Tuesday 5/7/24
Celebrate:
National Barrier Awareness Day
National Concert Day
National Cosmopolitan Day
National Roast Leg of Lamb Day
National Teacher Day
National Tourism Day
Paste Up Day
Poem on Your Pillow Day
World Asthma Day
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Weekend Box Office
1. The Fall Guy $28.5M
2. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 2024 Re-release
$8.1M
3. Challengers $7.6M
4. Tarot $6.5M
5. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire $4.5M
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Madonna closed out her career-spanning Celebration Tour Saturday with a free concert at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s Copacabana Beach in front of 1.6 million fans, setting the record for the largest audience ever for a stand-alone concert by any artist in history.
Copacabana Beach has long been a magnet for epic, well-populated shows, notably a Rolling Stones gig in 2006 that drew an estimated (and then record-setting) 1.5 million fans.
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Jockey Brian Hernandez got 18-1 shot Mystik Dan home by a whisker over the surging Sierra Leone and Forever Young in a three-horse photo finish that left the Churchill Downs crowd of 156,710 initially wondering who had won America’s most famous horse race.Â
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Yesterday was National Beverage Day! Â
You're supposed to celebrate by kicking back and enjoying your favorite beverage. So of course there's a new poll looked at the top COCKTAIL people have been googling in all 50 states.
(Celebrating Cosmo Day and it doesn’t make the top 5)
1. Margarita with 31 states. It's also the top drink Canadians are searching for. This includes Pennsylvania.
2. Martini, nine states including New York. It's #1 in D.C. as well.
3. Constantine. It's an old drink from the 1930s that's kind of like a gin martini but with a splash of absinthe.
It's supposedly the top search in Michigan, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and West Virginia.Â
Mojito is the top search in two states, Arkansas and Wisconsin . . . Piña Colada is #1 in Hawaii and in Nevada, they are constantly searching for Bloody Marys.Â
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Someone talked to a fitness expert who said we should really be focusing on three different types of movement each week. Here they are . . .
1. Everyday movement. That includes things like walking, stretching, and bending. Doing that stuff every day is a great first step.
2. Athletic movement. Meaning things like true cardio and weight training. Not every day, but a few times a week. The more varied, the better.
3. Social movement. Meaning it also involves other people. So, things like golf, dancing, and pickleball. Whatever it is, just make sure it's something you enjoy, or you won't make it a habit.Â
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A new Popeyes location opened in England, and the first three customers got free food for a year. So some guy who's remaining anonymous camped out for 17 hours, just so he could win and give the food to his local homeless shelter. He said he plans to eat it himself "here and there," but they're getting most of it.
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Did you spend your whole weekend watching the NBA Playoffs and the Kentucky Derby? Give yourself a pat on the back for taking such good care of yourself.
A new study in Japan found that watching sports boosts our mental health and generally makes us happier human beings.
Researchers scanned people's brains while they watched various sports and found it activated the "reward circuits" in their brain, which are linked to feelings of pleasure and happiness.
They also found that people who regularly watch a lot of sports have more gray matter in those areas, which suggests it might even change your brain structure over time.
Quote, "For those seeking to enhance their overall well-being, regularly watching sports [can] serve as an effective remedy."Â
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A school district in Ohio went on lockdown last week, when Bigfoot was spotted walking around the campus . . . and running past the classroom windows.
The sasquatch wasn't real, obviously. They later found out that it was a PARENT who was playing a "prank" on the school.Â
Some elementary kids were outside at the time, and school officials are being commended for quickly moving them inside to safety. The lockdown process went off without a hitch, but the stunt caused panic and disrupted the school day.
"Bigfoot" never got inside the school. The parent was apprehended by a school resource officer . . . and prosecutors are reviewing the case. It's unclear if they'll face charges.
Some people are making light of it online . . . many of them seem to be old-schoolers who say the school "over-reacted" to "innocent fun."
Can you imagine being the child of this person?Â
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - When movie credits say "no animals were harmed" during filming, that only means intentional harm on camera. It doesn't include animals that are accidentally hurt or killed on set.
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