Friday 4/7/23
Celebrate:
Empowered Women Entrepreneurs Day
Good Friday
Hospital Admitting Clerks Day
International Beaver Day
International Snailpapers Day - By the time news is printed and delivered, it is hours after it is all over the internet today. But reading a newspaper is still a favorite way to get the news for many people. Snailpapers Day celebrates printed news.
Metric System Day
National Beer Day
National Coffee Cake Day
National Making the First Move Day
National No Housework Day
National Pet Health Insurance Day
National Walk to Work Day
Poet in a Cupcake Day
Public Television Day
Student Government Day
World Health Day
World Health Organization Day
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A four-year-old boy has become the world’s youngest published author and has even earned himself a Guinness World Record in the process.
Saeed Rashed AlMheiri, from Abu Dhabi, is the proud author of the children’s book The Elephant Saeed and the (Polar) Bear, which is a story about kindness and an unexpected friendship between the two animals.
Believe it or not, little Saeed is not the only record breaking author in his family. His older sister AlDhabi used to hold the record for the world’s youngest person to publish a bilingual book (female) and, less a year later, she went on to break the record for youngest person to publish a bilingual book series (female) at the age of just eight-years-and-239-days old. These kids are really putting me to shame.
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The Happiest and Saddest Artists in the Charts, According to Their Lyrics
Noel Gallagher of Oasis says, "It is notoriously difficult to write a happy song that is actually good. It’s easy to write sad songs."
The website Crossword-Solver used the 120 most streamed artists and 1000 most streamed songs and found:
Olivia Rodrigo is the happiest chart artist, with a 24.6% positivity rate in her lyrics.
Billie Eilish is the saddest star, with 18.1% of the words in her lyrics being sad.
Maroon 5’s What Lovers Do has a 72.3% positivity rating, making it the happiest song in the charts.
The saddest song is Kendrick Lamar’s HUMBLE., which is 51.3% sad.
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An early Easter egg hunt at a mall near Dayton devolved into chaos on Sunday after parents got too into it. People got knocked over, and adults were even seen shoving little kids out of the way. The mall says it won't be hosting any more egg hunts in the future.
They also apologized for how some of the parents treated the 22 people who were there helping out. They included 10 staff members, and 12 girls from a local softball team.
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Harry Styles wasn't down to be part of their world. Director Rob Marshall confirmed to Entertainment Weekly he met with the singer, a "wonderful guy," about playing Prince Eric in the live-action The Little Mermaid remake. But according to Marshall, Styles turned down the role because he "really felt like he wanted to go off and do the movies that he ended up doing, which were sort of darker." Styles was rumored to have landed the part in 2019 until it was confirmed he actually passed on it. According to Marshall, he was "really looking to do something not in the musical genre" and "really stretch himself" at the time. The role of Eric ended up going to a less established name, Jonah Hauer-King, and Marshall told EW he's "so happy to have two young, new people in the film." Styles, meanwhile, went off and made Don't Worry Darling, a film whose behind-the-scenes drama reminded us all that the human world, it's a mess.
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Subway created a new Cadbury Creme Egg sandwich for Easter. They're giving out 500 of them at four locations in the U.K. tomorrow.
It's called the Cadbury Creme Egg SubMelt, and there's not much to it. It's just a bunch of Cadbury eggs crushed up and melted on a six-inch loaf of Italian white bread.
Cadbury says Subway came up with the idea and approached them about it. They claim it's "surprisingly delicious."
Each Cadbury sub is 530 calories. Most of their normal six-inch subs are in the 300 to 400-calorie range.
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Most spoken languages in the world
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Top Gun: Maverick, Stranger Things, and The Last of Us dominated the nominations for this years MTV Movie and TV Awards. That includes Best Kiss for Anna Torv and Philip Prajoux, meaning the gross zombie kiss from the second episode. Torv played Tess in the show, while Prajoux was credited as "Infected Kissing Man."
Watch the awards May 7th at 8pm.
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Writer Judy Blume is having a moment, she was speaking at the Variety Power of Women Luncheon on Tuesday
Of course, the 80 year old wrote the classic Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret book in 1970 about a girl confronting early-adolescent anxieties.
She delivered a poignant message about censorship and book banning, which affected her career after her books on puberty and sexuality were banned in the '80s.
"What's going on is unbelievable. It's crazy and scary," said Blume, who championed the work of non-profit group the National Coalition Against Censorship. "It is coming from our government, lawmakers drunk with power with a need to control everything. Sure, it's still sexuality – but it's gender, it's LGBTQ+, it's racism. It's history itself that's under fire."
And the book will be a major motion picture April 28th in Theaters. Watch for protesters (who probably haven't read the book or seen the movie)
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Canberra became the capital of Australia because there was such a strong rivalry between the two biggest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, that the government decided people couldn't handle it if they picked one over the other.
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