Friday 4/8/22
Celebrate:
Dog Farting Awareness Day
Draw a Picture of a Bird Day
International Feng Shui Awareness Day
National All is Ours Day
National Dive Bar Day
National Empanada Day
Poet in a Cupcake Day
Step into the Spotlight Day
Trading Cards for Grown-ups Day
Zoo Lovers Day
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Have you ever had a dream that was so weird, you immediately googled it the next morning? new study looked at the most common types of dreams we do that with.
The most-searched dream by far in the U.S. is "teeth falling out." Americans google it four times more than any other dream. Dreams like that are sometimes linked to big life changes, self-esteem issues, or embarrassment.
The ten dreams we google the most in the U.S. are: Teeth falling out . . . snakes . . . dreams about your ex . . . spiders . . . vacations . . . being chased . . . weddings . . . flies . . . sex. . and dreams that involve bears. Here are a few more fun stats . . .
1. The most-searched dream worldwide is "snakes." It's first in 52 different countries. "Teeth falling out" is next with 17. Dreams about snakes are supposed to represent hidden fears or worries. Or . . . you just hate snakes.
2. Pregnancy dreams are third, which are supposed to signal growth or development. Then marriage dreams, which signify commitment or transition . . . and dreams about an ex, which could be a sign someone's making you feel the same way your ex did.
3. Now here are a few weird ones: Dreams about lice are common in Central America . . . people in Fiji dream about peacocks . . . spiders are #1 in Argentina . . . squirrels are #1 in Namibia . . . and Albanians want to know what dreams about BOOBS mean.
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Some entertainment news:
We all know that Ben Stiller can do comedy, but what about horror? He's going to get his chance, but on the stage.
Ben will play Jack Torrance in a theater production of "The Shining". It'll open next January in London.
That's the part JJack Nicholson played in the 1980 movie version, but the new play will stick closer to the original Stephen King novel.
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Christina Ricci has returned to her "Addams Family" roots. She's going to be in the Netflix series, "Wednesday" that Tim Burton is making.
Jenna Ortega is playing a teenage Wednesday, who is attending Nevermore Academy. Catherine Zeta-Jones is playing Morticia and Luis Guzman is Gomez. No word on who Christina will be.
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Swedish House Mafia and the Weeknd may replace Kanye West at Coachella on Sunday night for the two-weekend festival.
They will perform in the festival-closing Sunday night slot, joining Harry Styles (Friday) and Billie Eilish (Saturday) as Coachella’s 2022 headliners, taking place on the weekends of April 15-17 and April 22-24. West was announced as a headliner in January but pulled out on Monday.
But they don’t want to pay The Weeknd the same amount of money and he may walk.
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Everyone loves debating everything about pizza . . . including research on the best places for pizza, and in a new study, the best places are not Chicago and New York . . . they're Detroit and Cleveland.
For this study, the 50 largest metros in the U.S. received weighted scores that boosted them for independent pizzerias . . . interest in pizza variations . . . price and affordability . . . and quantity and quality of the establishments.
On the flip-side, they were docked points for having a lot of big chain pizza places.
In the end, the Top 15 pizza cities in the U.S. are all in the Eastern half of the country, with Detroit and Cleveland being #1 and #2. How?
Detroit has the most independent pizza restaurants per capita, and it ranked #1 in "pizza passion," which included internet searches for a variety of pizza styles.
Columbus, Ohio is third on the list . . . and with two of the Top Three cities, Ohio was named the Best state for pizza.
Here's the rest of the Top 15 pizza cities: Boston was fourth, followed by Pittsburgh . . . Indianapolis . . . Providence, Rhode Island . . . St. Louis . . . Philadelphia . . . Norfolk, Virginia . . . Baltimore . . . Tampa . . . Minneapolis . . . Chicago . . . and Nashville.
New York City didn't even make the Top 20. It's #22, after Buffalo, Cincinnati, and Milwaukee.
This was mostly because New York is lacking in independent pizzerias. The city also had underwhelming scores for "pizza passion" online . . . and pizza shops per capita. It's also not the cheapest place to get a pie.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The "E" in Wile E. Coyote stands for Ethelbert.
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