Wednesday 4/27/22
Celebrate:
Administrative Professionals Day
Babe Ruth Day
Denim Day
International Guide Dog Day
International Noise Awareness Day
Marine Mammal Rescue Day
Morse Code Day
National Deskfast Day
National Devil Dog Day
National Prime Rib Day
National Tell A Story Day
Stop Food Waste Day
World Design Day
World Tapir Day
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A guy from Egypt just broke two world records for the longest underwater swim using a single breath . . . over 250 feet using flippers, and over 185 feet without flippers.
But here's the amazing part: He did it with one leg. He lost his left leg in a motorcycle accident six years ago.
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Can't find something to watch? That's your own fault. Because you are not starved for choices.
According to new data from Nielsen, there are 817,000 different TV programs you can choose on streaming and traditional platforms. That's up from 646,000 just two years ago.
Nielsen says the average adult watches four hours and 49 minutes of TV per day.
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Because we can't be with the rest of the world, we use Fahrenheit instead of Celisus for temperatures. (so do Bahamas, Liberia, Palau, Cayman Islands, Marshall Islands, and Federated States of Micronesia..that's not many)
Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit takes math: It's the Celsius temperature times 1.8, plus 32. No thanks.
So here's a trick to "convert" Celsius to Fahrenheit without using any math. You won't get the exact temperature, but you'll get a decent ballpark number.
Just memorize these four situations where the Fahrenheit temperature is basically the Celsius temperature flipped around:
Four degrees Celsius is 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
16 degrees Celsius is 61 degrees Fahrenheit.
28 degrees Celsius is 82 degrees Fahrenheit.
40 degrees Celsius is 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
Now, you can take whatever Celsius temperature you hear, figure out how it fits in between those ranges, and know about what temperature it'll be outside and what you should wear.
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CBR.com came up with a list of 10 movies that don't deserve their popularity.
Here they are, along with a synopsis of his reasoning . . .
1. "Avatar": Stunning visuals, but not much else.
2. "Inception": More pretentious than ambitious.
3. "The Dark Knight Rises": Pales compared to its predecessor.
4. "The Blind Side": Suffers from a white-savior complex.
5. "Shakespeare in Love": Didn't deserve best picture.
6. "La La Land": Not the modern musical it wanted to be.
7. "V for Vendetta": Created a famous symbol, not a movie.
8. "The King's Speech": So well-made, it's bland.
9. "Rebel Without a Cause": Feels superficial.
10. "The Blair Witch Project": Iconic, but not scary.
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Did you play Wordle this morning...on the toilet? Apparently, 16% of people do the daily word game on the toilet.
That came out of a new survey of Wordle players, where about 40% say they'll do the puzzle first thing in the morning. 13% wait until lunch and 22% hold off until the evening, either right after work or before falling asleep.
Another 23% sneak in their daily round while at work.
About 70% of people say they take less than 10 minutes to finish the puzzle which means most people aren't distracted from work, or in the bathroom, for that long.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - It's illegal to use a pun in an advertisement in China. The government thinks puns and other wordplay can lead to, quote, "cultural and linguistic chaos."
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