Saturday and Sunday 4/8 & 9/23
Celebrate:
Saturday
Celebrate:
Baby Massage Day
Dog Farting Awareness Day
Draw a Picture of a Bird Day
International Feng Shui Awareness Day
National All is Ours Day
National Dog Fighting Awareness Day
National Empanada Day
Slow Art Day - urges visitors to spend 5 to 10 minutes in front of a work of art – or longer if the conversation engrosses them.
Step into the Spotlight! Day
Trading Cards for Grown-ups Day
Zoo Lovers Day
Sunday
National Baked Ham with Pineapple Day
National Cherish an Antique Day
National Chinese Almond Cookie Day
National Gin and Tonic Day
National Name Yourself Day
National Unicorn Day
National Winston Churchill Day
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On Monday, the barcode or "universal product code" marked its 50th anniversary.
Grocery stores and canned food manufacturers originally rejected the idea of a universal barcode system, but they eventually came around, and now billions of items are scanned every day across the globe. Yet all these years later it's still unclear who actually invented the barcode.
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A fifth-grader's knowledge of geology was so rock-solid that he caught two errors in his science textbook. The publisher wrote him a thank-you note.
How about paying for his books when he gets to college....oh wait..that would bankrupt the publisher...never mind.
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How does paying $5,000 per day for anything sound to you? For Diddy, that's a reality he confirmed, and it's for one of his most notable projects. In 1997, when he and his Bad Boy labelmates collaborated on a tribute song for the fallen Notorious B.I.G. called I'll Be Missing You, he tapped Sting for a sample of his iconic 1983 hit, Every Breath You Take. The Police frontman offered up the classic to be chopped and sampled but for a staggering price. In a Tweet, Diddy cleared up rumors that he was on the hook for $2,000 a day, but it turned out that number was $3,000 shy of the actual price.(this would add up to about $1.8 million every year.)
Diddy also indicated that there were no hard feelings toward Sting, and that the pair are actually friends.
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Michael J. Fox isn't taking the easy way out by letting his Parkinson's disease dictate his life, the Back to the Future franchise star is swinging back.
In a new documentary titled Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Fox confronts his diagnosis, the strain it placed on his life, and how he decided to push through against all odds. In the doc, he talks about his abuse of pills and alcohol in an attempt to escape the reality of what he was facing and how he came to be sober for nearly 30 years.
The documentary premiered at this year's SXSW festival but will hit Apple TV+ on May 12.
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One Small French Town Is Preparing For Its Annual 15,000 Egg Omelet
France is home to several "gastronomic brotherhoods," one of which includes volunteers from the Confrérie Mondiale des Chevaliers de l'Omelette Géante de Bessières — AKA the World Brotherhood of the Knights of the Giant Omelet — who converge upon Bessières every Easter season to make a giant omelet in the center of town. First held in 1973, the event has grown exponentially over the last 50 years, with the original omelet being made with around 2,000 eggs.
To make the massive omelet, volunteers don tall chefs' hats and stir the eggs in a huge pan with giant wooden oars. The omelet uses 15,000 eggs, 2 pounds of salt, 1 pound of pepper, lots of herbs, and 12 gallons of duck fat.
it's actually based on a legend involving Napoleon Bonaparte who Supposedly enjoyed an egg omelet recipe prepared by a local chef that he insisted a giant version of the tasty egg concoction be made for his army to enjoy as well.
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90 million chocolate bunnies are sold in the U.S. for Easter every year.
When eating chocolate bunnies, 78% of us eat the ears first . . . 17% go for the feet first . . . and 5% make a point to eat the TAIL first. (If it has candy eyes, those are picked off first for me.)
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Easter ranks up there with Halloween for candy sales.
The ten worst candies (from buyers at candystore.com)
1. Cadbury Creme Eggs
2. Peeps (up from #6 last year)
3. Bunny Corn/Easter Candy Corn
4. Solid Chocolate Bunnies
5. Oreo Creme Eggs
6. Sour Patch Kids White Chocolate Bunny
7. Chicks & Rabbits Marshmallow Candy (compared to circus peanuts)
8. Chocolate Crosses
9. Cheetos Sweetos Cinnamon Puffs
10. Jelly Beans (generic)
The five best Candies
1. Cadbury Mini Eggs
2. Gourmet Jelly Beans
3. Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs
4. Hollow Chocolate Bunnies
5. Robins Eggs from Whoppers
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Peep Facts
About five and a half million Peeps are made every day. And in one year, enough Peeps are made to circle the globe twice.
It used to take 27 hours to make a Peep. Back in 1953, each chick was handmade with a pastry tube. But the process was eventually automated, and now it takes just six minutes to make a Peep.
Yellow chicks are the original, and still the favorite. Yellow bunnies are the second most popular color and shape combination. Pink is the second best-selling color.
The vast majority of Peeps are consumed around Easter. About 2 billion Peeps are produced each year and 1.5 billion of them are eaten during the spring.
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Looking for your next binge? "Entertainment Weekly" ranked the 20 best Netflix original series. Here they are:
1. "The Haunting of Hill House" (2018)
2. "I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson" (2019 to Present)
3. "Master of None" (2015 to 2021)
4. "When They See Us" (2019)
5. "Sex Education" (2019 to Present)
6. "Chef's Table" (2015 to Present)
7. "Midnight Mass" (2015)
8. "Russian Doll" (2019 to Present)
9. "American Vandal" (2017 to 2018)
10. "The Crown" (2016 to Present)
11. "Mindhunter" (2017 to 2019)
12. "Stranger Things" (2016 to Present)
13. "Lupin" (2021 to Present)
14. "Dead to Me" (2019 to 2022)
15. "Hilda" (2018 to Present)
16. "Never Have I Ever" (2020 to Present)
17. "Squid Game" (2021 to Present)
18. "Arcane" (2021 to Present)
19. "Kingdom" (2019 to 2020)
20. "The Upshaws" (2021 to Present)
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