Tuesday 5/2/23
Celebrate:
Baby Day
Brothers and Sisters Day
International Scurvy Awareness Day
National Concert Day
National Fire Day
National Life Insurance Day
National Play Your Ukulele Day
National Truffle Day
Poem on Your Pillow Day
Take a Baby to Lunch Day
World Asthma Day
World Tuna Day
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie led the U.S. box office for a fourth week and surpassed $1 billion in global ticket sales. Its $40 million haul was more than three times better than second-place finisher Evil Dead Rise $12.2 Million
3. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret $6.8 Million
4. John Wick: Chapter 4 $5.0 Million
5. Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi Re-Release $4.7 Million
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Remember the viral mannequin challenge that swept the internet back in 2016? Well, it's back. A dance team on a flight from Manchester to Orlando recently perfected the challenge, which involves people staying perfectly still while a camera moves between them. All the passengers and crew on the flight took part. The team said they had time to kill on the nine-hour flight to their dance competition and wanted to bring back the old trend.
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Sylvester Stallone won't leave Cliffhanger fans hanging any longer. The actor is returning to star in a reboot of his hit 1993 action thriller, which has often been described as "Die Hard on a mountain."
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Let's be honest: Anyone can fall for a scam. A sign of intelligence is LEARNING from a mistake, and not falling for it again.
There's a thread online where people are talking about the scams that people "always" fall for. Not all of them are 100% bad but they CAN be predatory. They include:
1. Taking advantage of the friendliness and gullibility of older people . . . and getting them to give up money or sensitive information.
Sadly, they sometimes get grandparents to take action by pretending that their grandchildren are in trouble . . . or need money for some reason.
2. When stores write a high price on something . . . then cross it out and write a fake "discount" price . . . when that's the normal price all along.
3. The "add a tip" line at the end of EVERYTHING, even if it isn't a service-oriented purchase.
4. Amway and other obvious pyramid schemes . . . including many multi-level marketing "businesses."
5. Timeshares.
6. Life and business coaching. One person who spent years working for a smaller one claims it's all common info regurgitated from bigger companies . . . and they aren't experts.
7. People "making friends" with people they don't know, who randomly text or call. This can be everything from simply INTERACTING with spam messages . . . to actually befriending people who make it personal.
Sure, everyone loves the stories about people celebrating Thanksgivings with people who connected with them because they had the wrong number, but a lot of the time, these are elaborate efforts to con people.
8. Payday loans. They're evil, but they're also kinda necessary for some folks.
9. Some kinds of insurance.
10. Weddings . . . because of how insanely expensive they can be, and the businesses that take advantage of this being an event you splurge on.
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If you've been procrastinating on something you need to do, here are four tips on how to get past it . . .
1. Identify the pain points. Ask yourself WHY you're procrastinating. Like if you need to clean the house but HATE folding laundry, try to tackle everything BUT that.
2. Write down simple things you can accomplish in a few minutes. And then try to cross those off the list.
3. Do the smallest step first. Like if you need to do your taxes, start with just gathering your documents. Usually once you've started, you'll want to keep going. But if not, at least you're closer to being finished than you were.
4. Use the Pomodoro technique. It involves setting a timer for 25 minutes and working on the task for that entire time without any interruptions or distractions. Then you take a five-minute break as a reward before starting the next 25-minute work period.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The "fist bump" was first popularized by Fred Carter . . . a high-energy NBA player from the 1970s. He played for the Baltimore Bullets . . . the Philadelphia 76ers . . . and the Milwaukee Bucks.
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