Monday 4/29/24
Celebrate:
International Dance Day
National Peace Rose Day
National Rugelach Day - a filled baked confection originating in the Jewish communities of Poland.
National Shrimp Scampi Day
Viral Video Day
We Jump the World Day
World Wish Day
Zipper Day
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The Weekend Box Office
1. Challengers $15.0M
2. Unsung Hero $7.8M
3. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire $7.2M
4. Civil War $7.0M
5. Abigail $5.3M
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If you are a certain age, I'm sure you pop Ibuprofen like candy. It reduces inflammation, but there are foods that do it as well and include ingredients high in antioxidants, vitamins, fiber, and unsaturated (or "good") fats.
Avocado
Berries especially strawberries and blueberries.
Dark Chocolate
Fatty Fish
Green Tea
Leafy Greens
Nuts - especially Almonds, pistachios, and macadamia nuts.
Tomatoes
Turmeric
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Mental Floss has collected the English language’s weirdest weird words.
Comflogisticate is a verb meaning “to utterly confuse someone,” or “to embarrass or somehow show a person up.”
A thunder-plump is a heavy and sudden rainstorm.
Bishop - the molten pool of wax that forms around the flame of a candle
Snaste - the burnt part of a candle wick
spanghew - hurling something in the air. According to a handful of early definitions, it once referred specifically to the act of batting a frog into the air using a stick.
Vestry - the smiling of infants in their sleep.
Punt - We might know that that is the indentation of the bottom of a wine bottle. When you’ve drunk enough of the wine to see the top of the punt above the surface of the wine left inside, it was once said that you had “drunk out of the island.”
Cockermony - A woman’s hair gathered up into a bun or under a headband or snood. It's Scottish
Smellfungus - a habitual nit-picking faultfinder.
Gomble - A ball of snow or ice that forms in an animal’s hair or that sticks to your clothes while walking
Denticulation - The tooth-like perforation around a postage stamp
Dusty-miller - a pollen-covered honeybee.
Sesquihoral - While the Latin prefix semi– is used in English to denote a half measure, the prefix sesqui– is used to make words implying some sense of one and a half. So something that is sesquihoral lasts precisely 90 minutes or one-and-a-half hours.
Panification - The production of bread
chitterie-chatterie - a Scots word for a piece of bread eaten right after you’ve taken a bath.
Knickpoint - a sudden change in the steepness of a river channel. Usually, it results in a waterfall or a rapids.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The editor of the "New York Times" crossword puzzle is Will Shortz, and he's the only person in the world with a degree in enigmatology . . . that's the study of puzzles. He created the major himself at Indiana University.
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