Day

World Intellectual Property Day

World Pinhole Photography Day

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Researchers at Australia's Griffith University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have found that wild salmon exposed to cocaine swam 1.9 times farther than their clean-living cousins .

More and more of the drug is getting into rivers and streams as human consumption hits new highs. One scientist noted this might explain why salmon are always swimming against the tide and trying to jump up waterfalls. (Haven't they always done that??)

One unexpected side effect is that they can clean your apartment in under an hour!!

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Talk about a side hustle. A 25-year-old Frenchman wrote 44,000 fake sick notes for people wanting time off work, posing as a doctor online and charging just 21 euros apiece. He made nearly one million euros in a matter of months before police caught on. His punishment? Ten years of enforced leave — behind bars. The French government is apparently less than happy about having to pick up the tab for all that fake sick pay.

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First, there was "Snakes on a Plane." Samuel L. Jackson may have found his sequel! Now Germany has "Tarantulas on a Train." A driver in Stuttgart found a parcel packed with 20 live tarantula spiders on his train. Police said the package was conveniently labeled "Spiders and Scorpions." A 31-year-old woman had apparently forgotten them as she rushed to get off at a station — but did come back later to pick them up. Because nothing says "oops" like abandoning 20 tarantulas.

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Prego, the spaghetti sauce company, has a new device you can place on your table to record your family dinner conversations. It costs $20. You can save the recordings forever in a "secure portal" online, and some conversations might even make it to the Library of Congress. As The Saturday Evening Post put it: "A pasta sauce company wants you to record your dinner conversations and then upload them to the cloud. 

Don't we already have that with your smart speaker???

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When I was shopping with my mom, I saw Ranch Kraft Mac & Cheese. Now the blue box is getting a glow-up. Kraft Mac & Cheese is launching a line of "restaurant-inspired" upgrades, including Parmesan Pesto, Romano Cacio e Pepe, and Monterey Jack Caramelized Onion. The question is: do we really buy Kraft for fancy flavors? As The Saturday Evening Post noted, "Kraft Mac & Cheese has a very distinct flavor, and that's the reason we buy it. That and it's easy to make, and also there's a nostalgia factor." That said, "of course I'm going to try them."

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Andre the Giant, a towering menace in the wrestling ring but a gentle giant on the movie screen, is being honored with a roadside marker in his beloved adopted small town in North Carolina.

Officials unveiled the marker Thursday in Ellerbe, North Carolina, a community of about 1,000 people where the wrestler born Andre Rene Roussimoff lived on a ranch just outside town.

Roussimoff was billed at 7-foot-4 (2.24 meters) and 520 pounds (236 kilograms) during his time wrestling for the WWE in the 1970s and 1980s.

Of course, he appeared in The Princess Bride.

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