Friday 5/27/22
Celebrate:
Cellophane Tape Day
Don't Fry Day
European Neighbours' Day
National Death Busters Day
National Grape Popsicle Day
National Gray Day - as in Gray Matter
National Heat Awareness Day
National Road Trip Day
National Title Track Day
National Wig Out Day
Nothing To Fear Day
Old-Time Player Piano day
Sunscreen Protection Day
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A poll a while back found the top foods we'd eat more of if there were no consequences are pizza, pasta, burgers, ice cream, and tacos.
But let's drill down a little more with another question: What's the trashiest food you can't resist? Someone asked people on Reddit. Here are a few popular answers . . .
1. Gas station hot dogs. Or anything they sell hot at 7-Eleven.
2. Ramen noodles. The kind that come in a pouch and cost 50 cents.
3. American "cheese" slices.
4. Boxed macaroni and cheese.
5. Pop Tarts. Extra props if you don't even bother toasting them.
6. Marie Callender's frozen pot pies.
7. Pillsbury cinnamon rolls.
8. Lots of cheap meats got mentioned, including boloney, Slim Jims, and Spam.
9. Bagel Bites. Also, Totino's Pizza Rolls and Hot Pockets.
10. Everything on the menu at Taco Bell.
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Depeche Mode founding member and keyboard player, Andy Fletcher, has died at the age of 60.
The group announced Thursday, "We are shocked and filled with overwhelming sadness with the untimely passing of our dear friend, family member, and bandmate Andy "Fletch" Fletcher."
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Ray was shooting a movie called "Dangerous Waters" on the island, and a source close to the actor tells TMZ ... he died in his sleep. We're also told there was nothing suspicious about the death, and no foul play is suspected. He was 67.
Liotta is most known for his starring role in the 1990 Martin Scorsese masterpiece, "Goodfellas," where he played mobster Henry Hill alongside Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.
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If you’ve eaten a burrito, you’ve probably had one that’s fallen apart, leaving a myriad of ingredients on your plate rather than wrapped in a tortilla where they belong. A group of students at Johns Hopkins University have the solution: burrito tape you can eat.
For an assignment in a product design course, the engineering students came up with an edible adhesive to hold burritos together called “Tastee Tape.”
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Need to call a company’s customer support? Do not Google their number. Always get it directly from the “contact us” page on their website. This will help avoid popular scams.
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When checking tire pressure, always make sure to check your spare tire too. There’s no point in carrying around a spare tire if it’s going to be flat.
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The last payphone in New York City was removed this week. It was near the corner of 7th Avenue and 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan.
There's footage of a crane loading it onto a flatbed truck. A small ceremony was held down the street near Times Square. People are calling it the end of an era.
The latest stats we've seen say that as of 2018, there were still around 100,000 payphones in the U.S. . . . down from two million in 1999. And around 20% of them were in New York.
New York started removing them in 2015, because cell phones have made them obsolete. They've replaced some of them with free Wi-Fi kiosks where you can charge your devices and make FREE phone calls to anywhere in the U.S.
The kiosks also have a dedicated button you can push to call 911. So other than nostalgia, there just wasn't a reason to keep the old payphones around.
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If you're heading somewhere for Memorial Day and have a big car, you might be taking someone else’s family with you too .
A new poll found more people are carpooling this year thanks to high gas prices. 82% of Americans who are going somewhere this weekend will travel by car, down 7% from last year. And only 13% will be traveling solo.
Around half said high gas prices are one reason they're planning to carpool this year.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The Pentagon is 5.1 million square feet . . . but it was designed so that every point in the building is less than a 10-minute walk from any other point.
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